Wearables market grew 16.9 percent in Q4 2016
Non-fitness related segments showing some growth
According to the latest market data from IDC, the worldwide market for wearable devices surprisingly reached an all-time high in the fourth quarter of 2016 amid reports of slow market adoption.
MediaTek expects Q4 revenue to drop 15 percent
Increasing production of 28nm chips
Earlier this week, MediaTek reported a net profit growth of 19 percent during the third quarter of 2016, but now expects revenue momentum to slow down in the fourth quarter as it ramps up production capacity of 28nm chips.
Qualcomm wows Wall Street with $6.2 biillion revenue
Strong Chinese licensing and chipset shipments
Qualcomm is having a great day. Not only has the outfit acquired NXP for $47 billion it also announced that it made $6.2 billion revenue in this quarter – an increase of 13 per cent year-over-year.
Intel's Kaby Lake will have "over 100 designs" available in Q4
Third generation 14nm+ notebooks starting in September
Over the past months, we have written bits and pieces of information about Intel’s Kaby Lake, its third-generation 14nm architecture which officially debuted on Tuesday.
Kaby Lake-S arrives in fourth quarter
Faster clocks than Skylake with same TDP
Skylake desktop CPU's are doing well but it looks like Kaby Lake will arrive in late 2016 and clean its clock.