TIRIAScast

At Computex 2022, Mediatek announced a number of new mobile and wireless chipsets, including the company's first smartphone SoC with integrated mmWave and its first Wi-Fi chipset. Join TIRIAS Research Principal Analysts Jim McGregor(@tekstrategist) and executives from MediaTek as they discuss the new mobile and wireless products in this TIRIAScast

There has been a flurry of tech announcements over the past few weeks, especially around acquisitions and partnerships. Buried In one of Intel’s announcements was support for the RISC-V architecture, which could have significant implications for the tech industry. Join TIRIAS Research Principal Analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell), Steve Leibson (@steveleibson), and Jim McGregor (@tekstrategist) as they discuss what this means for Intel, RISC-V, Arm, and the rest of the tech industry in this TIRIAScast

With continued concerns about COVID, chip shortages, and inflation, the outlook for 2022 is hazy at best. However, TIRIAS Research’s analyst team takes a shot at providing some predictions on what to expect for the rest of 2022. Join TIRIAS Research Principal Analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell), Francis Sideco (@fsideco), Steve Leibson (@steveleibson), and Jim McGregor (@tekstrategist) as they provide predictions on tech topics ranging from the chip shortage to the metaverse in this TIRIAScast.

TIRIAS Research is pleased to announce the newest member and principal analyst of our team – Steve Leibson. Steve is an industry expert and technologist extraordinaire. Join TIRIAS Research Principal Analyst Jim McGregor (@TekStrategist) in this meet and greet with Principal Analyst Steve Leibson (@SteveLeibson). Get to know the man, the myth, the legend in this TIRIAScast. 10/16/21

Bloomberg reported that Intel is interested in acquiring SiFive, the leading developer of RISC-V CPU cores. Why would Intel be interested in acquiring another processor architecture? When you dig into the potential reasons, such an acquisition seems practical. Join Tirias Research Principal Analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell) and Jim McGregor (@TekStrategist) as they discuss the potential acquisition in this TIRIAScast. 6/21/21

Nvidia continues to move deeper into new segments like automotive, artificial intelligence (AI), and data centers. As a result, the company is expanding into new products and services. Among the exhausting list of announcements at this year’s GTC were three new Arm-based processors, new AI models, a new server, new partnerships, and the availability of Omniverse, Nvidia’s virtual collaborative design environment. Join Principal Analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell) and Jim McGregor (@tekstrategist) in a review of the announcements from Nvidia’s GTC 2021. 4/16/21

In just the last month, we have seen high-profile CEO changes at three major tech companies – Amazon, Intel, and Qualcomm. Is this a sign of things to come? Join TIRIAS Research principal analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell) and Jim McGregor (@TekStrategist) in this TIRIAScast as they discuss the recent announcements, what they mean for the industry, and other possible CEO transitions to come.

The first virtual CES (CES 2021) was a success, drawing almost 2,000 exhibitors and over 100,000 participants. While the major trends appeared to be driven by gaming, transportation, and COVID-related products, there were still great new product and technology announcements from many segments. In addition, sustainability was a key part of many announcements. Join TIRIAS research principal analysts Francis Sideco (@fsideco), Kevin Krewell (@krewell), and Jim McGregor (@TekStrategist)as they recap the highlights of CES 2021 in this TIRIAScast.

In its continued march to improved performance and market share, AMD has launched new desktop Ryzen processors based on the Zen 3 architecture and new “Big Navi” GPUs based on the RDNA 2 architecture. Join principal analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell) and Jim McGregor (@TekStrategist) in this TIRIAScast as they review the latest products from AMD as the company seeks to lead both in CPU and GPU performance.

In a move to leverage high stock valuations and free money to further growth, we are seeing a new wave of semiconductor acquisitions. Join TIRIAS Research Principal Analysts Kevin Krewell (@krewell) and Jim McGregor (@tekstrategist) in this TIRIAScast as they discuss the factors driving the acquisitions, the challenges to complete the acquisitions, and the dynamics of the semiconductor acquisitions recently announced. This includes the recent Analog Devices-Maxim, Nvidia-Arm, AMD-Xilinx, and Marvell-Inphi proposed acquisitions.