Qualcomm’s Royalty Fight With Arm Waits on a Delaware Jury
For more than four years Qualcomm has been trying to prove that Arm Holdings, whose designs sit inside nearly every smartphone sold, broke the contracts that bind them. That argument…
Oracle Offers a Power Bill Credit to Keep Its Data Center From Raising Rates
Oracle has proposed paying El Paso Electric $10 million a year for a decade and returning as much as $55 million a year to the utility’s customers for three years,…
Salesforce Buys Loops to Explain Why the Numbers Moved
Salesforce said on October 12 that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Loops, an Israeli company whose software watches a business’s key metrics and works out what pushed…
Musk Sets a Ten-Design-a-Year Pace for the Terafab Chip Fab in Texas
Elon Musk used a company event in Austin to describe a rhythm for the chipmaking project he has been assembling in Texas. Tesla and SpaceX will aim to make and…
U.S. Regulators Weigh a Petition on Robotaxi Speeding in Austin School Zones
The complaint arrived in late September, with video attached. A petition filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration alleged that Tesla’s robotaxis in Austin exceeded posted speed limits in…
S&P Lifts Kioxia to Investment Grade as Memory Prices Climb
For most of its short life as a separate company, Kioxia Holdings was the debt-heavy remnant of Toshiba’s memory business, carrying debt from a buyout and the memory industry’s habit…
Apple Prices Its Smart-Home Hub at $299
Apple introduced a screen for the household on October 13, its first device built to sit on a kitchen counter rather than in a pocket, and priced it at $299…
Intel Names Its Inference Card and Starts Shipping Samples
Intel gave its data-center inference accelerator a product name and a customer sampling program on October 12, a small step in a long campaign to sell into a market its…
SK Hynix Splits the SSD Controller Into 100 Small Processors
SK Hynix disclosed the design of a small processor built for solid-state drives on October 12, and the architecture behind it breaks with the way controllers have been built for…
Boots Sold to the Weston Family, Playbook Included
The Boots name has been on British high streets for 177 years, long enough that a pharmacy chain of its size reads as infrastructure rather than retail. On October 7,…
