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The Memory Chip That Wins by Forgetting
TenaFe made a business from removing a memory chip. The trick is persuading an SSD to travel lighter without letting speed, heat or reliability give the game away.
The Taiwanese Underdog That Turned Cheap Into a Six-Way Global PC Fight
Acer spent decades as the value pick in a market ruled by giants. Now it is the world's sixth-largest PC vendor, betting on gaming, recycled plastic, and AI to stay in the fight.
Lenovo Wants to Own the Journey From Your Pocket to the Cloud
The company that made the black business laptop an office fixture is building a much larger machine - one that sells devices, data-center infrastructure and recurring services as a connected stack.
James Howell
James Howell is VP of Windows Marketing at Microsoft, leading the company's push to define the AI PC era. Based in Woodinville, Washington, he has been at the forefront of marketing Copilot+ PCs and positioning Windows 11 as the platform for on-device AI. He has been a key Microsoft spokesperson on the AI PC transition, championing Copilot+ as a new hardware category and appearing in press and video series including 'Innovators Powered by Best Buy' to evangelize what AI can do for everyday PC users.