intel news -Intel And Taiwan Semiconductor Have Very Different Definitions

On TSMC's (TSM) most recent earnings call, Co-CEO Mark Liu had the following to say with respect to the company's upcoming 10-nanometer process:

And so in the summary, our 10 FinFET technology will be qualified by the end of 2015. 10 FinFET transistor will be our third-generation FinFET transistor. This technology will come with industry's leading performance and density.

Now, what's interesting is that TSMC's management tried to convince investors that it would have a 10-nanometer process ready to go around the same time that Intel (INTC) would have its own 10-nanometer process. Intel, of course, promised that 10-nanometer would be ready for high volume production by the end of 2015

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1	1	Timber	Pitbull Featuring Ke$ha
2	2	Say Something	A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera
3	4	Dark Horse	Katy Perry Featuring Juicy J
4	5	Happy	Pharrell Williams
5	3	Counting Stars	OneRepublic
6	--	The Man	Aloe Blacc
7	8	Hey Brother	Avicii
8	6	The Monster	Eminem Featuring Rihanna
9	--	Talk Dirty	Jason Derulo Featuring 2 Chainz
10	9	Team	Lorde

Battle of the (broad)bands: Online music's Grammy picks

he Grammys are awarded Sunday starting at 5 p.m. PT. Can online music services' data predict the winners?

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The debate over man versus machine has existed as long as machines have. So how well does raw data hold up for something as human as musical expression?

Online music services, which use data to figure out what you like, would say: very well, thanks. And for the Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy's yearly Employees of the Year ceremony, they're putting their data to the test.

Apple looking to build mobile-payments service, report says

Apple already lets users buy music, books, and apps through an iTunes account. But the tech giant has plans to expand its mobile-payment efforts, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal.

Citing anonymous sources, the report says Apple is exploring moving beyond the realm of digital goods and letting users pay for physical goods and services -- such as clothes or a taxi ride -- with an iTunes account. The Journal says Eddy Cue, the Apple executive in charge of iTunes and the App Store, has already met with industry executives to discuss the topic.

It's not the bus, stupid. It's the system

A couple of hundred years ago, textile workers smashed stocking frames, burned factories, and clashed with police to protest the changes being wrought by what the essayist Thomas Carlyle later described as the new Mechanical Age.

They were afraid of losing their jobs in an economy with no social safety net. It's now clear that their enemy wasn't the new technology; it was a political and economic system which left the have-nots struggling for survival. But they didn't blame the Industrial Revolution, they blamed the face of the Industrial Revolution: the machine.

With the benefit of 20-20 hindsight, you'd think that we would have learned a lesson. Think again.

Over the last few months, a building inchoate rage against the technology industry has exploded into public view. In Paris and Lyon earlier this month, striking cab drivers attacked Uber cars to protest the launch of the private-car service in France. Rude Baguette, a French tech news site,reported tires slashed, car windows shattered, and vehicles being pelted with eggs. Closer to home, the Bay Area -- home to Silicon Valley and San Francisco -- has been pulled into a rancorous dispute over tech-driven gentrification and the responsibilities wealthy companies ought to shoulder to ameliorate the resulting social dislocations caused, in great degree, by their increasing prosperity.

Early Macintosh developer: We would have worked for free

UPERTINO, Calif. -- For the people who created the Macintosh, it was the proverbial labor of love.

On Saturday evening, the original Macintosh development team came together to celebrate the machine it had created three decades earlier -- a product that had paved the way for hits to come, including the iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

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It was in this building 30 years ago that a young Steve Jobs changed the world of personal computing -- all to the soundtrack of the "Chariots of Fire" theme.

Looking back fondly on the process, the team said creating the product was not about the money. "If Steve said, 'How about you guys don't get paid?' said Rod Holt, Apple's original hardware guru, and one of the company's first 10 employees. "We would have still had a group."

"But there would have been a lot of grumbling," he added, laughing.

Bill Atkinson, who created the MacPaint program, described Jobs pitch in recruiting him, even tearing up at one point during the panel. A grad student at the time, he was reluctant to join. But Apple flew him to Cupertino and Jobs personally convinced him. "Think of how fun it is to surf on the front of a wave," Jobs told Atkinson. "Come down to Silicon Valley, where we are inventing the future."