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Marvell Includes LTE in 64-bit Apps Processor
Marvell has a quad-core 64-bit application processor with built-in LTE and Vivante graphics but it comes just at the same time that Qualcomm has Snapdragon eight- and quad core apps processors with 4K graphics support.
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MWC: Faster Data Speeds Fuel the Connected Car
The dawn of 4G LTE networks has given the world's oldest mobile device, the car, a boon up and down the automotive supply chain.
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Dialog Backs Both Qualcomm, MediaTek in Rapid Charging
Dialog is not playing favorites and has come out with support for MediaTek's proprietary Pump Express form of rapid charging, just weeks out after offering support for Qualcomm's Quick Charge 2.0.
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Startup Describes Proprietary Non-Volatile Memory Technology
California-based non-volatile memory startup with Australian roots and a new CEO has described its technology and similarities to a resistive RAM in development at Symetrix Corp. in Colorado.
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VxWorks RTOS Gets Revamped for IoT
Wind River has upgraded its VxWorks real-time operating system to version 7 offering fine-grained scalability and "big-little" support in pursuit of Internet of Things design wins.
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STT-MRAM Will Hit Volume in 2014, Says Everspin
Everspin has said that after being first to sample STT-MRAM in 2012 it expects to hit volume production in the second half of 2014. Typical applications are front-end buffers for solid-state drives.
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Freescale to Foundries: Help Us With Threshold-Voltage MCUs
Freescale MCU boss says near-threshold voltage microcontrollers are coming but it may take time. Foundries could help by characterizing IP libraries over wider voltage ranges.
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Imagination Volunteers 'Warrior' Cores for MCU Duty
Imagination has announced two CPU cores based on its Series-5 "Warrior" architecture aimed at microcontroller design wins and that bring support for hardware virtualization.
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MWC: Those Sexy Parts Called Sensors
With wearables, machine-to-machine connectivity, mHealth, and connected homes, buildings and cities catching a fever pace, sensors have won "sexiness appeal" at Mobile World Congress this year.
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PEI-Genesis Inks Deal with Brazilian Manufacturer
Philadelphia-based connectors and power-supplies distributor enters Brazilian aerospace market.
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MWC: Smart Living in Smart Cities
Smart everything--that's the direction the world is moving in, and what folks walking around the Mobile World Congress this week in Barcelona want everyone to believe.
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Cable Players with DOCSIS 3.0 Square Off Against Telcos and Broadband Fiber
The cable industry achieved record revenue last year in the sales of broad fiber connection of telcos promises...band equipment, and the forthcoming version of its primary tool against the
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Imagination Launches 'Raptor' Image Processing Cores
Imagination launches first image signal processing cores with a view to reducing power consumption for such coming features as gesture and facial recognition.
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Spreadtrum Offers $25 Firefox Smartphone Design
At Mobile World Congress Chinese fabless chip company Spreadtrum announced the launch of the SC6821 and its presence in a 2G design for a $25 smartphone.
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'Pure Tone' Laser Tops Long-Haul Comms Bandwidth of Current War Horse Laser
Researchers have developed a high-coherence laser that stores light in a layer of virtually absorption-free silicon.
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Self-Powered Cell Phone Uses Vibrations from its Case
Development could augur a new generation of self-charged personal electronics.
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Thick-shell Quantum Dots Raise Image Brightness
Quantum dots with thick shells and nano-scale cores is being licensed by a startup from the developers at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The dots could improve LED and emissive display brightness and efficiency.
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Broadcom Pushes On in Wireless, Sells Ethernet Line
Broadcom has developed a millimeter wave IC for back- and front-haul communications in radio access networks. At the same time the company is selling off its NetXtreme II Ethernet controller IC line to QLogic Corp.
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Renesas Applies MONOS flash to 28-nm MCUs
Renesas claims to be the first chip company to have developed a 28-nm manufacturing process supporting non-volatile memory for microcontrollers.
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Global Production of Electric Vehicles to Surge 67 Percent This Year
Driven by tighter emission standards in Europe, worldwide production of electric vehicles (EVs) will soar by 67 percent this year. Total production of EVs—both pure electric models and plug-in...
