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Intel 64-bit Mobile Processors Hit Market
Intel is shipping its 'Bay Trail' Atom 64-bit mobile application processors, made on a 22-nm FinFET manufacturing process, giving Intel a technical lead in the mobile application processor market.
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ST Joins Open-Source ARM Mbed Project
STMicroelectronics has joined NXP and Freescale in supporting the mbed open-source community organized by ARM around microcontroller development.
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ARM Buys Lighting Software Firm to Improve Graphics
Processor IP licensor buys games software firm to help it bring improved graphics to mobile applications.
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Intel to Acquire Mindspeed's Wireless Chip Unit
Intel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of Mindspeed Technologies' wireless infrastructure business unit for roughly $12 million.
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Qualcomm Aims 64-bit Processor at Low-End
Qualcomm has made a surprising move by aiming its first 64-bit application processor at the entry to mid-level smartphone.
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Russia Churns Out Skolkovo as Latest R&D Innovation Hub
Dmitry Medvedev re-elected Skolkovo Foundation chairman as Russia's prototypical high-technology R&D center continues to take shape.
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Startup Claims Communications Breakthrough
MagnaCom, an Israel-based startup, has patented a modulation scheme that it claims doubles spectrum bandwidth efficiency compared with the best of incumbent technologies.
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Exclusive Video Teardown: ZTE's $40 Android Smartphone
IHS puts the ZTE U793 under the knife to determine how ZTE turns a profit on a smartphone that sells for as low as $40.
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Panasonic Ships Chip Patents out to IP Licensor
Panasonic is assigning 900 patent families to a subsidiary of an Ottawa IP licensing house as it seeks to monetize its past R&D. The moves are thought to be part of a raft of measures as the company exits semiconductors.
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Startup Seeks Funds to Realize 'Belt' Processor
A California startup is proposing the Mill, a novel form of processor architecture that dispenses with registers and, it is claimed, can bring DSP-like power efficiency to general-purpose computing.
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Flat-Panel TV Market Hits High Note in September
The global market for flat-panel televisions exceeded 20 million units in shipments for the first time this year in September, even though that volume was down from the same time last...
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Researchers Develop TFET for High Speed/Low Power CMOS Replacement
Researchers from Pennsylvania State University have developed a tunnel field effect transistor that uses the quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons through an ultrathin energy barrier to provide high current at low voltage.
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Chip Plant Closure Demanded After Toxic Discharge
Taiwanese chip packager and tester ASE has been fined for polluting the Houjin River and may have to close a plant responsible for 10 percent of the company's revenue, according to local reports.
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Micron, Rambus Sign Long-term Memory Deal
Under CEO Ron Black Rambus is reinventing itself as technology collaborator and licensor. Micron seven-year memory deal ends all litigation between the companies.
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November Sales Dip Steeply at TSMC
Sales at TSMC dipped sequentially for the second month running in November seemingly fulfilling a previous prediction of a fourth quarter inventory correction. Smaller rival UMC fared better in November in terms of percentage growth.
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Smartphone Slowdown Hurts Loss-making Imagination
The dilution of Imagination's focus through its acquisition of MIPS and a slowdown in the smartphone business conspired to hurt Imagination's position as it announced half-year financial results.
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Blu-ray Closes Gap with DVD in Revenue Generation for Video Releases
The Blu-ray Disc (BD) format is an increasingly potent source of revenue for movie titles released on video, with BD now accounting for half of U.S. video retail revenue for major new...
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Manufacturing in 2014: Full Steam Ahead
The momentum gathered by the U.S. manufacturing sector in the second half of the year is expected to continue through early 2014.
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Bluetooth Upgrade Supports LTE/IoT
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group has updated the core specification to version 4.1 providing number of changes to better support the co-existence of Bluetooth with LTE and its use for Internet of Things applications.
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Broadband Internet Penetration Deepens in US; Cable is King
Close to four-fifths of the United States is now connected in some form to the broadband Internet universe, with cable remaining the dominant mode of access across the...
