Rob Enderle

This week I checked out the new Dell XPS 13 in Alpine White, and it is a showcase for what Dell’s premium brand laptops provide. Premium laptops cost more because they generally use higher-quality materials in their cases, better screens, more powerful processors and higher-speed hard drives.  This one was no exception; it features a […]

Intel has named Bob Swan, its interim chief executive officer, as permanent CEO, and the market isn’t happy. This effectively gives Intel three chief financial officers: Chairman Andy Bryant, who is an ex-Intel CFO; Swan, who was the previous CFO; and the new actual CFO. You could add that the firm has several other CFO […]

At CES this year, I tried something very different. Rather than carrying my 40-pound backpack all over the show, I just carried my HP Spectre Folio, and it worked far better than I thought it would. The issue with most smartphones, tablets and particularly laptop computers is that they really aren’t designed to be held. […]

LAS VEGAS–The Consumer Electronics Show is a fascinating one, and one of the most interesting companies there is IBM—largely because it is pushing the envelope in a lot of areas with emphasis on mature artificial intelligence and quantum computing. Ginni Rometty is one of the strongest CEOs I cover, because everything she does is focused […]

I’m a bit of a tech geek, and that means I live for new technology, and it also means my office looks a lot like what will happen when digital assistants learn to procreate. With CES happening this week, I’m getting excited about new technology and the wonderous things I’ll get to play with this […]

Laptops have been on a slow march to innovation for around 15 years.  I go back and look at, say, a Sony Vio from around 2002, and it was sleek, ultrathin and damned attractive.  Granted, battery life wasn’t exactly great (at something like 3.5 hours on a good day), but Sony had the concepts of […]

By any measure, Dell Technologies is a formidable enterprise. While it made its reputation making and marketing PCs, it has grown to multiples of it early-day size after consuming EMC to become one of the most powerful traditional computer/server/storage companies in the world.  However, even with its size and scope–plus the fact that it owns […]

I was at the Qualcomm 5G media event in Hawaii last week (I’m sure your hearts are all bleeding for me). One of the more interesting sessions had people from Qualcomm, Verizon, AT&T and Samsung on stage talking about what will happen when 5G reaches a point where it is ubiquitous. While 5G will get […]

We are in a time of change for the PC market. The perception that the PC is dead or dying is, itself, dead or dying. The result is that the PC OEMs are again looking at new form factors to both differentiate and to better meet the changing needs of users—an increasing number of whom […]

While it is Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., in China it is business as usual, and this is also the week for Nvidia’s GTC Conference (last year was impressive). Nvidia is all in for autonomous cars, and its Xavier platform has been gaining massive support from firms such as Continental and Veoneer, which are […]

CHICAGO—This week I’m in lovely (and frickin’ cold) Chicago at Dell’s annual analyst event, and Michael Dell is on stage talking about things like “bionic vision.” Recalling the old TV show, “The $6 Million Man,” this technology is coming out of England for folks who have catastrophic vision loss. This is kind of a primer […]

It fascinates me how often a leading company will sacrifice that leadership in order to maximize quarterly revenue. You can see that with Apple, whose excessive focus on margins and quarterly results has caused it to drop to third place in the smartphone market (behind Samsung and Huawei) and to move to cover up its […]