
Expensive tablets on the road to nowhere
Apple sales to drop by 30 per cent
Tablet sales have flattened and buyers will no longer pay an arm or a leg for them, according to new research.

Samsung loses more market share in China
Drops to fourth spot first time since 2011
Samsung is having a tough time keeping up with aggressive competitors in mainland China, and now it has lost another spot in the rankings.

Foxconn steered Apple to TSMC
Politics
Foxconn, Apple's main supplier, might have steered Jobs' Mob to TSMC to spite the spite Samsung and keep the money in Taiwan.

Samsung winning Smartphone war
Money rolling in
Samsung Electronics is winning the Smartphone war, despite what you might be reading in the mainstream press.

Globalfoundries 14nm process has volume production levels
Licenced by Samsung
Globalfoundries is now getting volume production from the 14nm FinFET technology it licensed from Samsung.

ASML will flog 15 EUV machines to mysterious "US customer"
Yeah it is probably Intel
ASML, Europe's largest supplier to computer chip makers, will sell 15 of its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) chip etching systems to a "single U.S. customer" who is probably Intel.

Samsung thumps Intel in SSD battle
Catfight on SSDs makes Intel howl
Samsung ruled the global solid state drive (SSD) market last year with a market share double that of its main rival Intel.

Qualcomm to tap Samsung for Snapdragon 820
New sources confirm old rumour
It appears that rumours of Qualcomm’s plans to ditch TSMC in favour of Samsung were spot on.

Apple rumoured to swap Samsung for TSMC
Terrified by Galaxy S6
Fruity cargo cult Apple is so terrified of the success that Samsung has had with its Galaxy S6 it has taken a chip order away from Samsung and given it to TSMC instead.

AMD bald eagle flies for Samsung digital media
Signs following
AMD's Embedded R-Series accelerated processing unit, previously codenamed "Bald Eagle," is powering Samsung's latest set-back-box digital media players.