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Patrick Moorhead: Apple's plan to dominate silicon

Patrick Moorhead: Apple’s plan to dominate silicon

“Before creating my industry analyst and research company, I was fortunate enough to spend over a decade as an executive in semiconductors at Advanced Micro Devices and nearly another decade as a PC and server OEM at Compaq (purchased by HP), AT&T GIS and NCR (purchased then spun out by AT&T),” Patrick Moorhead writes for Forbes. “I’ve met with some very colorful people along the way including…

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Apple embarrasses Intel

“A key reason why the pace of Mac hardware updates has slowed in recent years can be placed in the hands of Intel. As they fell behind releasing new silicon, Apple was left without the parts they needed to do proper refreshes,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “True, Apple did allow the Mac to languish way beyond the release of new Intel parts.”

“That takes us to this…

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How Tim Cook waged Steve Jobs' thermonuclear war and dismantled Android

How Tim Cook waged Steve Jobs’ thermonuclear war and dismantled Android

[cfsp key=”adsense_336x280″]”It would be fair to say that Steve Jobs did not like Samsung’s smartphone team,” Ewan Spence writes for Forbes. “He promised all of Apple’s resources would be deployed in a ‘thermonuclear war’ against the South Korean company. Tim Cook’s Apple never followed up on Jobs’ threat… at least not directly. Cook defused the nukes, instead relying on a long strategic play to…

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Apple's 64-bit iPhone 5s damaged every Android smartphones in 2015

Apple’s 64-bit iPhone 5s damaged every Android smartphones in 2015

[cfsp key=”adsense_336x280″]On September 10 2013 Apple launches the iPhone 5S. The company also discusses the A7 chip inside the new smartphone, heralding the start of 64-bit mobile computing on iOS,” Ewan Spence writes for Forbes. “Rival smartphone manufacturers were left to blog hollow promises that they would quickly follow with their own 64-bit smartphones. To date the results have been…

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Semiconductor Advisors: Apple’s 64-bit A8 processor exposes Intel's shortcomings

Semiconductor Advisors: Apple’s 64-bit A8 processor exposes Intel’s shortcomings

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“In a note out late yesterday, Robert Maire of boutique research firm Semiconductor Advisors follows up on some positive observations about Apple’s ‘A8′ chip, introduced last week along with its iPhone 6 models,” Tiernan Ray reports for Barron’s. “In an initial note published on Friday, Maire observed that Apple’s stated specification of 2 billion transistors in the A8…

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One year after Apple's 64-bit A7, Nvidia announces first 64-bit processor for Android

One year after Apple’s 64-bit A7, Nvidia announces first 64-bit processor for Android

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“Chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday detailed the new ‘Denver’ variant of its Tegra K1 mobile processor, a high-performance in-order design that represents the first foray into 64-bit processing for Android devices — nearly a full year after Apple shocked the mobile world with its own 64-bit A7 processor,” Sam Oliver reports for AppleInsider.

“Like Apple’s A7, Denver is…

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Jeffries: Apple prepping Apple 'A' series ARM-based Macs

Jeffries: Apple prepping Apple ‘A’ series ARM-based Macs

[cfsp key="adsense_336x280"]“Jefferies & Co.’s Hyunwoo Doh today reiterates a Buy recommendation on shares of Samsung Electronics, and a ₩1,700,000 price target, writing that the company may is poised to pick up new contract chip manufacturing business from Apple as the latter moves its Mac line of computers to chips based on ARM Holdings technology, rather than Intel’s x86 processors,” Tiernan…

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TSMC ramps volume production of Apple's 20nm A8 processor

TSMC ramps volume production of Apple’s 20nm A8 processor

[cfsp key="google_adsense_300x250"]“Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has confirmed that its 20nm wafer starts were delayed recently due to a specification issue of materials used in its CMP (chemical mechanical planarization) process,” Josephine Lien and Steve Shen report for DigiTimes. “The issue has been resolved, and no shipments will be delayed, said the wafer foundry house.”

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