The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
Taalib:
I don't disagree at all, but I don't think we are quite there yet. And my point to that is, well, sure ARM has a bright future ahead, but Intel's pipeline isn't looking too shabby either.
By the way, I'm not a ARM hater, but I do think ARM's impact in the personal computing market has been rather overstated by many observers. Most of what ARM has done has been in spaces where it doesn't compete with INTC, and most of Intel's equity price decline stems from honest to goodness balance sheet issues, as in, a weak PC market, not competition from ARM - my opinion on tablets/smartphones being that they are not PC replacements (yet).
One day I hope to have one device, like Thorsten Heins from BBRY says, I plug into a monitor anywhere I go and it serves 100% of my computing needs. I can't say if it will be powered by an ARM based product or an x86 processor, but the competition is good for the consumer.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
I believe electric bicycles are on the verge of becoming very popular in overseas because of the stickiness of oil prices, new developments in battery/motor technology, and falling prices.
They don't make a lot of sense in the sprawl of the US but they make tremendous sense in places more congested with high energy prices.
I suspect, to your point, that chargers for non-automotive products may start popping up if this trend develops more, but then again, many of these bicycles have pretty decent ranges for the markets I think they are compatible.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
SolarCity (SCTY) is operating out of Home Depot these days I believe.
There's a huge problem in solar right now because it is very niche/boutique and I believe an entity with SolarCity's business model is establishing a tremendous competitive advantage.
I am considering (SUNS) too, which is a BDC focused on solar. I think in a weak economy where people and entities are trying to drop their costs, solar has real attraction, and prices have come down quite a bit.
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
See, ARM was designed to be asymmetric, as in, no load, no processing, no power consumption, and x86 was designed to be symmetric, as in, always consuming power even with no load. This is why ARM procs have been everywhere and anywhere a device needed to do some kind of calculation on an occasional basis, whereas x86 was in task specific 'computers' purposed to do computations constantly. What's changed over time is INTC and AMD have introduced technology to 'power down' the procs under low or no-load, and ARM has matured into a more powerful product propelled by mobile.
The thing is, people somehow believe that ARM run flat out will do equivalent computations per second at a lower power envelope, which is absurd.
There seems to be this tremendous focus on ARM vis a vis mobile, but people forget there are millions of applications for ARM processors outside of mobile. Mobile only became important over the last decade.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
These issues are for the most part already addressed in the chargers. "Pay-for-use" exists too.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
Solar is falling in price every day, have you talked to (SCTY) people lately? Or bought the stock....
Their prices are great in all the different system purchase styles they offer.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
In my area there are usually parents hanging out with their kids at the McD play areas. I suspect they spend quite some time there. I also suspect McD invests in the play areas for a reason, so I'm not sure that McD doesn't want to encourage people hanging out.
Also, fast-chargers these days give a nice boost within 15-30min, which is less than a lunch hour, so that's something to consider too.
EcoMotors signs a $200M deal to build engines in China. The company is drawing quite a bit of interest in the industry with a lightweight engine design featuring opposed piston technology with the capability to drastically improve fuel economy. So far, automakers in China have been more interested than the Big Three in opposed piston engines with emission levels a potential problem in markets more tightly regulated. [View news story]
Can anyone comment on how, if at all, these motors differ from Subaru's Boxer motors?
General Motors (GM) has warned that the rising tensions between North and South Korea could prompt the automaker to move production out of the latter country in the long term. GM's union in South Korea believes that the warning is just a tactic to make labor representatives "jittery" ahead of upcoming wage and restructuring negotiations. [View news story]
Considering how asymmetrical the benefits of our Free Trade agreement are with S. Korea, it might benefit them to think harder.
Alberta province steps up efforts to promote the Keystone (TRP) pipeline project, sending its premier to the U.S. to meet legislators and hiring two U.S. PR firms with ties to Sec. of State John Kerry. Meanwhile, environmental groups ask the Obama administration to extend the approval process for Keystone, using the recent spill of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as the latest reason for a delay. [View news story]
The crude in question is 1) similar to that expected to be transported by the Keystone expansion, and 2) heavy is an industry term, not an adjective, to describe the type, as crude oil bought by refiners arrives in many types, but is sold under what are called 'benchmarks', like "WTI" based on the market.
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
People new to ARM don't realize that up until very recently ARM has hardly impacted x86's domain and vice versa. ARM processors have always been a larger volume low margin market than x86 in many types of devices.
It's only recently that ARM has begun to be relevant in the personal computing space, via mobile phones and tablets, and it's only recently that Intel has turned to going after ARM markets.
Talking about wearable computing devices like it is net negative for Intel is like talking about Intel missing an opportunity by not being in the theme park business. It doesn't make any sense.
When Intel -does- get into these markets, it is -additive- to Intel, but ARM stands to gain little to nothing from them because of its business model.
Intel: 4% Yielder Is Safe Bet For The Approaching Decline [View article]
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Can I also suggest you set up some kind of recurring transfer into your investment account? It doesn't have to be much, $50 monthly maybe, even $20 or $15.
Also, I'll point out that you may want to consider turning it into an IRA account if it is distinct from your savings/emergency funds.
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
Meh.
