Who has the tightest inventories in the computer industry?Because they’re frit-scared of the direction of the PC market, apparently PC disties and PC ODMs have the lowest levels of inventory – PC disties have 30 days of stock, PC ODMs have 32 days of inventory.
“Once-dominant PCs…
IBM is said to be selling its x86 server business to Lenovo, the Chinese company which bought IBM’s PC business.
It is thought that the x86 part of IBM’s total server business represents about a third of the server division’s $15 billion sales…
If twice as many smartphones as PCs are sold this year. If smartphones are the only thing used for computing in emerging countries.
If more of the computing functions usually done on PCs are now being done on tablets. If ladies prefer tablets to PCs. If tablets outsell notebooks this…
HP is selling WebOS, acquired in 2011 when it bought Palm for $1.2 billion, to the Koreans.
The WebOS staff, associated web-sites, code and documentation will be transferred to LG but the basic patents remain with HP.
WebOS was designed for mobile devices and HP did launch TouchPad…
Win 8 has a friend. Probably its only friend, but at least a powerful friend. Qualcomm.
Qualcomm president Steve Mollenkopf reckons Win 8 has a long-term future even if Qualcomm is “near-term cautious” on the OS.
Mollenkopf says Win 8 does what has to be done in incorporating…
What’s the Big New Thing this year? Micro servers, say American analysts IHS.
Shipments will be 3x up on 2012, say the analysts. 291,000 micro servers will be shipped this year an increase of 230% from the 88,000 units of 2012.
Shipments of micro servers commenced in…
UK schoolchildren will be given 15,000 Raspberry Pi computers in a move funded by Google.
After announcing the initiative at ChestertonCommunity College in Cambridge, Google chairman Eric Schmidt and Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton gave the Chesterton students a lesson in coding.
“We hope that our new partnership…
Qualcomm is advertising for software engineers to develop ‘architecture/design and system prototypes of Qualcomm’s new ARMv8-based server SOC ASICs for the power optimized server market.”
At the moment, the only companies shipping ARM-based server chips are Calxeda and Marvell but these are based on 32bit ARM…