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I went to part of the Linley Tech Mobile Conference. This is the current incarnation of what started life as Michael Slater's Microprocessor Report, and the twice-yearly Microprocessor Forum. These very technical analysis organizations seem to work well when they are a small group of analysts working together to cover an area of technology, but they don't seem to scale very well once they are bought by the bigger companies with their high overhead of vice-presidents and sales teams. Microprocessor Report had its own history moving into Ziff-Davis, then Cahners/Reed and In-Stat and now back to its roots in the Linley Group. And as if to emphasize my point, a week ago NPD group apparently shut down In-Stat completely and laid off 30 analysts.

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