Jeffrey Burt

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Xilinx is pushing to expand its presence in the data center with a new line of PCIe accelerator cards powered by the company’s UltraScale+ programmable silicon and aimed at such modern workloads as machine learning inference, video processing and data analytics. President and CEO Victor Peng announced the Alveo portfolio Oct. 2 during […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Xilinx officials earlier this year introduced a concept they called an adaptive compute acceleration platform—or ACAP—that essentially brings together multiple compute acceleration technologies, integrated networking, leading edge memory, software development tools and frameworks to address such modern workloads as artificial intelligence, big data and 5G networking. Officials with the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) […]

Intel’s interim CEO is admitting that the unexpected upswing in the global PC space is putting a squeeze on the supply of 14-nanometer processors but said the company will be able to meet its revenue goals for the year despite the increasing market pressures. PC shipments increased in the second quarter of this year, according […]

Qualcomm officials got some of what they wanted from a judge with the International Trade Commission, who said that while Apple did infringe on one of three Qualcomm patents, there was no reason to ban the company’s iPhone from the United States. The decision by Judge Thomas Pender is the latest step in a sprawling […]

Michael Dell still plans to take his eponymous company public again. It’s just that now he might take the initial-public-offering route. The CEO of Dell Technologies in July announced that he planned to take the company public by a complicated transaction process based on spending $21.7 billion to buy “tracking stock” from investors that is […]

Qualcomm officials are taking another swing at Apple in the companies’ ongoing and wide-ranging legal dispute by accusing the device maker of stealing trade secrets from Qualcomm and giving them to Intel to help the chip vendor boost the performance of its processors. The allegations reportedly were made in a superior court filing in California, […]

The continued migration by businesses to the cloud has helped drive the growth of the software-defined WAN space as enterprises look for faster, secure and cheaper ways to connect their branch offices and remote sites. That challenge has only increased as businesses increasingly use multiple cloud providers for the workloads and data. Talari Networks and […]

Cisco Systems continues to revamp and build out the capabilities of is collaboration platform, most recently introducing new edge Webex services that can be run in a customer’s own data center, more hardware for corporate conference rooms, headsets for its Webex and Jabber unified communications applications, and a new meeting scheduler for Webex. The new […]

Artificial intelligence holds the promise for enterprises of being able to use sophisticated algorithms to churn through massive amounts of data, discover patterns, return insights, and help drive faster and better business decisions. Image recognition, natural language processing, translation and other capabilities gained through neural networks, machine learning and deep learning will help executives open […]

A startup run by a former Intel president is rolling out the first of its Arm-based server processors that are designed to challenge its larger rival in such modern environments as hyperscale data centers and edge computing. Ampere, which officially launched in February with ex-Intel executive Renee James as its CEO and chairman, on Sept. […]

Officials with Lenovo, which already is seeing strong growth in its data center server and storage businesses, are looking to add stronger flash capabilities to its lineup through a partnership with NetApp and its expertise in all-flash and hybrid-flash storage. The two companies last week announced a strategic partnership that also includes the creation of […]

Nvidia officials are looking to press their advantage in the fast-growing artificial intelligence space with the introduction of the company’s new Tesla T4 GPUs and a new platform and software aimed at the inference side of the AI equation. At the vendor’s GTC technology conference in Tokyo this week, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang showed off […]