Page 2 - Microsoft Kin News Today

Modern phones have mostly converged into basic shapes with common materials. It hasn’t always been this way, though. There have been some truly strange design and function decisions over the years. Let’s take a look at some of the weirdest.

Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is prodding regulators across the world to block NVIDIAs (NASDAQ:NVDA) $40 billion acquisition of the U.K. chip designer Arm Holdings, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC. Qualcomms opposition to the deal might seem puzzling at first since the two companies sell different types of chips. Qualcomm is the worlds largest manufacturer of mobile chipsets for smartphones, while NVIDIA generates most its revenue from GPUs for PC gaming and data centers. However, a clos...