Broadcom goes after Qualcomm with massive $130B bid

From CNET: Broadcom really, really wants to hook up with Qualcomm.

The San Jose, California, company, which makes chips for everything from cable modems to set-top boxes and digital video recorders, on Monday launched an unsolicited bid for Qualcomm, the world's largest maker of chips and...

SteelSeries Rival 310 Review (Page 1 of 4)

If you have been in the computer scene long enough, you will probably recall when the AMD Athlon 64 was the envy of all gamers and enthusiasts. In the times long before Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat became mainstream, we used to tread computer forums (To be fair, I still do here at APH Networks) and discuss recommendations with the community for our next PC builds. One of the interesting things back then was memory bandwidth actually made a...

Creative Sound BlasterX Siege M04 Review (Page 1 of 4)

As an electrical engineering student, normally I am not interested in digging up the background story of a company, nor do I really want to spend time on it. However, as an APH Networks reviewer, I should at least be knowledgeable about the history of some well-known companies that make great products. Knowing some history is helpful in terms of reviewing a product. For example, we all know Microsoft is a company famous for its Windows family. As...

Apple Shared Secret Qualcomm Chip Info With Intel, Suit Says

From PC Mag: Qualcomm's legal spat with Apple is growing nastier; the chip giant now claims Apple tried to give rival Intel a sneak peek into Qualcomm's trade secrets.

In a Wednesday lawsuit, Qualcomm says a software license agreement the two companies signed in 2010 gave Apple access to Qualcomm's...

T-Mobile makes Sprint new offer in hopes of saving merger

From The Verge: T-Mobile and Sprint aren’t calling it quits on their potential merger yet despite recent disagreements over which side would have control over the combined company. The Wall Street Journal reports that T-Mobile US has restarted talks by presenting Sprint with a revised offer, and it...

Amazon shuts down Fresh grocery delivery service in some areas

From CNET: Amazon is shutting down its Fresh grocery delivery service for some people in the US.

According to emails sent to customers in parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey (seen by Reuters), AmazonFresh deliveries will stop after 30 Nov. There are also posts on Twitter that suggest services will...

Xbox One X Supports 1440p Monitors

From PC Mag: As far as Sony is concerned, we all game using either a 1080p or 4K display. But there is another fairly common resolution used by monitors, and in particular gaming-focused monitors. It's 2560-by-1440, or 1440p. Microsoft decided to include native support for 1440p on the Xbox One X...

Microsoft hopes to push its HoloLens AI chip into other devices

From PC World: Microsoft hopes to take a dedicated AI chip that it’s building into the next generation of its HoloLens augmented-reality headset and push it into other hardware, presumably PCs and devices built by other countries.

Speaking to CNBC, Microsoft’s device chief Panos Panay said the...

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