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HP Pavilion Plus 14

HP Pavilion Plus 14, Pavilion x360 14 Launched With Intel 12th-Generation Processor In India.

The HP Pavilion Plus 14 and the Pavilion x360 14 are two new laptops in the company’s Pavilion series that were just introduced, according to an earlier announcement from HP India. The new Pavilion Plus 14 is the slimmest Pavilion laptop ever produced, according to HP, India’s largest laptop OEM by volume. The new laptops include a variety of interesting features in addition to 12th-generation Intel processors. The HP Pavillion series has been updated with new 14-inch variants in India with the release of these new laptops. The 14-inch HP Pavilion Plus and Pavilion x360 laptops have Intel Core processors from the 12th generation. A 5-megapixel camera with HP Presence technology and AI Noise Removal is present on both laptops. The HP Pavilion x360 14-inch laptop, on the other hand, is touted as the brand’s first consumer laptop to include a manual camera shutter so consumers can be sure their camera is private and secure.

Specifications – HP Pavilion Plus

A 14-inch OLED display with a 16:10 aspect ratio is included with the HP Pavilion Plus laptop. The laptop is equipped with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 graphics and 12th-generation Intel H series CPUs. According to the manufacturer, it comes pre-installed with Windows 11 and has two fans and two heat pipes to optimize airflow whether multitasking, streaming, or playing games.

Additionally, it is stated that the HP Pavilion Plus laptop’s battery life can last up to 9 hours when using HP Command Center, Performance Mode, Balanced Mode, and Power Saver Mode. As previously said, it also includes a pre-installed HP Palette and a 5-megapixel camera with HP Presence technology, featuring AI Noise Removal.

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Specifications – HP Pavilion x360

The HP Pavilion x360 laptop has a 14-inch display and is advertised as the first consumer model from the firm to include a manual camera shutter door. Users can learn about the privacy and security of their cameras thanks to the manual camera shutter door. The laptop is powered by up to Intel Iris Xe Graphics and 12th generation Intel U series CPUs. The Pavilion x360 14-inch laptop runs Windows 11 out of the box and has an HP command center, performance mode, balanced mode, and power saver mode, just like the HP Pavilion Plus 14-inch laptop.

The HP Pavilion x360 14-inch laptop, in contrast to the HP Pavilion Plus, states that its battery life can last up to 8 hours. Additionally, it has a 5-megapixel camera with HP Presence technology, including AI Noise Removal, and a pre-installed HP Palette.

Price And Availability

Priced at Rs. 78,999, the HP Pavilion Plus 14-inch laptop is offered in Natural Silver and Warm Gold color variants. The HP Pavilion x360 14-inch laptop, on the other hand, has a price tag of Rs. 76,999 and is offered in Pale Rose Gold, Natural Silver, and Space Blue color options. On the official websites of HP for Pavilion Plus and Pavilion x360, respectively, you may buy the 14-inch laptops Pavilion Plus and Pavilion x360.

About The Company

HP (Hewlett-Packard) is a worldwide corporation that sells hardware, software, and related business services. PCs and other computing devices, enterprise and industry standard servers, storage devices, networking goods, software, printers, scanners, plotters, and other image tools are all part of the HP product line. The business created handheld calculators, the first commercially distributed data processing system, LaserJet printers, and the Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC) architecture (in collaboration with Intel). HP is well-known for its computers as well as its renowned LaserJet and InkJet printers. It provides mobile apps that make printing more mobile and accessible. HP is deeply committed to environmental sustainability. It issues an annual Sustainable Impact report in which it publicly discloses its aims for improvement and the strategies it is employing to promote sustainability.

Palm Inc

Palm Inc – Jeff Hawkins’ Tech Venture Whose Operations Revived Recently Through A Shelf Company. 

Founded in 1992, the Palm brand is associated with manufacturing personal digital assistants (PDAs). The company became famous after designing PalmPilot, the first successfully marketed PDA in the world. Since its founding, the company has been through several mergers and acquisitions. For a period of time, the Palm brand almost evaporated from the tech industry but then in 2014 the operations again started after an acquisition. Palm Inc is also known for developing the Treo 600, one of the first smartphones, and several versions of Palm OS. HP acquired Palm in 2010 but after a year decided to discontinue the Palm brand. Again in 2014, HP sold the Palm trademark to TCL Corporation and the latter announced its plan to revive the brand. 

