NVIDIA

Few manufacturers are signing up to build tablets with NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) Tegra 4 processor. According to DigiTimes, only manufacturers of mid-range and high-end tablets are ordering the Tegra 4, mostly because of its cost. To save money, many brand vendors are turning to chip makers that are...

Among the semiconductor stocks, Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT), ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) and Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM) saw the most significant rise in short interest between the May 31 and June 14 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Intel (NASDAQ: INTC), LSI (NASDAQ: LSI),...

With the original Surface approaching its one-year anniversary, rumors for the follow-up -- the presumably titled Surface 2 -- are beginning to heat up. While Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) chose not to talk about Surface (or the video game-specific tablet it is rumored to be developing) during its...

Among the semiconductor stocks, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) saw the most significant rise in short interest between the May 15 and May 31 settlement dates. The number of shares sold short in Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC) and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) also grew...

The largest percentage upswings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the April 30 and May 15 settlement dates happened to Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM). The number of shares sold short in ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ:...

After experiencing several years of losses in television manufacturing, Sony (NYSE: SNE) hopes to turn things around by shipping 16 million televisions during the fiscal 2013 sales period. According to DigiTimes, this is a 19 percent increase over last year when Sony shipped 13.5 million LCD TVs....

The largest percentage swings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the April 15 and April 30 settlement dates happened to Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) and KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), which saw drops of around six percent, and Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU), which plunged more than...

The largest percentage upswings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the March 28 and April 15 settlement dates happened to Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD), Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN). All three jumped by double-digit percentages from the...

SanDisk (NASDAQ: SNDK), which Zacks upgraded to Strong Buy last week and Forbes said could rise to more than $60 a share, is scheduled to report its first-quarter 2013 results Wednesday, April 17 after the markets close. Investors will be watching to see if tailwinds from stable NAND pricing and a...

The largest percentage swings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the March 15 and March 28 settlement dates happened to KLA-Tencor (NASDAQ: KLAC), which retreated more than 19 percent, as well as to ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), which jumped more than 15...

If Hewlett-Packard's (NYSE: HPQ) $169 Slate 7 and Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) $159 Kindle Fire HD were not cheap enough for frugal shoppers, Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) next tablet might be just what they've been craving. According to Reuters, Google could sell the second-generation Nexus 7 for as low as...

The largest percentage swings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the February 28 and March 15 settlement dates happened to ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), which tumbled more than 42 percent, as well as to Micron Technology (NASDAQ: MU) and Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), which jumped about 14...

Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) could be on the cusp of securing an order for several million additional processors. According to DigiTimes, Asus (the company that manufactured the original Nexus 7) will replace NVIDIA's (NASDAQ: NVDA) Tegra 3 with an unnamed processor from Qualcomm. This is surprising...

AMD (NYSE: AMD) is poised to make billions on the sale of Sony's (NYSE: SNE) upcoming game console, PlayStation 4. The chipmaker, which has a long heritage within the game industry, built graphics processors for Wii, Xbox 360 and GameCube. AMD is currently producing chips for Nintendo's (OTC:...

The largest percentage swings in short interest in semiconductor stocks between the February 15 and February 28 settlement dates happened to Applied Materials (NASDAQ: AMAT) and ARM Holdings (NASDAQ: ARMH), which tumbled about 19 percent, as well as to Broadcom (NASDAQ: BRCM), which jumped more...