Apple’s Cost Of Developing A4 Chip For iPad Estimated To Be $1 Billion

News | Sunday February 21 2010 12:05 PM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , , ,

The success of the A4 chip has already spawned a new vertical that Apple will now cater to. According to reports on the New York Times, HP and Lenovo have already expressed their interest to bring the A4 chip to their netbook devices. As chip industry veteran Fred Weber remarks, “
”. With A4, Apple can now pose a significant threat to the likes of Intel, Qualcomm and Nvidia.
However, Apple 's major focus is likely to be in the way the semiconductor (more…)

Estimated 100,000 Droid Handsets Sold In The First Weekend

News | Monday November 9 2009 3:30 AM | Comments (0) Tags: , , , , ,

Verizon reportedly sold close to 100,000 Droid handsets the past weekend. The corresponding numbers for the first generation of iPhone was 270,000 and that for
were close to one million respectively.
According to Jim Suva, an analyst at Citigroup, this does not however mean that the Droid has failed to meet the hype surrounding its launch. He says
“It wasn’t as good as the iPhone , but anybody that was expecting that had their expectations (more…)