Jeffrey Burt

For Qualcomm, 2017 started off with customer and competitor Apple filing a $1 billion lawsuit over the chip maker’s patent licensing practices around its baseband chips, a move that kicked of a year of an accelerating legal dispute between the two companies. As the new year approaches, it appears that Qualcomm not only will have […]

Don’t expect Intel to slow down on its efforts to gain traction in such growth markets as artificial intelligence, machine learning, the internet of things (IoT), 5G wireless technologies and autonomous vehicles. In an internal memo Dec. 19 to employees, CEO Brian Krzanich said Intel has been “radically” changing and that the change will continue […]

Advanced Micro Devices is hoping to use its new EPYC server processors to chip away at Intel’s dominant market share. It took a strong step in that direction when giant Chinese internet search company Baidu said it will use AMD’s EPYC chip in systems running such emerging workloads as artificial intelligence and analytics as it […]

Intel officials are rolling out new Pentium and Celeron processors based on its new “Gemini Lake” architecture and aimed at such devices as two-in-one and all-in-one PCs, laptops and desktops used for such every-day tasks as working on office documents and spreadsheets, online browsing, movies and photo editing. The low-cost, low-power chips are designed to […]

Nvidia is rolling out what officials are calling the most powerful GPU for PCs, though the product shouldn’t be confused with graphics technology found in mainstream systems. The new Titan V, with 21.1 billion transistors and the ability to deliver 110 teraflops of performance, is aimed at scientists and researchers working on high-performance computing tasks […]

IBM took a significant step in the increasingly competitive and fast-growing field of deep learning and artificial intelligence with the introduction Dec. 5 of the first servers based on the Power9 processor and armed with an interconnect technology designed to accelerate the movement of data between the IBM processor and GPUs from Nvidia. IBM officials […]

The global server market for the past several quarters has been kept afloat by system-hungry hyperscale cloud service providers like Amazon, Google and Facebook that continue to need to fill their massive data centers. However, enterprises began buying servers again in the third quarter of 2017 after holding back while awaiting systems powered by new […]

The push toward 5G, the next generation wireless connectivity, is speeding up as carriers and businesses continue to struggle to with the skyrocketing growth of data, according to an executive in Intel’s networking business. In a recent interview with eWEEK in Boston, Sandra Rivera, senior vice president and general manager of the chip maker’s Network […]

To the surprise of few, Qualcomm’s board of directors on Nov. 13 rejected Broadcom’s week-old $105 billion unsolicited bid for the company, saying the offer undervalues Qualcomm and doesn’t take into account the chip maker’s growing influence in the IT industry. Despite the rejection, Broadcom officials said they intend to continue pursuing the acquisition and […]

Qualcomm, the world’s largest vendor of mobile processors, is now challenging rival Intel in the rapidly changing data center market. The company is now selling its long-awaited Centriq 2400 Arm-based server processor that is aimed at the fast-growing cloud market and that Qualcomm officials say beats Intel in such crucial areas as power efficiency and […]

Broadcom is making an unsolicited bid to buy mobile chip maker Qualcomm for $130 billion, which would create a chip-making behemoth with the capabilities to challenge industry leaders Intel and Samsung and continue the multiyear consolidation trend in the semiconductor space. The deal would combine Broadcom’s broad chip-making business, which supplies silicon for everything from […]

Lenovo, buoyed by a financial quarter that saw a 20 percent revenue jump in its PC business, is buying a controlling stake in Fujitsu’s troubled PC business. The two companies announced Nov. 2 that they, along with the Development Bank of Japan, are creating a joint venture around Fujitsu’s PC business, with Lenovo buying a […]