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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Nvidia Exec: We Need Partners To Push GPU-Based AI Solutions
by Dylan Martin
'Our strategy is really to reach out and recruit, nurture, develop, train, enable partners that want to do the same, meaning they want to build out a deep learning practice, for example,' says Kevin Connors, Nvidia's vice president of sales for global partners, about the chipmaker's channel strategy for AI.
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Report: Xerox Mulls Bid To Buy HP After $2.3B Deal With Fujifilm
by Dylan Martin
The Wall Street Journal report comes after HP began a major restructuring under its new CEO, Enrique Lores, and after Fujifilm announced Monday night that it will buy Xerox's remaining ownership in the Fuji Xerox joint venture for $2.3 billion.
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AMD Prices Ryzen Threadripper 3960X At $1,399, 3970X At $1,999
by Dylan Martin
AMD marketing manager Don Woligroski says the new Threadripper processors, set to launch Nov. 25, 'truly sit on top of what Intel can offer' in the high-end desktop market. 'We're in the $1,000-plus market by ourselves now,' he says.
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Nvidia's Jetson Xavier NX Is 'World's Smallest Supercomputer' For AI
by Dylan Martin
'Jetson Xavier NX lets our customers and partners dramatically increase AI capabilities without increasing the size or power consumption of the device,' Nvidia edge computing exec Deepu Talla says of the new product.
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US Postal Service To Use Nvidia GPU Servers For AI Mail Processing
by Dylan Martin
'They believe that by using GPUs from Nvidia, by using software we have enabled over the last 10 years, and [by using] servers from both HPE and Dell, they're going to be able to process data 10 times faster and with higher accuracy,' Nvidia exec Anthony Robbins says of the federal artificial intelligence project.
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AMD CEO Lisa Su: EPYC Sales Grew 50 Percent After Rome's Launch
by Dylan Martin
'Customers are familiar with our platforms and in some cases doing drop-ins with [existing] platforms. They're familiar with our architecture, so I think from a market share standpoint, we feel good about the transition from Naples to Rome,' AMD CEO Lisa Su said of EPYC Rome sales in the third quarter.
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Intel Prices Core i9-9900KS 5GHz All-Core CPU At $513
by Dylan Martin
"I think 90-plus percent of [applications] scale with frequency. How many of them scale with cores? I could deliver a bunch of cores. I'm not sure that would do anybody any good," says Intel exec Frank Soqui on the chipmaker's high frequencies.
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Intel Data Center Rebounds As CPU Shortage Drags PC Sales
by Dylan Martin
'We're letting our customers down, and they're expecting more from us,’ Intel CEO Bob Swan says of the chipmaker's CPU shortage, which has been going on for more than a year.
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Siemens To Buy Container-Based Edge Platform From Pixeom
by Dylan Martin
The industrial giant is diving deep into container technology to make it easier to run applications at the edge in factories. 'We view ourselves [as] what VMware did for the data center, we're doing for the edge,' Pixeom CEO Sam Nagar told CRN in an interview earlier this year.
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Dell's Jason Shepherd: IoT's In the 'AOL Stage.' The Next Stage Is Open.
by Dylan Martin
'In any emerging market, you have to get through that dumb-it-down stage before people can handle the choices and start to go do things on their own,' Dell edge computing exec Jason Shepherd says.
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Intel's New Tremont Architecture Targets Low-Power, Compact Devices
by Dylan Martin
'Tremont is Intel's most advanced low-power x86 architecture to date,' says Intel's chief architect for Tremont says of the new architecture, which the company promises significant performance gains for IoT devices and other products with low-power and small form factor requirements.
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PTC Reports Strong Q4 IoT Growth, Plans $470M Onshape Acquisition
by Dylan Martin
'Onshape is a very unique asset. Because of the high cost of entry, you simply won't find another [computer-aided design] SaaS startup out there,' PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann says of the vendor's plan to acquire Onshape.
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Packaged IoT Solutions Can Help VARs Get Past Pilot Paralysis, Survey Says
by Dylan Martin
'The more that these are packaged, the more that these are proven, the more that these are ready to go, hopefully what that allows is to cut down on the proof of concepts,' IPED senior consultant Mark Williams says.
