Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s financial engineering with its eye-watering share buy-back programme, now extended by a further US$90bn, reveals a tech giant that's running out of ideas, meanwhile, across Silicon Valley its oft-derided old foe Microsoft showed its ambitions at the bleeding edge of big tech. According to a report by Bloomberg, the Windows firm is closing in on a significant new partnership with AMD, investing in the chip-maker's Athena project which seeks to deliver a new generation of processors designed to power the much-hyped AI revolution.
Sorry Apple, Microsoft is the cool kid again