
MediaTek revenues jump 29 percent in 2016
Strategy this year is to sell high-end smartphone SoCs
MediaTek, the fabless semiconductor company from Taiwan that provides SoCs for HDTVs, Blu-ray players and wireless products, saw its revenues jump by 29.2 percent year-over-year to a record high of $8.6 billion (¥$275.51 billion), according to the latest industry reports.

Apple tanks
Apple sees first sales decline since 2001
The shine has finally come off the tax-dodging fruity cargo cult Apple and no amount of spinning is saving it.

AMD reports Q3 2016 earnings
Increased GPU sales offset decline in desktop CPU shipments
Last week, AMD posted its earnings report for Q3 2016, showing a revenue increase of 27 percent over the previous quarter and up 23 percent year-over-year.

Qualcomm stock soars on great quarter
Revenues, income and stock rise five percent
Qualcomm has had a better than expected results in its Q3 earnings, beating street and even its own estimates.

Alleged "iPhone 7" is actually a Meizu Pro 6
Upcoming iPhone 7, iPhone Pro will not feature antenna bands
On Tuesday, Chinese website CNBeta.com posted a photo of what they claimed was a prototype of Apple’s upcoming tenth-generation iPhone, more specifically the iPhone 7 that will be announced later this fall. After all, the picture leak in question showed a silver-colored aluminum frame with iPhone-like antenna bands positioned towards the bottom of the device, rather than the unsightly positions they currently take on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S.

Nvidia has a record $1.305 billion quarter
Thanks to VR, gaming, deep learning, cloud, automotive and AMD snoozing
Nvidia has announced record revenues in the third quarter for fiscal 2016 as a few long play strategies are starting to work out. Nvidia is diversifying beyond PC gaming .