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2011: Shift Happens

December 18, 2011 – 10:59 pm

TweetWhatever 2011 was, it wasn’t The Year Of The Incumbent. The high-tech world has never seen the ground shift under so many established companies. This causes afflicted CEOs to exhibit the usual symptoms of disorientation: reorg spams, mindless muttering of old mantras and, in more severe cases, speaking in tongues, using secret language known only [...]

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Intel 3-D Transistors: Why and When?

May 8, 2011 – 6:53 pm

TweetA few days ago, Intel teased: On May 4th, the company would make “its most significant technology announcement of the year.” Tongues wagged. Will Intel make ARM chips for Apple? The speculation has roots in reality. We’ll start with the public breakup of the Wintel marriage. At this year’s CES in January, Steve Ballmer made [...]

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Wintel: Le Divorce

January 16, 2011 – 9:02 pm

Tweet The eponymous flick is mildly interesting, but we’re gathered here today to examine the Wintel breakup. After years of monogamy with the x86 architecture, Windows will soon run on ARM processors. As in any divorce, Microsoft and Intel point fingers at one another. Intel complains about Microsoft’s failure to make a real tablet OS. [...]

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Curious Summer

August 29, 2010 – 4:14 pm

Tweetby Jean-Louis Gassée Nothing much happens in August, we thought. Wrong. Our three-week break has been filled with a number of “interesting” events. Curious Yellow Let’s start with Mark Hurd’s exit from HP after five years of great financial performance as CEO. If you missed the fireworks, you can get a refresher in this Business [...]

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