Apple takes over Star Wars company
Yoda makers join the dark side
Fruity Cargo cult Apple has forced the Swiss company behind the face capture for Star Wars to join the dark side.
Sony denies working on its own chips
And we are not selling our mobile division either
Sony has been at the centre of a few rumours lately and it appears that Sony Corporation President and CEO Kazuo Hirai has had to go on record with a fairly big list of denials.
Xiaomi Mi Pad 2 tablet goes to Intel
Atom X5 8500, 2GB RAM, eMMC, official
Xiaomi has just launched its all metal Mi Pad 2 that is more advanced than the original MiPad.
Intel gets Qualcomm’s Renduchintala
Expect something fabless
Chipzilla has announced that it has a new president Dr. Venkata "Murthy" Renduchintala which it appeared to have headhunted from Qualcomm.
Intel does not need PCs for growth
Predicts it can make its cash elsewhere
Intel said 2016 sales will climb in the "mid single-digit" percent range and said it didn’t need a buoyant personal-computer market to make piles of dosh.
Microsoft pulls Windows 10 support from Galileo
Galileo Galileo Figaro.
Microsoft is pulling the support plug on Windows 10 IoT Core which was a key part of Intel’s low-cost Galileo boards.
Intel’s Kaby Lake slides leaked
Skylake successor will have increased Core performance
A Chinese website has got its paws on some Intel slides which talk about Skylake’s successor.
Samsung develops 10nm FinFET S-RAM
Ahead of Intel and TSMC
Samsung appears to have stolen a march on Intel and TSMC by coming up with a 10-nano FinFET processed S-RAM
Knights Landing Lands
14nm process with 3D Tri-Gate transistors
Intel has started sending out its Knight's Landing version of Xeon Phi and this one has a 72-core coprocessor solution manufactured on a 14nm process using shiny new 3D Tri-Gate transistors.
Beginning of a new Chip giant
Tsinghua Unigroup's glorious five year plan
Move over Qualcomm there is a new chip giant in town and it will be number three in five years.