Jeffrey Burt

Qualcomm shareholders may still be unsure what exactly they’ll be asked to vote on when they gather for the company March 6 annual meeting. They key issue will be rival Broadcom’s ongoing hostile bid to buy Qualcomm. But as the events of the past couple of days have shown, shareholders are involved in a complex […]

Juniper Networks officials this week are expanding the company’s multi-cloud strategy with an array of hardware, software and services offerings that are designed to give businesses the throughput, automation and security they need to run workloads in on-premises data centers and in multiple public cloud environments. The broad range of network offerings touch on everything […]

Arm has made its living at the edge of the network, with its processor architecture powering most smartphones and many of the other devices that business users and consumers rely on in their work and home lives every day. Now the company wants to bring improved machine learning capabilities to these devices through a new […]

Renee James spent almost three decades as Intel, rising through the ranks of the giant chip maker and running businesses such as software and services before being named president in 2013 when Brian Krzanich took over as CEO. She eventually left the company in 2016, becoming an executive at venture capital firm The Carlyle Group. […]

Cisco Systems is expanding its container capabilities as part of its larger multi-cloud initiative and months-old partnership with Google around the deployment and management of hybrid clouds. The company last week unveiled that its latest version of the software for its HyperFlex hyperconverged system will support containers, which in an increasingly cloud-centric world are becoming […]

Cisco Systems is building out the intent-based networking initiative that officials launched last summer with new software offerings designed to ensure that the network is working the way organizations intend and that extend the strategy to all parts of the network, including branch offices and wireless networks. At the vendor’s Cisco Live show in Barcelona, […]

Cisco System officials almost two years ago jumped into the burgeoning hyperconverged infrastructure market with the introduction of the HyperFlex system that included the company’s Unified Computing Systems and Nexus networking switches and software acquired from startup Springpath as foundational elements. Since then, Cisco has added enhancements to Hyperflex on an almost quarterly basis and […]

Intel CEO Brian Krzanich came to this year’s Consumer Electronics Show with the future in mind even as his company and the rest of the IT industry continue to deal with the fallout from the vulnerabilities in processors that have given rise to the threats of Spectre and Meltdown. During his keynote address at the […]

Advanced Micro Devices’ Radeon Vega GPU is getting a lot of attention in Las Vegas as the CES 2018 tech show gets underway. Executives with both AMD and its rival, Intel, unveiled new processors that come with the latest iteration of the chip maker’s graphics technology, and PC makers are coming out with refreshed systems […]

Broadcom executives are now taking their $105 billion bid for Qualcomm directly to the chip maker’s shareholders. In a letter sent with other proxy materials Jan. 5 to Qualcomm investors, Broadcom President and CEO Hock Tan argued that his company’s offer for Qualcomm would be a financial boon to shareholders and urged them to vote […]

In what has already been a particularly bad week for Intel, Gartner analysts said the company for the first time since 1992 is not the world’s largest semiconductor maker. Instead, that crown now belongs to Samsung Electronics, due in large part to a shortage of product in the memory market that drove up prices. Samsung […]

A lot has been written about IBM’s efforts in such emerging technologies as artificial intelligence, machine learning, analytics, blockchain and the cloud, much of it part of the company’s larger strategy around what officials call “cognitive computing.” But IBM is also making major investments in quantum computing, an area that has gotten a lot of […]