Jeff Burt

Officials with chip maker NXP Semiconductors expect the company to be a significant player in the fast-growing autonomous vehicle market with a new platform they’re rolling out that includes everything from the sensors that collect massive amounts of data to the compute engine capable of fusing all that data and ensuring that the right decisions […]

Intel is going through a time of turmoil as company officials look to create a future for the giant chip company that has less to do with traditional PCs and mobile devices and more with the Internet of things, the cloud and 5G connectivity. The upheaval has been felt in the company’s workforce (including 12,000 […]

Officials with Silver Peak and Aryaka this week outlined recent momentum in their businesses that they say illustrates the growing popularity of software-defined WAN technologies. Silver Peak, whose legacy lies in such areas as WAN optimization, almost a year ago unveiled Unity EdgeConnect, a software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) solution aimed at making campus and remote networks […]

Advanced Micro Devices has a new board chairman as the chip maker continues to push its turnaround efforts. John Caldwell, who has been on AMD’s board of directors since 2006, this week was named chairman. He is replacing Bruce Claflin, who had been chairman since 2009. Claflin will remain on the board. Caldwell was CEO […]

Talari Networks is making it more affordable for customers to buy and deploy the vendor’s centralized management platform for software-defined WAN environments. Company officials on May 12 unveiled a new license pricing model for its Talari Aware configuration, management and analytics platform, which plays a foundational role in the vendor’s software-defined WAN (SD-WAN) portfolio. The […]

HP Inc. is formalizing its investment efforts around early stage companies that are working on products in a broad range of areas, including artificial intelligence, immersive computing and the Internet of things. The company—the offspring of last year’s split of Hewlett-Packard—this week announced the launch of HP Tech Ventures, its new corporate venture arm that […]

BOCA RATON, Fla.—Intel Security officials last year unveiled a shift in strategy in which the company was moving away from selling point security products and instead would focus on building out a platform approach that would better address that changing threat landscape. At a time when hackers are rapidly developing new attack methods and broadening […]

Hitachi officials have said the massive multinational company, with its more than 950 subsidiaries, 333,000 employees and an R&D budget of $2.8 billion, already has a significant presence in the Internet of Things (IoT). The company for decades has been building systems and devices in a broad range of industries—from energy and transportation to utilities, […]

Cisco Systems officials are introducing technology designed to give speakers on video conferences more freedom to move around while presenting. The company on May 9 unveiled PresenterTrack, a combination of a camera positioned at the back of the room and face-detection and image-processing software that enables the camera to automatically find and follow presenters as […]

Businesses Are Getting Ready for the IoT, Survey Finds A growing number of business professionals understand the IoT and are taking steps to incorporate it into their companies, a QuinStreet Enterprise survey found. Getting a Handle on a Big, Broad Issue Three-quarters (75 percent) of survey respondents said they understand IoT and its applicability to […]

Lenovo will manufacture some data center systems—including x86 servers—in a facility in Hungary to reduce costs and improve delivery times to customers in Europe. Company officials announced that starting this summer, the facility in Sarvar, Hungary, run by longtime manufacturing partner Flex will build some x86-based servers, storage and networking equipment to complement the systems […]

PC vendors won’t find much in the way of good news in the latest global market numbers from analysts with Canalys. The market research firm said in a report May 9 that in the first three months of the year, shipments of PCs worldwide fell 13 percent over the same period in 2015, to 101 […]