Roger Kay

The algorithm Donald Trump applied to the policies of his predecessor, Barack Obama, was simple: anything Obama had done, Trump rescinded, canceled or did the opposite. Joe Biden might be tempted to play turnabout with Trump, and in many cases that would make a lot of sense. In matters relating to areas such as the […]

Like many shoemakers, I should be ashamed that my children are running around barefoot. Actually, no–that’s a metaphor. It’s my communications infrastructure that’s running around barefoot. I’m a tech analyst with an embarrassingly ancient network and connection to the outside world. How did it get this way? Neglect and time, as always, were big factors. […]

Qualcomm is a firehose of product and standards announcements these days. On Oct. 20, I think I received something like a dozen announcements of one sort or another. I’ve written before about how the company manages to maintain its focus, even when under great stress, and now that Qualcomm is out from under a heap of […]

Several years ago, a new memory type began to penetrate the market. Intel had been developing the technology later branded Intel Optane since 2012. Optane technology delivered technical advances on a number of fronts, with the result being a kind of non-volatile memory that was almost as fast as volatile working memory (dynamic random-access memory […]