in time maybe with all the constructive criticism they are receiving they will build a better product

The better product will be a non touch desktop os, and a touch tablet and smartphone os for screens under 11 inches. Windows phone 8 is actually pretty good, heck ios7 is even copying a lot of its appearance and features duh.

4 million shares is not that much especially if don't have to sell them in a few days, there is also the dividend to consider. Maybe these bozos got caught short and are trying to figure out how to get out of a mess without going bankrupt.

iPad Pro...

Haswell or baytrail, well how about ipad pro mini (baytrail), ipad pro ( haswell), yes this is pure speculation on my part.

Excellent post Saturn V

I actually find very little difference between windows7 and Mac os these days and its one of the reasons many windows wusers often upgrade to a macbook when they are in the market for a new PC, notebook. How can one possible say they is no significant learning curve to windows 8, it would not be so bad if windos 8 allowed you to do things more effeciently than windows 7 or mac os but it does not. I know there are many who do not agree with this, but IMHO touch interface just starts getting plain ackward on display devices > 10 inches, I think the people at apple realize this and have refused to make there main P.C. os a touch interface.

JP f-ed up and missed train leaving the station.

There is also at least one huge short side Hedge fund which is in free fall, with massive amounts of redemtions. if these go under and are bailed out because they are to big to fail, then there is no justice in US equity investments.

Possible Samsung Galaxy S4 Intel Edition headed our way

Agree this would be very big, there is supposed to be an S4 mini coming out, this is supposed to be more of a main stream -low end phone, I wonder if Intel could get its foot in the door here, that would be two huge Samsung wins with the Galaxy 10.1 tab. Samsung knows smartphone and tablet CPU's if they have some misgivings about staying only with ARM makes you wonder what apple is waiting for. Yes apple has some great arm CPUs on the iphone 5s and latest ipad , its interesting that heat generation especially playing games watching viedeos is a consistant complaint with the latest arm products. And apple just lost a patent dispute to Samsung.

Your opinion?

Most best buy employee's I ever talk to insist on trying to unload poor selling AMD systems on unsuspecting consumers, its almost criminal.

Best 7in tablet on the market

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/review/2269455/asus-fonepad-review

with a 3,200-by-1,800 full high-definition touchscreen display

for $700 this is unbelievable good price, the price of these HD displays must be about to fall. Aplle will almost finally release a retina display airbook with haswell finally.

So if the first 300 wafers yield poorly then TSMC only has to deliver wafers that yield 65% of that...

Elmer I find this hard to believe, without a stipulated minimum yield TSMC has no incentive to get yields up fast, maybe I am missing something.

Clover Trail+, not Cedar Trail

I stand corrected, I have never cared much for the atom platform since the decline of the netbook, the sooner intel gets to baytrail the better. My point was that for samsung to start pointing atom's in there premier Galaxt tab,s they may have good idea what is in the INTC pipeline and want in.

This one is tempting and fills a gap until Baytrail.


Makes one wonder whether Samsung agreed to buy some cedartrail+ atoms after getting some baytrail samples.

but I don't think it will take off in the 10s of millions of units.

I tend to agree with this, and I am not totally convinced the P.C. is dead, but the replacement cycle has increased considerably. I know lots of people who own smartphones and tablets, very few of them don't own a P.C. also very few of them would do a buissness presentation on there smartphone and tablet from scratch.

Instead their supplier stole their IP and now holds a gun to their head.

Elmer, re apple/ samsung, its not personal its only buissness, doing my best godfather. This is where intc emphasis on being a supplier and not competitor may pay off if the stars are aligning for a shift from the vertical to horizontal model for the smartphone market.

exit interview

At least he was honest enough to admit a hindsisght mistake, improvement is not possible if you do not acknowledge misstakes are possible.

Apple missing out on nearly 3 billion potential iPhone customers as carriers shun partnerships over conditions

http://www.financialpost.com/

Take a look at what Andy Grove said about Ms. James in a rare 2009 interview:

[Grove] says his onetime apprentice has found her own style, and a unique voice, in a potentially inhospitable environment. "That kind of puts hair on your chest, to do that and survive, as a woman in software in a company that's a manufacturing company. To do that, you have to have strength."

"Renee has an incredible ambition to do things and succeed and then do something harder and succeed. It's a driving ambition and it makes her undertake high-risk things. And it's not that she doesn't worry about the bumps...But she takes them on."

"I would like to see her in the top role, or one of the top roles, at Intel."

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/05/analysis_the_long-han.php#more

I am a bit perplexed though about "wearable computing".

What would be wrong with intel getting a piece of the google glass like device products, these will be at least intially premium products commanding ultrabook like pricing, a good SOC will probable command a nice piece of the 500-1000 $ price tag.

I don't know about you guys, but this seems like a pretty nice run..

Anytime Intel does not see a price drop after earnings is a good thing, ex dividend date is approaching.

I come up with about 38 days

I came up with 55.616 hours.

Hector on Bloomberg, now he is an expert on immigration reform also.

predict that the INTC bears will start coming out of the woodwork





The ex dividend date is approaching ,anything over
$23 should see some profit taking IMHO.

What's anyones take on AAPL, silver and gold tanking last week and the chances for a rebound this any time soon?

My take on AAPL , saturation kicking in, there is a finte amount of people who can afford a $700 smart phone every year, large tablets are losing there appeal most of my friends prefer there ipad mini's and 7 inch tablets, that's what they carry around in their purses and bags, but the P/E is only 8.9 and they have tons of cash, they need some new revoltionary products to get the price back up, otherwise they should start paying a 2% dividend ASAP. Thier earnings are subsidized by the carriers, its amazing the carriers have not smartened up yet.

The story for gold and silver is that of options, the price was being driven by futures not actual demand, well the people holding the futures seem to be fickle all of a sudden.

