TECHnalysis Research

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Bob O'Donnell
TECHnalysis Research was founded by technology market research veteran Bob O'Donnell.
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Column/Blog
October 9, 2025

Intel's Latest Chips Push Innovation Forward

Given some of the challenges Intel has faced recently, there’s been an even larger than normal interest in the company’s next generation chips: codenamed Panther Lake for PCs and Clearwater Forest for servers. Not only are they to be the first manufactured with Intel Foundry’s latest 18A process, but they also come at a time when much of the tech industry and even semiconductor industry’s attention has been focused away from Intel and onto companies like Nvidia and AMD (because of their strength in GPUs for AI acceleration). That, in turn, led to questions about whether or not Intel could regain its status as a critical player in the chip industry.

TECHnalysis Research, LLC provides strategic consulting and market research services to the technology industry and professional financial community. Building on a deep understanding of critical technology and business trends in conjunction with hard-hitting, original research, the firm provides unique "out-of-the-box" perspectives that are still grounded in the practical realities of the technology, media and telecom markets.
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Column/Blog
November 5, 2025

Cisco Brings Agents to Network Management and Compute to the Edge

When it comes to AI-powered capabilities, agentic workflows and edge computing applications, a lot of promises have been made over the years. A whole lot. In fact, these three topics have arguably dominated the headlines from tech-focused content sources and have woven their way into the announcements from most major tech vendors for a while now. So, in many ways, it wasn’t the least bit surprising to see Cisco talking up these capabilities at its recent Partner Summit event in San Diego. (As expected, the company also spent a good amount of time explaining the new partner incentive program, called Cisco 360, that’s been in the works for over a year.) It was a bit unexpected, however...

Forbes Column
November 5, 2025

The Hidden Story Behind Tech’s Big Tax Writeoffs

When it comes to deciphering the tax details of corporate earnings, let’s be honest, it’s not exactly a fun or easy job. There is a reason that financial executives earn the kind of money they do. But it turns out knowing a bit about how the basic elements of these taxes work can make a big difference when it comes to understanding the financial performance of a given company. This is particularly true now in the world of tech and other companies with big R&D budgets. The reason? There were a lot of little-known changes impacting corporate taxes in the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) recently passed by the US Congress and some of those changes are now starting to be discussed by big tech companies. Just last week Meta disclosed a large tax writedown during their earnings call as a result of these OBBB changes and today Qualcomm is doing something similar.