Eric Smith

@esmithtech.bsky.social

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Director at @techinsightsinc.bsky.social covering connected computing (tablets, PCs, AI, etc.) from metro Detroit; views expressed are my own; he/him

A marketing email from Dell headlining Dell Pro AI PCs
14-inch MacBook Pro and 13-inch MacBook Neo side by side
Blurred datatable of notebook PC market share results in Q4 2025. Full details available in the link in the post for the TechInsights Platform
A blurred data table of global tablet market share in Q4 2025. Full details are available through the link in the post.
GIF of Princess Irulan in the opening of David Lynch’s Dune saying “Know then, that it is the year 10,191.”
Email header with the subject line: "Honoring MLK Day: Savings on Professional Products that Empower You"
Screenshot of a poor live translation of a phone call, where it writes “b*tch”
Blurred market share results table for Q3 2025 tablets. Full results available at link in post
A receipt for endless Guernsey Farms chocolate milks at the Michigan State Fair
A table of global notebook PC market share results in Q2 2025. Full details are available at the accompnaying link
Global Q2 2025 preliminary tablet vendor results. Full details are available through the accompanying link
AMD ROCm on PyTorch and ONNX ready later this year 2025 for full Windows support
AMD Ryzen "Threadripper" PRO | Shimada Peak* 9000 Series “The world's best workstation processor”
ASUS S.Y. Hsu, Co-CEO
Lenovo’s Luca Rossi, President of Intelligent Devices Group, on stage at AMD press conference at COMPUTEX 2025
AMD Radeon™ RX 9060 XT 16GB The world's best graphics card under $350
Jensen Huang on stage at NVIDIA’s GTC Taipei press and industry analyst question and answer session
Me posing with the GB200 and GB300 at NVIDIA GTC Taipei
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang announced NVLink Fusion at COMPUTEX 2025
Luca Rossi introducing Lenovo AI Now
Slide introducing HP OmniBook 5 Series Bringing the latest Al experiences mainstream Up to 34 hours of Battery Life Unplugged performance 2K OLED display with Snapdragon X and X Plus processors
Cristiano Amon in front of a Fortnite display at COMPUTEX
Christian’s Amon of Qualcomm shaking hands with James Huang of TAITRA at COMPUTEX
Rendering of NVIDIA’s new Taiwan office
NVLink Fusion Seni-Custom AI Infrastructure
Jensen Huang talking on stage at NVIDIA GTC Taipei
NVIDIA GTC Taipei at Taipei Music Center
Paul Peng, Taipei Computer Association Chairman, speaking at COMPUTEX global press conference
James Huang, Chairman of TAITRA, speaking on stage at COMPUTEX 2025
Qualcomm billboard above an NBIDIA branded truck selling swag in Taipei
Global tablet market share data table for Q1 2025, with Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, and Amazon in the top five spots and 6% annual market growth
Grocery list organized by iPhone, which listed Vernors as produce
Photo of a guy resembling Darth Vader standing in front of a blast furnace above a headline about US steel and aluminum tariffs increasing to 50% on Canadian imports
Clip from Detroiters of the Bicken Bones sketch with a skeleton drawn on a flipboard
Q4 2024 Preliminary Global Top 5 Tablet Vendors' Results from TechInsights. Including Apple, Samsung, Amazon, Lenovo, and Xiaomi.
Microsoft revenue and operating margins from Q4 2022 to Q4 2024
Earnings and operating margin results from Microsoft from Q4 2022 to Q4 2024
Stylized image with text: Global Mobile Awards 30 Years Proud to be a GLOMO 2025 judge Eric Smith Director, Connected Computing TechInsights
Sign on a bus that says: “Smoking, Eating, and Radio Playing is Prohibited”
Snoop Dogg and analyst friends Steve Waltzer and Jack Narcotta at Pepcom
NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang holding Project DIGITS, a super computer in a mini PC form factor
Connectivity Wi-FI, Bluetooth, USB Connect NCCL, RDMA, GPUDirect 4 TB SSD GB10 Superchip Blackwell GPU 1 PFLOP FP4 Al Compute Grace CPU 20 Arm Cores - High-Bandwidth Unified Memory 128 GB Low-Power DDR5X
List of global car brands using NVIDIA Drive OS for their autonomous vehicles, including Waymo, Xiaomi, Zoox, BYD, Tesla, and now the largest OEM: Toyota
NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models Autoregressive Model Diffusion Model Video Tokenizers Video Processing and Curation Pipeline
Flow chart of how AI is processed on an NVIDIA GPU in CUDA while still working within a Windows OS
Breakaway video still of RTX Blackwell
Speeds and feeds for RTX Blackwell GPU
Desktop RTX 5000 series pricing and AI TOPS figures
A long line of people for the NVIDIA keynote at CES 2025
Wistron, Pegatron, and Compal reference designs with Intel Panther Lake Inside©️
Me with my CES badge in front of a CES mural
Picture of a water tower in Gas City, IN, with comic sans font
A preview of the article linked in the post, by TechInsights about 5 key trends in consumer electronics for 2025