The Original Palm Brand

In 1992, Jeff Hawkins incorporated the Palm brand and shortly brought Donna Dubinsky and Ed Colligan into the team. These three people are the main brains behind the invention of PalmPilot. When Palm was born, it wrote software for a consumer PDA, Zoomer. Casio was the manufacturer of this PDA and the Zoomer devices were distributed by Casio and GRiD. Palm mainly played the role of offering the PIM software. Though in a few years, Zoomer became a huge turndown, Palm stayed in business by selling software for HP devices. In 1995, Palm was acquired by U.S. Robotics Corp and after a couple of years, the latter was acquired by 3Com. So, Palm became a subsidiary of 3Com and the original founders left the company. 

Splitting Of The Company 

In 2000, Palm became an independent publicly-traded company as 3Com decided to take it public. Palm’s IPO was filed during the dot-com bubble so within a year the price of shares dropped and lost 90% of their value. In June 2001, Palm became the worst performing PDA manufacturer that was listed on the NASDAQ. After a year, Palm established a wholly-owned subsidiary, PalmSource for developing and licensing Palm OS. PalmSource and Palm became two different companies but the Palm trademark was held by a jointly owned holding company. By the end of 2003, the hardware division of the business merged with Handspring, and the business was renamed as palmOne Inc. 

After a couple of years, palmOne purchased PalmSource’s share in the common trademark for $30 million. Thus, the brand name of palmOne was changed to Palm Inc, bringing back the old brand name. In the same year, PalmSource was acquired by a company called ACCESS. The new Palm Inc started a partnership with Verizon and Microsoft in 2006 to release Palm Treo 700w. The company entered into a strategic partnership with Elevation Partners who purchased a 25% equity stake in Palm.  In 2008, the CEO of the company announced that Palm would no longer develop any new handheld PDAs. In early 2009, the share price increased to the WebOS hype but again dropped after a year. 

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Acquisition By HP

In April 2010, HP announced that it would be purchasing Palm for $1.2 billion and the deal was completed two months later. After a year, HP unfolded a new line of WebOS products but they were not under the brand name Palm. In 2011, HP also decided to discontinue the use of the Palm brand and after a few months ended the production of all Palm and WebOS services. After this decision, many Palm staff members started leaving HP. In 2014, the Palm brand name resurfaced again as HP sold the trademark to a shelf company, a regional president of TCL Corporation. In 2015, TCL confirmed the acquisition of the Palm brand and that Palm would be recreated by a team in Silicon Valley.

About Jeff Hawkins 

Jeff Hawkins is the founder of both Palm Inc and Handspring. He studied electrical engineering at Cornell University and started working for GRiD Systems in 1982. After founding Palm and Handspring, Jeff co-founded Numenta in 2005 along with Dubinsky and Dileep George. Jeff has also made contributions in the field of neuroscience and founded Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience in 2002. 

HP Chromebook x360

HP Chromebook x360 14a With AMD Processor, 12.5 Hours Battery Life Released in India.

The HP Chromebook x360 14a has been released in India. This Chromebook is HP’s first AMD-powered Chromebook, and it’s designed to “meet the needs of students,” according to the company. A 14-inch HD touchscreen with a maximum brightness of 250 nits is included. The AMD 3015Ce processor with integrated AMD Radeon graphics powers the HP Chromebook x360 14a. The processor is paired with 4GB of RAM and a 64GB eMMC memory onboard. The HP Chromebook x360 14a has a battery life of up to 12.5 hours on a single charge.

HP Chromebook x360: Specifications

HP’s newest Chromebooks are aimed at students aged 4 to 15 years old. Chrome OS is installed on a 14-inch (1,366×768 pixels) HD touchscreen with 250 nits of peak brightness and 45 percent NTSC coverage. Under the hood of the HP Chromebook x360 14a is an AMD 3015Ce processor with integrated AMD Radeon graphics and 4GB of RAM. A microSD card can be used to expand the 64GB onboard eMMC memory (up to 256GB). In addition, users will receive 100GB of free cloud storage for a year.
It has a wide-view 720p HD webcam and built-in dual-array digital microphones for video calls. It has two speakers for audio. The 47Wh HP Chromebook x360 14a battery, which is charged via a 45W USB Type-C port, can last up to 12.5 hours on a single charge. WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth v5, two USB TypeC ports, one USB Type-A port, and one 3.5mm headphone jack are among the connectivity options. The HP x360 14a Chromebook weighs 1.49 kg and measures 326 x 220 x 18 mm.

