Tag: Qualcomm Inc

Amazon, Apple earnings to provide look at consumer habits
Technology

Amazon, Apple earnings to provide look at consumer habits

[ad_1] Consumer habits will come to the fore again in next week's earnings deluge, when Amazon.com Inc., Shopify Inc. and PayPal Holdings Inc. are expected to talk about online spending trends and Apple Inc. may comment on the outlook for iPhone sales.It follows a packed week that showed the US economy and consumer spending growing at a faster clip than expected, while corporate earnings delivered a few surprises of their own. Intel Corp. surged post-market after the chipmaker signaled its long-awaited comeback may be just around the corner; McDonald's Corp. and Mastercard Inc. also topped estimates. Thus far, US companies have registered the most earnings beats in almost two years, according to data tracked by Bloomberg Intelligence, and companies selling non-essential products and ser...
Computex 2023: Intel cedes spotlight at global tech gala to AI darling Nvidia
Technology

Computex 2023: Intel cedes spotlight at global tech gala to AI darling Nvidia

[ad_1] When Asia's biggest computing and electronics show kicked off this week, one name was conspicuously absent: Intel Corp. The US chipmaker does not have an official presence at this year's Computex exhibition, an event it once dominated through keynote speeches and an outsized footprint on the show floor. The 2023 edition opened instead with a marathon two-hour showcase by Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang, a day before it became the first $1 trillion chipmaker in anticipation of a wave of demand for its artificial intelligence processors.Intel, long synonymous with the fastest processors in the world, has seen its all-purpose chips overshadowed by Nvidia's more specialized, parallel-processing architecture that's superior at speeding up AI workloads. Intel rivals t...