Fourth-quarter operating profit up 52 per cent on last year

Samsung said fourth-quarter operating profit jumped 52 per cent on-year to its highest for the quarter in four years, helped by solid demand for server memory chips and higher margins in chip contract manufacturing.

Sales up by 11 per cent

Franco-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics said its preliminary fourth-quarter revenues were slightly above the guidance given at the end of October, in the context of a global microchip supply crunch, which gave a lift to its shares.

Yours for a quick billion

Big Blue has resurrected its sale process for IBM Watson Health, with hopes of fetching more than $1 billion.

After eight years

Apple Silicon leader and T2 security processor developer Jeff Wilcox has left Apple to rejoin Intel and oversee architecture for all Intel System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs.

Its either optimistic or has misty optics

Snap is suing the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for rejecting its application to trademark the word "spectacles" for its digital eyewear camera device.

Google Pixel phones and computers, Chromecasts, and Google speakers hit

Google is in a bit of trouble after it started losing patent technology claims made by Sonos.

With your phone

Google used the annual CES technology conference to showcase upcoming deeper ties among its devices and preview support for unlocking more cars with Android phones.

Will lean on Google 

Facebook parent company Meta has stopped development of a new software operating system to power its virtual reality devices and upcoming augmented reality glasses.

Claims EngineOwning outfit evaded anti-cheat tech

Activision has filed a federal lawsuit against German cheat makers EngineOwning and associated individuals for "trafficking in technologies that circumvent or evade anti-cheat technologies used by Activision to protect the integrity of Call of Duty games."

We do not have enough electricity

Kosovo's government banned on cryptocurrency mining in an attempt to curb electricity consumption as the country faces the worst energy crisis in a decade due to production outages.