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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.

Latest Stories

Arm Takes On Intel With Neoverse Platforms For Edge, Cloud And 5G

by Dylan Martin
While Arm doesn’t directly compete with Intel, the move enables Arm’s silicon partners, which include AWS and Huawei, to design new kinds of processors that power the increasingly growing number of cloud and edge servers in the world where Intel has staked its future growth.
Nvidia CEO Expects Return To 'Sustained Growth' After 'Turbulent' Q4

by Dylan Martin
Nvidia’s stock soars after beating Wall Street expectations for a ‘turbulent’ Q4, which saw a large slide in gaming GPU sales while the company’s data center business experienced a slowdown.
VDOO's New Agent For IoT Devices Provides Tailored Endpoint Security

by Dylan Martin
Dell-backed Internet of Things startup VDOO launches an endpoint security agent for connected devices that automatically tailors a security policy based on the device’s unique characteristics, potentially providing managed service providers with a new opportunity to enter IoT.
5 Companies That Came To Win This Week

by Rick Whiting
For the week ending Feb. 1, CRN takes a look at the companies that brought their 'A' game to the channel.
Partners: New Intel CEO Bob Swan Needs To Focus On The Channel

by Dylan Martin
‘The channel is oftentimes overlooked. We're hoping for good things,’ CTL’s Erik Stromquist says of Intel’s new CEO, Bob Swan, among a chorus of partners calling for the leader to put a greater focus on the channel.
Intel Names Bob Swan As CEO, 7th Leader In Firm's 50-Year History

by Dylan Martin
Intel names interim leader Bob Swan as its permanent CEO despite previously telling employees and the media that he wasn’t interested in the role.
Intel Reportedly Offering Up To $6B To Buy Mellanox

by Dylan Martin
Intel’s offer to acquire Mellanox reportedly remains open after the data center solutions giant received interest from Microsoft and Xilinx.
AMD Fares Better Than Intel On Wall Street As It Steals CPU Market Share

by Dylan Martin
AMD escaped shareholder scrutiny for its latest financial quarter, largely thanks to strong sales of its client CPUs and data center GPUS, as the company prepares to ramp up its next products for desktops and servers for the rest of the year.
Cisco Brings Intent-Based Networking To The IoT Edge: 5 Things To Know

by Dylan Martin
With new intent-based networking capabilities for the edge, Cisco wants to help channel partners expand to the Internet of Things through new products, network designs and training tools.
Nvidia CEO: 'Turbulent And Disappointing' Q4 Due To Weaker Data Center, Gaming Sales

by Dylan Martin
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang calls the company’s most recent quarter “extraordinary, unusually turbulent and disappointing” due to lower demand for gaming CPUs and cautious enterprise customers in the data center market.
Intel CPU Shortage To Ease By Mid-2019, Interim CEO Says

by Dylan Martin
Kent Tibbils, a marketing executive at distributor ASI, tells CRN that Intel’s timeline means the distributor will likely be caught up by August or September ‘because of the time it takes the supply to get built up throughout the entire channel.’
AMD, Intel Stock Take Hit After Nvidia Lowers Sales Forecast

by Dylan Martin
News of Nvidia slashing its sales forecast due to weaker data center and gaming sales had an immediate impact on AMD and Intel, whose stock prices both sank Monday morning.
AMD: 7nm Ryzen's CES Debut Just The Start Of New Fight Against Intel

by Dylan Martin
‘We're already competitive with Intel's best mainstream desktop processor. That's a very clear signal to the market, to the enthusiasts, to the buyers [that] we've got something good,’ a senior product manager at AMD tells CRN.
Intel Stock Sinks As Data Center Growth Shrinks

by Dylan Martin
Intel’s data center sales begin to contract after several quarters of double-digit growth due to lower demand from cloud service providers and Chinese customers, which led the company to issue a cautious revenue forecast for 2019.
PTC Blames Government Shutdown, Restructuring For Slipped Deals

by Dylan Martin
The industrial software company says it missed out on more than $20 million in deals in the first quarter due to the government shutdown and an $18 million workforce realignment plan that allowed the vendor to invest more in the Internet of Things initiatives.