Jeff Burt

Advanced Micro Devices officials are dropping the chip maker’s second-quarter revenue projections due to slowing demand for consumer PCs. The company announced July 6 that revenue for the three-month period will decline about 8 percent from the first quarter, when AMD reported $1.03 billion in revenue. At the time, company executives said they expected revenue […]

Hewlett-Packard executives are providing more details regarding how the two new companies will operate when the tech giant officially splits in two Nov. 1. HP earlier this month filed a Form 10 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that gave greater depth to what Hewlett-Packard Enterprise will look like after the breakup, including what […]

Freescale Keeps Moving Forward as NXP Acquisition Draws Nearer by Jeffrey Burt One Last Time Freescale President and CEO Gregg Lowe addresses the crowd at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF). He will step aside after NXP completes the acquisition of his company. Wozniak Comes to the FTF Steve Wozniak was a keynote speaker at the […]

The Supreme Court’s decision last week not to hear Google’s appeal of a lower court ruling in the company’s legal battle with Oracle over copyrights and APIs could be a boost to Cisco Systems in its own litigation against Arista Networks, according to Cisco’s attorney. Oracle is suing Google over how the search giant developed […]

Alcatel-Lucent, which has seen greater competition from Chinese tech vendors such as Huawei Technologies and ZTE in the European networking market, is bringing its network virtualization products to the country’s largest telecommunications operators. The company, which is in the process of being bought by Nokia for $16.6 billion, signed separate deals with China Mobile and […]

Renee James, a 28-year Intel veteran and the chip maker’s president since May 2013, is leaving the company to pursue CEO possibilities at other companies. Intel announced James’ upcoming departure July 2 as part of a larger shakeup that will see other executives either being promoted, retiring or leaving the company. James will remain with […]

Officials with IBM, Nvidia and Mellanox Technologies are looking to accelerate the adoption of the OpenPower architecture in the high-performance computing space by establishing a second design center in Europe. The three vendors, which helped launch the OpenPower Foundation in 2013 with the goal of extending the reach of IBM’s Power chip architecture into such […]

The AllSeen Alliance, one of several industry groups that want to make it easier for devices that make up the Internet of things to more easily connect and communicate, is introducing technology that will enable interoperability between a broader range of systems and networks. AllSeen launched in late 2013 with the goal of creating a […]

Cisco Systems is pulling together a broad array of existing products and adding more than a dozen new offerings to create what officials are calling a platform for the Internet of things. The company this week unveiled its IoT System, a collection of products that touch everything from networking and security to management and analytics […]

Bill Veghte, the executive who since October 2014 has been leading Hewlett-Packard’s separation strategies as it prepares to break into two, will leave the company ahead of the split. HP officials on June 30 announced that Veghte, who has been with the company for five years and earlier this year was tapped to manage the […]

Multinational financial services giant Goldman Sachs had good reasons to get actively involved with the open hardware movement. Goldman Sachs has a massive, global IT footprint, with more than 118,000 systems holding more than 500,000 compute cores and running more than 4,000 applications, all housed in 68 data centers worldwide. The firm also has been […]

Cisco Systems is adding to its newly announced Security Everywhere initiative through the planned $635 million acquisition of OpenDNS, a company that provides cloud-based security capabilities to a broad array of devices. Cisco officials announced the acquisition June 30, saying that bringing OpenDNS into the fold will help the giant networking vendor build up its […]