Qualcomm is in trouble
Sinking as Mediatek grows
Last week’s Qualcomm results confirmed what Wall Street had suspected for a while – Qualcomm is in trouble.
China to get aggressive on chipmaking
Battle Chipzilla and other monsters
The Chinese government appears to be keen to create its own chipmaking giant to battle Chipzilla and the Taiwanese and Japanese monsters.
Intel dumps a pile of cash in China
Targeted building up of Chinese firms
Intel Capital is putting a ton of cash into Chinese businesses in a move that will get it onside with the Chinese government.
EQT flogs Vertu to mysterious security outfit
Secret phone for a price
The Bentley of phone makers Vertu has been flogged to a mysterious Hong Kong security firm by its Swedish private equity group EQT.
Chinese Tablet makers turn production lines to notebooks
Fad has passed
The Chinese white box tablet makers have decided that there is no more mileage in the so called game changing tablet technology.
Early China launch saved Apple's figures
Analysts worried about cracks in the dam
Despite doing its best to spin yesterday’s results, the Fruity cargo cult Apple’s figures are starting to show signs that the outfit is unable to maintain its record growth.
China’s IoT market will grow faster than others
Analyst claims $41 billion by 2020
China's Internet of Things (IoT) services revenues will grow faster than anywhere else in the world, according to beancounters working at ABI Research.
Samsung wants huge sales in batteries
Juicing up the bottom line
Samsung has just built a battery plant in China as part of its cunning plan to add a billion onto its sales figures to make up for falling smartphone sales.
Intel gets into Memory
Converts its China plant
Intel wants to step up its involvement in the memory market by converting one of its Chinese plants to make memory chips.
Outlook still bleak for Biggish Blue
Still not making money
IBM has been selling the family silver but still can’t buy itself out of trouble as its cloud business has not picked up yet.