July 21, 2010 5:00 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers

Apple is set to become the world’s second largest semiconductor buyer in 2011, another sign of the shift in the balance of power in the chip world.
Driven by the success of the
iPad and
iPhone, Apple is expected to pass Samsung as the world’s No. [...]

June 16, 2010 10:26 AM PDT
by Brooke Crothers

Apple has standardized on low-end but reasonably snappy Intel-Nvidia technology for the redesigned Mac Mini released Tuesday and recently rolled-out 13-inch MacBook Pro.

While the Nvidia chip in the new Mac Mini is still low-end, it's considerably faster at certain tasks than the Nvidia [...]

June 8, 2010 9:29 PM PDT
by Brooke Crothers

An analyst research note Tuesday shed more light on what makes Apple’s
iPhone 4 tick, noting that the recently released Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone uses the same central processing unit, or CPU, as the iPhone 4.

Samsung processing core used in Samsung Wave S8500 smartphone [...]