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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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 ...

post comment 1 comment last comment kjdsfkjdshfkdshfvc
Hollywood has less control over the media than you think. http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

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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Sounds awesome http://bit.ly/IC4m9t

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.

post comment 9 comments last comment resistion
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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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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Fixed, thx

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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Atmel pays Infineon over MCU patent dispute

After two years of legal wrangling U.S. based microcontroller company pays up over allegedly infringing 11 patents.

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Yes, I call it the epoxy patent (as in potting).

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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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Terms of engagement

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

post comment 4 comments last comment Frank Eory
It's far from just the Verizons of the world -- also Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Apple & Facebook. ...

10 useful science and engineering search engines

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

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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.

post comment 4 comments last comment Robotics Developer
I can only imagine the pressure on the engineer before and during questioning. Engineers like to ...

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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Still see more uncertainty ahead, in markets and technology.

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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Sounds like my Volvo, after several such events I put some Dow4 on the connector which solved the ...

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 ...

iPhone forecast raises eyebrows

Some people in the electronics supply chain are scratching their heads wondering how Apple's iPhone 5 forecast is holding up.

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Code: The good and the ugly

Careful C craftsmanship creates correct code. Saying it five times fast is easier than doing it.

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I used to clean up code that looked like this http://www.rostenbach.com/Programming_horror.gif This ...

Energy-harvesting shock absorbers coming to a car near you

With solar and wind harvesting technologies thriving, researchers are seeking other energy sources for which they can create harvesting devices.

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Doesn't seem like the same invention (BOSE Active Suspension) but the 2 might work well together ...

How are you measuring that power consumption?

Engineers have to analyze the likely consumption of potential designs to establish the locus of performance, price, and power tradeoffs.

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