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Tesla Chipmaker Nvidia Scores Gaming Wins: Analyst

Tesla (TSLA) chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) scored PC gaming wins in 2015, with U.S. gamers shifting from Sony (SNE), Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo console systems to more online games, and took share from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), an analyst wrote Monday in a research report. In afternoon trading in the stock market today, Nvidia stock was up 1%, near 30, after Canaccord analyst Matthew Ramsay hiked his price target to 35 from 30 and upgraded

The Next Blockbusters Could Be Balms For Aging Eyes

If there’s one nearly universal experience of getting older, it’s failing eyesight. In middle age, many of us start needing glasses to focus on fine details — and for some, the problems get much worse. One of the more severe forms of old-age vision loss is age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The macula is the very center of the retina, so degeneration causes a cloud to appear right in the middle of what you’re looking at. Not surprisingly,

AMD To Exit A Server Business As Q1 EPS, Q2 View Miss

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) stock fell Thursday after the company’s Q1 missed Wall Street views and it lowered its revenue forecast for Q2. The beleaguered chipmaker — its stock hasn’t traded above 5 since July 2012 — also announced it would exit the market for custom-built servers for data centers. The company cited weak sales of personal computers for the miss. AMD late Thursday posted a 9-cent loss per share minus items, compared with a 2-cent