#Beats makes iPhone 16 cases now

#Beats makes iPhone 16 cases now

Beats’ expansion into iPhone 16 cases is surprising, if not entirely unexpected. After all, Apple acquired the headphone maker 10 years ago last May. The deal was — as many expected — largely centered around the transformation of the Beats Music streaming service into an Apple-branded offering. Beyond that, however, Apple seems have mostly let…

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#BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors

#BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors

India, despite being home to 20% of the world’s chip designers, lacks a significant presence in the global semiconductor market. However, in recent months, the Indian government has begun investing in an effort to establish the country in semiconductors, as companies worldwide have adopted a “China-plus-one” strategy, seeking alternatives to China. BigEndian Semiconductors aims to…

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#Apple will replace CFO Luca Maestri next year

#Apple will replace CFO Luca Maestri next year

Apple announced today that Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri will step away from his executive role, effective January 1. Kevan Parekh, Apple’s current VP of Financial Planning, will be promoted to CFO after 11 years at Apple. Maestri has been CFO at Apple since 2014, and he’s now transitioning to a different role in the…

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# Cryptocurrency miners are leading the next stage of AI

# Cryptocurrency miners are leading the next stage of AI

” Cryptocurrency miners are leading the next stage of AI “ As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly works its complex magic on one sector of the economy after another, there is an increasingly pressing need for compute resources to power all this machine intelligence.  Training a model like ChatGPT costs more than $5 million, and running…

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