Nvidia to license graphics IP to other chip vendors

Offerings include the current Kepler GPU product family as well as the modem technology Nvidia acquired from Icera a few years back. Read Full Story

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China takes fastest supercomputer crown

China’s National University of Defense Technology won the fastest supercomputer in the world contest sponsored by the Top500 List. Read Full Story

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Nokia, Samsung, Apple victims of smartphone 'tipping point'

In the smartphone market, we’ve seen a few critical data (and possible tipping) points in the past few months alone. Read Full Story

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What do IBM layoffs mean for New York's chip initiative?

Big Blue is being tight lipped as usual about how many employees are getting the ax, but at least some of the jobs being cut are in semiconductor R&D. Read Full Story

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News and Analysis

Imagination profit drops on R&D spend

Despite strong growth in customers' units shipped and revenues, profit declined at processor licensor Imagination in the 2013 financial year as it ...

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Hollywood, Silicon Valley quarrel over digital media

Old arguments simmered and sometimes erupted in the latest meeting of this odd married couple with its long, unsettled spats over copy protection and ...

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Rockchip tablet SOCs use both Mali, PowerVR graphics

Chinese fabless chip company adds PowerVR GPU to its tablet system-chip offering.

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The good and bad of tablets at work

From stakeouts to burger orders, tablets are taking charge. And Windows 8 could add even more use cases.

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Intel eDRAM attacks graphics in pre-3-D IC days

Intel shared insights into its eDRAM technology, expected to challenge discrete graphics sockets in high end notebooks this year.

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Noticed 45W power draw for Haswell L4 Gb, and this is with 22 nm ultralow leakage.

The future of charge-trapping flash memory

Charge-trapping technology supports NAND flash, NOR flash, and 3-D architectures.

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IoT will be next silver screen, says media exec

The Internet of Things could become the next big entertainment platform, said a media exec at a conference with Silicon Valley techies at Stanford.

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Intel's budget supercomputer diversifies

Intel's Xeon Phi coprocessor families offer something for every supercomputer user, from high-end systems to workstations to embedded systems.

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Hi Colin - just wanted to point out a needed minor correction to your above article. In particular, ...

Intel processor outperforms Nvidia, Qualcomm, Samsung

Market research firm publishes benchmark tests of Intel's latest application processor, the Z2580 CloverTrail, and compares it with competitors' ...

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Maybe. Assuming mobile CPUs gain enough performance to replace say Core I7 (a tall order), there is ...

Small cells gaining traction in cellular nets

AT&T, Vodaphone and other carriers are rolling out their first small cell deployments thanks in part to advances in backhaul and baseband SoCs.

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Rick, have you heard any more about the Alcatel-Lucent (SOI-based) solution (w/Freescale) they ...

AMD to sample ARM server chip in 1Q14

AMD has given some details on its 2014 portfolio of processors for enterprise and data center servers.

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Bluetooth Arduino project seeks funds

Engineers from Michigan are trying to raise $80,000 for Bluetooth-enabled Arduino boards that will allow smartphones to be used to control project ...

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FDSOI helps ST, Rambus reach IP settlement

Agreement covers FDSOI design, security, memory and interface technologies and settles all outstanding claims.

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Media tablet is your next TV

That idea of “the media tablet as your next TV” is the premise on which a number of companies — software and hardware developers included — are ...

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Junko, I would like to digress here -what about the impact to society and the human population in ...

Toshiba, TSMC report ROMs with multi-level cells

Toshiba, TSMC both reported multi-bit per memory cell ROMs at the Symposium on VLSI Circuits held in Kyoto, Japan, last week.

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Bristol Calling: Project looks to re-RISC the ARM

"Why can't my robot sing and dance at the same time?" asked Professor David May as he proposed a processor that implements a simplified ARM ...

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Hi, you guys might want to have a look at a "16 ARM cores running at 250MHz on a 16€ FPGA" in an ...

The heart of responsible e-waste recycling

Electronic equipment can represent a serious threat to the environment, and the population, if disposed of incorrectly.

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10 useful science and engineering search engines

Use these tools to hunt up standards, circuit diagrams, chemical properties, and more.

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It has been a while since I did any detailed web searching, so I greatly appreciate your ...

Gigabit speed and power over Ethernet

Two networking technologies are moving ahead in tandem as industrial users power remote Ethernet devices at 1,000 Mbps over existing CAT5 cable.

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To be clear, I'm talking about interface speed to PCs here. Switched Ethernet is the norm these ...

There's a high probability you’re an engineer if...

A few fun ways to tell if you are likely an engineer.

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I am proud to be an engineer. Yes, my wife has given me the cold stare when she finds out I am ...

Terms of engagement

Questions about how we seek and share information online have been swirling around in my head for the last several days.

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It's far from just the Verizons of the world -- also Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple & Facebook. ...

BlackBerry's turnaround hinges on Q10

Strong early sales of the keyboard-packing Q10 give BlackBerry's resurrection a chance.

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Atrenta’s Ajoy Bose: lessons from an entrepreneur

What would Ajoy Bose say to an aspiring entrepreneur?

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How to testify in a deposition for patent litigation

A seasoned litigator in patent disputes shares advice for engineers about how to testify—and how not to testify--in a deposition.

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Yes to Brian's comment! This is also applicable to tax audits, and one of the reasons to be ...

London Calling: What is ST's plan B?

Why is STMicroelectronics segregating and exposing the finances of its better performing 'More-than-Moore" and challenged 'Moore's Law" product ...

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Without finance, you wouldn't *hsve* technology and science. They cost money, and it has to come ...

U.S. semiconductor market poised for long-term growth

Six years ago, the outlook for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing was dim. Today it couldn't be more promising.

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Karen, while the future may look bright for the few massive captive fabs in the US, the rest of the ...

Automotive smarts: Too much intelligence, not enough sense

If designers aren't careful, their intelligent systems will sometimes do stupid things.

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We have to remember that some of this is simply because the programmer is asked to acomplish a task ...

Connectivity enables smart manufacturing

The push to achieve more intelligent, integrated manufacturing puts a strong focus on networking and connectivity.

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Consumer electronics: From atoms to software and back

How about the smartphone as a cloud resource for toys and more besides? The ubiquity of the smartphone changes the economics and multiplies the ...

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Imagine the use of smartphones and the cloud to provide the intelligence for Lego Mindstorm ...

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