Rob Enderle

This week, Insteon joined a growing number of failed Smart Home companies that died ignoble deaths. In this latest case there was little or no warning, they just shut down and the apps stopped working. Smart home products were pioneered by X-10 back in the 1970s and the company is apparently still around. These companies […]

There are times when I’m convinced that Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has a death wish. The reasons include uneven moderation, large numbers of scam ads, a corporate structure that gives too much power to the CEO – who often seems out of control – and what appears to be a war on governments. None […]

This week, Qualcomm held an event in Washington, D.C. to raise concerns about intellectual property creation, control and protection – and specifically against the rise of China as a technological powerhouse that could displace U.S. leadership. The opening keynote by Susan C. Schwab, an expert in negotiating trade disputes at the University of Maryland’s School […]

HP has been making some interesting moves of late. The latest, to acquire Poly, is one of the most interesting, because unlike HP’s more diverse peers that are expanding in all directions, HP is instead focusing on increasing its depth in the desktop and collaboration segments. Poly, a combination of Polycom and Plantronics that previously […]

Ossia is a fascinating company and technology. What Ossia sells is a wireless power solution that, unlike the inductive wireless technology currently being used for devices and electric cars, can transmit up to eight meters (around 26 feet). That’s roughly 20 feet more than the typical limits of inductive technology. Ossia’s wireless power solution can’t […]

For much of the last two decades, the microprocessor market has been defined by companies divorcing themselves from manufacturing to focus solely on design and sales. But since the pandemic, and now the war in Ukraine, it has become clear that this business model puts too much manufacturing capacity in Asia and creates huge supply […]

We live in a wireless world, yet it often seems like the technology to manage that world lags significantly behind what we need to keep our people safe. I discovered a company this week called Wyebot that has a unique solution for managing wireless networks. What makes Wyebot different is that it uses an AI-driven, […]

When it comes to technological breakthroughs, we’re often well into the deployment of the new technology before anyone figures out we need to manage all aspects of it. The metaverse will likely prove to be no exception. The metaverse uses existing servers and workstations, which already have a variety of management tools used to manage […]

Intel had a big event last week during which CEO Pat Gelsinger presented his strategy to not only fix Intel but to make it so we never again have a catastrophic chip shortage. The plan is strategic, which is kind of funny when you consider one of the industry jokes used to be that Intel […]

Earlier this month, Pat Gelsinger, considered by many the most qualified CEO Intel has had since Andy Grove, made a provocative statement when asked about Intel’s long-running competition with AMD: He replied that AMD is in his rear-view mirror based on Intel’s latest technology. However, AMD is more likely just a far lower-priority threat than […]

This week, Nvidia officially tossed in the towel on its proposed acquisition of Arm, as we speculated might happen when the deal ran into stiff opposition in the EU and U.S. (see Why Not Buying ARM May Be Better for NVIDIA). Coincidentally, Arm has announced that Rene Haas has become CEO. Haas not only has […]

Last week, after the apparent demise of Nvidia’s bid to acquire Arm,  I wrote about Nvidia’s potential path forward now that the Arm merger is effectively dead thanks to the current anti-big tech environment in the U.S. and antitrust concerns elsewhere. This week let’s take a look at what may happen with Arm now that […]