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Ex-Apple exec being sued by Apple accuses firm of poaching his staff
A former Apple chip executive who is being sued by the company after he allegedly poached its staff for his new Nuvia server chips startup…
Apple lawsuit tests if an employee can plan rival startup while on payroll
Nuvia co-founder Gerard Williams III, a former top chip engineer at Apple, has been hit with a breach-of-contract lawsuit that the Cupertino firm filed…
Apple progresses in breach-of-contract lawsuit against Nuvia founder
A former top chip engineer at Apple may face a considerable roadblock thanks to a breach-of-contract lawsuit Apple filed against him…
Apple sues former employee over new chip venture
Apple is suing a former employee who started Nuvia, a server chip startup that has hired at least 8 former Apple employees…
NUVIA: Former Apple chip executives found company to take on Intel, AMD
NUVIA Inc was founded by former Apple employees Gerard Williams III, Manu Gulati and John Bruno in early 2019 and is developing a processor code-named Phoenix…
Intel might slash the price of its Core CPUs to counter AMD rivalry
There’s a rumor doing the rounds that Intel might decide to slash the prices of its Core processors to stick two fingers…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
Engadget reviews Apple’s new MacBook Pro: Exactly what you’ve been waiting for
With the new MacBook Pro, Apple is just trying to keep pace with the rest of the computing industry…
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…
Why Apple is winning the silicon race
Apple has long attracted some of the biggest, brightest silicon talent in the industry…
Apple poaches Intel employees for secret Oregon engineering lab
Apple has been raiding Intel and other Oregon tech employers for a variety of roles…
How Apple might approach an ARM-based Mac
Recent reports suggest that Apple may be working on a hybrid Mac…
Pegatron said to assemble Apple’s upcoming ‘ARM-based MacBook’ codenamed ‘Star’
Pegatron is likely to land orders from Apple to produce an ARM-based MacBook model…
How Apple dethroned Intel as the world’s most innovative chipmaker
Back in 2013, Apple introduced the A7 system on a chip (SoC) as part of its then-flagship smartphone…
Details leak on Intel’s upcoming Ice Lake CPU, 10nm schedule
Intel has taken the unusual step of releasing (or leaking) information on the company’s next-next-generation processor…
Chinese government-backed fund targets Imagination Technologies for takeover
The troubled British microchip designer Imagination Technologies has become a takeover target…
Apple escalates feud, sets up new UK office on Imagination’s doorstep
Apple has raised the stakes in its bitter stand-off with Imagination Technologies by opening…
Apple fires back at Imagination Tech in contract dispute
When the iPhone supplier Imagination Technologies Group Plc announced in April that Apple Inc…
Imagination Technologies attacks Apple’s homegrown GPU plans
Imagination Technologies, the British-based technology firm that has long licensed the GPU tech…
It took just 81 days for this chipmaker to die after Apple dumped them
The British firm that supplied the designs for Apple’s graphics chips is up for sale…
Former Apple supplier Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale
Imagination Technologies, the British firm that lost 70 percent of its value after being ditched by Apple…
Apple silicon and Machine Learning
When Apple introduced its 64-bit A7 processor in September, 2013, they caught the industry by surprise…
Why CIO’s must understand Apple’s Neural Engine plan
One day, soon, your Apple iPhone will be able to figure out when you’re going to get sick…
Apple is working on ‘Apple Neural Engine,’ a dedicated chip to power AI directly on devices
Apple Inc. got an early start in artificial intelligence software with the 2011 introduction of Siri…
Imagination Technology starts dispute process with Apple
Imagination Technologies said it had started a ‘dispute resolution procedure’ with Apple…
Why Samsung’s Galaxy S8 can’t go core-to-core with Apple’s iPhone 7
iPhone 7 doesn’t just keep up with the twice-as-many cores in Galaxy S8…
UBS: Imagination likely to see Apple royalties slashed, then cease altogether
UBS analysts predicted that Imagination would become loss-making by fiscal 2019…
Why is Apple’s next-gen Mac Pro taking so long?
So if you take Apple at its word, the next Mac Pro is being developed as we speak…
Cupertino’s custom silicon: On the Apple G-series and the next 20 letters left
Apple has achieved significant advantages through owning its own silicon. But where can it go next?
Without Apple, Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR has no future
At this point, anybody with even a cursory interest in technology stocks has probably heard…
Apple steps up homegrown GPU plans with London hiring spree
Apple is embarking on a hiring spree in London as it ramps up efforts to develop…
Why Apple’s ditching of Imagination is critical for the future of the iPhone – and maybe even the Mac
British company Imagination Tech announced earlier this week that Apple will stop using…
