BMW, which announced at CES it plans to deploy 40 autonomous test cars in 2017 that feature Mobileye and Intel I talked with Mobileye Chief Communications Officer Dan Galves about how his company, the biggest supplier of vision processors for driver-assistance systems, is positioned in the budding autonomous driving hardware market. And what the company considers its main strengths relative to the competition.
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Intel Corporation Executive Wants to Rename Its Next Big Manufacturing Jump
Near the end of his presentation, Shenoy talked about Intel’s chip manufacturing strategy, exuding confidence that the company’s manufacturing technology is the ” best in the world .”
Intel Joule shipments blocked in key countries, pending certification
If you can’t find Intel’s Joule developer boards in your country, it’s because shipments have been held up. Intel’s Joule 570x and 550x are powerful computer boards that can be built as a PC, or be used to build robots, drones, or smart devices.
Intel Corporation PC Chief Talks Manufacturing Strategy
These chips, as would be expected, deliver improved performance and power efficiency relative to the company’s sixth-generation Core processor family. What is interesting about these chips is that they represent a third wave of products manufactured in the company’s 14-nanometer manufacturing technology, which was first used to build the company’s fifth-generation Core processors.
China Chip Policy Poses Risk to U.S. Firms, White House Says
China’s push to develop its domestic semiconductor technology threatens to harm U.S. chipmakers and put America’s national security at risk, the Obama administration warned in a report that called for greater scrutiny of Chinese industrial policy. China’s goal to achieve a leadership position in semiconductor design and manufacturing, in part by spending $150 billion over a 10-year period, requires an effective response to maintain U.S. competitiveness in the industry, according to the report released Friday.
Instant Analysis: Mobileye, Intel, and BMW to Deploy Autonomous Vehicles by H2 2017
In a joint press release, the trio said they will put around 40 self-driving cars on the road in a testing program by the second half of this year. According to the three companies, they have “developed a scalable architecture that can be adopted by other automotive developers and carmakers to pursue state of the art designs and create differentiated brands.”
Top Takeaways From CES 2017: Nvidia Struts Its Stuff While Intel and Samsung Look for Growth
Intel gave a first-hand look at VR’s potential and Samsung added to its smart home bet, but Nvidia stole the show by announcing impressive new partnerships and initiatives. In their own ways, Intel and Samsung’s big news events on CES 2017’s press day carried with them important subtexts about where growth in their largest businesses has flattened, and how the companies are looking to respond.
AT&T to Test 5G Wireless for Delivery of – DirecTV Now’ to Homes
AT&T Inc. has reached speeds of up to 14 gigabits a second in lab trials of 5G wireless technology, and plans to test the high-speed network by beaming its DirecTV Now video service to homes in Austin, Texas before midyear. Through a collaboration with a dozen partners including Intel Corp., Ericsson AB and Qualcomm Inc., AT&T plans to use experimental airwaves to test fifth-generation or 5G residential and business services as a potentially cheaper method than fiber-optic cable for high-capacity connections, said John Donovan, AT&T’s chief strategy officer.
Forget NVIDIA Corporation: Here Are 2 Better Dividend Stocks
Just as with people, there’s no such thing as the perfect stock. As just one prominent example, investors griped that tech giant Apple didn’t pay a dividend in the early years of this decade.
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Can the memory chip specialist build on this success with another fantastic performance in 2017? First, I have already taken a look at the potential downside for us Micron investors. In short, the risks involved in owning Micron next year are significant but also limited.
S.Korea Fines Qualcomm $854M for Violating Competition Laws
South Korea’s antitrust regulator fined Qualcomm Inc 1.03 trillion won for what it called unfair business practices in patent licensing and modem chip sales, a decision the U.S. chipmaker said it will challenge in court. The fine, the largest ever levied in South Korea, marks the latest antitrust setback for Qualcomm’s most profitable business of licensing wireless patents to the mobile industry, at a time when the business is facing headwinds from a cooling smartphone market.
Intel, Home Depot, UPS, Dollar General Want to Pay You More
Here’s a look at four stocks that are ready to give investors a raise at the start of 2017. We’re coming up on the final stretch of 2016, which means that a slew of companies are gearing up to give investors a fatter paycheck in the weeks ahead.
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Micron’s stock has risen more than 40% so far in 2016, easily outpacing the Nasdaq ‘s 8% return. However, since the end of the dot-com bubble sell-off around the start of 2003, a far more important long-term pattern has emerged that anyone considering investing in Micron ought to consider: have also underperformed the tech-heavy Nasdaq, Micron shares have performed slightly worse than Intel while also proving far more volatile in the process.