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The Apple Core: Will Apple dump ATI for NVIDIA?

AMD yesterday announced that they plan to acquire Canadian video chip maker ATI for US$5.4 billion. The deal needs to be approved by stockholders and regulatory agencies. Arch-rival Intel announced that they won’t be renewing ATI’s chipset bus license as a result of the deal. The move leaves Apple in a bit of a quandary […]

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The Apple Core: Merom to replace Yonah in MacBook Pro

Remember Yonah? It’s the code name for the Intel Core Duo chip found in the iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro and Mac mini, and it will soon play second fiddle to a faster cool chip arriving from Intel: Merom. Merom is “a mobility-optimized, dual-core processor based on the new, state of the art, Intel Core microarchitecture” […]

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The Apple Core: Say hello to HoverPod

Remember all the rumors about Apple’s “true video” iPod? The one with the full-screen display and the virtual click wheel that appeared and disappeared as needed? My problem with that concept was something that has been the scourge of the iPod nano – scratches. I originally dismissed the early “all-screen” (or button-less) iPod mockups as […]

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The Apple Core: Apple Q3 profit up 47 percent

Apple yesterday reported a fiscal third-quarter profit that rose 47.5 percent from the same quarter last year on increase iPod and Macintosh sales. Apple experienced the second highest quarterly earnings and revenue in Apple’s history in the third quarter with US$4.37 billion in revenue and 24 percent year over year growth. Apple enjoyed the best […]

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The Apple Core: Apple to announce Q3 2006 financial results today

Apple’s conference call Web cast discussing Q3 – 2006 financial results will begin at today at 2pm PT/5pm ET. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster and American Technology Research analyst Shaw Wu expect the company’s revenue for Q3 2006 to be at the upper end of Wall Street’s consensus estimate of US$4.2 to $4.4 billion, with […]