Category: Intelligent Devices

July 22, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

ICYMI: Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Wear 4100+ Brings Significant Performance Improvements to Android Smartwatches

Performance improvements aside, I can’t help but sense that the android smartwatch ecosystem is being somewhat hamstrung by a lack of interest, perhaps from Google, to really focus on beating Apple at its own game.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Intelligent Devices, Semiconductors, Supply Chain, & Emerging Tech

July 16, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Analyst Insight

ICYMI: 3GPP’s 5G NR Release 16’s 9 Most Critical Improvements to 5G

What we see with Release 16, in addition to improvements to previous fundamental standards, is a shift towards the next market for 5G technologies: industrial networks and applications. That is why, MIMO and IAB improvements aside, private networks, unlicensed spectrum, multi-TRP architecture, high-precision device positioning, efficient new power-saving protocols, and even multicasting between vehicles, constitute the lion’s share of projects in this release.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Intelligent Devices

July 16, 2020

Shelly Kramer

Market Coverage

Amazon Web Services Increases Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise for Industrial Customers

Amazon recently announced that AWS IoT SiteWise will be available to all AWS customers in certain regions soon. SiteWise is a managed service that gathers and organizes data in a way that helps industrial customers make informed decisions when it comes to monitoring facility operations, making new applications, improving production, determining performance metrics, and more. We expect to be hearing much more about AWS IoT SiteWise in the months to come.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Intelligent Devices

July 15, 2020

Fred McClimans

Futurum Tech Webcast

Future Proofing the Enterprise — Transforming Business Operations — Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Fred McClimans and Shelly Kramer explore the topic of future proofing the enterprise in ways that truly transform operations (think supply chain, data center operations, security operations and beyond) in order to make the business as a whole more resilient and more agile moving forward.

Intelligent Devices

June 29, 2020

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

AWS Tackles Low Code/No Code With New Honeycode

AWS has launched its Honeycode platform to enable non-developers to build business applications with minimal code. The new offering diversifies AWS.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Intelligent Devices

June 25, 2020

Ron Westfall

Market Coverage

New Research: RPA is Essential to Fulfilling Organization-wide Strategic Business Objectives

Futurum Research, in partnership with UiPath, completed a global research study of 500+ high-level business and technology executives directly responsible for the planning, management, and use of automation technologies to better comprehend the RPA journeys organizations must undertake to successfully achieve their strategic business objectives. Here’s what we found.

Intelligent Devices

June 24, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Market Coverage

Qualcomm’s Robotics RB5 Platform Brings Powerful AI-enabled 5G Connectivity to Industrial Robots, Drones, and the IIOT

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., (NASDAQ: QCOM) just announced its first-of-a-kind 5G Robotics RB5 platform. The natural successor to the successful (4G-based) Qualcomm® Robotics RB3 platform. As Qualcomm puts it, the Robotics RB5 platform aims to “empower developers and manufacturers to create the next generation of high-compute, low-power robots and drones for the consumer, enterprise, defense, industrial and professional service sectors.”

AI Platforms, Digital Leadership & CIO, Intelligent Devices

June 23, 2020

Daniel Newman

Market Coverage

Apple WWDC20 Means Updated iOS and a Mac Overhaul

Apple held its annual 2020 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) announcing an updated version of iOS (14) and new Macs powered by Apple chips.

Intelligent Devices

June 22, 2020

Daniel Newman

Analyst Insight

If Intel Lost Apple as a Customer, it Would be Good News

Intel would be better off without Apple’s CPU chip business. Even in just a year, we’ll look back on this and say it actually was good for Intel, much like its 5G modem exit last year has proven to be.

Digital Leadership & CIO, Intelligent Devices

June 18, 2020

Olivier Blanchard

Futurum Tech Webcast

Reframing AI: From Cloud-based to the Edge, AI is Expanding its Reach – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, Futurum’s Daniel Newman and Olivier Blanchard discuss the reframing of AI, from the cloud to the edge and beyond, and how the reach of AI is expanding.