From EETimes: Intel plans to cut back its global workforce of 107,000 employees by approximately 5% this year as the world's leading semiconductor manufacturing company shifts its priorities.
The announcement comes one day after Intel announced its fourth quarter earnings in a conference call that...
From PC World: Intel is carving out a lot more room for storage in its "Next Unit of Computing" bare-bones PCs.
These units, or NUCs for short, are meant to be lightweight computers for the living room or desktop, and they include mounting brackets for hiding behind a television. A motherboard, CPU...
From DailyTech: Intel has announced that it has finally found a buyer for its Intel Media assets. Intel Media is the arm of the chipmaker that ran the OnCue Cloud TV platform. The terms of the deal are unannounced, but sources previously tipped that Intel was seeking $500 million for the assets....
From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. and OCZ Technology Group on Friday announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware had approved the agreement under which Toshiba will take over substantially all of OCZ assets. OCZ Technology Group will continue to search for a buyer of...
From EETimes: Intel reported 3% increase in revenue and 6% increase in profit, year over year, in its earnings call on Thursday. The company’s Q4 results were mixed, however, attributing the results to the PC business stabilizing while tablet and datacenter business grew modestly. Intel also offered...
From TechHive: Verizon's Edge program now allows users to get a new phone every 30 days, though it's still just as expensive to do so.
Under the Edge program, subscribers get a new phone for no money down, with the full (unsubsidized) price spread out over 24 monthly installments. Edge users can...
From DailyTech: To say that Windows 8 has been controversial is putting it lightly. Many long-time Windows customers have been left frustrated by Microsoft’s touch-centric operating system, and efforts to correct mistakes with Windows 8.1 have only slightly reduced the number of pitchforks raised in...
From X-bit Labs: No matter how secretive AMD wants to be with its future plans, sometimes it just has to open up its cards and show what’s next in a bid to ensure wide industry support for its innovations. Looks like, now is the time, as one of the company’s public documents revealed that the...
Recently, I was surfing a popular Western Canadian home electronics retailer's website, taking a look at the latest home audio equipment deals. One deal that particularly caught my eye was a complete package that consists of an A/V receiver, two tower speakers, one center speaker, and two bookshelf speakers for a "whopping" deal of $698. Ironically, I added all the components up separately -- from the retailer's own website, no less -- and it...
From EETimes: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) showed a solid 10.9% growth in revenue in the fourth quarter, which ended December 2013, compared to the same quarter a year ago. The company's fourth quarter net income and diluted earnings per share both increased by 7.7%.
The foundry...
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