Jeff Burt

IDF Day One: Intel Highlights Smart Devices, Security, Robots On the first day of IDF, Intel focused on technologies going into the silicon that will improve user experience in wearables, IoT, PC gaming and more. Starting at the Top CEO Krzanich takes the stage at IDF to talk about what Intel is doing to help […]

ShoreTel for the past three years has been developing a common platform for its on-premises and cloud-based unified communications products. Company executives have been talking about the offering for almost two years, and earlier this year at its user conference introduced attendees to the platform, called ShoreTel Connect. After more than 12 months of meeting […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel officials are throwing a lot of money and technology at the PC gaming market, and it’s among the central themes at this year’s Intel Developer Forum here. During the opening address at the show Aug. 18, CEO Brian Krzanich talked about the use of the company’s RealSense 3D camera technology in upcoming gaming […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel is going into reality TV. The chip maker is partnering with Mark Burnett—the create of such series as “Survivor,” “Shark Tank,” and GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice”—to create a television show in which device makers compete to create the best wearable or connected device using Intel’s Curie technology. Intel CEO Brian […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel CEO Brian Krzanich dispensed with much of the chips speeds, feeds and roadmaps that typically populate keynote addresses at the Intel Developer Forum to instead focus on other technologies the company is offering. Hardware and software makers will be able to incorporate many of these into their designs for everything from wearable devices […]

The future of business is in hybrid clouds, according to Dell executives. Now the company wants to make it more affordable for businesses to get there. The giant tech vendor is unveiling a range of payment plans designed to make it easier for enterprises to plan and deploy their own private clouds, and begin to […]

BOSTON—Enterprises that are inundated by the growth of data are challenged by what Michael Stonebraker calls the “three V’s”—volume, velocity and variety. There’s too much data being generated, the data is coming at them too quickly and it’s coming from too many sources, from traditional business applications to new places such as the Internet of […]

Lenovo officials are establishing a new family of ThinkPad mobile workstations that will be powered by new Xeon processors specifically designed by Intel for such systems. On Aug. 10 at the SIGGRAPH 2015 show in Los Angeles, the company introduced the ThinkPad P50 and P70 workstations, which will run on Xeon E3-1500M v5 processors that […]

Advanced Micro Devices officials reportedly are looking into using FPGA accelerators with their Opteron server processors, a move that would advance the company’s efforts to gain traction in a data center market dominated by larger rival Intel. Citing unnamed sources, Bits and Chips, an Italian technology Website, is reporting that AMD is studying integrating field-programmable […]

Intel is going to offer server-class processing in mobile computers. Officials with the chip maker said that mobile workstations featuring Xeon processors based on the new 14-nanometer “Skylake” architecture will begin hitting the market in the fall, aiming to give designers, content editors and engineers the compute power they need in a mobile form factor. […]

Intel last week stepped up its efforts to bring more minorities and women into the tech field and into the company, giving employees greater incentives to find new employees that help the chip maker reach its diversity goals and teaming with a university to expand engineering opportunities for unrepresented parts of the population. Intel officials […]

Qualcomm is looking to grow its capabilities in the home gateway market and the Internet of things through its decision to buy Ikanos Communications for a reported $47 million. Qualcomm’s Atheros subsidiary will acquire Ikanos in a move that will bring together its portfolio of home gateway products with Ikanos’ broad array of technologies, such […]