Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices is continuing to remake its executive lineup, even as it looks for a permanent CEO to replace the departed Dirk Meyer. The chip maker announced March 24 that Ronaldo Miranda, a former executive with Samsung, will be AMD’s vice president and general manager of the Latin America region. Miranda, who had been […]

Hewlett-Packard and its HP-UX customers stand to take the biggest hit if Oracle sticks with its decision to end support for Intel’s Itanium platform, though the server maker does have options for easing the situation, according to an analyst. In particular, HP relatively easily could port HP-UX to its x86 server platform and already has […]

Oracle became the latest major enterprise software maker to say that it will stop developing products for Intel’s line of high-end Itanium processors. Oracle, with its announcement late March 22, joins Microsoft and Red Hat in dropping software development for Itanium. Both companies over the past two years have noted that as both Intel and […]

Hewlett-Packard is putting quad-core Itanium processors into a new blade server in the company’s high-end NonStop portfolio. HP’s new Integrity NonStop BladeSystem NB54000c is powered by a quad-core chip from Intel’s Itanium 9300 “Tukwila” lineup, which was released in February 2010 after several delays. The new system will offer twice the performance of the current […]

Dell is unveiling two new micro servers in a move that brings the small, highly energy-efficient form factor to a wider customer base. The new additions to the PowerEdge C5000 line-the C5125 and C5220-are the third generation of micro servers created by Dell’s Data Center Solutions Group. The first two generations were primarily custom-designed systems […]

Intel reportedly was in discussions with Hewlett-Packard’s top PC executive about taking a senior management position with the giant chip maker, a move some saw as Intel going outside the company to expand the list of potential candidates to fill the CEO slot when Paul Otellini eventually retires. According to a Wall Street Journal report […]

Intel, which is trying to gain some traction in the highly competitive and potentially lucrative smartphone space, announced March 21 that the executive leading the effort is leaving the company. In a brief statement, the giant chip maker said Anand Chandrasekher, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group, is leaving the […]

Cisco Systems officials, who have been vocal about the issues surrounding the rapidly growing telecommuting trend, are unveiling new products designed to increase the manageability and security around teleworkers who want to wirelessly connect to their companies’ networks. Cisco on March 21 introduced its OfficeExtend solution, which includes new access points and wireless controllers-including a […]

Officials with both Intel and Qualcomm say they will have no problems getting products out to customers, despite concerns about supply chain issues for many chip makers due to the ongoing troubles in Japan. Both companies said that their operations are spread out enough geographically that a disaster like the one that has struck Japan […]

David Heit talks a lot about the need for balance when discussing Research In Motion’s upcoming PlayBook device, the company’s challenge to the Apple iPad’s dominance in the burgeoning tablet market. Holding a PlayBook during an interview with eWEEK at a recent SAP event in Boston, Heit, RIM’s vice president of strategy, said company executives […]

The adoption of computer processors with graphics capabilities continues to grow rapidly, with 2011 being the biggest year yet for the technology, according to market research firm IHS iSuppli. In a March 16 report, the analysts at IHS iSuppli said GEMs (graphics-enabled microprocessors) will find their way into half of the notebooks and 45 percent […]

Intel officials are looking to use a combination of low-power “Sandy Bridge” Xeon chips and Atom processors to build out their portfolio of products for ultradense micro servers. Executives with the giant chip maker first talked about micro servers in 2009, describing high-performance, energy-efficient systems that share resources and target such environments as large data […]