
Amazon sells its own brand of chips
Right to bare ARMS
Online book seller Amazon is selling its own brand of ARM-based computer chips.

Micron makes surprise loss
Suddenly it became like everone else
While the bottom had dropped out of the PC market, Micron had been managing to do quite well. Today though it suprised observers by forcasting a surprise loss for the second quarter.

ARM getting attention from server makers
Five sign up
More than five computer makers have announced that they are going to use servers with ARM processors.

AMD lays on the open sauce
Goes well with chips
AMD and is now RTG (Radeon Technologies Group) are involved in a major push to open source GPU resources.

More Chinese chipmakers go for ARM
All thanks to government cash
ZTE has received a pile of cash from the Chinese government to speed up the development of its own application processors based around ARM designs.

UMC expects chip shipping fall
Falling capacity
Foundry UMC is expecting its shipments to fall by five percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, as a result of ongoing inventory adjustments within the industry supply chain.

TSMC says no to chip growth
Life gets more disappointing
Chipmaker TSMC says that chip growth this year will be nothing.

More poor results from AMD
Has to flog plant
AMD's woes are deepening as its profits continue to fall and it lacks any high tech product to pull its nadgers out of the fire.

Chinese government might buy SanDisk and Toshiba
All your NAND flash are belong to us
SanDisk and Toshiba, which jointly develop NAND flash technology, are being targeted for acquisition by China's state-owned Tsinghua Unigroup.

Samsung copies Apple's poor results
Smartphone slide continues
Samsung had a downbeat outlook for the second half of the year as smartphone market growth slows.