Hardware 
Apple Discounts MacBook Air by $300 on Special Deals – Softpedia
A refurbished MacBook Air from 2010 featuring Intel’s 1.86 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and 128GB flash storage can be yours today for $899.00 (US only), according to the listings over at the Special Deals section of Apple’s … Continue reading
Is Electronics For Imaging the Perfect Stock? – Motley Fool
From controllers that help printers connect to networks and software that helps manage networked devices to ink and hardware that actually gets … and every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank to right this wrong.” What was it … Continue reading
Apple Rally Stalls on Investor Concern Mobile Growth to Slacken – Businessweek
Cisco is now about one-fifth its peak value from 2000, while Intel is about one-quarter its former size. Apple has represented more than 4 percent of the Standard & Poor’s (SPX) 500 Index’s value since Feb. 28, data compiled by … Continue reading
TSMC: Intel Has Goods to Win Apple Foundry Biz, Says Jefferies – Barron’s Online
Jefferies & Co.’s Robert Lea this morning reiterates a Hold rating on the Taipei-traded shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330TW), offering up a think piece to clients on the prospect Intel (INTC) might gain some business fabbing …
Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips have 3D transistors, more muscle for less power – Seattle Post Intelligencer
casts it more as adding a third notebook product to Apple’s portable lineup, but both stories report the analyst’s prediction of the demise of the 17-inch MacBook Pro.) A processor advance that kicks off new hardware designs is rare …
Apple predicted to discontinue 17-inch MacBook Pro – Apple Insider
Apple is expected to launch a revamped MacBook Pro lineup in the coming weeks, featuring a new thin-and-light design similar to the MacBook Air, and powered by Intel’s latest-generation Ivy Bridge processors. The launch of new MacBook Pros is expected … Continue reading
Why we shouldn’t get too excited about a ‘Liquidmetal’ iPhone 5 – ZDNet
In August 2012, Apple acquired a license to use this material, but has yet to use it for anything more exciting than the iPhone’s SIM card eject tool. I’ve come across Liquidmetal before: a SanDisk Cruzer Titanium USB flash drive.
Intel’s Ivy Bridge chips have 3D transistors, more muscle for less power – Houston Chronicle
Intel plans to incorporate 14nm transistors by 2013 and 10nm … allowing the notebooks to be come much thinner, lighter and more like Apple’s MacBook Air. In fact, according to Cult of Mac, the processor may be used in a … Continue reading
Apple’s big year outshines mixed result for Silicon Valley – San Jose Mercury News
Apple’s ascendance in the SV150 marked a sea change for the … A shortage of those crucial components disrupted sales of PCs and servers, forcing chip giant Intel to lower its revenue projections by $1 billion. Except for tablets and … Continue reading
Nvidia: Smartphones Will Beat Console Performance by 2014 – Toms Hardware
That says a lot given that smartphones weren’t even considered as competition until Apple released the iPhone in 2007 … squeezing out every ounce of performance the current hardware could provide while also pushing hardware manufacturers to implement …
