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Huawei Ban: Google, Intel Reportedly Suspend Business With Chinese Telecom Giant

by Dylan Martin
'I would be shocked if it doesn't have a major impact,' one solution provider says of Google's decision to suspend business with Huawei, which reportedly coincides with similar actions by Intel, Qualcomm and other tech companies after the Chinese telecom giant was added to a U.S. trade blacklist.
HP Launches Jet Fusion 5200 3-D Printer For Higher Production Volumes

by Kyle Alspach
The 3-D printing system includes advances in accuracy and offers ‘breakthrough economics,’ HP says.
Intel CEO Bob Swan To Investors: 'We Let You Down' But We'll Improve

by Dylan Martin
'We believe that we have an opportunity to lead one of the most successful transformations in corporate history,' Intel CEO Bob Swan tells investors during a shareholder meeting, where he shared the company's forecast for revenue growth over the next three years.
Next-Gen AMD EPYC, Radeon Instinct Tapped For Supercomputer

by Dylan Martin
AMD's promise of a 'fully optimized CPU and GPU design' for the word's 'most powerful supercomputer' underlines the new competition the chipmaker will face when Intel releases its first discrete GPUs for client and server systems next year.
Forrester: Intel vPro Can Give Businesses 155 Percent ROI In 3 Years

by Dylan Martin
The new Intel-commissioned report from Forrester finds that Intel's vPro IT management platform can provide businesses with a total of $2.8 million in IT cost savings on an investment of $1.1 million over three years, representing a 155 percent return on investment.
Semiconductor Sales Set For Biggest Decline In A Decade

by Dylan Martin
'It could be factory adjustment coming out of a high-demand environment where there were shortages, and now they need to adjust their forecasting and production,' a distributor executive says of the semiconductor industry's projected revenue decline for 2019.
Intel Cloud Boss Raejeanne Skillern Departs For Top Post At Flex

by Dylan Martin
'Raejeanne was instrumental to driving Intel’s cloud business from a multi-million dollar segment, to a [$10 billion] growth engine for Intel, and I’d like to personally thank Raejeanne for her outstanding leadership at Intel,' an Intel executive says of Skillern's departure.
Supermicro To Move Production Out Of China Over Customer Concerns: Report

by Dylan Martin
'It must be causing them enough trouble that they're looking at doing it, and I'm sure the things with the tariffs, that's probably not helping matters any,' one Supermicro partner said of the company's reported decision to move production out of China over security concerns cited by U.S. customers.
AMD Ryzen, EPYC Sales Ramp Up As 7nm CPU Launch Set For Q3

by Dylan Martin
'From the beginning of this year, we expect that over four to six quarters, we expect to ramp our server market share to get to double-digit share,' AMD CEO Lisa Su says of the company's growing competition against Intel in the data center market.
5 Biggest Drivers In The Managed Print Services Market

by O’Ryan Johnson
While paperless and green initiatives are driving a decline in paper and printer use in large enterprises, there are many sectors that are not slowing down, experts told CRN.
Intel Updates On Shortage, 10nm As 2019 Sales Set To Shrink

by Dylan Martin
'We’ve increased capacity to improve our position in the second half, although product mix will continue to be a challenge in the third quarter as our teams align available supply with customer demand,' Bob Swan, Intel's CEO, says of the improving CPU shortage situation.
5 Ways A Managed Print Services Provider Can Stand Out

by O’Ryan Johnson
The market for managed print services is growing, with one study forecasting it will become a $58 billion industry worldwide by 2025. Here’s how managed print services providers can differentiate themselves.
Microsoft Will Launch Surface Hub 2S In June, Add A Larger Model In 2020

by Kyle Alspach
The company plans to begin testing an 85-inch version of the second-generation Surface Hub next year, following the debut of the 50-inch Surface Hub 2S.
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.
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.