April 18 - Qualcomm Inc has begun cutting jobs as part of its promise to investors to cut annual costs by $ 1 billion,
the chipmaker said on Wednesday.
The chipmaker said Thursday it expects revenue for the quarter will be $ 12.8 billion, plus or minus $ 300 million.
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.
Not this time,
chipmakers say.
The chipmaker says that this feature is proprietary to items incorporating aptX HD codec and the Snapdragon 845 platform.
Not exact matches
The
chipmaker also
said it's suffering from «weak demand» in the mobile market.
The
chipmaker slashed its current - quarter profit and revenue forecasts in April,
saying it excluded revenue receivable from those contract manufacturers.
The
chipmaker stocks, having benefited from buzz around certain tech developments, will now be judged on their individual merits,
said Bapis.
Chipmaker Micron has created a brand new type of memory technology that it
says can offer the same memory speed and persistent storage found in chips located next to a computer's processor.
Mobile
chipmaker Qualcomm on Monday rejected rival Broadcom's $ 103 billion takeover bid,
saying the offer «dramatically» undervalued the U.S. company.
Qualcomm is open to discussing a buyout offer from Broadcom that «reflects the true value» of the
chipmaker and better addresses its concerns about potential regulatory hurdles to a deal, the company
said on Friday.
Qualcomm is open to discussing a buyout offer from Broadcom that «reflects the true value» of the
chipmaker and better addresses concerns about regulatory hurdles to a deal, the company
said on Friday.
The U.S. private - equity firm will, however, obtain around half that amount in financing from South Korean
chipmaker SK Hynix, the sources
said, declining to be identified due to the sensitivity of the negotiations.
U.S.
chipmaker Qualcomm raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors to $ 127.50 per share on Tuesday, and
said it has the backing of the shareholder group led by hedge fund Elliott Management that opposed its previous proposal.
Chipmaker rival Broadcom had lined up a fully financed bid, sources
said, but backed away after Western Digital took legal action to block Toshiba's sale of the business, the sources
said.
On Tuesday,
chipmaker Nvidia also
said it was suspending tests of self - driving cars worldwide, sending stocks plunging.
China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd plans to invest 300 billion yuan ($ 47 billion) over the next five years in a bid to become the world's third - biggest
chipmaker, the chairman of the state - backed technology conglomerate
said on Monday.
Chipmaker Qualcomm on Monday urged Broadcom to enter into price negotiations on its $ 117 billion offer for the company,
saying the two sides had made progress on regulatory issues but were yet to agree on the deal value.
Foxconn of Taiwan, Oracle founder Larry Ellison's family office, and
chipmaker Qualcomm (qcom) are
said to be intending to invest in the fund..
Uber does not use the self - driving platform architecture of Nvidia, the
chipmaker's Chief Executive Jensen Huang
said on Wednesday.
Chipmaker Intel, which at the start of the year
said it would spend $ 300 million over five years to improve diversity, ranked No. 48.
He added that Foxconn, Oracle founder Larry Ellison's family office and
chipmaker Qualcomm also have
said they intend to invest in the fund.
«I would agree that we are unlikely to see a foreign based company be able to acquire a US based semiconductor company as the US will want to protect the valuable IP property that these
chipmakers possess,» Zino
says.
US - headquartered
chipmaker Qualcomm Inc
said on Sunday it will create an India - dedicated «strategic» fund to invest $ 150 million...
INCJ was part of a proposed bid tabled by U.S.
chipmaker Western Digital last week that also included U.S. private equity firm KKR & Co LP, sources familiar with the matter have
said.
Still, McConnell noted that the boost in demand from miners may not be sustainable,
saying that «desktop graphics card manufacturers are skeptical,» in light of a similar surge in demand in 2013 during another period of bitcoin euphoria that had no long - term effect on
chipmaker sales.
«It looks like Apple's board is trying to whitewash the situation because they like him so much,»
says Willem P. Roelandts, CEO of
chipmaker Xilinx Inc..
If the
chipmaker can figure out how to operate at temperatures above 40 degrees C, «it gets rid of water,» Rego
says.
A big reason companies are choosing Qualcomm chips is the ability to support high screen resolutions, Talluri
said, and many who work with Qualcomm on smartphones find it easy to shift to tablets with the
chipmaker.
Ma, who
says he has worked with both the Intel and IBM research groups but is not privy to either's design, adds that the presence of silicon dioxide would require
chipmakers to add nitrogen to the hafnium oxide as well.
The
chipmaker, which
says it has more than 15 multicore projects under way for desktops, notebooks and servers,
says it will ship millions of dual - core chips by the end of the year and estimates that by the close of 2006, 70 percent of its server chips and 85 percent of its desktop and notebook chips will be dual core.
Stocks in the green include Facebook as CEO Mark Zuckerberg
says there's no significant impact from the Delete Facebook movement; AMD as Stifel upgraded the
chipmaker to «buy,» citing valuation after a recent selloff and margin expansion due to new product releases; and Spotify, with shares getting a boost as Stifel Nicolaus initiated coverage with a «buy» rating, citing Spotify's dominant position in the industry.
Intel
said Monday it is buying German drone maker Ascending Technologies for an undisclosed price, following rival
chipmaker Qualcomm's move into the space.
TSMC — the world's largest contract
chipmaker, and sole supplier of the A10 Fusion processor that powers the iPhone 7 —
says it is weighing the benefits of setting up shop in the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
The
chipmaker on Wednesday
said it has released microcode updates for several Skylake - based platforms, while updates for other architectures will be released in the coming days.
The
chipmaker also
says Wi - Fi performance is now much better than before, especially when in crowded networks.
The
chipmaker even went as far as to ask the ITC to ban Apple's newest iPhones,
saying they violate various Qualcomm patents.
The
chipmaker is
said to be planning to sell a majority stake in a spinoff company that will sell this smart glasses.
«Just before production kicked off, Apple requested modifications to the mask patterns prompting both contract
chipmakers to rework wafers,
said the sources,» DigiTimes reported.
In the meantime, though, Patently Apple is
saying the big bust against Qualcomm will help other
chipmakers looking to get their wafers into Apple's iPhones, including Samsung, Huawei, Intel and others.
ARM has reconfigured its chip design to favor artificial intelligence, and
chipmaker Qualcomm
says it's only a matter of time before it, too, launches its own mobile AI chips.