I’m coming around to the idea the debt ceiling shouldn’t be raised, at least not until there is a solid plan in place to reduce the debt rather than constantly increase it until the debt holders (read China) effectively own the county. I like China; I just don’t want to pay them rent. The debt [...]
Intel Pushes the Computing Continuum Down the 22nm Voltage Scale
Intel laid out its plans to aggressively use its new 22nm silicon process to dramatically lower processor voltages while actually improving performance over the next 30 months, the company told financial analysts at a conference on May 17 at headquarters in Santa Clara, California. What analysts heard was by far the clearest picture for a [...]
Thoughts on Intel’s New 22nm 3D Transistors
Intel’s announcement yesterday announced the next generation of transistor process at 22 nm. New products based on the 22 nm transistors will begin arriving with the Ivy Bridge family in early 2012. What was not expected was that Intel would bet the fab on a radically new way of laying down transistors that puts the [...]
Is Amazon Stealing Android from Google?
Is Amazon Stealing Android from Google? I have been watching with great fascination the moves Amazon has recently made with Android. Two weeks ago they launched the Amazon App store that focuses on Android apps and last week they announced their cloud based music service with a special version just for Android. Although Google has [...]
Google’s Android Comes to a Fork in the Road
Earlier this week, I wrote that Google was not treating its smartphone and tablet operating system, Android, with the software product support to ODM’s and customers needed to make Android a strong ecosystem-competitor to Apple’s iOS, iPhone and iPad. That puts the companies that rely on Android in their products between a rock and a [...]
How Apple Outsmarts their Competitors
When the iPhone was launched in 2007, I met with Phil Schiller, SVP of World Wide marketing for Apple, and Greg Joswiak, the Apple VP in charge of marketing the iPods and iPhones. During the meeting they showed me the iPhone’s many features and shared their goals for the device, which has now become a [...]
Is Google the Problem With Android?
My argument this year has been that the only way for the “anti-iPads” to beat Apple’s iOS devices, iPhone and iPad, is with a complete hardware, software, app store, and developer ecosystem. To date, Google’s Android is the best-suited challenger, but it’s faltering. The good news for Android is growing smartphone market share, as illustrated [...]
Sandy Bridge Desktop Enthusiasts Should Wait … for Z68 in May
This post is for a very select segment: desktop enthusiast PC builders who have not yet purchased Intel’s Sandy Bridge but are planning to soon. For you, I suggest a 3-4 week wait until new motherboards come out based on the forthcoming Z68 chipset. Z68 combines the best features of the H67 and P67 mother-boards [...]
AMD Could Add ARM Faster Than Intel
This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 4, 2011. This morning, AMD gave a press conference to discuss a renegotiated wafer supply agreement with Globalfoundries, which spun off from AMD into a separate entity in March 2009 and acquired Charter Semiconductor to broaden its supply capabilities in September 2009. Wafers are the silicon disks on [...]
Union Shop Or Open Shop?
This post initially appeared on Forbes.com April 1, 2011. Not long ago, I was riding the United Airlines “bus” from Boston to San Francisco, one of the few remaining non-stop cross-country flights, when I chanced to have an interchange with a stewardess while in the back waiting for the bathroom to free up. I was [...]
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