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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

Intel 10th-Gen Core Comet Lake Brings Six Cores To Ultrathin Laptops

by Dylan Martin
The new processors provide up to 16 percent overall performance gains compared with last year's eighth-generation Intel Core i7-8565U mobile processor, says Intel executive Ran Senderovitz. For productivity applications and multitasking, they provide up to a 41 percent improvement.
Google Cloud, IBM, Intel, Microsoft Back New Effort To Encrypt Server Data

by Dylan Martin
'Whether running on your own servers on-prem, in an edge deployment or in the heart of a cloud service provider’s data center, this “in-use” data is almost always unencrypted and potentially vulnerable,' Intel executive Lorie Wigle says of the problem that the Confidential Computing Consortium is tackling.
Nvidia CEO: Enterprise AI Is Driving Growth In The Data Center

by Dylan Martin
'We are building a broad base of customers across multiple industries as they adopt GPUs to harness the power of AI,' Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says of the chipmaker's growth in enterprise AI as a couple of cloud service providers drag sales for its data center business.
How AMD Plans To Win Over Solution Providers With EPYC 'Rome'

by Dylan Martin
AMD server channel chief Jerry Gadbois talks to CRN about how the chipmaker plans to take on Intel in the data center channel with its new lineup of second-generation EPYC 'Rome’ processors.
Cisco Layoffs: Nearly 500 Jobs Cut In California

by Dylan Martin
This is the second time significant layoffs have hit Cisco's offices in San Jose and Milpitas in the last 12 months after the company cut 460 jobs last November.
Forrest Norrod Outlines AMD's Plan To Fight Intel In The Data Center

by Dylan Martin
'We're going to make sure that world-class technology from those companies is extremely well supported on the open EPYC ecosystem, and I think generally that wins,' AMD's top data center executive tells CRN in an interview.
Nvidia Sets New Conversational AI Records, Shares Code To Help Others

by Dylan Martin
'We're trying to find ways of computers to actually understand the context of language and generate language to respond. The whole world is really racing to create conversational AI,' an Nvidia exec says of the chipmaker's new AI advances.
'Screwed Drivers': Driver Vulnerabilities Affect Intel, AMD, Other Vendors

by Dylan Martin
These newly disclosed vulnerabilities can allow attackers to install malware directly on device firmware, giving malicious software the ability to remain on the device, even after the operating system has been reinstalled, according to Intel-backed security startup Eclypsium.
AMD Launches EPYC Threat Against Intel With 64-Core CPUs

by Dylan Martin
'Today I can proudly say that second-gen EPYC is the highest, the highest performing x86 processor in the world,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says at the chipmaker's EPYC 'Rome' launch event.
AMD CEO Lisa Su Denies Report That She's Leaving For IBM

by Dylan Martin
'Just for the record, zero truth to this rumor. I love AMD and the best is yet to come,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says in response to a report stating that she plans to leave the chipmaker later this year.
Intel Xeon Cooper Lake To Bring 56-Core CPUs To The Masses

by Dylan Martin
‘Extended 56-core processor offerings into our mainline Intel Xeon Scalable platforms enables us to serve a much broader range of customers who hunger for more processor performance and memory bandwidth,’ an Intel executive says of the new Xeon Scalable processor lineup.
Intel Highlights Data Center Wins Ahead Of AMD EPYC 'Rome' Launch

by Dylan Martin
'While the customer challenges are complex, we really think this strategy of delivering platform-based solutions is what's best going to meet their critical business challenges,' Intel exec Jennifer Huffstetler said of the company's data-centric platform strategy.
Intel Confirms 10th-Gen Core Roadmap Will Include 14nm CPUs

by Dylan Martin
'At this moment, we're still a big Intel house and if Intel can do a 10nm product that can give me a higher frequency, that's the holy grail. If they can do higher at 14nm or 7nm, I could care less,' an Intel partner said of the company's confirmation that its 10th-generation Core lineup will include 14nm CPUs.
Intel Kills 2nd-Gen Omni-Path Interconnect For HPC, AI Workloads

by Dylan Martin
'If there's not a road map, it wouldn't make sense to commit down Omni-Path's route. It's a one-trick pony, so to speak,' said one Intel partner of the chipmaker's decision to cancel a second-generation version of its Omni-Path Architecture fabric for high-performance computing workloads.
Intel Reveals Specs For 11 10th-Gen Core 'Ice Lake' Mobile Processors

by Dylan Martin
'Ice Lake is [Intel's] biggest step forward in systematically thinking about AI,' Intel executive Ran Senderovitz says of the company's upcoming 10th-generation Core processors that will power new ultra-thin laptops coming out later this year.