Category: Digital Leadership & CIO

Pat Gelsinger, Intel's New CEO with eight patents to his name, will aim to narrow the gap to competitors AMD and NVIDIA.
Microsoft has announced the launch of Microsoft Cloud for Retail at NRF 2021, adding to the roster of the big cloud players’ vertical-specific platforms. The announcement highlights Microsoft’s focus on and commitment to helping brands enable ‘intelligent retail.’
In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast – Interview Series, Futurum co-founder Daniel Newman talks with GSMA’s Federico Agnoletto about GSMA’s recent study, The Economics of mmWave 5G: An Assessment of Total Cost of Ownership in the Period to 2025, published last week.
In the wake of becoming independent from Huawei last year, the company is now free to work with U.S. chipmakers. While the company reports multiple partnership with key global chipmakers, Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard has his eye on Honor and Qualcomm and the ability of Qualcomm’s mid-range and budget SOCs as early as next year. Why? The Snapdragon platform’s ability to deliver mmWave-ready modems and complete SOCs across a range of price-points is an advantage that may prove difficult for Mediatek to overcome.
The extension of the Intel-Red Hat alliance will ease the pain and suffering of service providers as well as enterprises in accelerating their adoption of cloud-native capabilities to rapidly boost the agility and flexibility of 5G implementation journeys. Intel and Red Hat have the portfolios and deployment expertise to reduce the complexity of 5G deployments, particularly in areas such as assuring interworking of open source Open RAN and 5GC technologies in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. As to what’s ahead, now Intel and Red Hat need to show they can outpace their key rivals in providing the comprehensive platforms required to accelerate service provider 5G build and monetization while enabling enterprises to gain business value from the orchestration and unified management of 5G edge and cloud capabilities.
NRF 2021, like so many events over the past year went fully remote for its first chapter, which focused on key leadership initiatives and the future of retail. This piece focuses on six themes and five trends identified at this year's NRF chapter 1.
From consumer CX to industrial applications, from creating more immersive experiences to bringing accessibility to people with disabilities, the Mudra Band was one of the highlights of this year’s virtual CES show for Futurum’s Fred McClimans. He writes, “I think this tech has tremendous potential and expect it to play a significant role in our daily lives, perhaps sooner than many might have anticipated.”
Qualcomm announces a change in CEO and positions the company for massive revenue and profit growth as the chip maker diversifies.
Despite what has been presented as a tumultuous year for Intel, the company delivered record revenue and a strong beat for its 2020 Q4.
In the new GSMA Intelligence report published today, it’s clear that mobile operators may still be underestimating the ROI of 5G mmWave deployments. The comprehensive report shows various inflection points where mmWave begins to become profitable in areas where demand for capacity is concentrated (like dense urban areas, large buildings, airports, advanced manufacturing plants, and stadiums), and where 3.5 GHz networks can no longer keep up with demand, with and without the deployment of FWA solutions. Most importantly, the report illustrates that overcoming misconceptions about mmWave’s financial viability faster than other operators may be the ultimate competitive advantage in a maturing 5G economy.

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