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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The IT market loves the big splash when vendors are first to market with major new technologies or wholesale revisions of existing solutions and platforms. The results include numerous, gratifying headlines, kudos and “attaboys”. But ripple effects can also spell
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This last week AMD announced the brand of its new processor family, Ryzen. The acknowledgement came mostly because when AMD registered the name—along with a bunch of other fake names—folks started to realize that it was the only choice that
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There was a pretty big announcement this month. Microsoft and Qualcomm just announced they are developing Snapdragon based laptops running Windows. What makes this interesting is that Windows hasn’t supported a platform other than x86 in its complete form since
Intel and Qualcomm Play Game of Thrones for the Desktop and Forget the Queen of Dragons Read More »
There is a lesson that seems to be hard learned in the technology market and that is that a technology company needs to be led by an experienced executive who also is a subject matter expert. Nowhere is this more
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This week AMD gave us an introduction to Zen as it slowly reveals more and more of this highly-anticipated PC and Server processor. I’ve been following this for some time and I know a number of the PC and Server
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The comparisons between the new iPad Pro with the old Surface Pro 3 is unfair because the iPad Pro is brand new and the Surface Pro 3 is nearly a year old. Given how fast technology changes that isn’t fair.
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One of the best times of my life was covering PCs when Pat Gelsinger was in charge of innovation at Intel. He would have an annual competition for designers to create amazing things that few could afford but we all
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