After almost three decades at the top of the list for most approved patents in the US, IBM dropped to No. 2 in 2022 behind Samsung Electronics Co., reflecting a shift in Big Blue’s strategic direction the past few years. IBM’s patent count dropped 44% to 4,743 in 2022. It trailed Samsung’s 8,513 patents, which […]
Dell joined a growing list of top-tier tech companies laying off employees, citing economic slowdown and lower demand for PCs and laptops. In an SEC filing, Dell said it plans to lay off some 6,650 employees to “stay ahead of the downturn impacts,” brought on by the widespread and ongoing macro-economic conditions. In an internal […]
What is a mission-critical application? A mission-critical application is a software program or suite of related programs that must function continuously for a business or business segment to be successful. Even brief downtime of a mission-critical application is likely to have negative financial consequences. In addition to lost productivity, a mission-critical app’s failure to function […]
In the wake of Intel’s declining revenue reported last week, AMD offered a glimmer of hope for the semiconductor industry, with a higher-than-expected earnings report for the fourth quarter. But even AMD sounded a cautionary note in an otherwise positive earnings report. While revenue from AMD’s data center business jumped 42%, to $1.7 billion in […]
For the fourth consecutive quarter, Intel’s revenue spiraled down as sagging PC sales, mounting competitive pressures and tightening IT budgets continue to weigh on the company’s financial performance. Intel’s fourth-quarter revenue plummeted 32%, to $14.04 billion. The company reported a $664 million net loss, compared with a profit of $4.62 billion in the year-ago quarter. […]
By What is data center infrastructure efficiency? Data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) is a metric used to determine the energy efficiency of a data center. DCiE was developed by members of The Green Grid, an industry group focused on data center energy efficiency. How to calculate DCiE DCiE, which is expressed as a percentage, is […]
This story was updated on Jan. 18, 2023. Following up on last fall’s AMD-based series of PowerEdge servers, Dell has debuted a slew of Intel-based PowerEdge systems targeting data centers, public cloud and edge environments customized to run data-intensive applications, including AI inferencing. The latest systems, like last year’s, feature the company’s Smart Flow design, […]
Competitors Nvidia and Intel have partnered to deliver a server that will house both Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs and Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable processors. The new generation of systems are specifically designed for “energy-efficient AI,” according to Nvidia officials. The combination of Intel’s CPUs, working in tandem with Nvidia’s Tensor Core GPUs, delivers higher […]