MediaTek revenues jump 29 percent in 2016
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Thursday, 12 January 2017 09:17

MediaTek revenues jump 29 percent in 2016


Strategy this year is to sell high-end smartphone SoCs


MediaTek, the fabless semiconductor company from Taiwan that provides SoCs for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and wireless products, saw its revenues jump by 29.2 percent year-over-year to a record high of $8.6 billion (¥$275.51 billion), according to the latest industry reports.

Apple tanks
Published in Mobiles
Wednesday, 26 October 2016 11:04

Apple tanks


Apple sees first sales decline since 2001

The shine has finally come off the tax-dodging fruity cargo cult Apple and no amount of spinning is saving it.

AMD reports Q3 2016 earnings
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Tuesday, 25 October 2016 06:51

AMD reports Q3 2016 earnings


Increased GPU sales offset decline in desktop CPU shipments


Last week, AMD posted its earnings report for Q3 2016, showing a revenue increase of 27 percent over the previous quarter and up 23 percent year-over-year.

Qualcomm stock soars on great quarter
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Thursday, 21 July 2016 11:00

Qualcomm stock soars on great quarter


Revenues, income and stock rise five percent

Qualcomm has had a better than expected results in its Q3 earnings, beating street and even its own estimates. 

Alleged "iPhone 7" is actually a Meizu Pro 6
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Upcoming iPhone 7, iPhone Pro will not feature antenna bands


On Tuesday, Chinese website CNBeta.com posted a photo of what they claimed was a prototype of Apple’s upcoming tenth-generation iPhone, more specifically the iPhone 7 that will be announced later this fall. After all, the picture leak in question showed a silver-colored aluminum frame with iPhone-like antenna bands positioned towards the bottom of the device, rather than the unsightly positions they currently take on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S.

Nvidia has a record $1.305 billion quarter
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Friday, 06 November 2015 09:43

Nvidia has a record $1.305 billion quarter


Thanks to VR, gaming, deep learning, cloud, automotive and AMD snoozing 

Nvidia has announced record revenues in the third quarter for fiscal 2016 as a few long play strategies are starting to work out. Nvidia is diversifying beyond PC gaming .