The court verdict will remain pending if Apple were to go on appeal. Qualcomm has also received a similar ruling from a court in China. A German court ruled has ruled that Apple Inc has infringed on Qualcomm Inc’s hardware patent and said, Cupertino can no longer sell some of its iPhone models in Germany…
As of September 29, 2018, Intel had reported that its share buyback warchest had a balance of $4.7 billion. U.S. chipmaking giant Intel Corp has disclosed, its board has approved a $15 billion increase in its share buyback program. As of September 29, 2018, Intel had reported that it had $4.7 billion remaining under its…
The EU is not alone in questioning Broadcom’s trade practices: the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is also scrutinizing its business practices. The European Commission is scrutinizing Broadcom Inc’s trade practices over the possible usage of its market dominance to pressure customers to purchase its semiconductors. According to a report from Bloomberg, which cites people familiar…
Known as Speculative Store Bypass or “Variant 4”, these new vulnerabilities have a low risk profile assigned to them partly due to the patches that were released earlier this month for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Alphabet’s Google and from Microsoft Corp have unearthed new security vulnerabilities that impact a broad range…
These questions by the U.S. lawmakers underscores the fact that the U.S. Congress is sensitive to these critical vulnerabilities which can be exploited by state backed hackers to gain access to virtually any modern computing device. A Democratic U.S. lawmaker has requested a briefing on the recently disclosed critical vulnerabilities, Meltdown and Spectre, that hackers…
In an increasingly digital world, cyber criminals exploit vulnerabilities to gain access to critical resources to carry out their nefarious deeds. A Oregonian newspaper reported citing a memo sent by Intel Corp to its employees, that the chipmaker plans on creating a new internal cybersecurity group in the wake of recently disclosed vulnerabilities in its…
Security analysts have warned that hackers are likely to very quickly add exploit code for these vulnerabilities to their hacking tool set. While the updates for the Meltdown vulnerability has been made available for download from Google, Microsoft, and Apple, the patch for the more dangerous and difficult to plug named Spectre, still remains elusive.…
Samsung’s brilliant strategy had outflanked Qualcomm’s when it designed Qualcomm out of its smartphone without Qualcomm even knowing it until it was close to shipping time. According to two sources familiar with the matter at hand, Apple Inc’s upcoming iPads and iPhones are not set to feature chips from Qualcomm Inc. Sources preferred the cover…
Toshiba is now facing pressures from Apple Inc, which is demanding new terms on supply of chips in return for funding. On Wednesday, SK Hynix Inc stated its board had approved its participation in a Bain Capital-led consortium that plans to purchase Toshiba Corp’s memory chip unit for $17.7 billion (2 trillion yen) . As…
Samsung – the world’s no. 1 chip manufacturer will not be effected by this crunch. With Apple set to launch its flagship, iPhone 8, later this year, electronics manufacturers across the globe are scrambling to stock up memory chips to keep production lines running. The iPhone 8 threatens to worsen the mismatch between supply and…
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