Category: Intel

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MORE TECH COMPANIES TAKE ON TRANSGENDER RULING: Major technology companies including Apple, Amazon, Twitter and Intel on Thursday officially signed an amicus brief in support of a Supreme Court case regarding protections for transgender students. The brief, organized by the Human Rights Campaign , is in favor of a suit brought by transgender student Gavin Grimm.

Intel Corporation Might Finally Fix This Huge Flaw With Expensive Gaming Chips

Intel offers PC gamers chips with four incredibly fast processor cores , and it also offers them chips with between six and 10 processor cores , but each of these cores is much slower than the four-core chips. Although Intel does not provide sales data by individual chip model, I have a strong suspicion that even gamers with very deep pockets often opt for the super-fast quad-core chip rather than go for one of the more expensive chips.

Why Intel Corporation’s Cannon Lake-EP and EX Server Chips May Be Dead

Skylake-EP and EX represent all new architectures built using the company’s 14-nanometer+ technology, while Cannon Lake-EP and EX were supposed to represent mild architectural enhancements of the Skylake-EP and EX chips, but with the benefit of being built on the company’s upcoming 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. Although I can’t make this prediction with 100% certainty, I strongly suspect that based on Intel’s most recent disclosures, Cannon Lake-EP and EX are dead.

Intel Corporation Expects to Grow Client Computing Group Profit Margin

CCG is Intel’s largest business by revenue, generating nearly $33 billion in sales during 2016. Most of that revenue comes from sales of processors and related components into personal-computer systems, although the company has seen reasonable success from the sale of chips that power cable gateways and, more recently, cellular modem chips into Apple ‘s At Intel’s Feb. 9 analyst day, company management went over its financial expectations for this segment for 2017 — and beyond.

Intel Corporation Lowers Long-Term Data Center Growth Forecast

After missing this target many times over the last several years — as Bernstein Research’s Stacy Rasgon pointed out in a recent note to clients, Intel only met or exceeded the 15% goal once in the last six years — Intel finally took down its long-term growth target at its Feb. 9 investor meeting. Let’s go over the company’s new financial targets, and look at the company’s rationale for bringing them down.

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Intel’s second-largest business unit by revenue, and arguably its most important business for the long term, is its data center group . The business is attractive for a couple of key reasons.

Samsung Galaxy TabPro S2 specifications, features leaked ahead of MWC 2017

As Samsung prepares for the upcoming MWC 2017 event in Barcelona, there have been a slew of rumors about the products that will be launched. Speaking about the expected devices, Samsung has been long rumored to launch the Galaxy TabPro S2 at MWC 2017 event on February 26. Successor to the Windows-10 powered Galaxy TabPro S which was launched at CES 2016, the Galaxy TabPro S2 has recently passed through the Federal Communications Commission in the US.

Intel Pledges $7 Billion Arizona Investment in Trump Meeting

Intel Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Krzanich said the semiconductor maker will invest $7 billion to complete a chip factory in Chandler, Arizona, becoming the latest company to use a meeting with President Donald Trump to tout spending and job-creation plans that were already in place. Krzanich, speaking Wednesday in the Oval Office, called the investment an expansion of Intel’s presence in Chandler that will finish a plant — already under construction — capable of advanced 7-nanometer chip production.

4 Key Quotes From Amd Ceo Lisa Su

Ryzen, the company’s new CPU, aims to go toe-to-toe with Intel AMD reported its fourth-quarter results in January, concluding its fifth consecutive year of losses. The situation could improve dramatically this year if Ryzen and Vega drive market share gains, something the market is already pricing in.

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Market-intelligence firm CB Insights has compiled a list of the major acquirers of private artificial-intelligence companies over the last five years. This list reveals well-known tech giants making large investments to increase their capabilities in AI.

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Market-intelligence firm CB Insights has compiled a list of the major acquirers of private artificial-intelligence companies over the last five years. This list reveals well-known tech giants making large investments to increase their capabilities in AI.

