Jeff Burt

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich this week found himself in the middle of the highly volatile presidential campaign when he scheduled—and then abruptly canceled—a fundraising event for Donald Trump, the controversial presumptive nominee for the Republican Party. Krzanich had planned to host the event at his home, but spiked it soon after the New York Times […]

The global server market continues to see its fortunes tied in large part to the increasingly important hyperscale infrastructure space for cloud computing environments, according to analysts from IDC and Gartner. The market research firms released their respective first-quarter numbers for the worldwide server market, and while there were variations in the figures from the […]

Intel at Computex Swings From PCs to IoT, 5G and Robotics Intel officials discussed the PC’s changing role as one of the growing numbers of devices and systems that are connecting to the Internet, cloud and each other. A Crowd Comes to Taiwan It was a large audience that gathered for Intel’s keynote at the […]

AUSTIN, Texas—The Dell-based Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center here, which currently is the 10th-fastest system in the world, is about to get a significant upgrade. Officials with the center, which is part of the University of Texas at Austin, announced June 2 that the facility will use a $30 million award from […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell engineers have been working with Intel and online auction site eBay for the past six years to develop a custom system that uses water to cool servers in hyperscale data centers. Now the tech vendor is ready to unveil the water-cooling system to the industry. Dell officials on June 2 introduced the system—code-named […]

AUSTIN, Texas—Dell has gotten the approval of U.S. and European regulators for its $67 billion to buy data storage giant EMC, and now is only awaiting the OK of Chinese officials—and eventually EMC shareholders. And that will come, according to two company officials. Speaking May 31 to a group of journalists and analysts here, Gaurav […]

ARM chip partners Cavium and Marvell are using the Computex 2016 show this week to further their case for the use of low-power ARM-based processors in the data center. Cavium, one of the first vendors to bring ARM-based data center systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) to market, introduced the next generation of its ThunderX chips that officials said […]

Over almost a decade ARM has become the key silicon player in the mobile space, with its low-power chip designs running most of the smartphones in the world. Officials with the company see the smartphone’s future as more than just a communications and Internet access tool. The device will become the portal through which emerging […]

Dell, Qualcomm and Brocade are all using partnerships with Chinese entities to expand their presence in the country’s massive market. Officials with all three U.S. tech vendors this past week said they are either creating joint ventures with Chinese companies or the government or investing in a Chinese-owned startup to gain more traction in a […]

HP Inc. is continuing to adjust to what CEO Dion Weisler is calling the “new normal” in a PC market that continues to contract and to change in hopes of reinvigorating sales. For HP, that means cutting costs while driving innovation around new form factors, and balancing the drive to focus more time and effort […]

The future for telecommunications technology vendor Avaya is looking uncertain. According to reports, the company—which is migrating away from its hardware-based roots and toward becoming more of a communications software and services supplier—may be up for sale, or at least willing to sell some of its product assets in hopes of reducing some of its […]

Intel is broadening its capabilities in such critical growth markets as autonomous vehicles and the Internet of things with the acquisition of Itseez, a small company with an expertise in computer vision technology. Intel announced the deal May 26, with Doug Davis, senior vice president and general manager of the chip maker’s Internet of Things […]