The Upcoming Women In Quantum Summit III And Its Secret 70 Year-Old Legacy

By / Quantum Computing, Research / January 11, 2021

It is well-documented that women are underrepresented in STEM, particularly in physics and quantum, although thankfully it is to a lesser degree today than it was many years ago. In the 1930s and 1940s, some people believed that women didn’t have the proper brain structure for scientific investigation. Those opinions and other gender prejudices must …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Lab Efforts Seek To Enable 5G On A Massive Scale

By / Enterprise Networking, Research / January 11, 2021

I am convinced that the mountains that are near many Hewlett Packard Enterprise(HPE) facilities inspire the company’s lab and research and development efforts. I visited its lab in Roseville, California, in the summer of 2018, and was impressed by its capabilities. I wrote an article highlighting my insights. If interested, you can find it here.  Last month, …

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Never Heard Of Silicon Lifecycle Management? Join The Club.

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / January 11, 2021

Product Lifecycle Management offerings have helped companies manage their product lifecycles for decades, reducing costs, improving quality and making customers happy. Surprisingly, though, such a process is not in place for the silicon chips used in almost everything these days. While the semiconductor industry has matured on many fronts, producing vast quantities of faster, cheaper …

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Collaboration Is The New Competition In FinTech

By / Financial Technology, Research / January 11, 2021

Nearly every industry had to pivot, in multiple ways, to adapt to the challenges brought on by 2020.  FinTech has been one of the most impacted, with people working, shopping, and banking from home due to social distancing. Although partially sprung from Covid, the trends in online banking, lending, and digital and contactless payments will …

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An Interview With CEO Steve Lee About The Flagship PureWave Gen II

By / Healthcare Technology, Research / January 11, 2021

Over the past few months, the recovery field has turned into a billion-dollar industry, and every healthcare technology wants to be a part of it. It does not surprise me that recovery-based companies are coming out of stealth at an intense rate. Percussion guns are being seen on all sports channels and even sponsored by …

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Crestron’s Conferencing Solutions Flourish In The Smart Home

By / Connected Home, Research, Smart Home Automation / January 11, 2021

Recently,  I detailed some of the activities that Crestron, one of the original leaders in office automation, has taken to adapt in the age of Covid-19. Despite the forthcoming vaccines that will hopefully return the world to some sense of normalcy, it’s clear that the remote working trend, at some level, will be with us long …

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Amazon AWS Ramps New Hardware For AI

By / AI and Machine Learning, Research / January 11, 2021

AWS’s annual re:Invent conference this year included big news from CEO Andy Jassy and AI VP Swami Sivasubramanian. AWS launched two new hardware platforms for AI and significantly expanded its SageMaker software to simplify running AI models on AWS at maximum performance. When I look at the breadth of AI software, the depth of AI …

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7 FinTechs Fueling Financial Inclusion

By / Financial Technology, Research / January 11, 2021

Traditional banking historically targets the rich. Banks compete for their business and profit off their balances and transactions. The more money one has, the lower the fees, and the higher the returns. FinTech companies are changing how people bank and manage transactions to level the playing field and increase financial inclusion for those without deep …

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Intel Labs Moving Mountains With Neuromorphic Computing And Photonics Technologies

By / Research, Semiconductor / January 11, 2021

While the industry loves to combine “R&D” and we see this in every tech company’s P&L, research and development are very different. Research is high risk, market making investments and discoveries that are unattached to products. Development is applying that research and other’s IP to create an end product or services. Development is less risky. Very few companies do …

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Adds HPC To Its GreenLake As-A-Service Portfolio

By / Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Podcast, Research / January 11, 2021

Several years ago, in 2019, Hewlett Packard Enterprise made a public vow to offer all its offerings “as-a-Service” by 2022. HPE’s GreenLake cloud services portfolio is essential to this strategy by HPE offering organizations a highly flexible, scalable, secure and fully managed and monitored IT experience. I’ve been following the company’s strategy closely and have …

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Lenovo ThinkPad P17 Mobile Workstation Review: Only Professionals Should Apply

