Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger gave one of the most momentous speeches I’ve heard in my decades in the technology industry on the evening of March 22. It was so comprehensive and far-ranging that it will literally set the pace for peers, rivals, customers and suppliers for years to come. Gelsinger, who recently returned to Intel […]
Before the Consumer Electronics Show in early January, I wrote a piece about how I couldn’t wait for products based on the new WiFi 6E standard. In it, I described how a mesh network based on 6E would be the cherry on top of my new installation, which would be based on Verizon FIOS as […]
As we settle into a coronavirus world, we face a greater degree of uncertainty than at any time in living memory. The next few quarters are a cipher we cannot read. We dread the coming months. We know they’ll be bad, but we have no idea how bad. The water we’re swimming through is black. […]
With all the hoopla over climbing sales of notebooks, the desktop is already a dead puppy in many peoples minds. This leap of imagination exists despite the fact that desktops still represent the majority of systems shipped worldwide each year. While the rise of the “notebook ratio” (the number of notebooks divided by the number […]
One thing Intel was able to demonstrate at the conference the week of March 6 was a tour de force of staying power. Not only did the company reveal a kick-butt architecture that will put its processors—particularly the server parts—back on par with Advanced Micro Devices, but it also gave its partners a long view […]
Time to market can mean the difference between making your numbers and losing your shirt in our business, especially for PC hardware OEMs. In the case of Microsofts Windows Vista, the delays stretched from weeks to months and then to years, and now it looks as if the company will bring out its flagship upgrade […]
With its Wednesday release of new dual-core Power Macs, ranging from 2.0GHz to 2.5GHz, Apple Computer seems happy enough with the PowerPC architecture for now. This must be particularly true for the quad-2.5GHz version, which is given a status price tag at $3,299. If I didnt know better, Id say it was full steam ahead […]
Do all of us need dual-core notebooks? I guess it hardly matters. I mean, I could put up a stink and say, hey, exactly how many multithreaded mobile applications are there these days? I could whine about having to pay a premium price for this dual-carb V-8 slated to spend its days on roads with […]
The revelation that Dell is phasing out Intels Itanium processors in favor of its more-standard Xeon processors highlights the difficulty Intel has had with its bogged-down efforts to get Itanium out of the starting blocks. But it also raises a larger question about Dell and its supplier relationships. Earlier this year, Kevin Rollins, Dells CEO, […]