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Price And Availability Details

This phone costs Rs 32,999 and is designed to “meet the needs of students.” The HP Chromebook costs Rs. 31,490 and can be purchased from Amazon. Ceramic White, Forest Teal, and Mineral Silver are all color options. Customers can also get 100GB of free cloud storage for a year from the company.

About The Company

William R. Hewlett and David Packard, two recent Stanford University electrical engineering graduates, founded HP on January 1, 1939. It was the first of many tech companies to benefit from Stanford engineering professor Frederick Terman’s ideas and support, which helped to establish the strong relationship between Stanford and what would eventually become Silicon Valley. The company has established itself as a leading provider of advanced instrumentation. Walt Disney Productions was their first customer, purchasing eight audio oscillators for use in the production of his animated film Fantasia (1940). During WWII, the company developed products for military use that were so important that Packard was exempt from military service while Hewlett served in the Army Signal Corps.
In a technology publicity stunt in 1964, Hewlett-Packard instrumentation gained international recognition. Engineers from the company have flown around the world with the HP 5060A cesium ray instrument, synchronizing atomic clocks in millionths of a second.
In 1966, Hewlett-Packard created the HP 2116A, the company’s first computer, to manage the company’s test and measurement equipment. The HP 3000 Versatile Mini PC was introduced in 1972, and it is still in use for business purposes today. Stephen G. Wozniak, a company engineering intern, built a prototype for the first personal computer (PC) and donated it to the company in 1976. Wozniak later joined Steven P. Jobs at Apple Computer, Inc. after Hewlett-Packard refused and gave him full rights to his idea (now Apple Inc.).

Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies – The Spun-off Electronics Division of HP, Making Big in the Industry.

Keysight Technologies can be cited as the spun-off company of Hewlett-Packard, as it was one of the electronic test and measurement divisions of the latter before Keysight could be called an independent company. First, Keysight was a division at HP and then was taken over by Agilent Technologies (another division of HP).

The company came into being in 2014 and has made its separate identity in the world of electronics. Keysight Technologies, after getting separated from Hewlett-Packard, continued to manufacture and supply the electronics test and measurement equipment and added software development to one of its specializations.

About the Company

Though Keysight is a seven years old company, still with the experience of being a part of two big names Hewlett-Packard and Agilent Technologies, it was able to make its mark in the industry quite smoothly. Today the company has its own several divisions, including PathWave Design and PathWave Test oscilloscopes, etc., and over 14000 people are working for the company. Other than America, Keysight Technologies is operational in countries like UK and Australia. As of 2019, the company made an annual revenue worth US$4.3 billion.

A Brief History Keysight Technologies

The founders of Hewlett-Packard, Dave Packard, and Bill Hewlett, who were also good friends from their graduation from Stanford University, founding HP from a garage in Palo Alto, California, in 1939, today known as the Silicon Valley. The two started the company after they discovered their passion for innovation while camping in the Colorado mountains.

If we look at the beginning of HP, it started as an oscillator and electronic measurement manufacturing company. As time went by, HP excelled in its field and also added many other divisions, like the manufacturing of computers and printers, to its business. In 1999, the company separated its test and measurement components business and the computer-printer manufacturing business. The former went under the control of Agilent Technologies, the Medical Products and Instrument Group formed by HP.

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For about fifteen years, Agilent handled the operations of Keysight Technologies, but on November 1, 2014, Keysight officially became a separate electronic measurement company through the spinning off of Agilent Technologies. Since then, the company has only stepped towards success. It also made some major acquisitions in the past seven years, which include Anite PLC (2015), Electroservices Enterprises UK Ltd (2015), Ixia (2017), Thales Calibration Services (2018), Eggplant (2020), and Quantum Benchmark (2021).

Keysight Technologies has established its headquarter in Santa Rosa, California, U.S., and trades on the New York Stock Exchange as KEYS.

Products by Keysight Technologies

Keysight Technologies, being a part of HP in the past, have similar values attached to its work. The major fields Keysight is focussing today include 5G, automotive, Internet of Things, network security, etc. and manufactures software and hardware products for benchtop, modular, and field instruments. Oscilloscopes, in-circuit testers, logic analyzers, signal generators, vector network analyzers, atomic force microscopes (AFM), automated optical inspection, automated X-ray inspection (5DX), power supplies, tunable lasers, optical power meters, wavelength-meters, optical modulation analyzers, etc. are the major products manufactured and shipped by Keysight Technologies.

