AMD details 3 new server chips, including its first ARM design
AMD has released its new server roadmap, which includes its first ARM-based chip aimed at the data center. This is big for AMD and an evolution of the data center. Read more »
ICYMI podcasts: Connected pets, 7 years of GigaOM and boosted battery life on MacBook Airs
Can one chip make a difference in your laptop’s battery life? Yup, and hopefully it comes to Chromebooks soon. Data from connected pets can help their health while Sony countered Microsoft well with its new PS4. Read more »
Microsoft and other U.S. firms disclose security flaws to spies before customers, report claims
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A Bloomberg report suggests widespread cooperation between U.S. tech firms and the nation’s intelligence agencies that could help those spies hack into foreign computers. Read more »
The next era of computing is coming, and ARM’s Simon Segars is ready to profit from it
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ARM’s future is tied to more devices with computing and connectivity trying to share data on a variety of networks. Call it the internet of things or just the obvious direction we’re heading as society. Read more »
With Merrifield chip and LTE, Intel looks ready to compete in smartphones
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After mostly missing out on the mobile market that started in 2007, Intel has been playing catch up. This year could be the turning point with Atom chips in smartphones and tablets, such as the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 Read more »
ARM introduces new designs for affordable smartphones, tablets
As smartphones and tablets become more common there’s an emerging middle class of devices that need some high-end features, but can’t break the bank. ARM’s latest designs meet that need. Read more »
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The new building blocks for IT: OpenStack, continuous delivery, and devops
The key building blocks of a modern IT organization include a highly flexible infrastructure, an automated software delivery life cycle, and a devops-driven IT organization. This report focuses in particular on OpenStack as an underlying cloud platform to support this new type of organization. It defines the continuous delivery approach, addresses the benefits as well as disadvantages of OpenStack, and, finally, discusses the role of devops. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Why Intel thinks data democratization is a good bet
Intel isn’t just being generous in supporting initiatives aimed at helping consumers explore public data and their own personal data. The trend could present a business opportunity. Read more »
More sources say Intel Atom to power Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3
Sources at VentureBeat have confirmed that Samsung has chosen Intel’s Atom to power at least one Samsung Galaxy Tab device, giving the chip-maker a desperately needed design win in the Android tablet market. Read more »
Leaked benchmarks suggest Intel could power Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 3 10.1
Intel could get its largest mobile design win yet: Two different benchmark sites indicate that at the very least, Samsung is testing an Intel Atom chip inside the upcoming Galaxy Tab 3 Read more »
With push for data democratization, Intel tries to play both sides of the big data debate
Intel, whose chips are in production at data centers worldwide, has taken steps lately to make consumer data more accessible to the public. How to expose the data is another matter. Read more »
Networking chip firm Mellanox to buy startup Kotura. Because photonics.
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Mellanox, the networking chip company famous for its Infinband products has agreed to to buy photonics startup Kotura in an all-cash deal. The purchase comes after Kotura started making products for the data center. Read more »
LogMeIn and ARM want to help you build the internet of things
LogMeIn has launched a cloud platform that inventors and developers can use to create next-generation connected devices, and it’s partnered with ARM to provide a “Jumpstart” kit to speed up the process. Read more »
Heck yeah! Facebook’s Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
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Not content with open sourcing the server and storage hardware inside data centers, Facebook’s Open Compute Project has teamed up with others to build an open source top of rack switch. Here’s why it matters. Read more »
Intel debuts Silvermont: mobile chips with powerful battery-sipping abilities
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Does Intel still stand a chance in the highly-competitive mobile chip market? Yes, if the company’s new Silvermont chip lives up to its promise of 3x the performance of today’s Atom or 5x the power efficiency. Read more »
Intel’s McAfee buys Finnish firewall specialist Stonesoft for $389M
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Assuming the deal goes through, Intel will see a boost in the firewall, evasion prevention and SSL VPN parts of its portfolio. Read more »
Besieged by a changing market, Intel chooses new CEO from the inside
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Intel on Thursday named a new CEO and a new president. While both are internal candidates, the new president has experience that should help her face the challenges Intel has in the mobile and data center market. Read more »
Intel banks on enterprise mobile app development again, leading $9M FeedHenry round
Intel Capital and others have put $9 million into Irish outfit FeedHenry, which provides a mobile app development and deployment platform, along with backend-as-a-service, for mostly enterprise customers. Read more »
Google working on Chrome OS for Intel Haswell chips: More Chromebook battery life ahead!
