Rob Enderle

This week Huawei held an expert roundtable on the state of artificial intelligence, and it was a fascinating event. Speakers on the panel included Mark Beccue, Principal Analyst at Omedia; Barry O’Sullivan of University College; and Neil Sahota, IBM Master inventor and UN AI subject matter expert, out of UC Irvine in California. This event was […]

We hear a lot about the concept of a Circular Economy, mostly driven from the PC, and in HP’s case, the printer side of the major IT vendors. The concept is to continually move to approach maximum reuse of components and minimize waste, particularly toxic waste. The major OEMs are chasing this concept because buyers […]

Most partnerships I cover seem to be in name only where the most significant progress is the announcement itself, and after it is over, nothing much seems to happen. Both AMD and IBM tend to be different as their executive management agrees that a partnership should be more than the announcement, and both firms have […]

This week I took a briefing from Microsoft on their Cloud For Healthcare effort, and I was impressed. The solution appeared significantly better than the one the medical facility I use has implemented. But at the end of the presentation, Microsoft showcased a large number, over 55 by my count, of partners, most of which were […]

The closest thing to a general-purpose AI is likely to come out of the efforts to allow cars to drive themselves.  This result is because this will be, when done, the first in-depth use of an AI to replace a human doing a complex task entirely.  In addition to being capable, this effort is focused […]

Dell Technologies World is a fascinating conference, particularly concerning robotics. Over the years, particularly at this year’s event, they highlighted Robotics as the future, yet Dell does minimal today with robotics. Now their systems are used to create robots and program robots, but Dell seems to have a block as they do with Smartphones on […]

Social Media is increasingly more of an impediment than a benefit to everything from elections to maintaining brand image. Trolls, paid influencers, and opponents (either political or business) can enter the process with false information, poorly founded conspiracy theories, and FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) and destroy reputations, brand equity, and manipulate outcomes doing a […]

I’ve often been brought in to look at failed projects to understand what the company did wrong to avoid making the same mistakes again. When I get these engagements, my focus isn’t on finding executives to blame but on identifying failures in the process that can be corrected to prevent future failures.  Often I’ve found […]

I’m attending Microsoft’s Ignite conference this week, and it’s fun. I let the event run in the background, continue to work, and then focus when I hear something interesting. I’m seeing far more things than I would have been able to see had I attended this event in person. One of the things that pulled […]

The merger between NVIDIA and ARM is a potentially massive game-changer for artificial intelligence in that ARM is the most common technology used for inference, and NVIDIA’s platforms are the most commonly used for training. On paper, this merger effectively gives NVIDIA substantial control and influence over the emerging AI market.  Let’s talk about NVIDIA […]