The Yahoo Deals shopping area now has a Personal Offers site, whose logo says «Powered by Next Jump» — co-branding similar to the Intel Inside campaign of
the big chip maker.
The hardware manufacturer which surpassed Intel to become
the biggest chip maker in the world, was rumored to be focusing on ASIC (application - specific integrated circuit) chips which are said to provide better performance at a lower energy consumption than GPU cards.
Not exact matches
The graphics -
chip maker's stock price has exploded 95 % higher since then, the
biggest gain in the S&P 500 by almost 30 percentage points.
Samsung (ssnlf) is the
biggest maker of flash memory
chips, followed by Toshiba, SK Hynix, and U.S. - based Micron Technology (mu).
To avoid
big swings in the stock price, it's a good idea to look for
chip makers that have no more than 40 % exposure to one customer, says Hodson.
KS) became the world's
biggest maker of memory
chips, LCD screens and televisions.
It says the
bigger carriers, especially AT&T, have used their market power to ensure
chip designers and device
makers make equipment compatible with their flavor of the technology, leaving smaller carriers in the cold.
Qualcomm, which is the
biggest maker of
chips for smartphones, gets about 2/3 of its profits from licensing its wireless patents.
Diagnosis remains an art as much as a science but that has not stopped the onward march of technology, with AI and
big data seeking to
chip away at the role of diagnostician and decision
maker.
Chip maker AMD has seen its sales buoyed in recent months by
big demand for graphics cards by cryptocurrency miners.
HP, the world's
biggest PC
maker, has updated its advisory for the Meltdown and Spectre bugs following Intel's advice on Monday to halt deploying the
chip makers» microcode or firmware patch due to unexpected reboots.
Even Apple, which typically shuns
big deals and doesn't even disclose many smaller acquisitions, bought its own
chip design company, P.A. Semi; Beats, the headphone
maker and music service; and Siri, the voice - controlled assistant service.
Qualcomm and Samsung are the
biggest mobile
chip makers.
The
big caveat with the 820 and most other smartphone
chips is that many of these features need to be supported by either the phone
maker, your wireless carrier, or both.
Another
big player in the smartphone world is leading
chip maker Qualcomm.