NVIDIA’s plan to acquire chip designer Arm Holdings is dead. The companies announced the deal a year and a half ago, but since then it’s come under heavy scrutiny from antitrust regulators around the globe, and now NVIDIA and Arm’s parent company Softbank say they’ve terminated the agreement. At the same time, Softbank is unveiling […]
industry news
Posted inNews
LG is shutting down its phone business
As expected, LG is exiting the mobile phones business. LG is one of the world’s largest consumer electronics companies, but the company has had a hard time competing with major players in the smartphone space like Samsung, Huawei and Apple. While the company has made some of the most interesting smartphones in recent years, that […]
Posted inNews
Mobile World Congress 2020 could be cancelled (update: yep)
The biggest smartphone trade show of the year may not happen in 2020. Update: Several Spanish news outlets are reporting that MWC *will* take place this year, after convening a meeting of 26 major telecommunications companies. But the organization behind the conference says it will monitor the development of the coronavirus outbreak closely to see […]
Posted inNews
Toshiba may (or may not) want to sell its PC division
Japanese electronics company Toshiba scaled back its consumer PC business a few years ago, and now a report from Japanese news organization Nikkei suggests that Toshiba is looking to sell off its PC division altogether… possibly to Asus or Lenovo. Toshiba denies that it’s in talks to sell its PC business. But it would hardly […]
Posted inNews
Toshiba to eliminate 6800 jobs
Toshiba plans to eliminate 6,800 jobs in the company’s consumer electronics division. While that only represents about 3.4 percent of Toshiba’s 200,000 person workforce, it’s close to a third of the company’s “Lifestyle business segment.” The move is part of a big restructuring in response to an annual loss of more than $4.5 billion. The optimistic name […]
Posted inNews
Dell, HP, Lenovo, Intel, and Microsoft launch “PC Does What?” marketing campaign
A group of PC makers are partnering with Microsoft and Intel to convince you that it’s time to buy a new computer. While it’s not unusual for Intel and Microsoft to work together to highlight the latest chips or operating systems, what is unusual is for competing PC makers to partner in this way. But […]
Posted inNews, nofollow
Lilbits (5-26-2015): Asus ZenPad tablets coming soon
Asus has a few new tablets on the way, and at least some models are expected to bear the ZenPad name (which makes sense, since the company already offers Zenfone smartphones and Zenbook laptops). A few more details about the upcoming tablets have been uncovered in the past few days… which also makes sense, since […]
Posted inNews
Verizon to buy AOL, bringing two of America’s best-loved brands together
The largest wireless carrier in the US has announced plans to buy one of the biggest internet portals… or rather, the company that was one of the biggest internet portals in the 90s. Verizon plans to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. AOL has actually changed quite a bit over the past 20 years. The company […]
Posted inNews
HP to split into two companies (PC and enterprise)
Hewlett Packard may be getting ready to split into two companies. No, they won’t be called Hewlett and Packard… at least I don’t think they will. Instead, the Wall Street Journal reports one business will focus on personal computers and printers while the other will focus on services and hardware for enterprise customers. Update: Yup, […]