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chipmaker is a company that designs and produces computer chips or microchips, which are tiny electronic components used in various electronic devices like smartphones, computers, and other gadgets.
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Bitmain likely took in the same operating profits as
chipmaker Nvidia did last year, Bernstein analysts estimate.
Project Treble attempts to mitigate the issue by separating the Android code to make it easier
for chipmakers like Qualcomm to find and make sure the software works with its processors.
Ronak Singhal, a senior executive and 20 - year veteran of
chipmaker Intel, was trying to get to dinner at Helena, his favorite restaurant in Israel, a few weeks ago.
In short order earlier this month, the US government acted to, in effect, block the prospects of the largest technology acquisition of all time: the $ 142 billion takeover
of chipmaker Qualcomm by Singapore - based Broadcom, writes Arash Massoudi.
President Donald Trump blocked a Chinese - backed private equity firm from buying a U.S.
chipmaker on Wednesday, sending a clear signal to Beijing that Washington will oppose deals that involve technologies with potential military applications.
The company said it customized more than 100 parts and worked closely
with chipmaker Intel Corp. to maximize performance in a slim device.
A secretive Chinese start - up called Bitmain that dominates the bitcoin «mining» industry likely made as much
as chipmaker Nvidia did last year, Bernstein analysts estimate.
South Korea's antitrust regulator fined Qualcomm 1.03 trillion won ($ 854 million) in December for what it called unfair practices in patent licensing, a decision the U.S.
chipmaker said it will challenge in court.
The highest reported bid so far is one from
U.S. chipmaker Broadcom and its partner, U.S. private equity firm Silver Lake.
Well, it's official: Avago Technologies (AVGO) is buying
rival chipmaker Broadcom in a cash - and - stock deal worth a whopping $ 37 billion.
The two sides traded jabs at each other in the press and in court throughout 2017, but all the drama started in January when Apple filed its first lawsuit against the San Diego -
based chipmaker for overcharging on royalty fees.
Several companies,
from chipmaker Nvidia to toymaker Hasbro, are reporting the impact of a shortage of truck drivers on their businesses.
After struggling to compete against larger
chipmakers like Qualcomm in smartphones and tablets, Nvidia is now increasing its focus on using its Tegra mobile chips in cars and is already supplying companies including Audi, BMW and Tesla.
Qualcomm's board may be busy dealing with rival
chipmaker Broadcom's hostile takeover attempt but for the rest of the company, it is business as usual.
That's what Qualcomm and
other chipmakers like NXP, Intel or Broadcom and Google have quietly been doing.
Other companies are rushing to issue fixes as well, including
chipmakers such as Intel.
What we call CDMA, by and large, is owned
by chipmaker Qualcomm.
U.S.
chipmaker stocks surged for second straight session, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor index up 1.4 percent and heading for its strongest two - day performance since July.
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm on Monday rejected rival Broadcom's $ 103 billion takeover bid, saying the offer «dramatically» undervalued the U.S. company.
Microsoft and
chipmaker AMD also worked together to fix problems after the patches caused computers running on some older AMD Opteron, Athlon, and AMD Turion X2 Ultra processors to hang when booting.
This puts the British
chipmaker in a rather difficult position as Apple accounts for about half of Imagination's entire revenue.
Other crypto proxy stocks to fall on Tuesday
included chipmaker Nvidia Corp (NVDA), Canada - based Hive Blockchain Technologies Ltd. (HIVE) and Eastman Kodak Co. (KODK), the imaging company that has its eye on the mining enterprise.
Pete Bannon, who like Keller worked for Apple after the iPhone giant
bought chipmaker PA Semi.
At MWC 2017, the US - based
chipmaker announced the next generation ultrasonic fingerprint scanners with the introduction of Qualcomm Fingerprint Sensors.
Last summer, at a plug - in car conference in San Jose, Andy Grove, former CEO of
computer chipmaker Intel Corp., suggested a government program to retrofit existing trucks and sport utility vehicles with plug - in technology.
The latest hit to the stock came in mid-April after a warning on global demand from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd, the world's largest
contract chipmaker, reminiscent of one from Cirrus Logic Inc five years ago.
At the ongoing Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the
Taiwanese chipmaker, MediaTek followed...
When Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 835, the
giant chipmaker said that phones using the flagship chipset would deliver much more improved battery life when compared to the 2016 Snapdragon 820 series.
In case you didn't know, SK Hynix is another
leading chipmaker from South Korea, only beaten by Samsung in its local market.
Chinese antitrust authorities still need to clear Qualcomm's proposed takeover of
Dutch chipmaker NXP Semiconductors.
But executives
at chipmaker Qualcomm say Nokia's tablet has a clear advantage over the Surface 2 in everything from processor speed to graphics, video playback, and wireless connectivity.
Last we heard, MediaTek is the only
chipmaker who currently manufactures a smartwatch SoC called Aster.
Austria - based
chipmaker AMS, which supplies Apple, tumbled 9 percent after reporting lower orders from one of its main customers, which it did not name, also hitting shares in other companies in the sector.
Marvell Technology Group President and CEO Matt Murphy told CNBC that he wasn't expecting the market to react so positively to Marvell's $ 6 billion deal to buy fellow
chipmaker Cavium.
The new deal puts pressure on
fellow chipmaker Broadcom to decide if it will stick with a stipulation in its $ 121 billion bid for Qualcomm that the company not raise its previous $ 110 a share offer for NXP.
Shares of
several chipmakers ticked higher in the extended session Tuesday following better - than - expected earnings from Texas Instruments Inc..
In a move that would suggest a significant missed opportunity for
graphics chipmaker Nvidia, it is being reported today that Nintendo has now backed away from a widely - speculated deal that would have seen Nvidia tech used in the next DS handheld.
While it shipped the Extreme Edition chip this month, Intel isn't the
only chipmaker with dual - core plans.
While chipmaker Nvidia has been quiet about what's planned for the Nvidia Shield in 2014, several reports and leaks in recent weeks have indicated the company is currently developing a successor to the Shield.
The flaws were first announced publicly on Jan. 3 by Google Project Zero researchers, who last June shared vulnerability details with
affected chipmakers Intel, AMD and ARM.
In a recent statement,
British chipmaker Imagination Technologies announced the Cupertino titan has notified them it has plans to shift away from contracting third - party manufacturers to build its graphics processors and move production in - house in «two years» time.»
Google is looking to separate the Android OS framework from device - specific software that
chipmakers write, which would let phone makers push out updates faster.
An investment by Apple would be its first direct stake in a major global
memory chipmaker as it seeks to secure a stable supply of key components.