Jeff Burt

Qualcomm, the world’s top vendor of processors for mobile devices, reportedly is negotiating to buy rival NXP Semiconductors in a deal that would accelerate Qualcomm’s expansion into such areas as automotive technology and continue the years-long consolidation trend in the chip industry. According to the Wall Street Journal, the deal could be worth more than […]

Nvidia officials, who earlier this year unveiled the Drive PX 2 platform for self-driving cars, are opening up about the company’s next-generation autonomous vehicle technology that will include a new GPU architecture and computer vision accelerator. Unveiled this week at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Europe, the Xavier system-on-a-chip (SoC) will be a supercomputer […]

Dell Technologies and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are pushing forward with their hybrid cloud efforts by introducing new integrated systems and services for Microsoft’s Azure Stack software. The hardware vendors and software giant all view the future of enterprise technology in terms of hybrid clouds, where organizations will run some their applications and workloads in on-premises […]

Qualcomm officials are using a different go-to-market model for the company’s newest embedded processors aimed at the internet of things. Qualcomm traditionally has sold its mobile Snapdragon systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) directly to its device-making customers. These tended to be a relatively small number of smartphone and tablet makers with high volumes of products and that Qualcomm […]

It’s been three years since ARM released its last interconnect technology to support its low-power chips. Now the company is running out the third generation of its backplane to help push its silicon in a broad range of markets, from data center infrastructure and high-performance computing to emerging spaces like 5G networks, autonomous vehicles and […]

Several tech vendors are partnering with three automakers to create an association that is aimed at accelerating the development of 5G technologies for self-driving cars. The companies on Sept. 27 announced the 5G Automotive Association, which will work to develop, test and promote technologies that will form the basis of the next-generation infrastructure that will […]

Lenovo is making another round of job cuts at its Motorola unit, the latest round of cuts at the mobile handset division since buying it from Google in 2014 for about $2.9 billion. Lenovo officials, responding to news reports about the job cuts, confirmed the layoffs in a statement to journalists, saying they would affect […]

The new releases from open-source network virtualization projects keep coming. A day after the OpenDaylight Foundation unveiled the fifth release of its open software-defined networking (SDN) platform—dubbed “Boron”—the ONOS Project on Sept. 22 introduced the eighth release of its SDN operating system for service providers and enterprises, code-named “Hummingbird” and offering improvements in southbound and […]

LogMeIn got the approval of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for its proposed $1.8 billion acquisition of Citrix Systems’ GoTo family of online communications products. LogMeIn officials said Sept. 26 that the FTC decided to cut short the waiting period of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act for LogMeIn’s bid for Citrix’s GetGo subsidiary, which was […]

Ed Meyercord knew that Extreme Networks needed to bulk up its wireless LAN capabilities. The company was built on switches for data center and campus networks, and it extended its reach into the wireless networking field in 2013 with its $180 million acquisition of Enterasys Networks. However, the WLAN space is among the fastest growing […]

Lenovo officials want to bring fingerprint authentication to its PCs, and is partnering with several other companies to get it done. Lenovo officials on Sept. 23 announced the company is teaming up with Intel, Synaptics and PayPal to offer fingerprint authentication that is compliant with biometric authentication standards created by the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) […]

Prysm is looking to make it easier for workers to bring third-party participants into their video collaboration meetings. At the Gartner Digital Workplace Summit this week, Prysm officials introduced a new Guest Mode feature for the vendor’s Visual Workplace, a tool Prysm users can use to more closely collaborate with colleagues, partners or customers whether […]