Jeff Burt

Officials with Advanced Micro Devices see graphics technology as a key player in the company’s ambitious road map that will help it gain more traction in such growth areas as gaming and immersive computing, including virtual reality. The company made several significant moves with its graphics efforts in 2015, and executives started 2016 off by […]

Intel is moving deeper into the growing drone industry, buying German startup Ascending Technologies and its auto-pilot software. Intel officials announced the deal Jan. 4 but released few details about it. Intel CEO Brian Krzanich is expected to talk more about it when he takes the stage at CES 2016 in Las Vegas Jan. 5. […]

Logitech, which bought video conferencing vendor Lifesize Communications in 2009 at a time when companies were looking to the technology as a way of saving money, is spinning out the business, though it will keep a hand in it. Logitech officials in late December announced that Lifesize was being spun out and had raised $17.5 […]

Nokia has taken control of one-time rival Alcatel-Lucent and will begin offering a merged product portfolio late next week as the company looks to build a larger entity that can better challenge Ericsson, Huawei Technologies and Cisco Systems in the increasingly competitive market for telecommunications networking equipment. Nokia officials on Jan. 4 announced that the […]

Cisco Systems got some good holiday-season news this week when a federal appeals court threw out a $64 million judgment against it in a patent-infringement case that has been moving through the system for eight years and even reached the Supreme Court earlier this year. On Dec. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]

Samsung Electronics is rolling out a tiny chip packed with heath- and fitness-monitoring technologies that officials say will begin appearing in a range of wearable devices in the first half of 2016. Samsung officials on Dec. 29 announced that the company is mass-producing the Bio-Processor aimed at the health-oriented wearable market that will contain the […]

Qualcomm’s complicated relationship with China is continuing as the mobile chip maker this week announced several patent licensing deals with tech companies inside the country. Qualcomm officials on Dec. 29 said the vendor had signed 3G and 4G patent license agreements with China-based companies Beijing Tianyu Communications Equipment Co. and Haier, which makes consumer appliances. […]

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has helped create a lab with China Telecom that that the service provider will use to develop and test technologies as it adopts network virtualization in its infrastructure. The joint network-functions virtualization (NFV) lab in Beijing will leverage HPE’s OpenNFV platform, a collection of hardware, software and services launched by the tech […]

ShoreTel officials are growing the company’s cloud-based communications portfolio with the planned acquisition of Corvisa, a small company that comes with a range of software and contact center capabilities that they said could help grow ShoreTel’s hosted revenues by as much as 30 percent. The $8.5 million acquisition is the latest deal ShoreTel is making […]

Fujitsu is spinning out its PC and smartphone businesses into separate companies as officials continue to look for ways to manage product lines that are becoming increasingly commoditized. Fujitsu officials announced the decision last week, saying that the new companies—Fujitsu Client Computing Ltd. (PCs) and Fujitsu Connected Technologies Ltd. (smartphones)—will begin operations Feb. 1, 2016. […]

Intel has closed the $16.7 billion deal for programmable chip maker Altera in a move that officials expect will give a boost to the company’s efforts in such areas as the data center, Internet of things and intelligent systems. Company officials announced the completion of the deal Dec. 28, almost seven months after they said […]

Lisa Su landed in New York City in May armed with her plans for the future of Advanced Micro Devices. Four years into her time with AMD, Su was in her seventh month as president and CEO of a company known for its good technology but an uncertain future. Over the previous several years, some […]