Opinion: Chip legend Gordon Moore leaves behind a Silicon Valley looking for its next big thing

Opinion: Chip legend Gordon Moore leaves behind a Silicon Valley looking for its next big thing

Gordon Moore, a founding father of Silicon Valley whose work in the chip industry catalyzed computing, died Friday at 94, with his passing marking the further end of a golden era for the technology industry. An Intel INTC, +1.14% co-founder who played an integral role in several of the earliest semiconductor companies, he is perhaps…

Opinion: Apple offers breadcrumbs for a forecast, but is that enough to reassure Wall Street?

Opinion: Apple offers breadcrumbs for a forecast, but is that enough to reassure Wall Street?

Apple Inc.’s breadcrumbs lead back to a familiar place: The iPhone is all that matters. After posting its largest revenue decline in more than six years — led by underwhelming iPhone sales — in its fiscal first-quarter earnings report Thursday, Apple once again refused to provide a traditional forecast for the coming quarter or year….

Opinion: The old reliable laptop is getting a makeover and could be tech’s next new thing

Opinion: The old reliable laptop is getting a makeover and could be tech’s next new thing

The consumer electronics industry is getting new life from an old product: laptops. Although the changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, they’re substantial enough to make the laptop sector more competitive with the desktop PC sector of the market. This is especially significant as global PC sales tumbled 19.5% in the third quarter of 2022…

“Russia’s loss is inevitable” Ukrainian defense intel chief predicts victory over Russia by next summer

“Russia’s loss is inevitable” Ukrainian defense intel chief predicts victory over Russia by next summer

The head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Agency predicts “significant victories” for Kyiv by the end of the year and said “it should be over” by next summer.   Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 but in the last couple of months Ukraine has made advances on the battlefield reclaiming several territories including ones annexed by…

Intel reportedly plans to lay off thousands of workers, with details potentially emerging alongside quarterly earnings

Intel reportedly plans to lay off thousands of workers, with details potentially emerging alongside quarterly earnings

Intel Corp. may fire thousands of workers by the end of the month, around the same time the chip manufacturer reports quarterly results amid a tough year for semiconductor makers, according to a report late Tuesday. Layoffs will be announced “as early as this month,” Bloomberg reported, citing unidentified sources described as having knowledge that…

Opinion: AMD shows the end of the PC boom may be hurting chip makers more than expected

Opinion: AMD shows the end of the PC boom may be hurting chip makers more than expected

The end of the pandemic boom in personal-computer sales looks like it is going to hurt chip makers more than investors — and the companies themselves — may have expected. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. AMD, -0.13% stunned Wall Street on Thursday with news that its third-quarter revenue would come in a whopping $1 billion less…

Opinion: Take a bow, Lisa Su: AMD’s data-center business is a true rival to Intel

Opinion: Take a bow, Lisa Su: AMD’s data-center business is a true rival to Intel

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. finally gave investors a direct look at its data-center business Tuesday, and Wall Street should be happy with the business that Lisa Su & Co. have rebuilt. In the first quarterly report from AMD AMD, +2.59% to include a long-desired breakdown of the server business, the chip maker reported $1.5 billion…

Opinion: Which Intel CEO is to blame for the current woes? Or is it actually AMD’s CEO?

Opinion: Which Intel CEO is to blame for the current woes? Or is it actually AMD’s CEO?

As Intel Corp. investors try to parse through the wreckage of its disastrous second quarter, one nagging question will not go away: Which chief executive is to blame for the debacle — current CEO Pat Gelsinger, his predecessor, or rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. CEO Lisa Su? The chip giant reported a huge second-quarter miss…