Google’s New Nexus 5X Features One Major Overlooked Wireless Upgrade

Google’s New Nexus 5X Features One Major Overlooked Wireless Upgrade
by Patrick Moorhead on 03-03-2016 at 7:00 am

In the world of smartphones there is a never ending list of specifications that are constantly considered by consumers when buying them. No line of phones is more scrutinized for its specs than the Google Nexus line of smartphones. This is primarily because the people looking to buy Nexus phones are already Android enthusiasts … Read More


Five Reasons to be More Bullish on a 2016 Commercial PC Refresh

Five Reasons to be More Bullish on a 2016 Commercial PC Refresh
by Patrick Moorhead on 03-01-2016 at 10:00 pm

Last week’s IDC and Gartner Q4-2015 report on PC sales sent a shock-wave through the industry. The stock market responded with a sell-off of major PC-related names like Advanced Micro Devices, HP Inc. (fka Hewlett-Packard), Intel, Lenovo, and NVIDIA. While I was disappointed in the Q4 numbers, I also have a good grasp of what was… Read More


Advanced Micro Device’s New Polaris FinFET-Based Architecture Could Open New Doors

Advanced Micro Device’s New Polaris FinFET-Based Architecture Could Open New Doors
by Patrick Moorhead on 02-21-2016 at 4:00 pm

It seems of late like there is an unlimited thirst for GPU performance at the right power efficiency. Whether it is deep learning, object recognition, artificial intelligence, simulations, VR or AR, the industry desperately needs GPU improvements. Many within the graphics industry would agree that a new era of graphics performance… Read More


Demystifying Cisco’s Five Pillar Innovation Strategy

Demystifying Cisco’s Five Pillar Innovation Strategy
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-26-2016 at 7:00 am

Large companies that are the leaders in their industry generally have a hard time maintaining the entrepreneurial spirit that got them to their leading position in the first place. On one hand you have relatively “new” companies like Facebook who keep growing and on the other, you have companies like Yahoo who are struggling in … Read More


Qualcomm Shows Their First 5G Demo At Industry Analyst Day

Qualcomm Shows Their First 5G Demo At Industry Analyst Day
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-22-2016 at 7:00 am

Complete 5G solutions aren’t something that you’ll be seeing in phones or networks any time soon regardless of what you may see in the headlines or companies are claiming. In fact, the first official release of the 5G standard isn’t likely to be finalized until 2018, at which point true 5G networks will very likely not roll out until… Read More


IBM’s OpenPOWER Presence Was Felt Heavily At SuperComputing ’15

IBM’s OpenPOWER Presence Was Felt Heavily At SuperComputing ’15
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-17-2016 at 10:00 pm

IBM is in the process of reinventing themselves as a company, changing how they see themselves, what they do as a company and how they want their partners and customers to view them. This is exemplified best in their mobile alliance with Apple, their Watson cognitive efforts, the sale of their chip fab to GlobalFoundries, the sale… Read More


AMD’s GPUOpen Initiative Architected To Move The Industry In A Different Direction

AMD’s GPUOpen Initiative Architected To Move The Industry In A Different Direction
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-15-2016 at 12:00 pm

GPUOpen is a new initiative started by Advanced Micro Devices’ Radeon Technologies Group (RTG) as a way for the company to continue to reach out to the needs to developers by giving them a better development environment. The idea behind GPUOpen is born out of the work that Advanced Micro Device’s did with Mantle, their own low-level… Read More


Advanced Micro Devices’s Head Of Radeon Technologies Group, Raja Koduri, Talks About Their Future

Advanced Micro Devices’s Head Of Radeon Technologies Group, Raja Koduri, Talks About Their Future
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-13-2016 at 4:00 pm

Since Advanced Micro Devices announced their new Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), many have wondered what direction the graphics division would go with its new-found autonomy. The new RTG group within Advanced Micro Devices is still a wholly-owned division of the company but still potentially ripe for acquisition or spinoff.… Read More


NIGHTWATCH Smart Halter: A Great Example of ARM’s IoT Ecosystem Innovation And Diversity

NIGHTWATCH Smart Halter: A Great Example of ARM’s IoT Ecosystem Innovation And Diversity
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-12-2016 at 7:00 am

We’ve all seen examples over the past few years of complex IoT technology solutions to help solve real-world problems from a variety of small companies. In fact, last year while I was at the ARM Holdings annual industry analyst conference and TechCon, a gathering of the ARM ecosystem powers, you could find hundreds, if not thousands… Read More


What’s The Significance Of Applied Micro’s X-Gene 3 And X-Tend Interconnect?

What’s The Significance Of Applied Micro’s X-Gene 3 And X-Tend Interconnect?
by Patrick Moorhead on 01-10-2016 at 4:00 pm

The void left by the Advanced Micro Devices X86 server chip “sabbatical” five years ago created a massive opportunity in the server SoC space. It had to be filled with something and that something has primarily been Intel and then ARM-based server chips. ARM Holdings -based servers have been in development for years now and the ecosystem… Read More