Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Frank Dale, CEO of Compendium (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: My blog has been around since the spring of 2005. It’s a well-known blog, but I know what kind of effort goes into it and what kind of team I need to sustain that effort, research team, editing team and so on. It’s an elaborate effort, and I think it’s very difficult for

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Game-Changing Rules for Outsourcing

By guest author Kate Vitasek In Search of a Better to Outsource Peter Drucker challenged companies to “Do what you do best and outsource the rest!” Unfortunately, too many companies jumped into outsourcing using the same approaches and methods that they used for procuring commodities and materials to run their operations.   The result is that

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jared Wray, Founder and CTO of Tier 3 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What other forecasts do you have in terms of what you see from where you sit? What other major trends do you see? Jared Wray: I think hybrid clouds will start to become a standard in the next couple of years. Private clouds are going to look to use a public cloud, but it’s going

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Will Apple Choose AMD’s Fusion Chips Over NVIDIA?

The launch of AMD’s Fusion chip or “Llano,” which combines the central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) has been pushed to next year. Meanwhile, at the recent Intel Developer Forum Intel announced a new multi-function chip, Sandy Bridge, that integrates graphics and video processing. Will such hybrid chips render graphics chips obsolete

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Forbes Column 2010: Intel In The Untethered Era

Intel excelled in bringing high-performance computing to the masses. Can it succeed in the wireless era? Read more in this week’s Forbes column, Intel In The Untethered Era.

Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 4)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Licensees ARM licensees comprise big and small IC vendors. They can be broadly classified into two groups: those that build around ARM cores and those that develop their own CPU implementation compliant to ARM instruction set architecture. The former group covers implementation licensees such as TI, Broadcom, and NXP,

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Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 3)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala Software and OS As the adage goes, “Software sells hardware.” Apple probably knows this best, but Intel understands it as well. Intel acquired Wind River in an effort to spruce up its offerings outside of the PC market.

Intel vs. ARM: In the Smartphone Era (Part 2)

By Guest Author Nalini Kumar Muppala The landscape of computing is undergoing a fundamental change. Mobile computing is gaining ground at the expense of traditional desktop-based computing. Computers are no longer merely productivity tools; they are increasingly being used for communication, networking, and entertainment on the go. To be sure, powerful desktops will still be

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