Author: Olivier Blanchard

Nitin Kumar, VP Product Management at Qualcomm, shares insightful details on Qualcomm's next-gen X Elite, highlighting its unmatched performance and cutting-edge features that set new standards in technology innovation.
Rahul Patel, Group GM at Qualcomm, joins Olivier Blanchard and Anshel Sag to share his insights on advancing PC connectivity with 5G, Wi-Fi 7, and beyond, fostering a new era of AI PC capabilities.
Benjamin Yeh, President of North America, System Business Group at ASUS, joins hosts Olivier Blanchard and Anshel Sag to share his insights on ASUS's approach to innovation and the transformative potential of AI in PCs.
Eric Ackerson, Sr. Product Marketing and Brand Manager at Acer, joins Olivier Blanchard and Anshel Sag to share insights on how Acer is leading the charge in PC innovation with its new CoPilot+ platform and Snapdragon X Elite, shaping the future of AI PCs.
Steve Long, President and SVP & GM, Commercial Segment IDG at Lenovo, joins Olivier Blanchard and Ryan Shrout to share insights on Lenovo's ambitious vision for the future of AI PCs and its collaboration on Snapdragon X Elite platforms.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director with The Futurum Group, shares his insights into HP’s Q2 2024 earnings and makes the case for why the PC segment’s recovery has dragged in anticipation of the PC refresh supercycle.
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director with The Futurum Group, shares his insights into Dell’s Q1 2025 earnings, and sheds some light into how Dell’s complete end-to-end AI ecosystem play, from data center to edge to PC, is absolutely the right approach to the transition to AI.
Lenovo’s QoQ and YoY Execution in the Expanding Hybrid, Distributed AI Ecosystem Is Fueling an Accelerating Growth Trajectory Across Its Businesses
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director with the Futurum Group, and Steven Dickens, VP and Practice Lead, share their insights into Lenovo’s Q4 and FY 23/24 earnings and drill down into how the company’s pocket-to-cloud strategy is already working.
Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, and Samsung Coordinate Global Launch of Snapdragon X-Powered Windows Copilot+ PCs
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Microsoft’s Copilot+ PC announcement and explains why Qualcomm’s Windows-on-Arm AI-accelerated Snapdragon X PC platform is set to radically transform the PC space.
Strong Automotive Growth Ahead of Snapdragon X PC Launches
The Futurum Group’s Daniel Newman and Olivier Blanchard share their insights into Qualcomm’s Q2 2024 earnings and discuss why steady growth, measured pace, and lean execution may set the stage for Qualcomm’s next growth cycle.
AMD’s AI-Enabling Solutions Portfolio Gains Traction in All the Right Places
Olivier Blanchard, Research Director at The Futurum Group, shares his insights about AMD’s Q1 2024 earnings and how its investments in AI solutions sets up the company for growth early in the AI disruption cycle.

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