
Nvidia does better than expected
Thanks to its artificial intelligence
While an Nvidia graphics chip seems to be hanging the office laptop's Outlook, the company has seen its quarterly revenue surge more than 50 percent for the second straight quarter and beat expectations.

Nokia does rather well
Buying Alcatel-Lucent sorted it out
Finnish network equipment maker Nokia did better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted this quarter.

Nintendo returns to profit
But sees trouble ahead
Former playing card maker Nintendo has managed to make its first profit in four quarters thanks to its mobile gaming division.

Microsoft starts to depend on Azure
The future is Azure coloured
Microsoft’s latest results show that its future is rapidly depending on the rise of the cloud and its Azure product.

Intel expects a calm flat 2017
Trying to be Zen about it
Mega x86 chip outfit Intel is predicting a pretty flat 2017 after announcing mixed results for the last quarter of 2016.

Seagate does better than expected
Cloud based money
Hard drive maker Seagate has done better than the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street predicted this quarter.

Samsung’s chip earnings cover all manner of sins
Note 7 and bribery scandal can be safely glossed over
Samsung might have been having a trying time this year, but at least none of it appears to have kicked it too hard in the bottom line.

IBM sees 19th quarter of falling revenue
Still better than Wall Street predicted
Biggish Blue has reported its 19th straight quarter of declining revenue, but forecast full-year earnings above what the cocaine nose jobs of Wall Street thought.

Melting smartphones didn’t stop Samsung
Profit leapt by 50 percent
Samsung’s bottom line was not really harmed by the Note 7 fiasco and the outfit saw its fourth-quarter profit leap 50 percent from a year earlier to its highest level in more than three years.

AMD execs sold shares before “good news”
Poor lambs
AMD executives can’t really get a break, even when the company is doing well. Normally when execs start flogging off their shares it is because the company is going to announce something unpopular which will send share prices downwards. However, in AMD’s case they did the opposite.