Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices officials earlier this year at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show introduced Polaris, its upcoming GPU architecture that they said will help drive the company’s ambitions in such areas as gaming, immersive computing and virtual reality. Now the processor vendor has an online microsite dedicated to the architecture, promoting new features in the […]

Brocade officials expect revenue for the most recent financial quarter to come in below expectations due to a general weakness in IT spending, echoing what other tech vendors have mentioned in recent months. Executives with the networking vendor in February had expected revenue for Brocade’s second fiscal quarter to come in between $542 million and […]

Cavium officials more than a year ago embraced ARM’s 64-bit architecture for its ThunderX line of server processors. Now the vendor is doing the same with its new line of Octeon TX chips for embedded products in such areas as networking and storage. The company on May 2 introduced the new portfolio of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) […]

Talari Networks is now including Microsoft’s cloud and virtualization technologies among the platforms the company’s software-defined WAN products will support. Company officials announced that a new virtual appliance, the VT800, will support the Microsoft Azure and Hyper-V environments. Prior to the VT800, Talari offered virtual appliances that supported VMware’s ESX virtualization technology and integration with […]

Qualcomm wants to make mobile devices running its Snapdragon 820 processor even smarter. Company officials on May 2 introduced a deep-learning software development kit (SDK) for the ARM-based systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that will enable device makers to run neural network models on their Snapdragon 820-powered products—including smartphones, security cameras, cars and drones—for such tasks as scene […]

Last year, President Obama issued an executive order aimed at accelerating the development of high-performance computing systems in the United States. The executive order created the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI), an initiative to coordinate federal government efforts and those of public research institutions and the private sector to create a comprehensive, long-term strategy for […]

Joe Tan knew he was going to have to improve his company’s WAN environments. Devcon Construction is a commercial building company based in Milpitas, part of Northern California’s Silicon Valley. But it has dozens of construction offices and remote sites big and small throughout Northern California. Connectivity to the central office was important, but the […]

Mitel, Polycom Deal Is Latest Move in a Dynamic, Crowded UC Space Mitel’s purchase of Polycom is the latest move in a rapidly changing collaboration space as vendors look to gain ground in a market dominated by Cisco and Microsoft. Mitel Finally Gets Polycom The acquisition had been pushed by activist investor Elliott Management as […]

Intel reportedly is ending its efforts around some chips aimed at smartphones and tablets as part of larger strategy to shift to areas that promise more growth. The chip maker, which last week announced it is cutting 12,0000 jobs and refocusing its efforts around such markets as the data center, Internet of things (IoT) and […]

Cypress Semiconductor has lost a CEO and gained an Internet of things business. On the same day that President and CEO T.J. Rodgers said he was stepping down after 34 years running the 7,000-person company he founded, Cypress officials announced they were buying the wireless Internet of things (IoT) business—from WiFi, Bluetooth and ZigBee products […]

She may have a checkered past as a tech executive and a political record comprising two failed bids for office, but the Republican Party apparently is not yet done with Carly Fiorina. As had been rumored for much of the week and a possibility for more than a month, GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz on […]

Unisys officials are pushing forward with the company’s software-defined infrastructure strategy by creating hardware independent versions of its server operating systems. The company on April 27 unveiled two versions of its ClearPath MCP operating environment software that can run on systems from any vendors that are powered by x86 processors from Intel under VMware’s ESXi […]