About
Dylan Martin is an associate editor at CRN, where he covers the semiconductor industry and the Internet of Things. He previously wrote about startups and venture capital for BostInno, an American City Business Journals property. Prior to that, he worked for Mainebiz and The Forecaster newspapers. Dylan lives in South Portland, Maine, and enjoys reading books, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and spending time outdoors.
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AMD Hires IBM Power9 Dev Lead To Work On CPU-GPU Integration
by Dylan Martin
'It certainly paints a picture that AMD is going to be a significant factor for the continuing years,' one AMD partner says of former IBM Power development lead Joshua Friedrich joining the chipmaker to work on CPU-GPU integration efforts that will benefit client and data center products.
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Intel Cuts Prices Of 2nd-Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs With High Memory Capacity
by Dylan Martin
'I think a lot of what's going on with Intel is in response to what AMD's moves are,' one Intel partner says of the chipmaker's latest price cuts, which take off as much as 54 percent of the price for Intel's second-generation Xeon Scalable processors with high memory capacity.
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Intel Hires Away HPE CIO Archana Deskus To Lead Global IT Operations
by Dylan Martin
'Intel is going through an exciting and historic transformation as it extends the reach and impact of information technology in an era of data,' says Archana Deskus, who was most recently HPE's CIO.
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Domino's Taps Nvidia T4 GPUs, DGX To Spice Up Pizza Delivery With AI
by Dylan Martin
Domino's is tapping into Nvidia T4 GPUs and the chipmaker's DGX deep learning system to accelerate artificial intelligence tasks involving prediction and image classification so that the pizza delivery chain can provide a better experience for customers.
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Intel Is Sampling A DG1 GPU 'Software Development Vehicle' With ISVs
by Dylan Martin
'Another purpose of DG1 is it's a software development vehicle for us. That's going to help Tiger Lake, DG1 and lots of other Xe-based products that come after it,' Intel's Darren McPhee says of the the chipmaker's GPU development efforts.
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AMD Reveals Ryzen 4000, 'The Best' Processors For Ultrathin Laptops
by Dylan Martin
'We wanted to be above that historical curve. We wanted to push the envelope,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says of the new high-performance laptop processors, which the chipmaker claims are faster than Intel's latest Ice Lake chips.
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Industrial IoT Analytics Startup Seeq Raises $24 Million, New Filing Shows
by Dylan Martin
The newly disclosed funding comes as the Seattle-based startup, which provides advanced analytics software for manufacturing data, seeks to expand its roster of channel partners.
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Intel Hires Ex-AMD Silicon Design Exec To Lead Discrete GPU Efforts
by Dylan Martin
The hiring of Masooma Bhaiwala comes as the semiconductor giant plans to make a big splash in the discrete GPU space, starting in 2020, with products targeting a wide range of segments from from high-performance computing and deep learning to gaming and mobile.
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EU Approves Nvidia's $6.9 Billion Acquisition Of Mellanox
by Dylan Martin
'It ought to allow for a healthy research and development budget, so that they can stay ahead,' one Nvidia partner says of how its acquisition could impact interconnect vendor Mellanox.
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What Intel's Habana Labs Deal Could Mean For Its Nervana AI Chips
by Dylan Martin
'It's hard to imagine that they would keep both product lines alive,' one analyst says of how Intel's Habana Labs acquisition could impact its Nervana AI chip plans, though not everyone agrees.
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Next For AMD In The Data Center: Tighter EPYC-Radeon Integration
by Dylan Martin
'I think you'll see a greater and greater coupling in terms of timing, capability [and] workload affinity that I think will be more the norm,' AMD executive Scott Aylor says of the chipmaker's plans for its next-generation EPYC and Radeon Instinct processors for the data center.
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Intel Acquires AI Chip Startup Habana Labs For $2B
by Dylan Martin
'This acquisition advances our AI strategy, which is to provide customers with solutions to fit every performance need – from the intelligent edge to the data center,' Intel's Navin Shenoy says of the chipmaker's latest acquisition.
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Intel Hires Former GlobalFoundries CTO, IBM Chip Exec Gary Patton
by Dylan Martin
The hiring of former GlobalFoundries CTO Gary Patton comes as Intel plans to return to a two to two-and-a-half year cadence for its manufacturing process after dealing with a multi-year delay for its 10nm processors, which are shipping in new laptops this holiday season.
