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; he enjoys reading books, watching TV shows and movies, playing video games and spending time outdoors.
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5 Big Takeaways From Intel’s 2020 Product Security Report
by Dylan Martin
The semiconductor giant’s 2020 Product Security Report outlines how many vulnerabilities were uncovered by Intel versus external research, which product areas had the most vulnerabilities and how severe the issues were last year, among other things.
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Intel Ordered To Pay $2.18B In Patent Trial
by Dylan Martin
Intel denies such infringement and, in a statement to CRN, vows to appeal the order. The patents in question were transferred from NXP Semiconductors in 2019 to VLSI Technology LLC, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group, which is owned by Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group.
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Deloitte Packs New Center For AI Computing With Nvidia DGX A100s
by Dylan Martin
The consulting giant establishes the new Deloitte Center for AI Computing, which uses Nvidia’s DGX POD reference architecture as its foundation. Deloitte plans to use six powerful DGX A100 systems to accelerate AI development for a variety of customers.
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Biden To Order Review Of U.S. Semiconductor, IT Supply Chains
by Dylan Martin
The incoming executive order by President Biden will call for a supply chain review of semiconductors and advanced chip packaging technologies as well as IT technologies. The news comes after top U.S. semiconductor executives urged Biden to rekindle domestic chip manufacturing with ‘substantial funding.’
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Nvidia CEO: Industrial Data Center Sales Grew Faster Than Hyperscalers
by Dylan Martin
Jensen Huang says AI is having its ‘smartphone moment’ for every industry. ‘All of these industries, whether you’re in medical imaging or in lawn mowers, you’re going to have data centers that are hosting your products, just like the [cloud service providers],’ he says of Nvidia’s new milestone in the company’s latest earnings.
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Xilinx Makes Composable, Easy-To-Code SmartNIC With Alveo SN1000
by Dylan Martin
Xilinx, which is being acquired by AMD for $35 billion, has revealed the Alveo SN1000, the ‘industry’s first’ composable SmartNIC. ‘We’re providing an application-specific acceleration pipeline, where our customers can say, ‘I want this level of performance for storage or security or network acceleration,’ a Xilinx rep says.
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Supermicro Opens Remote Testing For Intel Ice Lake Servers
by Dylan Martin
The San Jose, Calif.-based server maker is giving customers advanced remote access to servers running Intel’s forthcoming third-generation Xeon Scalable processors, also known as Ice Lake, with the goal of helping customers speed up evaluations.
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Gigabyte Axes GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO, Disrupting Partner Server Plans
by Dylan Martin
Multiple partners tell CRN that Gigabyte’s sudden end-of-life for its GeForce RTX 3090 TURBO graphics card, which only launched a few months ago, has disrupted server plans with budget-constrained partners and set back delivery timelines as a result. An analyst says Gigabyte’s move underlines one of the risks partners face when they decide to use a product intended for desktop PCs in a server.
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New Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger’s Top Four Priorities For Employees
by Dylan Martin
On his second day on the job, Gelsinger outlined four big priorities as Intel’s new CEO in a letter to employees that he says will help the company fight against growing competition and ‘set a new era of innovation and technological leadership.’
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Nvidia-Arm Deal Faces Concerns From Microsoft, Google, Qualcomm: Reports
by Dylan Martin
The concerns focus around Arm’s historic open-licensing model for silicon designs, which allows companies like Qualcomm, Microsoft and Google to license IP to build their own processors. Nvidia insists that it will keep Arm’s licensing model open, echoing a promise made by CEO Jensen Huang last year.
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Intel, AMD CEOs Urge Biden To Boost U.S. Chip Manufacturing
by Dylan Martin
Top semiconductor executives are calling for President Joe Biden to rekindle domestic chip manufacturing with ‘substantial funding’ so that the U.S. can become more competitive with other countries that have poured significant investments into chip foundries like TSMC. ‘The costs of inaction are high,’ they say in a letter.
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Gigabyte: COVID-19 Surge At L.A. Ports Delaying Shipments
by Dylan Martin
In an internal document, the Taiwanese company, which makes motherboards, servers and graphics cards, said a slowdown in container processing at the twin ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach is causing delays and cited an article about hundreds of dockworkers who have contracted COVID-19 at the ports.
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Dell Restructuring: OEM Execs Bryan Jones, Ron Pugh Depart
by Dylan Martin
Partners say Pugh played an instrumental role in the OEM Solutions group’s partner and sell-through programs. ‘He never gets tired. He’s like the Terminator, in a good way,’ one says. Dell confirms that Pugh and Jones left in January as a result of a sales reorganization that happened last year.
