Elon's jet is in Florida, Global Foundries jet is in Florida, Qualcomm's jet is in Florida: they're all at Mar-a-Lago... Intel buyout being discussed.

Qualcomm’s Diversification Strategy is centered on an aggressive diversification, leveraging automotiv success into edge and industrial IoT.

But if you work in a large organization or you're an IT administrator, the bifurcated approach continues. Microsoft announced some business-only versions of the Surface Pro tablet and the Surface Laptop last year that continued to use Intel processors, and today it's announcing two more, this time using Intel's Lunar Lake-based Core Ultra CPUs.

Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Surface Pro 11 with the latest Intel CPU. It is 50% more expensive put it's also more powerful.

The rumors are true. Microsoft is launching Intel-powered versions of its Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7. Available on February 18th, both of these new Surface devices are Copilot Plus PCs, but instead of using Qualcomm’s Arm-based Snapdragon X series of chips, they’ll use Intel’s Lunar Lake processors.

The company reported earnings before certain costs such as stock compensation of 13 cents per share, squeezing past Wall Street’s consensus estimate of 12 cents per share. Revenue for the quarter came to $14.26 billion, up 7% from a year ago and ahead of the Street’s target of $13.81 billion.

As mentioned, Qualcomm's chipsets have long led the chipset market. As the 5G upgrade cycle has cooled, the company has pivoted to designing AI-enabled chips. To that end, it has developed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 chip for this purpose, and it should improve on its capabilities with the upcoming release of a Gen 4 chip.

Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Laptop gain option for Intel Core Ultra processors Series 2, Security Copilot to come to Surface Management Portal.

The new Intel Core Ultra (series 2) powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 and Surface Laptop 7 support Microsoft's Copilot Plus PC platform

The new Surface Laptop 7 features Intel's latest processor (up to a Core Ultra 7 268V) alongside Intel Arc Graphics and up to 32GB of LPDDR5X