BROWSING: Intel

2,200 Intel employees set to join Apple workforce It's official: Pending regulatory approval, Intel has agreed to sell its modem business to Apple for $1 billion and 2,200 Intel employees will make the move when the deal is finalized potentially in the fourth quarter this...

  President Donald Trump has agreed to grant "timely" licensing decisions to U.S. technology firms that want to sell components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei, the White House said in a statement. The decision was adopted following a meeting between Trump and the CEOs of...

Following Apple and Qualcomm ending litigation, Intel exited 5G modem business As first reported by the Wall Street Journal  yesterday, Apple is in "advanced talks" to buy Intel's cellular modem business, including patents and personnel. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Wall Street Journal ...

  U.S. companies could be allowed to resume shipments of components and services to Chinese vendor Huawei in approximately two weeks, Reuters reported, citing a representative for a U.S. manufacturer. According to the report, the representative was told by a senior U.S. government official that licenses...

The port of Rotterdam, one of the largest ports in Europe, has kicked off a project in which a smart container will be traveling around the world in a two-year data-collecting mission. During this journey, the container – which houses an array of sensors...

Automated network slicing--a fully virtualized network infrastructure capable of creating on-demand data pipes that exactly meet the needs of a given application--is a long-term goal of 5G investment. In pursuit of that goal, Verizon recently tested virtualization of the Radio Access Network using Nokia...

Intel announced that Chinese vendor ZTE selected Intel eASIC devices for its 5G wireless products. The U.S. chipmaker said ZTE selected Intel eASIC devices to meet the critical cost and power requirements demanded by large-scale 5G deployments. “Intel’s alliance with ZTE marks a major milestone in...

The value of 5G comes from ‘giving voice’ to the internet of things LAS VEGAS--As hybrid, multi-cloud IT strategies gain adoption by enterprises, including communications service providers, 5G is “knocking on the door,” according to K.C. Choi, Dell EMC’s SVP of Global Systems Engineering. And...

Intel signed a strategic cooperation deal with Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motor Company Limited (GWM) to boost the development of automobile intelligence, both firms said in a release. The strategic agreement was signed during the Auto Shanghai 2019 event. Under the terms of the deal, both...

Qualcomm and Apple agree to six-year patent and chipset supply A long-brewing, global battle between Qualcomm and Apple ended yesterday with the two companies agreeing to end all ongoing litigation related to allegations from Apple that Qualcomm took a monopolistic stance with a "no...

  The carrier aims to launch commercial 5G services in nine markets this year Sprint has opened a 5G experience center at its headquarters in Kansas City with the aim of showcasing and explaining the benefits of 5G technology, the carrier said in a statement. "We are...

Intel and Xilinx reportedly tried to acquire Mellanox The confluence of several technology mega-trends--5G, artificial intelligence and big data analytics--require the support of cloud computing and data centers to efficiently run an increasingly diverse set of workloads. To keep pace with this type of demand,...

  Naver will use Intel’s computing solution based on KT’s 5G communications network Naver, which is South Korea’s largest Internet portal and search engine, plans to develop 5G-enabled service robots in partnership with compatriot carrier KT and U.S. tech firm Intel. The partnership would allow Naver Labs,...

AT&T, Intel, Ericsson, Warner Brothers showing off 5G-powered mixed-reality at MWC Barcelona Augmented reality, virtual reality and mixed reality--from here on out we're going to use Qualcomm's umbrella term, extended reality (XR), have long been hyped as a major 5G application given the high-capacity and...

  Rakuten’s network uses Intel Xeon processors and Intel FPGAs for acceleration Intel has confirmed that it will provide technology to Japanese e-commerce and internet services provider Rakuten for a new cloud-native network. Intel said in a statement that the new network will be fully virtualized from...

Software-defined infrastructure focuses on using common hardware to support variable 5G workloads As service providers increasingly take an IT-centric approach to building and managing increasingly complex networks, there's a move toward swapping out single-purpose hardware for more flexible infrastructure that uses software to virtually spin-up...

This week the Intel Board of Directors announced that Bob Swam, the former chief financial officer and interim CEO since mid-2018, has taken on the top job permanently. Vice President of Finance and Director of Corporate Planning Todd Underwood will  take on the CFO...

AWS has launched a new open source machine learning project, Neo-AI, which makes the code for its key SageMaker Neo machine learning service available to developers for the first time. It is the second time in a few months the company has released source...

The Linux Foundation has started a new umbrella organisation, LF Edge, to establish an open, interoperable framework for edge computing that is independent of hardware, silicon, cloud, or operating system. The launch “changes the IoT and edge computing landscape,” it said in a press note....

Given huge mobile gaming market, 5G and cloud could provide a big boost to on-the-go gamers Spurred by mega-hit games like Fortnite and PUBG, mobile gaming is quickly becoming a massive market that operators and the telecoms ecosystem at large can not only support but...

Distributing compute closer to the end user opens up the latency benefits of 5G The conversation about the relationship between 5G networks and edge computing has been going on for some time. The premise is relatively straightforward: To take advantage of the latency benefits that...

The new technology will use hardware from Intel and cloud computing capabilities provided by the Chinese firm   Intel and Chinese tech giant Alibaba say they are developing athlete tracking technology powered by artificial intelligence that is aimed to be deployed at the Olympic Games Tokyo...

Snow Ridge SoC designed for combo of edge computing and 5G Taking advantage of the  massive throughput and low latency of 5G requires a new approach to building telecom networks. Often described as born in the cloud, 5G will require not just workload support associated...

The industry announcement of the Open Retail Initiative (ORI), (see this blog as well), spearheaded by Intel and Dell, couldn’t have come at a better time.  Pithy statements like “Data is the new oil” and “Data is the future” sound great, but the reality...