Jeff Burt

Intel Talks Drones, Robots, Wearables at CES 2016 Intel used CES to demonstrate what it has to offer beyond chips for PCs—from connected cars and drones to robots, wearables and anything else that makes up IoT. How Many Drones Does It Take to Spell ‘Intel’? In this case, 100. The Intel-powered drones were launched in […]

A number of the industry groups working to create standards that will enable the billions of devices that make up the Internet of things to more easily connect and communicate with each other were on hand at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show this week to announce recent milestones in their efforts. The AllSeen Alliance unveiled […]

2016 Will Be About Big Data, NFV, Containers, VR, Security: IEEE From 5G to NFV, the IEEE Computer Society predicts nine top tech trends to watch in 2016. The Promise of Faster Wireless Networking Standards and protocols for 5G aren’t expected until 2020, but trials and development of the wireless technology are under way from […]

Amazon is getting into the computer chip business through its Annapurna Labs subsidiary that it bought last year. Annapurna officials this week announced that the company is offering a line of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) and associated technologies that system makers and service providers can use in such devices as home gateways, WiFi routers and network-attached storage […]

EMC is getting a tighter hold on its VCE converged infrastructure business, naming a new president and giving the unit a new name in the latest move by the storage giant as it prepares for its acquisition by Dell. EMC officials this week announced that Chad Sakac, an 11-year EMC veteran who has overseen the […]

Cisco Systems is making a pitch to media companies, service providers and broadcasters this week through the introduction of new cloud- and software-based offerings designed to help them more quickly grow their businesses, deliver services faster and lower operating costs. At CES 2016 in Las Vegas, Cisco officials rolled out the newest offering in the […]

Broadcom officials are using CES 2016 to unveil new chip offerings that touch on everything from connected cars to mobile platforms to home networking. Among the new products company officials announced this week during the show in Las Vegas was the BCM89774 wireless connectivity chip that uses Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology to bring […]

Qualcomm is continuing to make a push into the growing automotive technology market, with officials this week unveiling a portfolio of processors based on the company’s upcoming latest-generation Snapdragon 820 chips. Officials unveiled the Snapdragon 820 Automotive (820A) family of systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) at CES 2016 as part of a larger series of announcements at the […]

Intel is using CES 2016 this week to further prove that its silicon technologies aren’t just for PCs and servers anymore. Company CEO Brian Krzanich at the same event last year introduced Curie, the tiny development platform for wearable devices like smartwatches, bracelets and eyewear and sensors that help make up the Internet of things […]

Artificial intelligence and automotive technology have become key focuses of Nvidia executives, who believe the parallel processing power of the company’s GPUs offers the best platform for the fast-growing emerging markets. Those topics were at the center of Nvidia’s message at CES 2016 in Las Vegas, where co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang introduced the company’s […]

The ZigBee Alliance and Thread Group, two of a number of industry groups working on standards for the booming Internet of things space, later this year will roll out an offering that will integrate the work of both consortiums. The effort, which will include a combined solution that will enable ZigBee products to use the […]

EMC will cut jobs ahead of its expected acquisition by Dell later this year. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Dec. 31, EMC officials wrote that executives with the giant storage technology vendor the day before had approved a restructuring plan that is aimed at reducing expenses by $850 million […]