Semiconductors

Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply

Chips Are the New Oil and America Is Spending Billions to Safeguard Its Supply

Only in the past two years has the U.S. fully grasped that semiconductors are now as central to modern economies as oil. In the digitizing world, power tools commonly come with Bluetooth chips that track their locations. Appliances have added chips to manage electricity use. In 2021, the average car contained about 1,200 chips worth …

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Nvidia, Intel gaming cards go on sale while AMD teases Nov. 3 announcement

Nvidia, Intel gaming cards go on sale while AMD teases Nov. 3 announcement

Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. clashed on Wednesday as the two chipmakers launched new gaming cards with the GPU leader targeting elite high-performance gamers, while Intel sought to appeal to budget gamers looking for a slightly better performance than the last generation of Nvidia cards. . On Wednesday, Nvidia’s NVDA, -0.74% The flagship RTX 4090 …

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Apple CEO Tim Cook won't raise iPhone 14 prices. He must first deal with a fierce rival — and it's not Samsung

Apple CEO Tim Cook won’t raise iPhone 14 prices. He must first deal with a fierce rival — and it’s not Samsung

Apple has something more important than Samsung’s 005930, -0.71% flip phone to worry about: Inflation. None of the new iPhone 14 devices have increased prices relative to their iPhone 13 counterparts, Wednesday’s event showed, despite many analysts expecting the company to increase prices on high-end offerings. When Apple AAPL, +1.88% introduced the iPhone 13 last …

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Here are the worst (and best) performing stocks of August and for 2022

Here are the worst (and best) performing stocks of August and for 2022

After a strong showing in July, when stock indexes rebounded from their 2022 lows of June, U.S. equities abruptly reversed course in August. Here’s the damage: Index Price change – July 29 through Aug. 30 Price change – 2022 through Aug. 30 Price change – 2021 S&P 500 SPX -3.5% -16.4% 26.9% Dow Jones Industrial …

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