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Half of All Notebooks Will be Intel Ultrabooks by 2016
Wednesday, October 10, 2012 - 10:03am | 245Read More...GBI Research, a provider of business intelligence data, believes that Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) ailing Ultrabooks initiative will rebound as prices decline. By 2016, the research firm said that Ultrabooks prices will drop by roughly 50 percent, going from an average of $1,050 per unit to just $510...
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Can Intel Survive an Ultrabook Flop?
Tuesday, October 2, 2012 - 1:28pm | 756Read More...Investors may have hoped that Intel's (NASDAQ: INTC) downward trend would soon come to an end, but a recent report could be a sign that things are about to get worse. Research firm IHS (NYSE: IHS) iSuppli has discovered that Ultrabooks -- the heavily hyped portable computers that were designed to...
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Intel Delay Could Boost Sales of Apple's iPad
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 1:34pm | 607Read More...Despite its commitment to develop more than 100 Windows-based Ultrabooks, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) insiders have revealed that the company might not be ready for the arrival of Windows 8. According to Bloomberg, Intel had hoped to develop software for a new processor -- codenamed Clover Trail -- that...
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Short Interest in Chip Makers on the Rise (AMD, BRCM, NVDA)
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 - 4:28pm | 561Read More...The short interest data is out from the September 14 settlement date. For the big semiconductor makers the results are mixed but overall trended higher. Shares sold short in Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) and Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) rose more than nine percent...
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Intel Breaks Into Mobile with Motorola
Tuesday, September 18, 2012 - 1:19pm | 457Read More...After a lengthy effort to bring its chipsets to mobile devices, Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has inked a deal with Motorola to supply its technology to the RAZR i. Scheduled to be released next month in select European and Latin American markets including the U.K., France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and...
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Is Warren Buffett Becoming a Trader?
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 2:13pm | 355Read More...Berkshire Hathaway's (NYSE: BRK-A) (NYSE: BRK-B) GEICO unit posted a 25 percent gain on Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), as it sold its stake less than a year after making the investment. This is notable as it runs contrary to the buy-and-hold strategy famously championed by its Chairman Warren Buffett....
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Short Interest in Chip Makers on the Rise
Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 2:56pm | 596Read More...The short interest data is out from the August 31 settlement date. For the big semiconductor makers the results are mixed but overall have trended higher. Shares sold short in AMD (NYSE: AMD), Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), Marvell Technology (NASDAQ: MRVL) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) rose more than nine...
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Barron's Recap (9/8/12): Home Prices Headed Up
Monday, September 10, 2012 - 8:08am | 846Read More...This weekend in Barron's online: a rebound in the housing markets, the prospects for Tesoro, Kyocera and Southwest Airlines, and a review of the Oliver Stone film Arbitrage. Cover Story "Happy at Last" by Jonathan R. Laing. After a six-year decline that wiped out some $7 trillion in household...
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Intel's New Ultrabook Feature is Bad News for Apple's MacBook Air
Thursday, August 30, 2012 - 9:07am | 499Read More...Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has announced that it is teaming up with Integrated Device Technology Inc. to produce new materials that will allow Ultrabooks to wirelessly charge mobile phones. No price or release date has been set for the technology, which will eventually make its way into select Ultrabook...
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Short Sellers Shy Away from Qualcomm and Texas Instruments
Monday, August 13, 2012 - 6:15am | 521Read More...The short interest data is out from the July 31 settlement date. For the big semiconductor makers the results are mixed, although the swings were quite large in some cases. For instance, the number of shares sold short in Intel Corp. (NASDAQ: INTC) and Micron Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MU) rose more...
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Intel Committed to 140 Ultrabooks, 40 Touch-Enabled Computers, 20 Windows 8 Tablets, and a $699 MSRP
Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 12:20pm | 198Read More...Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) CEO Paul Otellini is ready to take on Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) MacBook Air with a stronger onslaught of competitors in the coming months and years. According to The Verge, the company is expecting 140 different Ivy Bridge Ultrabook designs -- 30 more than the company had...
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Earnings Expectations for the Week of July 16
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 9:02am | 1081Read More...The earnings crunch ramps up this week. The many quarterly reports on the schedule ought to provide a good overview of several sectors, and the feared slump in earnings should make itself felt if it is going to. The financial sector will be highlighted by results from the likes of American...
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Possible AMD Processor Delay Could Give Intel a Boost
Friday, July 13, 2012 - 12:14pm | 415Read More...Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) might delay Trinity, its forthcoming desktop processor from August to October, giving Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) a boost in the world of processor manufacturing. According to DigiTimes, sources from motherboard makers have revealed that AMD needs to make some...
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Did Apple or the Economy Cause the PC Sales Slump?
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 2:18pm | 498Read More...Researchers blame the decline in PC sales on "weak demand amid economic uncertainties." But is the economy truly to blame for this unexpected sales slump? According to the Wall Street Journal, two industry research firms, Gartner (NYSE: IT) and International Data Corp., believe that the economy is...
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Stocks Other Than Ford That Could be Hurt by Woes in Europe
Friday, June 29, 2012 - 2:06pm | 457Read More...Ford (NYSE: F) announced Thursday that it expects losses in foreign markets to grow. The ongoing recession in Europe, combined with increasing competitiveness, prompted the automaker to lower its guidance. Ford is not the only company facing issues in Europe. Nike (NYSE: NKE) just posted an...








