Jeff Burt

The same day that Intel settled its long-running legal disputes with rival Advanced Micro Devices, the giant chip maker also hired an antitrust expert as its top lawyer. Intel reportedly hired A. Douglas Melamed, a longtime attorney with Washington, D.C., law firm WilmerHale, to fill the position of general counsel, which has been vacant since […]

Intel and Advanced Micro Devices have reached a settlement in all the legal disputes between the two chip makers, including antitrust and cross-license issues. As part of the deal, Intel will pay AMD $1.25 billion and agree to a set of business practice provisions. The two companies announced the settlement Nov. 12. Executives with both […]

At the Interop 2009 show in Las Vegas in May, officials with 3Com were showing off their networking product line as the company was making its way back into the global market, positioning itself as the low-cost alternative to Cisco Systems. At the same time, those officials also were talking with their counterparts from Hewlett-Packard’s […]

Ultimately, it was in the best interest of both Advanced Micro Devices and Intel to end their long and contentious legal dispute. After eight years of court battles and seven months of negotiations, the two rival chip makers reached a deal Nov. 12 to settle the antitrust claims AMD had leveled against Intel, and Intel’s […]

HP Gets Networking, Security, VOIP, China from 3Com Acquisition by Jeffrey Burt Data Center Networking HP ProCurve has strong small business networking offerings but has never had a significant core data center switch. With 3Com, HP will be able to add such hardware as the H3C S12500, a data center aggregation and high-end enterprise core […]

On the heels of the announcement that it is buying networking equipment vendor 3Com, Hewlett-Packard is releasing preliminary fiscal fourth-quarter financial numbers that show revenues up 12 percent over the previous quarter. HP is scheduled to release final quarterly figures Nov. 23, but released the preliminary numbers Nov. 11 to open communications with investors after […]

Despite the wave of antitrust litigation crashing in on Intel, one analyst reportedly is predicting that the private lawsuit between the chip maker and rival Advanced Micro Devices could be ending soon. In a research note Nov. 10, Barclays Capital analyst Tim Luke said that a settlement would be beneficial to both Intel and AMD, […]

Advanced Micro Devices will continue bringing its computing and graphics capabilities into closer alignment as it leads up to its first Fusion processor in 2011, according to company officials. At its annual analyst day Nov. 11, AMD officials gave analysts and reporters a look at the company’s product road map over the next two years, […]

Hewlett-Packard is adding to its already strong networking capabilities by buying 3Com for $2.7 billion. HP officials announced the deal Nov. 11, saying the acquisition will give HP an edge-to-data center networking story and feed into its push for converged data center solutions through HP’s Converged Infrastructure strategy. “Companies are looking for ways to break […]

Cisco Systems officials will wait another week before deciding what to do with their $3 billion bid to buy video conferencing company Tandberg. Cisco, which had set an initial deadline of Nov. 9 for shareholders to accept the deal, has pushed that deadline to Nov. 18. Cisco is looking to get 90 percent of Tandberg […]

Intel is introducing a mobile device designed to help people who have difficulty reading printed text. Intel’s Reader device, which is about the size of a paperback book and is powered by Intel’s Atom processor, takes printed text, converts it to digital text and then reads it out loud to the reader. The Intel Reader, […]

Vendors are continuing to make their pushes into the burgeoning desktop virtualization space. Two days after VMware unveiled the latest version of its View client virtualization technology, and a month after Citrix Systems announced its XenDesktop 4 offering, thin-client maker Wyse Technology is touting expanded partnerships with both companies. In addition, Sun Microsystems is rolling […]