ARM does well because of embedded
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ARMv8 does well

Analysts have been looking under the bonnet of ARM's good results and discovered that they might not be down to its traditional mobile stomping ground.

Broadwell-E coming in Q1 2016
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Eight cores, 140W

Intel is planning to continue making unlocked superclocked X-series processors that we all know as Haswell-E or Sandy Bridge-E.

Intel confirms Skylake for the middle of the Year
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Thinner Intel gear

Intel has confirmed that its Skylake chips will appear in the middle of the year, just in time to make Apple's iPad Air look a bit chunky.

TMSC to invest $16 billion in advanced chip factory
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To boost 16nm FinFet and beyond 

Reuters carried a rather interesting announcement about TSMC, the maker of most SoCs and GPUs we care about.

Analysts expect MediaTek to gain share
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At Qualcomm’s expense

UBS expects MediaTek to gain market share at Qualcomm’s expense this year. The Swiss financial services company has upgraded MediaTek’s stock to “buy” recently.