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TSMC, which stands for Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, is the company that makes the chips that companies like Qualcomm and NVIDIA design. Last week they demoed a dual core ARM Cortex A9 chip that was built on their 28 nanometer process hitting 3.1 GHz. Unlike the chip that’s inside your smartphone, this 3.1 GHz monster…
Carl Icahn is a rich old white guy who pours money into companies that he thinks he can turn around. He’s the guy who made Motorola split up, so don’t assume for a second that he’s out of his mind. Now like all investors, Carl knows when to buy and when to sell. According to…
It’s hard to believe that it’s been just four days since Samsung finally unveiled the Galaxy S III. Doesn’t it feel longer? All that hype for such a “meh” product. All that buzz. And for what? Views on Samsung’s latest and greatest smartphone aside, let’s talk about the company’s current position in the market. They’ve…
Jorma Ollila (pictured above, orange tie) isn’t a name that’s familiar to most folks, but it should be. He was Nokia’s CEO between 1992 and 2006, otherwise known as the years when a small Finnish company known for making cables transformed itself into the world’s largest mobile phone maker. Over the weekend he gave an…
Lenovo is one of the world’s largest PC makers, but they know that they future is all about smartphones and tablets. Despite several attempts to enter the mobile device market, Lenovo hasn’t been satisfied with what they’ve accomplished, so today they’re announcing that they’ve started construction on the “Lenovo Industrial Base” in Wuhan, China. It’s…
Nokia’s decision to go with Windows Phone has resulted in the company’s stock price tanking, their cash on hand to dwindle, their market share to collapse, and investors have frankly had enough of putting up with Stephen Elop’s bullshit. Yesterday a class action lawsuit was filed in New York that … well, just read what…
Last night, after several months of rumors and speculation, Samsung finally announced their 2012 flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S III. It’s a device that I’ve been telling everyone to wait for, telling everyone that it’s going to be the best Android handset to come out this year, telling everyone that buying any other smartphone would…
Earlier today I wrote about a leaked image of an as yet to be announced Windows Phone from Samsung called the Mandel. Think of it like the South Korean version of the Nokia Lumia 900 for AT&T. As I was wrapping that piece up, something clicked in my head regarding the state of Nokia and…
Last month we reported on a rumor that said Samsung would release three Windows Phones this year. Two of them are supposedly going to run the next version of Windows Phone, codenamed Apollo, and one of them will run Mango, the version that’s currently out on the market. That Mango phone, codenamed Mandel, is a…
Building a 4G LTE network is expensive, but it’s also relatively cheap compared to building out a wired network, especially when that network consists of people who live in rural communities. Copper isn’t exactly a budget material, and fiber optic cables are simply out of the question, so what do people who want to live…