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Electronics makers typically frown on do-it-yourselfers because they can cause more problems than they solve, added Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "Google's approach attempts to train the folks who wil...

Last week both AMD and Facebook released financial results. The one similarity I see between the two companies is that their stocks are undervalued ...

Intel this month announced a US$20 billion plan tied to the CHIPS for America Act that promised to build in Ohio the largest semiconductor factory (fab) in the U.S. This is the single largest investment in Ohio's history, and the result will be like an arcology, a self-contained city ...

The automotive market is moving rapidly to make and sell autonomous vehicles, but the studies I've seen suggest that two out of three drivers don't want them ...

This year I did not go to CES again because of the pandemic. I was less worried about being in Las Vegas than I was about the travel to and from the event because the infection rate where I live is a bit off the charts. As a result, I rarely leave home ...

The quality of advertising on some social platforms can also contribute to consumer skepticism about social commerce, maintained Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "Facebook's lack of quality control in ad...

This is the first week of the new year and, given how 2020 and 2021 were, I am feeling a bit of trepidation that 2022 could be worse ...

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Well, this is my last column for 2021 and it has been one heck of a year. We thought 2020 was challenging. But I think we could argue that on many fronts this year was not exactly a breath of fresh air -- and we still have more than a week remaining for the world to surprise us ...

Elon Musk tends to gravitate between brilliant and crazy, making him a lot of fun to watch if you aren't an investor ...

OK, don't get excited; the death of PCs and smartphones won't happen tomorrow. Nor did Qualcomm overtly declare its demise at the company's annual Snapdragon Tech Summit last week in Hawaii. However, it did announce a level of performance that will eventually make current smartphone and PC designs obsolete ...

"Given that discounts were less aggressive this year due to the shortages, I didn't see as much interest in waiting for Black Friday or Cyber Monday," observed Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst with Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "The events s...

Thanksgiving has passed, and I'm sure we all had wonderful conversations with our relatives on safe topics like politics and religion and are feeling pretty good about not seeing some of those folks for at least another year. But, good news, our list of folks to buy gifts for likely got significantly shorter! ...

Qualcomm's investor day was last week and its CEO Cristiano Amon made a comment I disagree with, though the outcome to Qualcomm is the same or better. Amon said everything is going mobile, but I don't think that is correct ...

Nvidia's big GTC conference took place last week. This event has become more and more interesting over the years, with less and less emphasis on Nvidia's GPU business -- which makes me wonder if it is time to change the name ...

The news services have been warning of supply chain shortage, added Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "It looks like people are taking those warnings seriously and buying early," he told the E-Commerce Tim...

Microsoft, on Oct. 29, once again surpassed Apple to take the top spot as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world ...

These tools give us a limited view of the metaverse, noted Rob Enderle, president and principal analyst at the Enderle Group, an advisory services firm in Bend, Ore "This begins to give us an early sense of a small part of what the metaverse will be able to do," he told TechNe...

Qualcomm doesn't like Apple very much, which is understandable given how Apple tried to put it out of business. Though another reason Qualcomm doesn't like Apple is that in Apple's vertically integrated world, Qualcomm is redundant ...

More people buying into electric vehicle innovations is often short-circuited by infrastructure concerns. The lack of charging infrastructure, limited range, and people not yet being comfortable with electric cars are the main touchpoints, according to Rob Enderle, principal analyst at Enderle Group...