ARM's primary power efficiency derives from it's idle consumption not some kind of magic ability to compute more efficiently than x86 when actually tasked with work. Servers are rarely idle, by design and intent. The likelihood is that ARM based servers will be doing far less work than expected while consuming far more power than projected, and this effort will die a quick and brutal death.
"Asset bubbles are necessary when you don't have growth in the economy," says Colony Financial (CLNY) Chairman Tom Barrack, whose subsidiary Colony Capital is doing its best to help by buying as many single-family homes it can get its hands on. Next up, he says: A land boom, as builders will need lots to boost inventory. Maybe of interest would be TRC, LMNR, JOE, AXR. [View news story]
Land is to real estate what miners are to the commodities they produce... as in... be careful making those correlations....
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
I don't disagree at all, but I don't think we are quite there yet. And my point to that is, well, sure ARM has a bright future ahead, but Intel's pipeline isn't looking too shabby either.
By the way, I'm not a ARM hater, but I do think ARM's impact in the personal computing market has been rather overstated by many observers. Most of what ARM has done has been in spaces where it doesn't compete with INTC, and most of Intel's equity price decline stems from honest to goodness balance sheet issues, as in, a weak PC market, not competition from ARM - my opinion on tablets/smartphones being that they are not PC replacements (yet).
One day I hope to have one device, like Thorsten Heins from BBRY says, I plug into a monitor anywhere I go and it serves 100% of my computing needs. I can't say if it will be powered by an ARM based product or an x86 processor, but the competition is good for the consumer.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
They don't make a lot of sense in the sprawl of the US but they make tremendous sense in places more congested with high energy prices.
I suspect, to your point, that chargers for non-automotive products may start popping up if this trend develops more, but then again, many of these bicycles have pretty decent ranges for the markets I think they are compatible.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
There's a huge problem in solar right now because it is very niche/boutique and I believe an entity with SolarCity's business model is establishing a tremendous competitive advantage.
I am considering (SUNS) too, which is a BDC focused on solar. I think in a weak economy where people and entities are trying to drop their costs, solar has real attraction, and prices have come down quite a bit.
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
The thing is, people somehow believe that ARM run flat out will do equivalent computations per second at a lower power envelope, which is absurd.
There seems to be this tremendous focus on ARM vis a vis mobile, but people forget there are millions of applications for ARM processors outside of mobile. Mobile only became important over the last decade.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
Their prices are great in all the different system purchase styles they offer.
The race to provide charging stations for electric vehicles heats up on the West Coast after Kroger (KR) joins Walgreen (WAG), Whole Foods (WFM), and IKEA to provide customers parking lot charging stations. What to watch: Retailers continue to slowly edge into the field in an effort not to get left behind, but until a major restaurant chain (say McDonald's (MCD)?) jumps in with a partnership to offer a national network of charging stations along major interstates the phenomenon will remain a primarily limited to affluent urban areas. [View news story]
Also, fast-chargers these days give a nice boost within 15-30min, which is less than a lunch hour, so that's something to consider too.
EcoMotors signs a $200M deal to build engines in China. The company is drawing quite a bit of interest in the industry with a lightweight engine design featuring opposed piston technology with the capability to drastically improve fuel economy. So far, automakers in China have been more interested than the Big Three in opposed piston engines with emission levels a potential problem in markets more tightly regulated. [View news story]
General Motors (GM) has warned that the rising tensions between North and South Korea could prompt the automaker to move production out of the latter country in the long term. GM's union in South Korea believes that the warning is just a tactic to make labor representatives "jittery" ahead of upcoming wage and restructuring negotiations. [View news story]
Alberta province steps up efforts to promote the Keystone (TRP) pipeline project, sending its premier to the U.S. to meet legislators and hiring two U.S. PR firms with ties to Sec. of State John Kerry. Meanwhile, environmental groups ask the Obama administration to extend the approval process for Keystone, using the recent spill of heavy Canadian crude in Arkansas as the latest reason for a delay. [View news story]
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
It's only recently that ARM has begun to be relevant in the personal computing space, via mobile phones and tablets, and it's only recently that Intel has turned to going after ARM markets.
Talking about wearable computing devices like it is net negative for Intel is like talking about Intel missing an opportunity by not being in the theme park business. It doesn't make any sense.
When Intel -does- get into these markets, it is -additive- to Intel, but ARM stands to gain little to nothing from them because of its business model.
Intel: 4% Yielder Is Safe Bet For The Approaching Decline [View article]
Can I also suggest you set up some kind of recurring transfer into your investment account? It doesn't have to be much, $50 monthly maybe, even $20 or $15.
Also, I'll point out that you may want to consider turning it into an IRA account if it is distinct from your savings/emergency funds.
Intel Beats ARM At Its Own Game With Avoton [View article]
ARM's primary power efficiency derives from it's idle consumption not some kind of magic ability to compute more efficiently than x86 when actually tasked with work. Servers are rarely idle, by design and intent. The likelihood is that ARM based servers will be doing far less work than expected while consuming far more power than projected, and this effort will die a quick and brutal death.
"Asset bubbles are necessary when you don't have growth in the economy," says Colony Financial (CLNY) Chairman Tom Barrack, whose subsidiary Colony Capital is doing its best to help by buying as many single-family homes it can get its hands on. Next up, he says: A land boom, as builders will need lots to boost inventory. Maybe of interest would be TRC, LMNR, JOE, AXR. [View news story]