Matt Brian

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AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales vrge.co/10JwiMx

AMD slips to fourth spot as Qualcomm and Samsung capitalize on mobile processor sales

theverge.com — A fall in demand for desktop PCs and continued growth of the smartphone and tablet market saw AMD fall from second to fourth place for microprocessor sales in 2012. According to a new report from IC Insights, Qualcomm and Samsung overtook AMD to reach second and third spot respectively after they both posted year-on-year growth, thanks to increased sales of their ARM-based mobile processors.
RT @dcseifert: So it appears that if you pay to remove ads with the new Flickr, you get the analytics that Pro accounts used to get.
@redbullcat Yeah, can see its use extending beyond the default Yahoo app.
Of course, that's going to revolve around mobile. Mayer made some smart purchases in order to build Yahoo's mobile teams.
In the space of a day, Yahoo got a lot of people thinking about maintaining a Tumblr website and using Flickr for photos. Massive.
@guicane Pro is being done away with. That's an old entry.
@ZandyLander Community, I guess. Nobody would want to administrate two accounts all the time. It's for real pros, not people like me.
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