Hexagon’s first-quarter report for 2020 is reasonably upbeat for a company situated smack dab in the crossed eyes of several hurricanes. The company, with metrology in its DNA, interests in oil and gas, mining, and security, and GPS and ambitions in a wide range of design and engineering markets. It saw problems coming in the last quarter of 2019. This … Read more
Spot checks of people at major interfaces such as transportation centers is a critically important aspect of measuring the spread, or decline in the pandemic. Augmented reality is a perfect application for making observations. The combination of fast, thermal measurements, facial recognition, and/or tagging, and data-basing is needed if socially challenging aspect of getting it under control. Several airports outside … Read more
Last week Intel introduced the 10th Gen Comet Lake Intel Core S-series desktop processors, including Intel's flagship Core i9-10900K processor, which the company is claiming is the world's fastest gaming processor.* The i9-10900K features up to 10 cores, 20 threads, and DDR4-2933 memory speeds. It comes with the new Intel Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0 which the company says can … Read more
With all that’s going on right now, doesn’t it seem strange sometimes to see the world is still spinning around out there? But, while we’re locked up information data is flowing all around us and creating larger information clouds with every tick of a clock. Microsoft has just kicked off the Open Data Campaign which calls free access to data … Read more
AMD turned 50 in May 2019 AMD’s first quarter was down from Q4, but up year to year in sales and profits. Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Revenue was down 16% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments. “We executed well in the first quarter, navigating the … Read more
Last year, Dassault Systèmes pushed just about all their chips in on health care. This year, that decision looks like a very good bet. Dassault has reported its results for the first quarter of 2020 and the results are decidedly mixed, as a result of the worldwide pandemic. If it had not been for the acquisition of Medidata in 2019, … Read more
Intel's 5.3 GHz 10th Gen Intel Core H-series processor The impact of the supply chain on downstream vendors has been shocking. Combined with massive layoffs and soaring unemployment, the economic engine of the world is traumatized and forecasting is all but impossible. Intel is not immune to any of that and, as a result, has reported a decrease in … Read more
Big promises, small science, sleight of hand based demos. When a company, any company, over promises, over hypes, and gets rewarded for it by investors there are two responses, rational observers may wonder, what am I missing? While critics and competitors start the countdown for the day of redemption so they can gloat, say I told you so, and … Read more
The first wave of estimates by Canalys, Gartner, and IDC for Q1’20 PC shipments have been posted, and the average of the estimates is shipments declined almost 26% from Q4’19. That’s the most significant quarter-to-quarter drop since Q4’08 (36%). However, Q2’09 saw the most significant increase in shipments by —40%. So, if an economic shock can create a V effect, … Read more
When Canyon Bridge Partners, which is owned by China Reforma Chinese state-owned investment fund, sought to buy Imagination Technologies in 2017, Theresa May's government approved the acquisition on the basis that Canyon Bridge was licensed and regulated by US law. When the Trump administration blocked Canyon Bridge’s attempted acquisition of Lattice Semiconductor in September 2017, Canyon Bridge moved its headquarters … Read more
Plessey, a developer of microLED technology for AR/MR displays in Devon, UK, said they have decided to work with Facebook to help the company achieve its vision of the next computing platform. Plessey designs and manufactures full-field emissive microLED displays, which promise both high pixel-density and high brightness. Under a new commercial agreement, Plessy’s LED manufacturing operations will be dedicated … Read more
The good old days? A scene like this is now the stuff of horror shows. But, by the way, it looks like women may survive in order to rule the world. (Source: JPR) This was shaping up to be a terrible trade show season, now it’s turned into a no trade show season. The unthinkable happened in February when … Read more
