Jeffrey Burt

Dell EMC officials are introducing fully integrated and pre-validated systems that come with the hardware and software enterprises need to more quickly begin running artificial intelligence workloads. The company this week unveiled two new offerings in its Ready Solutions lineup that are specifically designed for machine learning and deep learning tasks and save businesses the […]

Intel officials are confirming that the company’s first 10-nanometer server processor will launch in 2020, with two more 14nm chips coming to market during the next two years. At the chip vendor’s Data-Centric Innovation Summit Aug. 8, Navin Shenoy, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Data Center Group, unveiled a Xeon roadmap that […]

Enterprise networking rivals Cisco Systems and Arista Networks have settled their bitter years-long patent dispute, with Arista agreeing to pay Cisco $400 million and with each company saying it will not bring legal action against the other for the next three to five years. The agreement settling all outstanding legal issues was reached Aug. 6, […]

NetApp and Nvidia are taking the latest steps to give enterprises the same capabilities to leverage artificial intelligence technologies that currently are primarily the domain of major cloud-based companies and the largest corporations. The two companies are bringing together Nvidia’s GPU-based DGX supercomputers and NetApp’s AFF A800 cloud-enabled all-flash storage to create what officials are […]

Arm is unveiling its Internet of things platform things after acquiring Treasure Data, a seven-year-old data management company that Arm officials said was the final technology component that it needed to assemble its Pelion IoT system. Arm officials announced the Treasure Data acquisition and Pelion IoT platform on Aug. 2, saying the deal completes an […]

HP Inc. officials are rolling out a bug bounty program to more proactively find and deal with security flaws in some of its lines of business printers. The PC and printer maker is teaming up with Bugcrowd to run the program. Selected researchers will be able to receive awards of between $500 and $10,000 to […]

Qualcomm officials will end their $44 billion bid for rival chip maker NXP at midnight ET July 25 unless Chinese regulators change their stance and give their approval to the deal, an unlikely move considering the ongoing trade war between China and the United States. Speaking on a conference call with financial analysts about the […]

Juniper Networks officials are continuing to push their product portfolios toward 400 Gigabit Ethernet as they eye the bandwidth demands that will be coming with the migration to 5G networks and the increasing adoption of such modern technologies as cloud computing, 4K video, and augmented and virtual reality. As part of the 400GbE roadmap unveiled […]

Broadcom, which make a failed bit to buy rival chip maker Qualcomm for $117 billion after acquiring networking gear vendor Brocade for $5.5 billion, is now turning its attention to software maker CA Technologies in a bid that indicates a shift in priorities for the chip maker. The proposed $19 billion deal moves the company’s […]

The long-struggling worldwide PC market hasn’t been this strong in more than six years, according to analysts with IDC and Gartner. Businesses around the globe continued to upgrade their PCs in the second quarter of this year to Windows 10, fueling the strongest growth in the space since the first quarter of 2012, according to […]

Intel over the past several years has adapted to an increasingly data-centric world by diversifying its product lines beyond CPUs for PCs and servers to offer a broader range of computing systems including programmable chips, ASICs and, soon discrete GPUs. The giant chip maker is now adding to that lineup through the acquisition of long-time […]

Intel is filling out its lineup of Xeon workstation processors with the latest chips aimed at entry-level systems and mobile workloads. The 14-nanometer Xeon E-2100 chips, which are Xeon E3 processors based on a derivative of the “Coffee Lake” cores, are designed to offer capabilities that deliver a 36 percent performance improvement over the E-1200 […]