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MediaTek revenues jump 29 percent in 2016
Strategy this year is to sell high-end smartphone SoCs
MediaTek, the fabless semiconductor company from Taiwan that provides SoCs for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and wireless products, saw its revenues jump by 29.2 percent year-over-year to a record high of $8.6 billion (¥$275.51 billion), according to the latest industry reports.
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Apple tanks
Apple sees first sales decline since 2001
The shine has finally come off the tax-dodging fruity cargo cult Apple and no amount of spinning is saving it.
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AMD reports Q3 2016 earnings
Increased GPU sales offset decline in desktop CPU shipments
Last week, AMD posted its earnings report for Q3 2016, showing a revenue increase of 27 percent over the previous quarter and up 23 percent year-over-year.
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Qualcomm stock soars on great quarter
Revenues, income and stock rise five percent
Qualcomm has had a better than expected results in its Q3 earnings, beating street and even its own estimates.
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Alleged "iPhone 7" is actually a Meizu Pro 6
Upcoming iPhone 7, iPhone Pro will not feature antenna bands
On Tuesday, Chinese website CNBeta.com posted a photo of what they claimed was a prototype of Apple’s upcoming tenth-generation iPhone, more specifically the iPhone 7 that will be announced later this fall. After all, the picture leak in question showed a silver-colored aluminum frame with iPhone-like antenna bands positioned towards the bottom of the device, rather than the unsightly positions they currently take on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S.
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Nvidia has a record $1.305 billion quarter
Thanks to VR, gaming, deep learning, cloud, automotive and AMD snoozing
Nvidia has announced record revenues in the third quarter for fiscal 2016 as a few long play strategies are starting to work out. Nvidia is diversifying beyond PC gaming .