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Samsung Ends Intel's 2-decade-plus Reign in Microchips (ap.org)
Intel has lost its long-held title as the world's top computer chip makerâ"at least by one important yardstick. From an Associated Press report: Intel's more than two decade reign as king of the silicon-based semiconductor ended Thursday when Samsung Electronics surpassed the U.S. manufacturer to become the leading maker of the computer chips that are a 21st century staple much as oil was in the past. Samsung reported record-high profit and sales in its earnings report for the April-June quarter, and while Intel's reported earnings beat forecasts, the U.S. company's entire revenue was smaller than sales from Samsung's chip division. Samsung said its semiconductor business recorded 8 trillion ($7.2 billion) in operating income on revenue of 17.6 trillion won ($15.8 billion) in the quarter. Intel said it earned $2.8 billion on sales of $14.8 billion.
Thank you for proving that users logging in here via Facebook are pretty much fucking retarded.
It has a processor, that makes it a computer.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Microsoft and Intel for the past generation was king of computing, with their dominance in the x86 IBM (Compatible) Personal Computer.
Which had been people primary computing platform. This has been moved to mobile devices for most people primary computing.
Now Intel and what we call the PC isn't going to die, but be used more towards workstation and server jobs. There is plenty of business opportunity and long term growth in these markets. As long as Microsoft and Intel don't try to bring back the good old days of dominance again.
We still need faster computers and operating systems with mouse and keyboards for serious work. But email and web browsing is not longer a primary function, it will be on these workstations, just because people are using it for more important stuff.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
phones are not computers .. no matter how many Millennials think they are...
Sure they are. An iPhone 4 could perform 1.6 Gigaflops. A Cray 2 (1985) could perform 1.9. IBM's Deep Blue (1997) was rated at 11.4 GFLOPS. A Samsung S5 was rated at 142. A three year old smartphone is more powerful than a supercomputer from 20 years ago. I'd say that what we call a phone today is more like a computer that you can make calls on. It's certainly nothing like the rotary dial phones I grew up with.
Just because I'm old and can't always relate to Millennials, doesn't make them automatically wrong. I'm pretty sure it's the same in your case as well.