About
Dylan Martin is a senior 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 Searsport, Maine; he enjoys reading books, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and spending time outdoors.
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10 IoT Networking Companies To Know About In 2021
by Dylan Martin
These companies are working on new and better ways to connect IoT devices to networks, operate the networks themselves and enable new revenue-generating opportunities.
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The 10 Hottest IoT Startups Of 2021 (So Far)
by Dylan Martin
These IoT startups are gaining momentum for solutions that range from advanced analytics and industrial data management to agentless device security and asset monitoring.
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New Google Cloud VMs With AMD EPYC Promise Top Price-Performance
by Dylan Martin
The cloud service provider says the new class of virtual machines provides better performance and price-performance than Arm- and Intel-powered VMs from its top competitors. This is not the first time Google Cloud has chosen AMD over Intel for a new class of products. ‘With Tau VMs, Google Cloud has set a new bar for price-performance,’ says one Google Cloud consulting partner.
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The 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startups Of 2021 (So Far)
by Dylan Martin
These startups are taking on semiconductor heavyweights like Intel and Nvidia with new kinds of silicon solutions for compute, storage and networking, many of which are headed for the data center.
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: May 2021
by Dylan Martin
May saw big CEO shakeups with new leaders installed at VMware, Open Systems and Anexinet while longtime leaders at Insight Enterprises, ID Agent and Virtusa announced their departures.
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Intel Seeks To Buy Arm Rival SiFive For $2B: Report
by Dylan Martin
The offer was reportedly made as Intel seeks to regain technology leadership through its IDM 2.0 strategy and as rival Nvidia hopes to close its $40 billion acquisition of British chip designer Arm, the latter of which has sparked concerns about the future of Arm’s open-licensing model.
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AMD: Enterprise Server Sales Will Catch Up With Overall EPYC Growth
by Dylan Martin
Dan McNamara, head of AMD’s EPYC business, says he expects server CPU sales to enterprise customers will soon reach the same growth rate of the chipmaker’s overall EPYC business, which doubled in size last year. He also says the company’s EPYC business with the ‘internal properties’ of hyperscalers is much larger than the EPYC-powered cloud instances available now — which one partner says is helping increase confidence with enterprises.
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Intel CEO Cheers U.S. Senate Passage Of $52B In Semiconductor Funding
by Dylan Martin
Pat Gelsinger and other industry officials have pushed for the U.S. to approve a massive multi-billion-dollar spending package to boost domestic semiconductor manufacturing. But the bill that includes the funding now awaits approval in the House of Representatives, where it faces some opposition. Two channel executives say the funding would help improve supply chains, but there are questions about whether the U.S. needs to focus on other areas of production.
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Intel Reorganizes Groups, Names New Leaders Key To IDM 2.0 Strategy: Memos
by Dylan Martin
Two memos seen by CRN show that the semiconductor giant is laying the groundwork to execute on its IDM 2.0 strategy, which includes hiring Hong Hao (pictured), the former head of Samsung’s North American foundry business, to lead business development for Intel Foundry Services. The company is also consolidating its manufacturing, operations and supply chain groups to ‘drive world class execution and support to partner organizations.’
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Nvidia Pitches DGX SuperPOD Subscription, DPU Servers To Enterprises
by Dylan Martin
For enterprises that don’t want to spend $7 million to $60 million for Nvidia’s DGX SuperPOD AI supercomputer, the chipmaker is now giving customers the option of paying $90,000 a month for remote access that includes new cloud-based software for accelerating commercial AI deployments. The GPU juggernaut also disclosed that new Nvidia-certified servers are coming from OEMs with the chipmaker’s data processing units and Arm-based CPUs.
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AMD Says 3rd-Gen EPYC Bests Intel’s Latest Xeons, Launches New APUs
by Dylan Martin
The chipmaker brought several announcements to Computex 2021, including new performance claims for its third-generation EPYC CPUs against Intel’s latest Xeon Scalable processors, new Ryzen APUs for desktops, new Radeon graphics for gaming laptops and the new AMD Advantage design framework initiative for OEMs, the latter of which promises to deliver a premium laptop experience for gamers.
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These Were AMD’s 6 Most Highly Compensated Executives In 2020
by Dylan Martin
While Intel’s shareholders recently voted to reject the rival’s 2020 executive compensation plan, AMD’s shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favor of the company’s pay practices for its top executives.
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These Were Intel’s 6 Most Highly Compensated Executives In 2020
by Dylan Martin
A breakdown of Intel’s top compensated executives from last year. Their collective pay recently received a symbolic vote of disapproval from the chipmaker’s shareholders.
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Nvidia CEO: ‘The Next Major Wave Of AI’ Is In The Enterprise
by Dylan Martin
Jensen Huang says the chipmaker’s channel partners are integral to Nvidia’s new sales push with enterprise customers, which includes the new Nvidia AI Enterprise software suite that enables GPU-accelerated computing on VMware’s vSphere platform. He made the remarks as the company reported new records for quarterly revenue as well as data center and gaming sales for its first quarter.
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