Seeking Alpha author Mauro Solis joins Cheddar to discuss his views on Google's Chromebook business. He looks specifically at how it will generate profit for the tech giant.
Solis talks about the Chromebook business having a stronghold on the student market, but Google needs to ensure that students keep using that Chromebook after school. Google's main challenge right now is erasing the perception that these laptops are just cheap student devices.
Plus, who is winning the Chromebook market? Solis says its Intel. If Chromebook sales keep growing, Intel has almost no competition to win the market, at least for a while. In addition, it shows Intel pricing and design strategy has a stronghold on "cheap laptops/tablets" right now.
China has restricted exports of high-tech metals gallium and germanium, which are critical to making chips, in response to the U.S. blocking them from access to advanced chips.
Technology has changed the way people do everyday tasks, including grocery shopping. Cheddar News took a peek at a smarter way to shop with an AI-powered shopping cart.
Threatened by possible shortages of lithium for electric car batteries, automakers are racing to lock in supplies of the once-obscure “white gold” in a politically and environmentally fraught competition from China to Nevada to Chile.