Microsoft backing off Metro, plans boot-to-desktop mode for Windows 8.1

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/04/16/microsoft-backing-off-metro-plans-boot-to-desktop-mode-for-windows-81

Case and point - the Dell XPS 18 all-in-one PC would be useless without touch.


All in one's half been around for more than two years! and if you have ever tried using one for more than 5 mintutes you would realizes you could do things more efficiently with less strain on your hands, elbows and shoulders with a mouse,trachpad and keyboard. All the imacs for the last two years have been all in one's and they do fine without touch, a great deal of them are running windows pre 8 also.

And touch is just plain silly for desktops as well as for most traditional notebooks

Touch becomes counterproductive when display size is more the 11 inchs, touch is for handheld devices.

I thought about getting, thought it was expense for an I3, I hope intel offers a has well i5 model for the same price, you still need memory, mssd and wireless mini card.

there is pretty much no other PC maker on the planet who can get people to spend this kind of money on a laptop. Kudos to Apple.


Indeed apple is the rolex, BMW of P.C.s, smartphones, tablets. Nice position to be in but the growth potential eventually does saturate, I have noticed lots of my friends with i-phone 4 and 4s models, when asked why they have not upgraded response is usually its not worth it especially if they are early into thier 3 year subsidized plan.

Speaking of Dram and SOC, Anandtech has an article comparing graphics cards from 2006 to current mobile offerings, not unexpected surface pro looks pretty good.

Apple (and now companies like Samsung as well) has been steadily increasing memory bandwidth on its mobile SoCs for the past few generations, but it will need to do more. I suspect the mobile SoC vendors will take a page from the console folks and/or Intel and begin looking at embedded/stacked DRAM options over the coming years to address this problem.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6877/the-great-equalizer-part-3/3

I really think there is something to screen size and the usefulness of touch UI, I have touch hand held devices from 4 to 11 inches and the most comfortable device is the 7 inch one, especially if I am using it for more than just a phone. The emphasis here is on 'handheld' device, once your thumbs can't meet across the widest dimension of the screen the interphase gets awkward, and this is definitely happing on my 11 inch device. Not to mention the weight factor. 7-8 inches is the sweet spot Imho for handheld devices, now everyone wants to introduce devices in this range, iPad mini, Samsung note 8....

Elmer, you don,t need touch. Anyone who does not do mobile work is best served by a desktop or notebook. Touch is only useful for devices with screen sizesless then 11 inches, and it appears the sweet spot the public prefer is 7-8 inches for there touch devices.

with the European economy in turmoil

Europe has always been at the forefront of mobile tech, even a decade ago every teenagager had a cell phone. Text messaging basically took off because of scandanvian teenagers. Smart phones are just a natural extension. Nokia, Alcatel ang Siemens are having there lunch money taken by the Chinese and Koreans. At least apple brings a lot of American i.p. wealth back to shareholders.

because the growing market ensures that it's 2-3 Atoms that replaces one Core.



The argument is that smartphones and tablets are replacing P.C.s, in the so called post P.C. era; I don't buy this show me someone who only uses a tablet/smartphone for everthing ,these people are few and far between! There is no question people hold own to there P.C.s longer, this is a testament to the stability and realibity of P.C.s and Macs powered by Intel hardware, I think another upgrade cycle will kick in, there are so many workstation/client P.C. s in the hospital where I work all running windows X.P. almost none have SSD drives and I find them painfully slow at times. It's a shame the first edition of windows8 will probably put off upgrades at major corporations for at least another 2 years.

I would like to think in terms of 1-2 atom sales adding to the core sales. I should be able to use a 7-8 inch tablet to check patient results and vitals instead of waiting at the nursing station for a client station to be free.

Windows 7 pushed forward in usefulness over both Vista and XP

What made Windows 7 usefull was that it is the most stable windows ever, I have found it just as stable as Mac os. I have been running windows 8 on 3 devices, the constant driver updates quickly turn it into a much less stable os than windows 7.

Local staples has the Macbook pro retina 15 in on sale, $300 off at 1899, you rarely see big discounts on Macbook pro's; slow sales?, Apple Macbook pro to get Haswell in the next two months? and apple wants to clear inventory, or maybee Staples just ordered to many retina display Macbook pro, any any case the local staples quickly ran out of stock!

I'd like a 27 inch monitor at 2550x1440 for my office.

I have been using an apple cinema display for almost 3 years, bought it for $1000 its still costs $1000, noticed Asus and samsumg finally sellin g 27 inch 2550 X1440 displays priced around $6oo; and dell still makes excllent 27 and 30 inch 2550 X 1440 displays but they are still a little pricey.

[/One thing Intel should look into is running Android in a VM so I can run Windows in laptop mode and Android in tablet mode. I have no faith in Win8 as a tablet platform - the ecosystem isn't there and developers just aren't interested.
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I agree and windows 8 tablets should be offering 8 gigs of ram, that will make Vm installs of android or other os more responsive.

Acer Liquid C1 Hands-On

Chinese vendors will help grow the mainland China market for premium-end smartphones to 20 million units this year from just about 1 million units in 2012,

I did not realize the smartphone penetration in mainland china is at its infancy, Intel is doing right by concentrating on the chinese market, alot of iphone repeat custmers are those who are atached to thier old apps and don't want to repurchase android versions; looks like in china there is huge potential for smartphone growth. the lenvo smartphone looks to be the thinest out there. Personally most of my iphone apps where impulse buys that I could live without.

Nvidia’s telegraphs Tegra’s woes at CES/i]

According to the article Nvidia has lost the next generation Nexus7 win, this was one of Tegra 3's few bright spots, the article makes it sound like OEMs are avoiding Tegra 4 like the plague.