Advanced Micro Devices has lured Jim Keller from his role as platform architect at Apple to head its processor group as the struggling company tries to reshape its chip strategy and stem a loss in processor market share. Keller was part ...
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PC World - Intel used its Developer's Conference in San Francisco to unveil a desktop computer prototype that has a display that can double as a 27-inch tablet with a four-hour battery life. Slate producers like Samsung, with its Galaxy ...
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Apple retained the top spot in a survey released Tuesday by the American Consumer Satisfaction Index, which also found that the tablet market is spurring PC makers to improve the quality of their products. The satisfaction rate for ...
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While hardware and components makers face economic hurdles, the picture for software is getting brighter, according to earnings reports from major vendors and mid-year market research polls. Vendors and analysts lay much of the blame for ...
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Shipments of Windows laptops and desktops have hit new lows as tablet shipments continued to rise during the second quarter of this year, Canalys Research said in a study released on Tuesday. Combined shipments of tablets and PCs totaled ...
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PC maker Lenovo bucked the trend in the ailing desktop market, showing a 13% increase in profits for the second quarter of $162m (£101m). But the Q2 results represent a slow-down in the Chinese PC manufacturer's growth, having ...
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Tablet makers have tried to chip away at Apple’s popularity by offering much cheaper products, but Microsoft has taken the unusual step of going head-to-head on pricing with the iPad. An analyst says there’s good reason for ...
Lenovo reported record sales of $8.4bn during its fiscal third quarter 2012, an increase of 44% year-over-year, in its latest results. Lenovo said it experienced increased demand in commercial PC opportunities across Western Europe and ...
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Intel warned Tuesday that it expects to see lower-than-anticipated growth for c because consumer spending in Western Europe and North America has not recovered as predicted. The news came as the company posted mixed results for the second ...
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Lenovo has stripped HP of its title as the world’s top seller of PCs, research firm Gartner said in a study released Wednesday. Lenovo took the top spot during a quarter in which PC shipments dropped due to a weak economy and ...
A pricing battle is looming in the desktop chip market after Advanced Micro Devices shipped aggressively priced Trinity desktop chips, which might prompt a price-reduction response from Intel, analysts said. AMD has priced the Trinity ...
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Intel on Tuesday said its revenue and profit dropped during the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to the same period a year earlier, and blamed a tough economy for poor sales of its products. The company's profit was $2.97 billion for ...
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Lenovo said its net profit for the fiscal second quarter increased by only 13 percent year-over-year, marking a shift from the high profit growth the company has previously seen. For the fiscal second quarter ending on Sept. 30, ...
Tablets and smartphones -- and users' infatuation with them -- continue to pummel the PC market. Worldwide PC shipments were flat this past quarter, just like they were for the previous six quarters before that, according to a report out ...
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Unless Hewlett-Packard gets its act together quickly, Lenovo will soon become the world's number one PC maker. If that happens, it's going to create a moment of national angst. Headlines would declare: Chinese firm becomes world's top ...
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