Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) has filed an automatic shelf registration statement with the SEC.  This will allow the company or holders to sell securities from time to time.  As with most shelf registration statements, the financial terms are not disclosed. The company has listed that it can se...

The desktop computer is in decline, hurt by netbooks and a grim economy. But as demand for desktops and even notebooks falls, so do Nvidia’s revenues. To keep growing sales, Nvidia is counting on scientific computing, mobility and visual computing. It’s proven it can grow sales on the sc...

A Bloomberg review of the S&P 500 stocks shows that the fourth quarter of 2008 will probably be the sixth quarter of declining earnings. According to the news service, "Fourth-quarter profit at companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index may have dropped an average of 11.9 percent from a ...

This morning, research firm Gartner said the semiconductor industry would decline by 16.3 percent in 2009 to a $219.2 billion industry. This is quite a revision from last month, when it forecast chip sales would decline only by 2.2 percent in 2009. This is a dismal confirmation that many consumers &...

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After bad news from its larger rival Intel (INTC), AMD (AMD) backed its own forecasts. AMD has its new Opteron processors. According to the company, the product has up to 20% faster performance with 35% less power-consumption when idle compared to the previous generation. But, the market found it ha...

Covering any part of the positives in this market has been literally as rewarding as jumping in the bear cage with the bears at the zoo.  We have been refraining from doing as many stocks which are on 52-week lows as the list is just too many companies.  But after the close we perused the ...

Concerns that the econalypse will last longer than expected inspired a nasty market selloff Wednesday, one that kicked tech’s ass all the way back to April 2003. The Nasdaq gave up nearly 97 points, falling 6.5 percent to 1,386, its lowest close in five years. And it dragged a host of tech iss...

Can we hold S&P 900 today? It didn't take us long to go negative yesterday. My opening comment to members at 9:36 was: "I don’t think I’d want to be rushing in to chase things at the moment, that was a big gap up and strains credibility as the Dow leaps to 2.5% ahead of everything else." We ...

As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting more cores onto a single chip, the mindset of today’s software developers and engineers mindset needs to adapt. For to really take advantage of multiple cores, a programmer needs to look at ways...