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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September 24, 2025

Qualcomm Focuses on Agentic AI with Latest Chips

If you’re paying close attention, you can’t help but notice a key theme that’s started to weave its way into and through the messaging from today’s top tech companies. That theme? Hybrid AI—or a combination of running AI models, agents, and applications both in the cloud and on the edge. At the company’s annual Snapdragon Summit, hosted in the amazing environs of Maui (to which they graciously covered my travel expenses), Qualcomm made it clear that they are doubling down on this strategy. The key product introductions focused on their newest Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 mobile SOCs for smartphones and the Snapdragon X2 Elite and X2 Elite Extreme for PCs, but the overall story encompassed a much broader scope.

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
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.

USA Today Column
September 10, 2025

In iPhone 17, Apple finally thinks different with new designs

If you’re an iPhone fan, you can’t help but have noticed that the last few years of new iPhone introductions have all looked pretty darn similar. Sure, the technology inside has changed and improved, but from a physical perspective, the overall shape and form factor really hasn’t. Thankfully, after Tuesday’s big Apple product announcement event, things are now very different. After enduring a stifling sea of sameness in the basic design of the iPhone since the iPhone X, Apple’s new line of iPhone 17s finally brings a very diverse and distinctive breadth of offerings to people looking for an iPhone.