Yesterday, Lattice Semiconductor hosted its 2021 Investor Day conference. The conference is always an excellent time for the company to pause and reflect on past promises, recent products, financial performance, and touch on new product plans and markets. The last time we saw Lattice host an Investor Day was in 2019. During that time, the …
A fact of life in the tech industry is that you can never stay still. It’s a never-ending arms race, with businesses big and small attempting to outpace each other for a piece of the pie. The highly competitive semiconductor sector has seen several pieces of big news over the last month, both involving industry …
Big Blue Goes Tiny With World’s First 2nm Nanosheet Chip Tech Read More »
With the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of large display devices like notebooks and Chromebooks took center stage. Tens of millions of students, businesspeople, and government workers had to be productive outside of their physical offices and learning centers – quickly hunkering down in their homes, for instance. We saw a tripling of Chromebook sales, and …
What Users Have To Look Forward To With Chromebooks Powered By Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7c Read More »
Yesterday Intel launched its 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable datacenter processor. While the part was much later than expected as it relies on 10nm tech, Intel still holds a commanding 90% server unit processor share. This is an impressive feat given the ferocious competition from AMD and home-grown alternatives from the likes of AWS. Intel’s incredibly …
Intel Plays To Its Strengths With 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable Processors Read More »
Last month IBM and Intel shared that they would be partnering to advance research in next-generation logic and packaging technologies. You can find the big Intel IDM 2.0 update here. Separately, the two companies have long been at the forefront of research and engineering, spanning the early days of computing to today’s cutting-edge technologies, such …
Why I’m Not Surprised That IBM And Intel Are Collaborating On Chip Tech Read More »
As a tech analyst, I follow ON Semiconductor closely. The semiconductor company, known for its niche in power and signal management, discrete, logic and other custom devices, has become a significant player in the growing automotive electrification market over the last several years. As vehicles are getting more intelligent, more efficient, more autonomous and generally more complex, …
ON Semi Brings LiDAR To Automotive Sensor Portfolio With New SiPM Array Read More »
For a tech industry analyst like me, the automotive market is interesting given the electrification, safety and self-driving intelligence added to today’s models as well as commitments by automakers to aggressive roadmaps. Cars of the future will be datacenters on wheels, software-defined, connected by 5G, and with gobs of compute, storage and networking silicon. Given …
GlobalFoundries And Bosch Partner On MmWave Radar, Reinforcing Silicon Is Strategic Read More »
As I said when I first wrote about Lattice Semiconductor and its new management team at its May 2019 Financial Investor Day here, one of CEO Jim Anderson’s many goals was to increase velocity of new products, provide more of a solution, and leverage key market trends like the need more increased security and improved machine …
Lattice Semiconductor Updates Solutions Stack With MVision 2.0 And Sentry 2.0 Read More »
I had the chance to chat last night with HP Inc. Personal Systems President Alex Cho about its acquisition of HyperX for $425M. Cho, before Covid-19, called the PC “essential” and forecasted industry growth based on end user research the company conducted. And he was right. HP has seen growth this year driven in part …
HP Inc. Acquires HyperX PC Gaming Accessories Maker For $425M Read More »
When you think of mobile semiconductors, one company that’s always top-of-mind is Qualcomm. While its silicon powers many if not most of the world’s phones and tablets, the company has not been content to rest on its laurels. In recent years it has begun to extend its mobile technology into other emergent fields, such as …
Qualcomm Revs Its Engines At Its Automotive Redefined Event Read More »
Dell has a history of making big product launches at CES, across multiple product segments in its client product portfolio. This year, Dell’s new products center around commercial clients, new productivity displays and gaming. Dell’s core business has always been commercial client, be that desktops or laptops. This year, though, the company leaned more heavily …
Dell Elevates The Work From Home Experience At CES 2021 Read More »
The first-ever entirely virtual CES came and went. At the first of the year, the Consumer Electronics Show is always a popular time for companies to launch new products, and Dell took full advantage of the opportunity. Dell stepped up its game the past three to four years and it seemed like it was a …
Dell’s New Enterprise PC’s, Displays, And Software Shows Commitment To Collaboration Read More »
CES is officially came and went. It’s always exciting to watch companies launch new, innovative tech products each year at the show. Although this year’s CES may look a bit different, companies like Lenovo show no signs of letting up. Lenovo took this year’s CES as an opportunity to launch a plethora of new innovative …
Lenovo Launches A Plethora Of Innovative Consumer And Enterprise Devices At CES 2021 Read More »
Intel had its ups and downs in 2020 and this year’s CES 2021 marked an opportunity for the company to turn a new leaf. Had the company not replaced its CEO during CES, I think this year’s CES accomplishments would have popped a bit more. Intel is still the unit and revenue leader in the …
Intel Cranks CES 2021 To 11 With Massive Slew Of 11th Gen Core Processors Read More »
With this year’s CES happening virtually, I, unfortunately, did not get a chance to tour NVIDIA’s suite and tour NVIDIA’s latest gaming innovations. In past years, NVIDIA has used CES to launch the latest in gaming notebooks and display technologies. This year was no different, except I could not check out the latest in gaming …
AMD’s CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, was back again this year delivering the company’s CES 2021 Keynote, which the entire industry watched intently. 2020 was an excellent year for AMD, and that started at CES 2020 with the announcement of the Ryzen 4000 series in laptops. While AMD has not fully reported 2020 year financials, expectations …
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 …
Intel Labs Moving Mountains With Neuromorphic Computing And Photonics Technologies Read More »
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 …
Intel Labs Moving Mountains With Neuromorphic Computing And Photonics Technologies Read More »
Earlier this week, Lattice Semiconductor announced its newest product built on the Lattice Nexus FPGA platform, the Mach-NX. The Mach-NX FPGA product family addresses the growing threat of firmware hacking attempts on systems, leading to the loss of customer IP. Moor Insights & Strategy has written a lot about this growing threat, funded by nation-states …
Lattice Semiconductor Launches New FPGA For Cyber-Resilient Systems Read More »
Intel has had many new irons in the fire to serve its customers and position the company for financial growth. Two of those growth areas were discrete graphics and machine learning training. Its “six pillar strategy” outlined the six things the company would focus on, two of those being expanding the definition of compute and …
Intel Announces Gold Release Of OneAPI Toolkits And New Intel Server GPU Read More »
