CES Night Two: Eric’s Notebook Dump

The city that never sleeps is Las Vegas, not New York. At least, that’s the case when the Consumer Electronics Show is in town. After the keynote tonight, I headed over to the Mirage for the annual Digital Experience mini-tradeshow. The event was a lot like the CES Unveiled event last night, but several times larger. Here are a few things I learned while wandering around taking notes and eating chicken wings and cheese: Lenovo was showing a host of business and consumer PCs, including a nifty dual screen model called the W700ds. But prod the staff behind the table a bit, and you find all they were really talking about was today’s news that the company is preparing large-scale layoffs. I bumped into Craig Berger , the chip analyst at Friedman Billings Ramsey . Berger has been generally bullish lately on the long-term prospects for chips, but he noted that the group is up about 35% over the last six weeks, and could be due for a pullback short-term. On the other hand, ... (link)