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ARM, MIPS and IMG – Reducing RISC

          With ARM becoming an ever more dominant force in the world of microprocessors, the fate of its erstwhile competitor MIPS has long been uncertain. That...

Apple and Intel – Birds and stones

          The result of the recent management shake-up at Apple seems to have opened up a series of new avenues that had previously been considered closed....

Japanese Consumer Electronics – Apocalypse Now!

          Things are so bad at Sharp that it may have to ask the Japanese state to bail it out when its $2.5bn of convertible bonds...

Windows 8– A sedate frenzy

          It has not been a mad rush nor a scrum down but there has been more interest in Windows 8 (especially the Surface) than the...

Storage – Obsolete? Me?

          Those predicting the demise of the HDD need to think again. The idea has long been that the superior performance of a solid state disk...

$100 Tablet – lose lose

          The notion of a tablet that costs $100 may sound exciting but those that rush out to purchase the device are likely to quickly discover...

Q3 Results – Rotten start

          Q3 reporting got underway last night with both bellwethers IBM and Intel reporting Q3 results. Both sets of results were disappointing and both fell after...

Apple and TSMC – Forgotten reality

          It is no secret that Apple is thinking of moving its chip manufacturing from Samsung to TSMC, but while everyone is getting excited about the...

HPQ / Dell – Developmental defect.

          Share prices, sentiment and outlook for both HPQ and Dell have crashed recently as confidence that Windows 8 will drive a PC replacement cycle has...

ARM vs. Intel – No silver bullet.

          It is no secret that ARM is looking to replace Intel x86 chips wherever it can. In mobile this has been easy as ARM’s superior...