The CEO: Ronald S. Nersesian

Ronald S. Nersesian is the president and the CEO of Keysight Technologies. Nersesian has got a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University and has completed an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Nersesian started his career with Computer Sciences Corporation as a systems engineer for satellite communications systems in 1982. After working for two years at the company, he joined Hewlett-Packard in 1984 and continued to work at the company till 1996, when he joined LeCroy Corporation. In 2002 Nersesian joined Agilent Technologies as the vice president and general manager of the Design Validation Division of the company. Till 2014, he managed various roles at Agilent Technologies, like the executive vice president and COO of the company. In 2014, Nersesian was appointed as the chairman, president, and CEO of Keysight Technologies.

The Success Story of Hewlett-Packard (HP)

HP is not a new name in the IT industry, and the narrative of the company is over 80 years old. The company was founded by two Stanford graduates Bill Hewlett and David Packard, in January 1939.

The two co-founders met each other in a social outing during the time they were studying at Stanford. Both were pursuing a degree in electrical engineering and shared a common interest in starting a business after completing their education. They discussed their idea with their fellowship professor Frederick Terman at Stanford and with his supervision started working on the same.

The two started their company from Packard’s garage in Palo Alto, in 1938, with an initial capital investment of US$538, even without deciding a proper name for it. In 1939, they tossed a coin to decide the name for the company adopting the surname of their names. The toss was among Hewlett-Packard and Packard-Hewlett, in which Hewlett-Packard won.

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The first product from the company was a precision audio oscillator, the Model HP200A. It was cheap and efficient, and became one of the most successful product, commercially. The same product was also used by Walt Disney Productions, for the movie Fantasia, in certifying the Fantasound surround sound systems installed in theatres.

In 1957, the company went public in its initial public offering.

In the 1960s, Hewlett-Packard started producing the semiconductor devices for the instruments and calculators. In 1966, the company entered into a new business of computer manufacturing and rolled out the accumulator-based design HP 2100 / HP 1000 series of minicomputers, followed by the HP 9800 and HP 250 series of desktop and business computers.

In the 70s the company started producing the advanced business computers, i.e. stack-based HP 3000 computers. During the same time, the HP 2640 series smart computers were also introduced that included one of the first bit mapped graphics displays. The same computer was used to develop the first commercial WYSIWYG Presentation Program, BRUNO, by coupling the HP 2100 21MX F-Series micro-coded Scientific Instruction Set.

In the same decade, the company produced the world’s first handheld scientific calculator HP-35, world’s first handheld programmable HP-65, first alphanumeric, programmable, expandable HP-41C and first symbolic, and the graphing calculator HP-28C.

In the 80s, Hewlett-Packard expanded its business to build printers and scanners for desktop computers. With the rise of the internet, the company registered its website domain as HP.com, on 3 March 1986, becoming the ninth Internet .com domain ever. In 1989, HP acquired the Apollo Computer, and in 1995 it acquired the Convex Computers.

By 1998, the company had become one of the leaders in the desktops, laptops, and servers for many different markets. Later, it also started its online service hpshopping.com, to sell its products online, which was rebranded to “HP Home & Home Office Store” in 2005.

In 2005, due to the merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard was facing heavy losses in the business. In 2006, the company offered a new range of products in both hardware and software, reducing the costs. In 2007, the company’s revenues skyrocketed, and HP hit the $100 Billion mark for the first time.

In 2011, Hewlett-Packard launched its first tablet named HP TouchPad, followed by the industries’ first wireless mouse. But by the end of the same year, it announced that it won’t be operating in the tablet and smartphone business anymore, and will focus more on the Cloud, solutions and software business.

In the years 2012-13, the Hewlett-Packard faced a great decline in its profits, cutting down 34000 jobs in the same years.

In October 2014, the news of splitting up of Hewlett Packard into two separate companies came into knowledge. The two wings would do their separate business of personal computers and printer manufacturing. Finally, in November 2015, the company separated into HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP Inc. retaining the Hewlett-Packard’s stock price history.

Although the company has seen many ups and downs during its long journey, the vast history of HP has introduced the world with many great inventions. The company also gets credits for many patents and will be known for its contribution to the IT industry.