ARM Beats Profit, Revenue Expectations, but Misses on Margin Growth

From DailyTech: ARM Holdings plc (LON:ARM) continues to perform bullishly, pumping its pre-tax profit for the second calendar quarter (ending in June) to £86.6M ($132.4M USD), up 30 percent from Q2 2012.

As the producer of the most-used architecture and instruction set for tablets...

Intel Extends AVX to 512 Bit for Future Microprocessors

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. this week published details regarding new advanced vector extensions 512 (Intel AVX-512) instructions first to be found in the Xeon Phi “Knights Landing” co-processors as well as future microprocessors. The new instructions enables processing of twice the...

Nvidia offers glimpse of powerful, next-gen mobile chip

From CNET News.com: Nvidia will introduce its next-gen graphics processors for mobile computing at a visual computing conference this week.

The new graphics chip technology, dubbed Project Logan, is based on the company's Kepler architecture and proposes to bring workstation-class...

Sales of Nokia Lumia Up 32% Quarter-Over-Quarter

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp. last week announced its financial results and revealed that sales of Lumia smartphones were up 32% quarter-over-quarter and that its smartphones in general are now better sellers than they were in the past year. Besides, the company reported zero sales of...

Cisco ponies up $2.7B for Sourcefire

From CNET News.com: Cisco Systems has announced the purchase of security firm Sourcefire, paying a premium for the company in order to bolster its weakening position in network security.

The Columbia, Md. -based company develops cybersecurity systems for next-generation applications...

T-Mobile Slams AT&T's Upgrade Program in New Print Advertisement

From DailyTech: T-Mobile is coming out swinging in its fight against AT&T and the other major carriers in the mobile phone industry. T-Mobile will be running a new print ad Tuesday (the same day at AT&T’s earnings report) in the USA Today where it lashes out at AT&T and its new Next...

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