About
Dylan Martin is an associate editor at CRN, where he covers Intel Corp. and its competitors, as well as 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 Malden and enjoys reading books, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and visiting Maine in his spare time.
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Siemens: No Coding Needed For MindSphere IoT With New Integration
by Dylan Martin
Siemens wants to enable partners with no coding experience to build industrial IoT applications on its MindSphere platform, thanks to a new integration with Mendix. 'I think it was a good move by [Siemens], because it's one those cruxes they have to deal with,' one partner says. -
New Intel Core vPro CPUs Improve Speed, Battery For Work Laptops
by Dylan Martin
'It's good timing for Intel to get these processors out to the OEMs,' a distribution executive says of Intel's new eighth-generation Core vPro processors that provide business laptops with faster performance, better battery life and new security features. -
Apple-Qualcomm Lawsuits End With Sudden Settlement: ‘A Win-Win’
by Dylan Martin
Solution providers say Apple and Qualcomm's sudden settlement to end all litigation against each other is a 'win-win' for the tech giants and consumers and will allow both companies to forge ahead in the market: 'It must have been a major distraction for all of them.' -
GE Digital Layoffs 'Driven By Commercial Demands,' Not Spin-Off Plans
by Dylan Martin
The industrial Internet of Things pioneer says the layoffs, which impacted its San Ramon, Calif., headquarters, were not the result of its plan to spin off into a standalone company but 'driven by commercial demands for GE Digital.' -
VMware Vet's Firm Leads $65M Round In IoT Security Startup Armis
by Dylan Martin
IoT security startup Armis raises a $65 million funding round led by former VMware exec Carl Eschenbach's VC firm as the vendor's channel-driven sales grow at a fast clip. 'They are solving a problem that people don't even realize they have,' one partner says. -
Intel, Nvidia Score New Google Cloud Partnerships For Hybrid Cloud, Virtual Workstations
by Dylan Martin
Intel's new hybrid cloud reference design with Google Cloud aims to make it easier for businesses to 'seamlessly deploy applications across on-premise and cloud environments' while Nvidia brings new virtual workstation capabilities to the cloud service provider. -
AMD Takes On Intel With 2nd-Gen Ryzen Pro For Business Laptop Refresh
by Dylan Martin
‘Lenovo is pleased to partner with AMD to offer commercial users mobile experiences that balance performance and portability to power the modern workforce,’ Lenovo executive Jerry Paradise says of AMD’s new Ryzen Pro processors for business laptops. -
4 Things To Know About New Intel CFO George Davis
by Dylan Martin
Intel has hired Qualcomm veteran George Davis as its CFO, permanently filling the role vacated by Bob Swan when he was promoted to CEO. -
Intel's Steve Long On CPU Shortage: 'We Undercalled Demand As An Industry' For PCs
by Dylan Martin
In an interview with CRN, Intel sales executive Steve Long explains how unexpected growth in the PC business last year, among other factors, contributed to the company's ongoing CPU shortage and how the chipmaker is working with partners to improve sales forecasting and the overall supply issue. -
AMD Claims Businesses Pay 'Intel Tax' With Xeon Server CPUs
by Dylan Martin
AMD claims in a new white paper that Intel’s Xeon processors come with a set of extra costs associated with ‘self-imposed, designed-in performance bottlenecks’ that force customers to buy more expensive components. -
FogHorn Lets SIs Build Offline Machine Learning Apps For Android
by Dylan Martin
Keith Higgins, FogHorn's vice president of marketing, tells CRN that Lightning Mobile will provide plenty of margin opportunities for systems integrators who build high-value apps that take advantage of the company's offline machine learning capabilities -
Intel's F-Series CPUs Meant To Ease Shortage, Top Sales Exec Says
by Dylan Martin
In an effort to ease the CPU shortage, Intel executive Steve Long says the company is creating incentives for partners to sell the new F-series CPUs: 'We're showing them that we're hungry to have them take the parts.' -
Intel Rebrands Partner Program, Adds New Training, Collaboration Tools
by Dylan Martin
‘The way we see the lines of the channel blurring—hardware, software and services—we really want this to have a more unified way of delivering the right content to the right individual at the company, and we believe it's a great step forward,’ Intel U.S. Channel Chief Jason Kimrey tells CRN.
