Jeff Burt

Qualcomm is buying Atheros for $3.1 billion in a move designed to help the company grow beyond its traditional business as a technology supplier for mobile phones and deeper into such areas as smartphones and tablets. The deal, which was first talked about in The New York Times Jan. 4 and announced Jan. 5, highlights […]

A day after rival Intel unveiled its line of “Sandy Bridge” second-generation Core-i Series processors, officials with Advanced Micro Devices rolled out the first of their Fusion chips. AMD used the day before the Consumer Electronics Show 2011 opens its doors Jan. 5 in Las Vegas to announce the first members of its Fusion family […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices will use this week’s Consumer Electronics Show to unveil long-awaited new processors that offer integrated graphics capabilities. Intel officials, ahead of the Jan. 5 start of CES, on Jan. 3 unveiled its “Sandy Bridge” chips, the second generation of Core i3, i5 and i7 chips that were first launched at […]

An Intel spinoff company that opened a solar cell manufacturing plant in New York in May will now shut down the plant and lay off 117 workers. SpectraWatt, which makes silicon photovoltaic cells, said in a statement that the cold and snowy winter in Europe, which has wreaked havoc on the continent’s travel system, also […]

Days after reports surfaced that European regulators werevoicing antitrust concerns about Intel’s $7.68 billion bid for security software maker McAfee, a U.S. agency has given its blessing to the deal. Intel reported on its Website Dec. 21 that the Federal Trade Commission has OK’d the acquisition, and that Intel officials are continuing to work with […]

For Marius Haas, 2010 was a good year. As senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard’s networking business, Haas saw his unit gain a lot more muscle in April, when HP closed on its high-profile $2.7 billion purchase of 3Com, an acquisition that put the company in even tighter competition with Cisco Systems. HP […]

Intel’s proposed $7.68 billion acquisition of security software vendor McAfee could put the giant chip maker back in the cross hairs of European antitrust regulators. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, members of the European Commission-the European Union’s antitrust arm-are concerned that Intel’s plans to use the McAfee acquisition to put greater […]

Research In Motion, in a frantic fight to keep its BlackBerry sales strong in the face of fierce competition from Apple’s iPhones and smartphones based on Google’s Android operating system, announced strong third-quarter financial numbers Dec. 16, ahead of analyst expectations. Fueled by such devices as the BlackBerry Torch and Curve, RIM reported record BlackBerry […]

Five more people, including former employees with Dell, Advanced Micro Devices and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, were arrested in the federal government’s expanding investigation into insider trading that already has snared executives with several major high tech firms. Federal prosecutors announcing the arrests Dec. 16 said the defendants were part of a complex scheme that included […]

The booming tablet PC market could prove to be an increasingly larger challenge for both Intel and Microsoft, according to an analyst at Goldman Sachs. In a research note released Dec. 13, Goldman Sachs analyst Bill Shope noted that while the tablet market-reinvigorated by Apple’s release earlier this year of the iPad-will continue to grow, […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices’ rivalry in the processor business is at a standstill, at least for now, according to market research firm iSuppli. In a report released Dec. 15, iSuppli analysts said that in the third quarter, each vendor saw incremental changes in market share. Intel, which controls 80.1 percent of the worldwide revenue […]

As Intel pushes to expand its technology into the rapidly growing mobile device space, officials with ARM Holdings, whose chip designs dominate the smartphone market, say they plan to take on Intel in the server arena. In an interview with Bloomberg News Dec. 13, ARM CEO Warren East said that his company’s chip designs will […]