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UK-based Dialog Semiconductor crashed as much as 17% following a Nikkei report that Apple will design its own power chips for use in iPhones as early as 2018, cutting dependence on Dialog "as it seeks to boost its semiconductor capabilities to better compete with rivals." As the Nikkei adds, The

After President Trump declared "economic war" with China, seemingly following Bannon's strategy to maintain hegemony... “We’re at economic war with China,” he added. “It’s in all their literature. They’re not shy about saying what they’re doing. One of us is going to be a hegemon in 25 or 30

One week ago, when shares of the UK-based Imagination Technology crashed 70% overnight after Apple announced it would cease using the tech company's graphics technology for new products, including phones, tablets, and watches, in a push to insource key R&D as well as preserve capital, Neil

“A common challenge to the ideas presented in this book is that these exponential trends must reach a limit, as exponential trends commonly do.” –Ray Kurzweil, The Singularity Is Near Much of the future we envision today depends on the exponential progress of information technology, most popularly

No doubt you've heard of Moore's Law. What you might not realize is that Moore's Law only refers to the exponential price-performance improvements of integrated circuits (over the last 50... read more The post Why Is Tech Accelerating? We Use Already Powerful Tools to Build Even Better Ones