Note from Pat Gelsinger to Intel staff

Pat Gelsinger, who today was named CEO of Intel, effective 15 February 2021, sent the following note to all Intel employees: I am thrilled and humbled to be returning to Intel as CEO. I was 18 years old when I joined Intel, fresh out of the Lincoln Technical...

Loadshedding on the cards for coming months

The next months are not looking positive for energy provision, with the outlook by Eskom indicating a sustained period of loadshedding in 2021. This is the word from Ted Blom, senior mining, energy and legal strategist and tactician, who explains that Eskom’s...

Private LTE/5G infrastructure market to reach $5,7bn

A new report from International Data Corporation (IDC) presents IDC’s inaugural forecast for the worldwide Private LTE/5G infrastructure market for the period 2020-2024. Private LTE/5G infrastructure is any 3GPP-based LTE and/or 5G network deployed for a...

Global semiconductor revenue grew 7,3% in 2020

Following a decline of 12% in 2019, worldwide semiconductor revenue rebounded in 2020 to total $449,8-billion, an increase of 7,3% from 2019, according to preliminary results by Gartner. “In early 2020, the expectation was that Covid-19 would have a negative...

Cloud migration a top priority for 2021

A massive 65% of companies indicate that cloud migration will be a top priority in 2021. This is one of the findings from a new survey of about 1 000 IT decision makers by Next Pathway, which also reveals three key themes: * Cloud migration is a journey. * Cloud...

2021 trends for app modernisation

Enterprises need to pick and choose those key cloud services most relevant to supporting app modernisation in order to accelerate digitisation and combat the effects of a global pandemic and economic fall-out. GlobalData predicts leading technologies and initiatives...