Jeff Burt

Intel officials are reducing their third-quarter revenue projections amid a softening in the consumer PC market, the latest blow to an increasingly shaking economy. Intel executives announced Aug. 27 that they expected revenues for the quarter to come in at $11 billion, plus or minus $200 million. They had earlier estimated revenues at between $11 […]

When Extreme Networks officials first introduced their Direct Attach virtualized networking architecture at the Interop 2010 show in April, they demonstrated the offering using the Linux-based KVM virtualization technology. That was fine for the demonstration, but wouldn’t work if the company wanted to rapidly expand the adoption of its Direct Attach architecture, according to Shehzad […]

Intel reportedly is on the verge of buying Infineon’s wireless chip business, several months after rumors of such a deal began surfacing and a week after the giant chip maker surprised the industry with its proposed $7.68 billion acquisition of security software vendor McAfee. Citing unnamed people close to the negotiations, Bloomberg and the Wall […]

Cisco Systems officials are expecting video to increasingly dominate Internet traffic and are buying ExtendMedia as the latest move to bulk up their growing video capabilities. Cisco announced its intent to buy privately held ExtendMedia Aug. 26. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. ExtendMedia would be only the latest acquisition by Cisco, which […]

Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell and other systems makers are benefiting from the resurgence in the x86 server market, according to market research by Gartner and IDC. In their second-quarter reports on the server market, analysts from both Gartner and IDC said the x86 space continues to see significant growth as enterprises refresh server fleets that they […]

Hewlett-Packard is looking to make it easier for businesses to deploy private cloud computing environments. HP officials on Aug. 25 announced the creation of an assessment program designed to help enterprises determine how prepared they are to make the jump to private clouds. The vendor is also pulling together a team of in-house advisers who […]

IBM will be adding a new sleep mode to its Power processors that will essentially enable the chips to consume virtually no power when idle. According to an IBM presentation at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University in California Aug. 23, the company will be adding what it is calling a deep sleep mode […]

ARM, maker of chips that can be found in most mobile phone and other smaller devices, apparently is taking aim at the server space. At the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., an ARM engineer Aug. 23 said the next version of the company’s Cortex A processor will support virtualization technology, […]

Virtualization, cloud computing and VOIP continue to drive the adoption of Ethernet networking, according to market research firm IDC. In its Worldwide Quarterly Enterprise Networks Tracker report, released Aug. 23, IDC analysts found that second-quarter revenue in the Ethernet switching space had grown 32.7 percent over the same period last year, while revenue in the […]

Advanced Micro Devices has tapped an engineer from Intel to be the CTO and vice president of its server unit. AMD officials announced Aug. 23 that Donald Newell will now help mold AMD’s server road map. Newell, who spent 16 years with Intel, most recently as senior principal engineer heading up the giant chip maker’s […]

The New Meadowlands Stadium, the new home for the NFL’s N.Y. Giants and Jets teams, is the latest example of a high-priced sports arena armed with the latest technology designed to ramp up the experience of sports fans going to the games. At a press conference Aug. 23 at the East Rutherford, N.J., complex, which […]

To Lyric Semiconductor founder and CEO Ben Vigoda, the world of computing is moving away from the binary 1s and 0s and toward probabilities. The yes/no nature of binary computing is fine for such tasks as operating systems, databases and spreadsheets, Vigoda said in an interview with eWEEK. But many applications that are becoming ubiquitous […]