Business-class ultraportables have always been sleek and sexy. But the little computers were never very good at, you know, computing.

That’s all changed now. Driven by Intel’s 11th-generation Core processors (code-named Tiger Lake), the latest little laptops come in big on performance. I’ve even been using them as my desktop PC – and they perform great, even on heavier-duty tasks like video editing.

I evaluate three of the latest – the HP Elite Dragonfly G2, the ThinkPad X1 Nano from Lenovo and Microsoft’s Surface Pro 7+. Read about it in my latest for USA Today’s Tech section.

Intel’s new CEO is hitting the ground running. For starters, he just launched a $20 billion investment in new Arizona manufacturing  facilities. And that wasn’t even the company’s biggest announcement that day.

Intel also revealed it is dedicating capacity in Arizona for US-based semiconductor companies – even competitor Qualcomm. Dr. Randhir Thakur (pictured above), Intel’s Chief Supply Chain Officer, will head the new operation, called Intel Foundry Services.

Find out why. Read my analysis in the Tech section of USA Today.

Contrary to popular belief, the path between on-premise data centers and the public cloud is actually a two-way street. Indeed, for all the seemingly endless storage and performance, the cloud isn’t always the best option for every dataset and every workload.

So how do you decide what belongs in the cloud, and what should stay on-premise? Read FeibusTech’s latest report, To the Cloud and Back, and find out what companies large and small are doing, and how their experiences can help shape your rent-or-buy computing decisions.

Produced in association with Intel.