The PC and laptop markets have more to fear than just consumers switching to tablets and smartphones: Small business owners are making the leap as well. In a recent poll of more than 2,000 small business owners, Portfolio.com found that 37 percent of SMB owners have used a smartphone or a PDA in the past…
Global factory shipments of DisplayPort-enabled PC equipment will amount to 78.9 million units in 2011, up 154.6 percent fom 2010
{complink 2657|Intel Corp.} is red hot. The company blew away analysts' revenue and profit estimates in the first quarter, boosting its stocks on the equity market. The stocks rose 7 percent by midday today, April 20, and helped to lift the major indices. What made Intel so successful during the quarter was carefully laid out…
{complink 7426|Gartner Inc.} forecasts that the iPad's operating system will dominate tablets during the next few years, which says something about what {complink 379|Apple Inc.} is doing right. The research firm forecasts that the iPad's OS will dominate the tablet market during the next few years. It also details how Apple is delivering more than…
A marketing friend of mine recently told me an interesting story about a meeting he had with Steve Jobs back in the mid-1970s. My friend owned a computer store in the San Francisco bay area that was a reseller for {complink 379|Apple Inc.} products. He needed to buy a part for the Apple I computer…
The world's largest graphics processing unit (GPU) suppliers are split over what central processing units (CPUs) to combine with their graphics devices for mobile applications. While {complink 103|Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD)} backs the performance and compatibility features that x86 designs offer, {complink 3926|Nvidia Corp.} is packing low-power {complink 444|ARM Ltd.} cores with its graphics…
Worldwide revenues for Media Tablet and eReader semiconductors grew over 2,000% to $3.3 billion in 2010
Since the March 31 resignation of {complink 38|Acer Inc.} CEO Gianfranco Lanci, consensus has been that he was unceremoniously pushed out because of the rapid growth in demand for tablets from {complink 379|Apple Inc.} and other equipment vendors. That may be partly true, but indications are that it’s not the entire picture. In fact, a…
{complink 38|Acer Inc.} used to market itself as one of the world's leading desktop PC and notebook manufacturers. Even now, promotional materials on the company's website proudly proclaim its position as the “No. 2 for total PCs and notebooks.” I fully expect Acer to drop that tagline within months. Why? It's no longer fashionable, profitable,…
In 2009, OEMs shipped about 2 million tablet computers before {complink 379|Apple Inc.} jumped into the market. In 2010, the iPad sparked roaring demand for tablets, and shipment jumped to 19.7 million units. The giddy year-over-year growth offers a striking insight into the future of tablets and the potential havoc they will create in the…