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The new Google Pixel 7 is faster and more powerful than the Pixel 6, but doesn't add many features. Pixel 6 vs. Pixel 7: CameraBoth the Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 have three cameras: One "selfie" camera in the front, and two on the back. Pixel 6 vs. Pixel 7: Internal hardwareThe Tensor G2 chip is the brain of the Pixel 7. Pixel 6 vs. Pixel 7: BatteryBattery-wise, the Pixel 7's 4,355 mAh battery has less capacity than the Pixel 6, which is rated at 4,614 mAh. Pixel 6 vs. Pixel 7: PriceFollowing the announcement of the Pixel 7 last week, the Pixel 6 and the Pixel 7 were briefly available from Google at the same price point.

☆ Europe's STOXX 600 falls for seventh day; U.S. CPI data eyed
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( Devik Jain | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

SummarySummary Companies U.S. CPI data due at 1230 GMTAroundtown slumps after Citi downgradeOct 13 (Reuters) - Europe's STOXX 600 index fell for a seventh day on Thursday, dragged by technology and real estate stocks, with investors focussed solely on U.S. inflation data due later in the day to gauge the Federal Reserve's rate-hike trajectory. The region-wide (.STOXX) index was down 0.5% by 0810 GMT, and on pace for its longest losing streak since early February 2018, if losses hold. All eyes are on U.S. CPI data due at 1230 GMT. "The effects of inflation and expected economic contractions on shoppers caution are expected to continue to weigh on consumer discretionary stocks, particularly retail, travel and hospitality," Streeter said. Norwegian aluminium producer Norsk Hydro (NHY.OL) jumped 5.6% after reports that the United States was weighing restricting imports of Russian aluminium.

☆ Intel and Google Cloud launch new chip to improve data center performance
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Jane Lanhee Lee | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

An up-close look at the Intel Infrastructure Processor Unit (IPU), co-developed by Google and photographed at Google Cloud's engineering lab in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., in September 2022. Google/Handout via REUTERSOct 11 (Reuters) - Intel Corp (INTC.O) and Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google Cloud on Tuesday said they have launched a co-designed chip that can make data centers more secure and efficient. The E2000 chip, code named Mount Evans, takes over the work of packaging data for networking from the expensive central processing units (CPU) that do the main computing. Google Cloud is starting to offer the E2000 in a new product called C3 VM which will be powered by Intel's fourth-generation Xeon processors, said Vahdat. Xeon chips are Intel's most powerful CPUs and Google Cloud is the first cloud service to deploy the latest generation of those chips, Intel said.

☆ The 6 best business books of the year examine Silicon Valley, Chinese tech giants and even murder
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-25 | by ( Tom Huddleston Jr. | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

If you're looking for your next absorbing and informative business-centric read, then the Financial Times has you covered with the newly unveiled shortlist for the publication's 2022 Business Book of the Year Award. On Thursday, the Financial Times announced six finalists for this year's award, all of them published between Nov. 16, 2021 and Nov. 15 of this year. The Financial Times review calls the book "in part a well-written, well-paced thriller. In "Influence Empire," Bloomberg tech reporter Lulu Chen uses insider interviews to track Tencent's rise to become a nearly $360 billion company. His latest book, "The Power Law," looks at the role venture capitalists have played in shaping Silicon Valley and the tech industry overall.

☆ 'Path to oblivion': Ukraine military gains could deepen Russia's economic problems
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( Elliot Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Foreign Ministry Of Uzbekistan | via ReutersUkraine's counteroffensive, which has seen vast swathes of Russian-occupied territory get recaptured, could be compounding Russia's economic troubles, as international sanctions continue to hammer its fortunes. Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg, said the recently Ukrainian military gains could hit Russia's economy hard. "Even more so than before, the Russian economy looks set to descend into a gradually deepening recession," Schmieding said in a note last week. Statistics are scarce on the true state of the Russian economy, with the Kremlin keeping its cards relatively close to its chest. She added that the Kremlin had "put Russia's economy on that path to oblivion" and vowed that sanctions were "here to stay."

