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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Salesforce Eyes Slack Acquisition To Escalate Fight With Microsoft: Report
by Dylan Martin
The report of the deal discussions arrived as Microsoft Teams, which was introduced four years after Slack launched in 2013, is becoming increasingly prominent in workplaces. Microsoft led the Software-as-a-Service market in 2019 by a five-point lead over Salesforce, according to an analysis by Synergy Research.
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The 15 Hottest Cyber Monday Tech Deals And Sales In 2020
by Dylan Martin
Looking for new laptops, PC upgrades and smart devices for your home? These Cyber Monday tech deals have you covered, and some of them have already begun.
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HP CEO: COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Key To Future Commercial Growth
by Dylan Martin
‘We feel that as the pandemic gets under control, then the commercial business will come back. But it‘s hard at this point to exactly project when or how because it really depends on how far we can get the majority of the population vaccinated and people going back to the office,’ CEO Enrique Lores says.
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The 10 Coolest Industrial IoT Startups Of 2020
by Dylan Martin
CRN looks at industrial IoT startups that made big moves this year, between new funding rounds, product launches, partnerships and executive hires.
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The 10 Hottest Semiconductor Startups Of 2020
by Dylan Martin
These semiconductor startups are, in some cases, competing with heavyweights like Intel and AMD or creating complementary hardware, such as storage accelerators or data processing units, that can improve system performance or even shake up the economics of data centers.
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CRN’s 2020 IoT Innovators Awards
by Dylan Martin
CRN honors top solution providers leading the charge in bringing unique and innovative Internet of Things solutions to enterprises, SMBs and government agencies.
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Intel CEO Bob Swan Urges Biden To Invest In U.S. Manufacturing
by Dylan Martin
‘A national manufacturing strategy, including investment by the U.S. government in the domestic semiconductor industry, is critical to ensure American companies compete on a level playing field and lead the next generation of innovative technology,’ Swan says in an open letter to President-elect Biden.
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30 Notable IT Executive Moves: October 2020
by Dylan Martin
New CEOs at CommScope, Fidelis Cybersercurity and Logi Analytics as well as big personnel changes at HPE, Intel, Nvidia, Dropbox, VMware and Tech Data were among October’s most notable executive IT moves for October.
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The 10 Coolest IoT Startups Of 2020
by Dylan Martin
With new funding rounds, executive hires and product launches, these startups are making big moves this year as the demand for IoT offerings continues.
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Nvidia Says Mellanox Slowdown Expected To End Data Center Rally
by Dylan Martin
‘I fully expect future cloud data centers, all future data centers are going to be connected with high-speed networking inside,’ Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says as the chipmaker projects that a slowdown in sales for Mellanox products will cause data center revenue to decline sequentially for the first time in more than a year and a half.
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Apple Settles With States For $113M Over iPhone Throttling
by Dylan Martin
‘Big tech companies must stop manipulating consumers and tell them the whole truth about their practices and products,’ says Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, who led the investigation by a 33-state coalition into Apple’s iPhone throttling issues that emerged in early 2017.
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New Microsoft Security Chip Will Go Inside Intel, AMD CPUs
by Dylan Martin
‘Rather than asking customers to bolt on security processors as you would with a [Trusted Platform Module], we‘re building right into the DNA of the processor a security co-processor that’s going to store all of your encryption keys,’ Microsoft’s David Weston says of the new Pluton security chip, which will also go inside future Qualcomm CPUs.
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AMD Chips Away At Intel In World’s Top 500 Supercomputers As GPU War Looms
by Dylan Martin
AMD’s CPU share of the world’s top 500 supercomputers nearly doubles to 21 while Intel loses share. At the same time, both chipmakers are plotting new challenges to Nvidia’s data center GPUs that are becoming more prevalent in high-performance computing systems.
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Intel Launches Iris Xe Max Discrete GPU With New ‘Deep Link’ Feature
by Dylan Martin
With its first Xe discrete graphics product, Intel is introducing a new software framework called Deep Link that aggregates CPU and GPUs to accelerate performance. ‘I think all these companies are going to try to leverage the CPU-GPU advantages as much as possible,’ one Intel partner says.
