Author: Ron Westfall

Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Dell’s Concept Nyx initiative explores how virtual worlds and immersive experiences could develop into new ways to connect with others as well as our content, especially in alignment with the ability to intuitively distribute headset-free XR/VR content across any preferred screen and capitalizing on the market potential for headset-free XR applications such as 5G-enabled holography.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why Intel’s new 13th Gen mobile processors, HX, H-series, P-series, and U-series, are poised to transform the overall laptop experience including making further inroads throughout the gaming and creator communities, while providing key differentiation against key rival AMD and its Ryzen 7000 series processors.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall analyzes why Dell has elevated its overall sustainability credentials by putting product development and sales and marketing emphasis on AI’s key role in advancing customer sustainability initiatives, and why AI technology itself requires its own energy efficiency and sustainability program.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why T-Mobile and Cisco’s collaboration on a distributed nationwide cloud native 5G core gateway enables T-Mobile to rapidly test and accelerate time to market for new 5G and IoT applications at scale including network slicing and Voice over New Radio (VoNR), streamlines operations, increases agility to help drive new services such as 5G Home Internet as well as provides Cisco a substantial 5G sales and marketing boost.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the Lattice Avant launch sharpens Lattice’s ability to capture more mid-range FPGA business and drive innovation across the system and application developer communities, especially in addressing the growing demand for increased flexibility and efficiency in system and application design, while also delivering architectural advancements and capabilities that meet customers’ requirements in scaling and administering an expanding array of applications.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer review the state of the telco cloud market during the early stages of the CSP transition toward 5G SA and 5G Advanced networks and their perspective on which cloud providers are performing well and have the most to gain across the evolving 5G ecosystem.
Ron Westfall and Shelly Kramer examine why Qualcomm and Vodafone joint solution designs aimed at catalyzing Open RAN deployments in Europe are ready to improve power consumption performance to reduce TCO and make networks more environmentally sustainable and why the alliance’s new initiative needs to make Open RAN deployments commercially viable in Europe by the end of 2023 to declare success.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall assesses why the new Amazon CodeWhisperer upgrades focused on easing administrator-led integration and expanding programming language support across the developer community advance AWS’ strategic commitment to use AI/ML to improve business outcomes, including augmenting the developer experience, optimizing business processes, and accelerating innovation.
Marvell Technologies continues to power innovation across its custom ASIC portfolio using 3nm, customization, and chiplet IP advances to provide optimized performance, power & area breakthroughs, and maximized returns on investments. Futurum’s Ron Westfall and Marvell’s Hugh Durdan explore why Marvell’s custom ASIC offerings fulfill the intricate, high-speed, high-performance silicon requirements of next generation 5G operators, cloud data centers, enterprises, and automotive applications as well as how Marvell’s custom capabilities provide the foundation for driving portfolio-wide innovation.
In this episode of The 5G Factor, Futurum analysts Shelly Kramer and Ron Westfall talk Qualcomm and Vodafone on 5G Open RAN, General Dynamics’ new 5G and Edge Accelerator coalition, AWS nabbing the lead in the telco cloud wars, but Oracle and IBM are planting flags, too, and wrap the show with a look at the smart buildings market and what is powering that growth.
Futurum’s Ron Westfall examines why Marvell’s new Secure Deterministic Ethernet solution can deliver the TSN capabilities, SoC integration efficiencies, built-in security, protected automation, portfolio driven place-in-network optimization, and software support critical to expediting OT/IT convergence, especially throughout the manufacturing and critical infrastructure market segments and how Marvell’s OEM partners can streamline and catalyze their customers’ journey to open, deterministic Ethernet-based networks.
In this research report, Futurum Research explores why Micron is very well-positioned to provide leading edge memory and storage solutions that are high bandwidth, low latency, and offer massive capacity to global smartphone OEMs for use in their devices and how Micron offers the depth and breadth of memory and storage solutions that are purpose-built to serve all tiers of the smartphone ecosystem, including flagship, high-end and mid-range smartphones.

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