Rob Enderle

Crypto-miners have become the bane of graphics processor-card companies. Both AMD and NVIDIA have complained about miners who buy their cards in bulk, resulting in retail shortages. When they ramp up manufacturing, they dump those cards back on the secondary market, resulting in massive inventory problems. Well, NVIDIA finally had enough, but they realized that […]

Virtually every laptop currently in the market was designed before the pandemic. I get to see many laptops long before they are released, and, to date, I have yet to see a laptop specifically designed for how we work now. Think about it: Before the pandemic, portability was essential, long battery life was critical and […]

I’m putting a question mark (others didn’t) on the title because what you and I have as work-from-home space is quite different. For instance, I have a custom desk that can handle a monitor of any size. Still, my wife likes to work out of the kitchen, and her space is limited both horizontally and […]

The Lenovo X1 Carbon and X1 Fold represent very different devices that should appeal to very different users. Interestingly, the most revolutionary of the two products, the X1 Fold, may be better for the pandemic world we have now than the more traditionally designed X1 Carbon. On the other hand, the status aspect of the […]

Two fascinating transportation trends are emerging and haven’t yet, but will be, positively impacted by the pandemic: autonomous cars and autonomous flying cars. The latter is misnamed because autonomous flying cars actually are autonomous personal flying vehicles. Few have any intention of ever driving on roads, and those that do are either not autonomous or […]

When looking at Intel’s earnings, you’d almost think we weren’t in a pandemic. The company set record revenue, exceeding guidance by a whopping $2.6 billion and returned $19.8 billion to shareholders, who could likely use the financial help. [Editor’s note: See additional analysis at the end of this article from Patrick Moorhead.] But the handoff […]

Lenovo has been pushing the innovation button of late, and at CES 2021, they didn’t disappoint anyone. But the most interesting product they launched was the ThinkReality Glasses A3. This solution is the first iteration of an enterprise-grade head-mounted display. Like flat panels revolutionized PCs–incredibly portable PCs–I think head-mounted displays could revolutionize the next generation […]

When Bob Swan, Intel’s CEO, took over the company from beleaguered Brian Krzanich in 2018, it looked like he had inherited a train wreck. But he appeared to hit the ground running since he had been CFO and knew where all the bodies were buried. He had to rebuild the company that had been ravaged […]

As we reach the end of the year, I like to first look back at the products that I think helped define a segment and then look forward to what I think will define the next year.  2020 was a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the products that came out this year were […]

Families gather over the holidays, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention strongly suggest they don’t. I’m thinking there is another reason to consider not gathering, and that is because political discussions could end badly, particularly here in the U.S. So I figured I’d pick three relatively safe conversations to have that aren’t […]

This week was a depressing one for the analysts who cover the smartphone market. Traditionally we fly to Hawaii to attend the Qualcomm event, where we get a sense of what new features the premium phones will have in the next year. Thanks to COVID this year, we got a box with things that reminded […]

I’ll be honest: I don’t get Chromebooks. When they first came out, they didn’t use Android, which was Google’s most successful OS, and didn’t run Android apps. While they now run Android apps, most are still mostly focused on smartphones, not laptops. I then thought they would be used as a cloud client and do […]