Even smart, successful people can get things very, very wrong. Take Apple CEO Tim Cook and the 2015 interview where he stated, “I think if you’re looking at a PC, why would you buy a PC anymore? No really, why […]
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This week AMD announced they had signed Lenovo and Sugon as OEM partners and Tencent and JD.com as datacenter customers in China as they roll their EPYC platform into China’s cloud market. Other firms supporting this launch are Acer, Asus,
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Today’s cars are as much defined by the power of their software as the power of their engines. Almost any car feature you can name is now digitized to provide drivers with easier operation and better information. Technological innovation is
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Compute performance is expressed most often in terms of benchmark tests, and the resulting gains new systems offer over previous generation solutions. But such analysis can benefit from situational details, like a ruggedized system’s ability to survive extreme temperatures, humidity
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It is summer and time to consider whether that aging laptop you’ve been lugging around should be replaced. You now have the time to migrate all your crap from the old machine to the new one, and I have some
Choosing A New Laptop: A Tale Of Two ThinkPads Read More »
The mouse has been more or less a required peripheral since the invention of the Macintosh and the introduction of the first Windows operating system—the one that still required you to also install DOS first and then add Windows as
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I picked up a 32GB Intel Optane memory module a couple of weeks back and the installation process has been an “experience”. Easy this isn’t yet, though I expect they will improve it over time otherwise they’ll likely see many
Intel Optane Memory: Pain To Install But Oh So Worth It Read More »
That Silicon Valley loves anything new is clear in everything from the IT industry’s vigorous promotion of emerging trends and products to its enthusiastic drumbeating for sometimes vaporous start-ups. The value of this Super Lotto culture is seldom questioned, especially
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People respect and even revere the IT industry for innovative computing products that regularly appear in the market. However, the availability of those solutions depends on equally or even more innovative manufacturing processes. That underscores a fundamental truth about commercial
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It wasn’t that long ago that quad-core was “cutting edge”. OK, I guess it’s been an eternity in computer time, but it doesn’t seem that long ago. We will soon have massive 18-core / 36-thread processors thanks to Intel’s new
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