His glass-walled PC tower glows with LED lights while Andrew Christian uses three computer monitors set atop a motorized sit-stand desk. By day, Christian works from his Hoboken, N.J., apartment as an engineer for Amazon. But that’s just what he does for money. His...
The top semiconductor manufacturers are locked into an endless race to engineer smaller, more powerful and more energy efficient processors. It’s what guarantees that when you buy a new laptop it will be thinner, lighter and have longer battery life, while still...
Intel Corporation, the Santa Clara, CA computer chip giant founded in 1968, is in the throes of an identity crisis. A series of self-made manufacturing gaffes have allowed nimbler competitors to outpace its technology and annex its market share, leaving Intel in a...
The Department of Commerce approved licenses in September for Intel Corp to sell its technology to China’s Huawei, according to an Intel spokesperson, making Intel the first company to receive U.S. government permission to export semiconductors to the sanctioned...
Led by upstart chipmakers Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), shares of semiconductor firms have fared well this year but, after floundering through the summer, Intel has been the best of the bunch in weathering this month’s tech selloff. Shares of Nvidia have...
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