Jeff Burt

Nvidia is using the Computex 2011 show in Taipei, Taiwan, to show off its upcoming quad-core Tegra mobile chip, code-named “Kal-El.” Nvidia officials were at the show May 30 demonstrating a prototype tablet running the chip, which they first announced at the Mobile World Congress show in February. Kal-El offers four Cortex-A9 computing cores and […]

As Intel and Advanced Micro Devices continue to make moves to encroach on the booming mobile-device space, officials with ARM-whose chip designs are dominant in smartphones and tablets-are looking to eventually take market share away in the PC and server arenas. During a press briefing at the Computex 2011 show in Taipei May 30, ARM […]

Intel, with its Atom processor platform, was an early proponent of the netbook when the computer form factor first hit the market several years ago, and in 2009 introduced what officials said was a new server category-the micro server-powered by its low-end Xeon and Atom chips. Now executives with the giant chip maker are promoting […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell continue to lead an increasingly healthy server market that also saw Unix and mainframe revenue grow, according to market research firm Gartner. The overall server market in the first quarter had revenue growth of 17.3 percent-to $12.6 billion-and shipment increases of 8.5 percent, to 2.3 million units, according to numbers Gartner […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Dell were among the familiar names at the top of IDC’s list of the top server vendors for the first quarter. Even Oracle, a year after buying Sun Microsystems, has become a known entity in the server space. However, new to the rankings is Cisco Systems, the networking giant that two years […]

Cray is unveiling the latest of its hybrid supercomputers, which will combine the latest chip technologies from Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia with Cray’s own Gemini interconnect technology to create a system that offers up to 50 petaflops of compute power. Cray officials introduced the XK6 supercomputer May 24 at the company’s user group meeting […]

Hewlett-Packard and IBM remained No. 1 and 2 in server revenue during the first quarter, with revenue gains fueled in part by growing demand for high-end non-x86 systems, according to market research firm IDC. In figures released May 24, IDC analysts noted that while the x86 server market continued its steady revenue growth, non-industry-standard systems-including […]

Hewlett-Packard is rolling out the first offering in an aggressive plan to expand the technical support services it can offer on the Web. HP on May 24 announced the HP Support Center platform, an evolution of the company’s Always on Support offering. HP Support Center is designed to give commercial customers online access to the […]

Advanced Micro Devices is rolling out two new low-power Fusion chips aimed at the embedded market that company officials say offer as much as 39 percent power savings over previous versions. The newest members of AMD’s Embedded G-Series APUs (accelerated processing units) have a thermal design power rating of 5.5 and 6.4 watts in a […]

Avaya officials are bulking up the company’s Avaya-one X solutions to offer greater communications capabilities to mobile workers. At its International Avaya User Group event in Las Vegas May 23, Avaya announced the new enhancements to Avaya-one X, which include support for a wide range of mobile devices-including Apple iPhones and smartphones running Google’s Android […]

With the wide-ranging changes going on within Cisco Systems-including executives’ decision to dump the popular Flip video camera business-attention has turned to what other moves the networking giant will make to get back on solid footing. Most recently, the online news site The Register reported that “people familiar with the situation” said Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) […]

Dell is set to roll out its newest tablet, the business-focused 10.1-inch Streak Pro, in June, according to reports. Dell’s tablet, which will run Google’s Android 3.0 “Honeycomb” operating system, will join a long list of media tablets set to roll out during the summer as a growing number of vendors look to gain traction […]