By / Personal Computing, Research, Workstation / January 11, 2021

Earlier this summer, Lenovo updated its mobile workstation lineup with the Lenovo ThinkPad P17 and P15 notebooks. Lenovo launched the ThinkPad P17 as its largest mobile workstation focused on durability and packed full of high-performance hardware to create a no-compromise solution. Every company talk about a desktop replacement, but this design tries to replace a real …

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Banks Turning To The Cloud For Growth And Improved Customer Experience

By / Corporate, Research / January 11, 2021

We in the tech industry have a particular fondness for catchy buzz phrases. “Digital transformation” is one of the more ubiquitous ones to emerge in the last five years, and perhaps also one of the more difficult ones to define due to its broad nature. Any business likely can transform digitally, if they haven’t already, …

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An Informative Intel Industry Analyst Conference 2020

By / Corporate, Research / January 11, 2021

I spent close to three days attending the 2020 Intel industry analyst day last week. All the new information was NDA, I am not going to rehash what has already been said over the past year, but I did want to share some of my high-level opinions exiting the week. Comparatively, there was less new information shared than in …

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AI Is More Than A Buzzword And Being Deployed Now On Ships And Golf Carts

By / AI and Machine Learning, Autonomous Vehicles, Research / January 11, 2021

More than ever, organizations are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) to bring efficiency, productivity gains, and a return on investment. In these uncertain times, AI is a powerful differentiator for companies of all sizes to transform digitally. In recent years, the cloud has become integral in advancing AI as vendors offering years of research and tools …

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Apple MacBook Pro 13″ M1 AAA Gaming Experience: Good Performance For Thin And Lite, But Rough Experience For Some Games

By / Gaming, Notebooks, Personal Computing, Research / January 11, 2021

My expectations for AAA gaming on any 13″ notebook with integrated graphics are low for any IGP notebook brand. At Apple’s WWDC and Mac product launch, gaming (game/games/gaming) was cited 23 times, so I believe Apple intended to create a good gaming experience. Gaming has not been much of a focus for the Mac operating …

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Qualcomm’s Alex Katouzian on the New Snapdragon Series 4 and Other Exciting 2021 Developments

By / Podcast / January 7, 2021

On this episode of The Six Five – Insiders Edition Daniel Newman and I are joined by Alex Katouzian, Senior Vice President and General Manager for the Mobile, Compute and Infrastructure Business Units for Qualcomm. Alex is leading the global unit organization that drives mobile, compute, infrastructure, and AI on devices. It’s a huge unit …

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AWS Decommoditizing Compute With Re:Invent 2020 Announcements

By / Public cloud, Research / December 15, 2020

The AWS re:Invent event marks the last and largest conference I will attend in 2020 – and the year certainly ended with a bang. This event is always super-interesting, and the company continues to dial in on topics and trends relevant to enterprise IT and increasingly business leaders. The conference had 100s of announcements, but …

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The Most Impactful Non-Compute Announcements At Amazon AWS Re:Invent 2020

By / Public cloud, Research / December 15, 2020

AWS re: Invent 2020 is the Amazon Web Services annual user conference that focuses on cloud strategies and operations, security and developer productivity, and IT architecture and infrastructure. Typically, the conference spans seven different properties in Las Vegas and welcomes over 60,000 attendees over a few days. Of course, this year, like many others, the event …

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Cisco Announces Flurry Of New Webex Experiences At WebexOne Conference

By / Collaboration, Research / December 15, 2020

Collaboration tools are hot and came to the forefront during Covid-19 for obvious reasons. We’ve seen every player step up its game every three months and now its Cisco’s turn at the plate. Last week, Cisco had its biggest premiere digital collaboration conference of the year, WebexOne, where it made announcements for around 50 improvements …

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Cisco Reports It Positively Impacted Half A Billion People With CSR

By / Corporate, Research / December 15, 2020

While I usually write about tech, I also write about what tech companies are doing in CSR. Corporate social responsibility (CSR)—while unfortunately, the phrase has come to be a bit of a misnomer, believe it or not, there are for-profit corporations out there that take their commitment to society and their communities very seriously.  One …

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