Jeff Burt

Acer and Asus have no plans to get out of the shrinking, highly competitive PC market, according to executives for both companies. Acer founder Stan Shih told journalists in Taiwan Nov. 12 that while the company, which is the world’s fifth largest PC maker, is facing continued competition and internal efforts to restructure, officials are […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Applied Micro’s next-generation ARM-based X-Gene processor will be a more robust server chip that will offer significant performance gains over its current offerings and will target data center workloads now running on Intel’s mid- and high-level silicon. Applied Micro President and CEO Paramesh Gopi introduced the X-Gene 3 during the second day of […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—ARM is looking to extend the reach of its chip designs beyond smartphones and tablets and into new growth areas, with the Internet of things being a key one. The company sees the development of tens of billions of connected devices, systems and sensors as a natural fit for its low-power system-on-a-chip (SoC) […]

Dell is rounding out its 13th generation PowerEdge server portfolio with new single-socket rack and tower systems aimed at smaller businesses and remote offices. The company is bringing better performance and manageability to the four new systems through such features as the latest Intel processors, DDR4 memory and OpenManage software that officials said will make […]

Qualcomm officials have unveiled the company’s newest mobile processor, a product they hope will put a strong ending to what has been to this point a difficult year. At a press event Nov. 10 in New York City, Qualcomm executives officially announced the much-anticipated Snapdragon 820 system-on-a-chip (SoC), which is expected to power many of […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—ARM, which already owns the bulk of the global smartphone market, is putting its focus on emerging markets like Brazil, India and China with the introduction of a low-power chip that offers 64-bit processing capabilities while driving down power consumption. At the ARM TechCon 2015 show here Nov. 10, CTO Mike Muller announced […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—ARM is introducing a 32-bit architecture for its small Cortex-M processors that officials say will bring greater security to the growing numbers of embedded and Internet of things devices. On the first day of the chip designer’s ARM TechCon 2015 show here Nov. 10, officials unveiled the ARMv8-M architecture, which brings ARM’s TrustZone […]

Nvidia officials want to bring GPU acceleration to hyperscale environments to help drive the development of machine learning and artificial intelligence. The company today is unveiling two new Tesla GPU accelerators that enable researchers to more quickly create deep neural networks used in deep learning—also known as “machine learning”—and to deploy these networks across data […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—ARM is expanding its mbed Internet of things platform with new features for managing devices, new reference architectures and the latest technology preview of its mbed operating system. On the eve of the company’s TechCon 2015 show here, ARM officials on Nov. 9 unveiled the new offerings that they said will enable companies […]

Intel is adding new chips to its family of low-power Xeon D processors and new Ethernet controllers as it puts a greater focus on networking and storage systems in the data center. Telecommunications companies already are under pressure to create more scalable and agile communications networking infrastructures to handle the demand for more services from […]

The growing SD-WAN movement received a lot of attention at this week’s Open Networking User Group show, with four vendors demonstrating proof-of-concepts that not only showcased their platforms, but also how they could work with other companies. Silver Peak, Viptela, VeloCloud and Glue Networks all participated in a proof-of-concept (PoC) competition at the ONUG event, […]

Two more communications companies are joining the increasingly crowded cloud-based video conferencing space. Masergy Communications, which provides a range of offerings in such areas as hybrid networks, managed security and cloud communications, on Nov. 4 unveiled its Virtual Meeting Room (VMR) cloud video conferencing service. It’s a WebRTC-enabled service that is integrated with Masergy’s unified […]