Lenovo, el mayor fabricante de PC del mundo, ha cerrado su segundo trimestre fiscal (julio-septiembre) con ingresos y ganancias récord, al beneficiarse del impulso del teletrabajo y la educación y el entretenimiento en remoto, debido a la pandemia por el Covid-19. Según explicó este martes Alberto Ruano, director general de Lenovo Iberia, la compañía cerró con una facturación de 14.500 millones de dólares (12.399 millones de euros), un 7% más interanual, y un beneficio de 310 millones de dólares (265 millones de euros), un 53,4%.
La compañía de la manzana ha anunciado en su Conferencia Anual de Desarrolladores que optará por Apple Silicon, su propios chips, lo que supone un divorcio con Intel.
El mercado español de ordenadores personales cerró el primer trimestre del año con una caída de las unidades vendidas del 15%, hasta 587.000 unidades, según datos de la consultora IDC, que mide las entregas de los fabricantes al canal de distribución.
El fuerte retroceso se explica fundamentalmente por los problemas en la cadena de suministro que sufrieron los fabricantes en el primer trimestre del año debido al cierre de muchas fábricas en China durante el brote de coronavirus en el país.
Solu is a coaster-sized cloud-based portable computer that fits in your pocket. A team of Finnish engineers behind the device hope Solu will change the way we think of using our digital operating systems.
Sure, we already have our portable computing devices such as iPads and smartphones, but Solu founder Kristoffer Lawson wants us to stop lugging all our heavy laptops and notebooks around and jump into the cloud-based era of “computer-as-a-service.”
“What you’re seeing on the screen, these are not just applications or files. Whenever I zoom in on something I immediately start interacting with it and I can share it,” he explained to TechCrunch in the video above.
As you probably know by now, HAX (aka HAXLR8R) invests in hardware startups. We make sure our portfolio companies build the right thing, build things right, and get to market fast. We see well over a thousand hardware startups per year across categories ranging from robotics, sensors, health tech, smart home and lesser known ones such as sports tech, pet tech, embeddables and more.
This puts us in a unique position to look at larger macro-level trends in hardware and connected devices. How is the hardware startup funding climate changing? What new ecosystem and infrastructure innovations are changing how we prototype and manufacture products? What technologies are triggering new second-level product opportunities?
In the past year, we’ve seen the “Internet of Things” era come to life, with connected devices and hardware products popping up everywhere – from Google Glass to August to Coin – and this is just the beginning. We live in a world that is searching for technology to enable easier accessibility and simplicity. Being able to lock up your home, turn off the lights and drive your car, all with the press of a button has become a reality.
Top enterprise-focused investors have selected a new darling: Nutanix, a company that makes boxes that combine servers and storage.
Today Nutanix pulled the cover off a seriously large $101 million investment.
Nutanix stuffs fast flash drives, reliable disk drives, and basic servers into a single box, taking inspiration from web properties operating at giant scale, like Amazon.com, Facebook, and Google. But the company isn’t dead-set on getting such companies on its customer list; it concentrates more on signing up staid enterprises. So the news of Nutanix’s big funding could be interpreted as a confirmation that enterprises still take out their wallets for hardware for their own data centers.
