Jeff Burt

HTC is making an aggressive move in the highly competitive smartphone world, buying S3 Graphics from chip maker Via Technologies and investment firm WTI Investment International for $300 million. The move not only gives HTC greater graphics capabilities-S3 makes graphics chips for mobile phones, tablets, PCs and game consoles-but also more leverage in its ongoing […]

The semiconductor market continued to grow in May, thanks in large part to the growing popularity of such devices as tablets, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. The SIA’s numbers, released July 5, also were the latest indication that the impact of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March on the tech industry may […]

Intel officials reportedly are offering financial incentives to systems makers in hopes of enticing systems them to adopt the new “ultrabook” mobile-device concept According to a report on the Website DigiTimes, Intel is hoping that the financial incentives and a new marketing program will encourage top-tier notebook PC makers to embrace the ultrabook idea, which […]

Blue Jeans Network, a startup that came out of stealth mode this week, is the latest company promising to solve the thorny issue of interoperability between the various video-conferencing offerings on the market. Blue Jeans officials said the company’s “any(ware) video conferencing” offering will enable people using disparate video collaboration technologies-not only enterprise-focused products like […]

Oracle executives are dismissing Hewlett-Packard’s lawsuit over Oracle’s decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium technology, calling HP’s move a “publicity stunt” designed to blame the software giant for HP’s misguided embrace of a faltering processor platform. In a 15-page court filing to answer HP’s lawsuit, Oracle officials contradict the accusation that they have put […]

Advanced Micro Devices is bringing its Fusion processors to the desktop. AMD officials in January at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show launched the first of their Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units), which offer high-performance graphics on the same piece of silicon as the CPU and integrated memory controller, a move designed to improve computing and […]

IT spending worldwide will grow 7.1 percent, despite any disruption that was caused by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March, according to analysts at market research firm Gartner. The June 30 recalculated spending forecast-up from Gartner’s first-quarter projection of 5.6 percent growth-is the latest indication that while the disasters that pounded […]

For all the attention surrounding the chipset design flaw soon after Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” processors were released earlier this year, the issue had little, if any, impact on the giant chip maker’s performance in the first quarter, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a report June 29, IHS iSuppli analysts said that Intel […]

Intel reportedly will have its tablet-focused Clover Trail Atom chip out by the time Microsoft releases its Windows 8 operating system. Intel executives see the combination of Intel’s Clover Trail platform and “Cloverview” processor with Windows 8 as a strong entrant in the burgeoning tablet space and a big player in netbooks and other devices, […]

Advanced Micro Devices for the past several years has been able to work with some of its largest users to create customized Opteron chips to meet their performance and power needs. These are some of the larger Internet-type companies, with massive data centers and tens of thousands of servers, who need as much performance as […]

Cisco Systems is continuing to partner with carriers as officials look to offer the company’s collaboration technology as a hosted service. Three months after announcing a beta program with Verizon, in which the carrier is offering services based on Cisco’s HCS (Hosted Collaboration Suite), the networking giant is rolling out a similar program with Orange […]

Acer, Toshiba and Asus are among the PC vendors that may roll out notebooks powered by ARM processors by the end of the year, according to reports. Quoting “industry sources,” DigiTimes is reporting that those OEMs, as well as Samsung Electronics, are working on notebooks that would be powered by chips using ARM designs and […]