Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 5 at 3:00 pm PT
The economy, the euro and Thailand have combined into a perfect storm that has caused memory chip inventories to pile up to extreme levels.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 23, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
Flooding in Thailand has killed more than 600 people, devastated the Thai economy and caused one of the most significant supply chain disruptions to the computer industry in a generation.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on November 18, 2011 at 10:03 am PT
Very thrilled. Chipmaker TI does something that chip companies practically never do: It says how happy it is to have Amazon as a customer.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 17, 2011 at 1:06 pm PT
A teardown analysis by IHS iSuppli finds that the Kindle Fire costs about as much to make as it sells for — maybe a little more.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on October 20, 2011 at 1:10 pm PT
More information about the maker of the mysterious cameras inside Apple’s iPhone 4S emerged today, and one company’s shares shot up as a result.
Arik Hesseldahl in Mobile on October 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm PT
Research house IHS iSuppli has opened up Apple’s iPhone 4S to see who’s in and out among its suppliers and to estimate how much it cost to make.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 22, 2011 at 1:51 pm PT
Depending on how many TouchPads HP ordered, it may have lost between $140 million and $300 million on hardware alone.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 3, 2011 at 2:26 pm PT
The release of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet — its answer to Apple’s iPad — may not have brought out many consumers lining up to buy it. But it did bring out the gearheads wanting to take it apart, see what’s going on inside and make an educated guess on what it cost to build.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 9, 2011 at 12:40 pm PT
Though it played havoc with Nokia’s smartphone business, a rare quarter-to-quarter decline in smartphone shipments–the first sequential decrease since 2009–did nothing to slow the iPhone juggernaut.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 2, 2011 at 11:22 am PT
Apple has surpassed Nintendo to become the world’s second-largest purchaser of MEMS, the microelectromechanical sensors used as accelerometers, microphones and gyroscopes in the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.
