“May you live in interesting times” is an ancient Chinese curse that’s often perfectly suited for the tech sector and vendors. A recent example is the painful past few months suffered by Intel. That began with the surprise exit of […]
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The IT industry loves to hype new technologies—no surprise there. But during the past decade many of these promotional efforts has been throttled by what might be called the “iPhone Effect.” That’s the case when vendors pitch new technologies to
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We are rolling into the 4th quarter, which is the most important for companies selling to the consumer segment regardless of whether we are talking PCs, smartphones, or gaming systems. Currently I’m hearing reports that there are huge shortages of
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According to Qualcomm Apple is planning to move to inferior Intel Modems for their next generation of premium smartphones. Qualcomm modems currently outperform Intel Modems by a significant margin on a number of critical metrics. In fact, Intel is so
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There is a lot of distrust surrounding the Intel brand at the moment largely due to a sequence of events which included a slow disclosure of a serious security flaw (which appears to be getting worse), a secret early disclosure
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The past year or so has delivered multiple lessons on IT security with a single conclusion: that whatever people, including individual consumers to business organizations to the IT vendors who serve them, have done or are doing, it isn’t enough.
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The qualities required for business leadership, or leadership of any sort, aren’t exactly hard to come by. Forthrightness, taking responsibility for your own and your organization’s actions, respect for fellow workers, partners and customers, recognizing others’ contributions and bringing out
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AMD’s APU is really what separates the company from Intel and NVIDIA because AMD is the only firm in their class that can blend the GPU and the CPU into one product. Targeted at the entry-level market, this not only
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This month AMD and Dell launched a line of impressive servers, but that is not the big news. The big news is that this signals Intel is vulnerable and that has huge implications for not only the server but the
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This is what occurred to me given the latest news that Intel had notified China long before they notified the US Government about a series of very critical security issues with Intel’s processors. This came on top of the news
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