Why Intel Corporation Is Expecting Another Slow Year for Its Data-Center Group

In the past, the company had set a long-term revenue compounded annual growth rate in this business of 15%, although the company has clearly been unable to hit that target over the past couple of years, recording around 11% growth in 2015 and 8% growth in 2016. Heading into 2017, Intel is now expecting revenue growth in the “high single digits” for DCG — well below its previous 15% target, and even lower than the more relaxed “double-digit growth” goal that management has referred to in the past and now appears to aspire to for the future.

1 Key Reason NVIDIA Corporation Stock Could Fall

Large-cap stocks simply don’t increase 280% in a single year without a clear and meaningful catalyst. That’s exactly the case with graphics semiconductor giant NVIDIA As you’ll see, NVIDIA’s central role in several of the fastest-growing markets in technology should fuel its continued revenue and profit growth for years to come.

AMD’s Last Report Before Ryzen: What to Expect

Ryzen, its upcoming high-end CPU, will launch sometime during the first quarter, and Vega, its new high-end GPU, is set for some time during the first half. AMD is expected to grow revenue during the fourth quarter compared to the prior-year period, but a steep decline compared to the third quarter is also expected.

Intel Corporation’s Capital Returns Strategy

Put simply, Intel has guided for significantly higher capital expenditures for the year, something that’s likely going to reduce the free cash flow that the chipmaker will generate during the year. During the company’s most recent earnings call, new Intel CFO Robert Swan described the chipmaker’s capital returns strategy in a reasonable amount of detail.

Here’s Why Intel Corporation Didn’t Raise Its Dividend

In a previous column , I went over several potential reasons why the company may have opted not to boost its dividend. Now that the company has announced its full-year earnings results for 2016 and, more importantly, issued its financial guidance for 2017, it’s quite clear why the chip-maker held off on giving its shareholders raises.

‘The explosion in data is so great that it’s almost like, if you have storage space, we’ll take it!’

If you didn’t know any better, we were back in 1999 when Intel and Microsoft and Western Digital and Seagate were hot as freshly shot cannonballs, because we figured out how to get some “high speed” lines to connect personal computers to the world wide web. Of course, those companies are, with the exception of Intel, really very different beasts now.

Intel Corporation Doesn’t Raise Its Dividend

The lack of a dividend increase could give us some insight into Intel’s thinking around its cash generation and use during 2017. At $1.04 per share, at a share count of approximately 4.74 billion, Intel is paying out roughly $5 billion in dividends per year.

Apple’s $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Qualcomm Has to be Music to Intel’s Ears

But the fact Qualcomm is also the world’s largest mobile chip supplier, and still counts Apple as one of its largest customers, throws a unique wrinkle into this battle — one that, depending on how the dispute unfolds, could work greatly to Intel’s Just three days after the U.S. FTC filed an antitrust suit against Qualcomm that alleged the company had a 5-year modem exclusivity deal with Apple that featured patent royalty rebates, Apple has announced it’s suing Qualcomm for allegedly withholding close to $1 billion in rebates as retaliation for cooperating with South Korean regulators in their own Qualcomm probe. Last month, South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fined Qualcomm $853 million for several alleged practices.

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In other words, it signaled to investors that it was ready to get more serious about trying to make money from building chips for other chip design houses. Over the past several years, some companies have announced manufacturing deals with Intel’s contract chip manufacturing division, called Intel Custom Foundry .

3 Questions for Intel Corporation on January 26

Although the company is planning to host its financial analyst day shortly thereafter, on February 9, during which the company will go into deeper dives into each of its business units, there are still several questions I’d like to hear answered during the company’s upcoming earnings call. Here are three.

Where Will Qualcomm Inc. Be in 10 Years?

But the next decade could be tougher for Qualcomm, which faces stiff competition in mobile chips and regulatory pressure to lower its royalty rates. Let’s take a closer look at how Qualcomm is addressing these challenges with new strategies, and where they might take the chipmaker over the next 10 years.

The Personal Computer Market Plunged 5.7% in 2016

Market research company IDC announced on Jan. 11 that the category of products that it refers to as “traditional [personal computers]” dropped 1.5% year over year during the fourth quarter of 2016 and by 5.7% over the course of the entirety of 2016. IDC said that the first quarter of 2016 was “still constrained by high inventory, free Windows 10 upgrades, and difficult comparisons to commercial replacements in 2014 that were fueled by the end of support for Windows XP.”