Samsung Could Have A Winner With The Gear 360 VR Camera

Samsung Could Have A Winner With The Gear 360 VR Camera
by Patrick Moorhead on 05-09-2016 at 12:00 pm

For success, VR playback and content must be robust
The world of VR is split into two different areas, tethered PC VR and mobile VR. The reason why so many companies are going after mobile VR is because that’s where all of the volume is expected to be in VR. As a result, you have companies like Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics introducing… Read More


Qualcomm’s New Smartphone Chips Go Straight At MediaTek

Qualcomm’s New Smartphone Chips Go Straight At MediaTek
by Patrick Moorhead on 05-05-2016 at 12:00 pm

Last Thursday at Qualcomm’s Financial Analyst Day the company made a slew of chip announcements ranging from the industry’s 1 Gbps wireless LTE modem to a custom designed smartwatch SoC and platform called “Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC”. In between those, Qualcomm also announced a few very overlooked … Read More


Qualcomm’s New X16 LTE Modem Delivers Gigabit LTE And A Scalable Architecture

Qualcomm’s New X16 LTE Modem Delivers Gigabit LTE And A Scalable Architecture
by Patrick Moorhead on 05-01-2016 at 7:00 am

Qualcomm has been the global unit and revenue market share leader for years in modem technologies used in smartphones, tablets, PCs and IoT (Internet of Things). One of the reasons they have maintained this lead for so long is that they are typically first to market with new generations of modems. Today at their investor conference,… Read More


Qualcomm Rounds Out IoT Offerings

Qualcomm Rounds Out IoT Offerings
by Patrick Moorhead on 03-22-2016 at 7:00 am

Lots of chip companies like ARM Holdings, Intel, NVIDIA and Qualcomm are spending time and effort to find a place for themselves in the IoT market because they, like I, believe in a gigantic, future market. Some companies are focusing on wearables and drones while others are looking to automotive and smart home. Qualcomm previously… Read More


Intel Adds ‘Authenticate’ Multi-Factor Security Feature

Intel Adds ‘Authenticate’ Multi-Factor Security Feature
by Patrick Moorhead on 03-11-2016 at 7:00 am

Last summer, Intel launched their 14nm, 6th Generation Core processors, code-named ‘Skylake’, alongside Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system. As things usually go in the enterprise world, the commercial 6th Generation of Intel’s Core vPro processors weren’t too far behind with increased security and manageability… 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


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


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