☆ Nvidia unveils new gaming chip with AI features, taps TSMC for manufacturing
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Stephen Nellis | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Nvidia Corp CEO Jensen Huang holds one of the company's new RTX 4090 chips for computer gaming in this undated handout photo provided September 20, 2022. But the company's roots are in graphics chips, which still provided 59% of its $26.9 billion in revenue in its most recent fiscal year. The new Lovelace chips use AI to improve video game graphics. Computing what each pixel on the screen should look like is hard, so Nvidia chips use AI to predict how some pixels should look without doing the entire set of computations. The Lovelace chips have extended that technique to generate entire frames of a game using AI.

This year, Apple released four new smartphones: the iPhone 14, the iPhone 14 Plus, the iPhone 14 Pro, and the iPhone 14 Pro Max. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus are Apple's "budget" options, while the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max are "premium" phones with additional features. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro are the smaller versions, while the iPhone 14 Plus and iPhone 14 Pro Max are bigger. According to Apple, the iPhone 14 has the lowest battery life, followed by the iPhone 14 Pro, and then the iPhone 14 Plus, and finally the iPhone 14 Pro Max. If left playing video, the iPhone 14 lasts 20 hours; the iPhone 14 Pro lasts 23 hours; the iPhone 14 Plus lasts 26 hours; and the iPhone 14 Pro Max lasts 29 hours.

☆ The CEO of chip firm Navitas details its master plan to take on giants like Intel and AMD with a more environmentally-friendly chip that could be more powerful than silicon
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-19 | by ( Aaron Mok | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

After spending decades working with silicon chips, Sheridan started Navitas to capitalize on an emerging technology he says has a multibillion-dollar market potential. Today, most of Navitas' GaN chips can be found in phone and laptop chargers made by companies like Samsung, LG, Lenovo, and Dell. Sheridan said integrated circuits gave Navitas chips a competitive edge over GaN chips produced by competitors like Infineon, Texas Instruments, and Nvidia. GaN chips are far from replacing silicon chipsWhile GaN chips have promise, silicon chips are dominant. It says it has also invested in research and development to design GaN chips for bigger systems.

☆ These names reporting earnings next week often beat estimates and trade higher
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-29 | by ( Samantha Subin | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Amid this troublesome backdrop, not all companies will win big this season, but some names reporting earnings in coming days tend to beat analyst estimates and see their stocks trade higher on the back of those results. Microchip When Microchip reports earnings Tuesday, investors could see better-than-estimated results. Qorvo Qorvo is slated to post earnings on Wednesday after the bell. On average shares gain 1.58% after the company reports earnings. The company reports earnings on Wednesday before the stock market opens.

☆ Apple's new MacBook Air is a near-perfect update, but don't rule out the older model
▼ + stars: | 2022-07-14 | by ( Todd Haselton | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

In this article AAPLA new MacBook Air running M2 chip is seen displayed during Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 6, 2022. The 2022 MacBook Air offers the biggest redesign to the MacBook since 2010. What's goodApple typically sends a high-end MacBook Air for testing, but this year it sent me the entry-level $1,199 model. It's back to the tried-and-true version from that of the M1 MacBook Air. You don't need to upgrade if you have the M1 model, but it's definitely a big bump from the older Intel versions.

Sam Zeloof, 22, made a chip with 1,200 transistors from homemade equipment in his parents' garage. The American wants to make chips more accessible, according to Ars Technica. Zeloof has his sights set on 2,300 transistors, the number used in Intel's 1971 4004 chip which was used in things like calculators. Aware that he lacked the facilities of big production companies, Zeloof turned to books from the 1960s and 1970s for help, according to Ars Technica. This way he could see how companies used to make chips at regular workstations.

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