Until the Chromebook Pixel, Chrome OS laptops were relegated to use older, slow Intel chips. Looks like that’s changing as new Chrome OS code has numerous references to Intel’s fourth-gen Core chip, which should greatly boost Chromebook battery life. Read more »
Intel, Samsung, Telefonica endorse anticipatory computing, invest in Expect Labs
Expect Labs more than doubles its current funding with latest round. The startup wants computers to be able to predict the kind of information we need instead of us having to ask for it. Read more »
API turf war heats up as MuleSoft buys ProgrammableWeb
Don’t like the lay of the API land now? Wait a second, it’s gonna change as companies snap up API management expertise and other relevant resources. Read more »
It’s a big market for little chips: 2.6B ARM chips shipped last quarter
The mobile market has been good to ARM Holdings, which designs the chips that power most smartphones and tablets. The company is growing revenues and nearing 1,000 licensees. Read more »
CA snaps up Layer 7 as API management arena heats up
Last week it was Intel buying Mashery, now it’s CA buying Layer 7. Both Mashery and Layer 7 are in the business of managing application programming interfaces. Read more »
Intel’s switching dreams will be Cisco’s and Juniper’s nightmare
Intel has big plans in the networking –plans that will upset the status quo from merchant silicon vendors like Broadcom to box makers like Cisco and Juniper who are dependent on custom ASICs. Read more »
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Connected consumer first-quarter 2013: Analysis and outlook
Many long-standing legal rules of engagement between publishers and consumers tilted the playing field in unexpected ways in the first quarter. The period also saw a major expansion in the amount and quality of original productions for web-based video platforms and a major move by chipmaker Intel to stake a claim in the digital living room. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
ZTE, Intel’s BFF, puts a new Atom chip in the Geek smartphone
Intel and ZTE announced a strategic collaboration last month and already have a new product. The ZTE Geek smartphone uses Intel’s latest Atom chip promising more speeds and better battery life. With a foothold in China, Intel isn’t out of the mobile game yet. Read more »
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Mobile first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
The mobile platform wars escalated once again in the first quarter of 2012 as BlackBerry finally took the wraps off its much-anticipated new operating system. Meanwhile Android continued to build on its dominance both worldwide and in the U.S., cementing a two-horse race with Apple. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Cloud and data first-quarter 2013: analysis and outlook
Cloud computing is finally starting to add value to business, as those in charge of cloud within enterprises are moving from talking to doing. That much was very evident in the first quarter of 2013. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Serious question: Is it too late for HP Project Moonshot to disrupt anything?
If you want an HP Project Moonshot server, you can get one today. The question is many of the big, webscale companies HP is targeting are already building their own servers. Read more »
Intel inside & out: trademark filings point towards Intel Media plans
Intel registered a trademark for Intel inside and out last week, which seems to be connected to its TV plans – and which turns out to be virtually identical to another mark registered in secrecy last year. Read more »
Cisco wades deeper into small cell waters with $310M Ubiquisys purchase
Another month, another big acquisition to bolster Cisco’s portfolio for mobile carriers. This time it’s Ubiquisys, the highly-rated purveyor of small cells, SON technology and other operator-focused treats. Read more »
Applied Micro’s cloud chip is an ARM-based, switch-killing machine
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Applied Micro, a chip company with a market cap of $500 million, is set to take on Intel and AMD with the first 64-bit, ARM-based server part that mimics an entire rack on a chip. Read more »
Is this the future of memory? A Hybrid Memory Cube spec makes its debut.
A highly dense memory technology introduced in 2011 takes another step closer to reality with the launch of new interconnection specifications. At this rate, we’ll see the new tech in devices in 2014. Read more »
End of an era at ARM, as CEO Warren East retires
East will cease to be ARM’s CEO as of 1 July, and his position will be filled by current company president Simon Segars. Both engineers have been with ARM since the early 1990s. Read more »
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How the mega data center is changing the hardware and data center markets
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Mega data centers’ innovations in serviceability, automatically detecting and recovering from failures, procurement practices, and so forth will become standard practice in all modern data centers. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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How fourth-quarter 2012 will affect IT spending in 2013
Worldwide IT spending finished out 2012 with a growth rate of 3.8 percent over 2011, the lowest growth rate since 2009. Fourth-quarter 2012 earnings reports and guidance were notable in their lack of any decisively positive news to raise 2013 spending expectations much. Those optimistic about […] Read more at GigaOM Pro »
With a new Atom chip, Intel’s smartphone BFF is ZTE
Intel announced a slightly upgraded Atom chip at Mobile World Congress and ZTE has already decided to use it. That’s good news for Intel for a number of reasons. Read more »
This week’s 10 best data stories (so far)
There has been a lot of data news already this week — some big, some interesting, and some both. Here’s a collection of the stuff you shouldn’t, or don’t want to, miss. Read more »
Cloudera who? Intel announces its own Hadoop distribution
Intel’s getting into the open source software business with it’s own version of Hadoop. It joins a host of startups as well as EMC Greenplum in building a distribution for big data. Read more »
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The growth and promise of the LED market
LED production has grown tremendously, accompanied by a significant fall in prices that will further propel the sale of this energy-efficient digital-lighting technology. But challenges remain on the road to widespread adoption. Figuring out ways to use power efficiently for lighting will be crucial for a future when the world’s population will likely be much larger. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
