The end to a battle between Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. removed a hangover for shareholders…
Tag: Apple A-series
Why Intel’s smartphone strategy went off the rails yet again
Intel recently scrapped its plans to sell 5G modems for smartphones, shortly after its top customer, Apple…
Why did Intel kill off their modem program?
There is no way to sugar coat Intel’s modem story, it has been a flaming disaster from the start…
Analyst estimates Apple paid up to $6 billion to settle with Qualcomm
Apple probably paid Qualcomm between $5 billion and $6 billion to settle the litigation…
Qualcomm detente is a bitter pill for Tim Cook; clock is ticking on Apple’s own modem
Apple Inc.’s legal surrender this week is a blow for the company’s supply chain strategy…
Qualcomm CEO on Apple settlement: We’re not going to disclose how much the deal is worth
A day after settling a multibillion-dollar battle with Apple, Qualcomm’s CEO…
Here’s what likely happened between Apple, Qualcomm and Intel
On day two of what was expected to be by far the biggest patent or antitrust lawsuit ever heard…
Qualcomm settlement with Apple paves way for Huawei dispute
Qualcomm Inc’s surprise settlement of a prolonged legal fight with Apple Inc paves…
Intel axes 5G modem plans after Apple and Qualcomm settle
Chipmaker Intel conceded on Tuesday it would not release a 5G smartphone modem…
What performance gains Apple’s A13 chip might deliver
We’re still a long way away from hearing anything official about Apple’s next system-on-a-chip…
TSMC lays groundwork for Apple to design 5nm chips
TSMC has announced delivery of the complete version of its 5nm design infrastructure….
Key Apple engineer who led development of A7 through A12X chip cores has left the company
One of Apple’s key semiconductor engineers has left the company, even as the iPhone giant tries…
Apple expected to deploy TSMC’s first 5nm ‘A14’ chips in 2020 iPhone
Chipmakers are expected to showcase their new-generation chip solutions for AI and 5G applications…
Intel execs believe that Apple’s ARM-based Macs could come as soon as 2020
Apple is widely expected to move its Mac line to custom ARM-based chips…
Apple moves modem chip engineering unit into in-house hardware technology group
Johny Srouji, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware technologies, took over the company’s modem design efforts…
Johny Srouji staying at Apple, not a candidate for Intel CEO
Following a report last week that Apple’s chipmaking chief Johny Srouji…
Apple exec Johny Srouji on Intel’s short list of CEO candidates
As Intel’s quest for a new CEO passes six months, one name that has been on the company’s list…
Apple 2019: Glimpses of next-gen MacBook Pro, MacBook Air seen in Intel roadmap
The MacBook Pro and MacBook Air should benefit from Intel’s chip makeover in 2019…
Performance shootout: Apple’s new 11-inch iPad Pro vs. 2017’s 10.5-inch iPad Pro
The new 2018 iPad Pro is a marvel of engineering, with a brilliant new design and a chip so powerful…
Apple iPad Pro’s A12X chip has no real rivals; it delivers performance unseen on Android tablets
Apple iPad Pro’s A12X chip is the stuff of Qualcomm and Intel’s worse nightmares…
Apple’s iPhone give TSMC an instant hit in chipmaking technology
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.’s introduction of a new chipmaking technology…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple A-series Macs coming in 2020 or 2021, Apple Car in 2023-2025
The shift to ARM in the Mac has been predicted for some time…
Apple still holds the fate of Imagination Technologies one year on
Imagination is continuing to lose staff to Apple…
MacBooks powered by Apple A-series chips are finally going to happen soon
When it came time to introduce the new iPhone chip last week, Apple gave an ample presentation…
Apple researching refinements to sunroofs, seating for ‘Project Titan’ vehicle
A pair of patents granted to Apple on Thursday cover two areas of the driving experience…
Apple expected to keep TSMC as its sole chip fab at least through 2020
Apple is likely to keep TSMC as its sole supplier of application processors for at least two years…
Apple A-series-powered Mac idea boosted as ARM claims its chips can out-perform Intel
It’s long been rumored that Apple is working on Macs powered by custom-designed ARM CPUs…
Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple to launch revolutionary Apple Car within 5-7 years
Kuo foresees the Apple Car revolutionizing the automobile market much as the iPhone did back in 2007…
Apple said to introduce new ‘inexpensive’ Mac notebooks this year
Quanta’s shipments are expected to rise above 10 million units in the fourth quarter thanks to orders for Apple’s new inexpensive notebooks…
Did Apple just show its hand on future low-end, A-series-powered MacBooks?
Yesterday’s announcements about refreshing the high-end MacBook Pro models effectively gave away Apple’s plans…
Apple’s next laptops could be more iPhone than Mac
The benefits are clear…
Apple’s Project Titan is still a go, says analyst
We see no history of Apple acting as a “supplier” of core tech to other OEMs…
TSMC dominance in 7nm process enhanced with InFO package as Samsung scrambles to catch up
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is enjoying a sweeping dominance in the 7nm process space…
Apple supplier invests $25 billion in future A-series chips
Apple supplier TSMC will reportedly invest a massive $25 billion in 5 nanometer node technology…
Apple might achieve what Microsoft’s Windows 10 never could
When Windows 10 was first revealed back in 2014, I was naturally interested in its new features…
Mobile CPU benchmarks show Apple two years ahead of the competition
ARM has unveiled its latest high-end mobile CPU…
Where Apple could crush the autonomous driving race
Last week, we reported on the autonomous-driving partnership between Apple Inc. and Volkswagen…
Apple’s autonomous vehicle fleet grows to 62 vehicles in California
Apple is aggressively developing its self-driving technology…
Apple’s autonomous vehicle project may be closer to fruition than it appears
It seems that Apple takes self-driving tech seriously, as the company continues to increase…
Google buys 20,000 SUVs, Apple gets two dozen VW vans
A few years ago, I chatted to a senior Volkswagen AG manager who’d been involved in discussions with Apple Inc….
Moving Macs to Apple processors will offer enhanced security, says cybersecurity expert
he present age offers increasing threats to data and individual privacy…
Apple’s new iPhones are going to destroy Samsung’s dog-slow Galaxy Note 9; in fact, Apple’s current iPhones will, too
Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9, which will launch around the same time as Apple’s 2018 iPhone lineup, won’t even be as powerful as last year’s iPhones…
