In fairness, they did not spend much effort on the cooling solution. The iMac is a PC crammed into a tiny box and it's virtually silent. The difference is that Apple invested a huge amount of development into the heatsink design.

it is skimming, but if you are paying a penny for every share you buy or sell, you are effectively paying the HFT guys the same amount that you pay your broker

They are guaranteed jobs in HFT firms after they retire from SEC:
  "High-frequency trader Getco hires key SEC staffer"
http://www.reuters.com/article...

It's quite impressive that even though it's still 28nm, the GPU has 38% reduction in leakage current. That comes from improvements in the 28nm process. You would only get those sort of improvements by moving to a new node.

yeah and as no other browser works on XP, people have no choice but to ugrade :-O

A product that can't compete without subsidies is worthless. It doesn't get you foot in the door, it just burns cash. Look at the Lenovo k900 design "win". Basically, Intel paid Lenovo to put their chips in the phone, but as soon as the subsidies ran out Lenovo switched to a Qualcomm design.

That sounds familiar. Wasn't there an episode of Numb3rs based on that?

Intel are determined to sell 40 million of their tablet chips, but they certainly aren't going to make any profit, because of "contra revenue".
"Intel is charging customers about the same as Allwinner and Rockchip for tablet CPUs â" $5 a pop, reports Digitimes"
http://www.electronicsweekly.c...

No surprise that their mobile group lost nearly $1 billion last quarter.

I think we could see a new OpenGL renaissance, because of Steam OS and OpenGL ES being used in mobile games.
I saw a post on the Unreal engine forums about how they intend to implement first class OpenGL support in the new engine. They really hate the way Microsoft tie DirectX updates with the OS. (You can see this post here -at very end: https://answers.unrealengine.c...)
Also, consider OpenGL 4.4 has had Mantle like features since last year which will only come out in DirectX 12 in 2015.

Similiarly there's no mention of a Tegra K1 SoC with LTE. I think this is a sign that Nvidia will shortly abandon the smartphone market. Without any CDMA, or TD-SCDMA in their modem support they can't sell in Chinese or American markets

The console market is guaranteed cash in the bank, with no competition from any other player. There's few companies that have a deal like that.
And the margin is quite good considering that Microsoft and Sony shared in development costs.

That article for some reason ignores the last 2 quarters where AMD turned a profit. People have being saying AMD is finished for the last ten years, but yet it's still here.