Avatar's literally other-worldly success is stoking excitement 3D HDTV flames, but another, more profound technological and sociological change is about to engulf the living room: the videophone.

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Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) recently provided a disappointing outlook and lowered its 2010 guidance, citing competitive pricing and a slow recovery in developed markets. But the good news is that the company has design wins in Google’s Nexus One, as does Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM). Broadcom is also believed to be in the iPad.

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By guest author Nalini Kumar Muppala

[Nalini's newest series takes us to Taiwan with an in-depth look at MediaTek's past and future.]

For the six to seven years following its inception in 1997, MediaTek, Inc. focused on providing media processor chips for DVD players and optical storage drives such as DVDs and CD-ROMs. It was not until 2004 that Taiwan’s largest fabless integrated circuit (IC) firm ventured into handset chipsets. Now, MediaTek is a major player in all markets it has entered, including DTV chipsets. Over a series of posts, I will analyze the handset division’s moves and prospects.

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There have been some major changes in the networking industry recently: Cisco acquired Tandberg for $3.4 billion, Lifesize was lapped up by Logitech for $408 million, and HP acquired 3Com for $2.7 billion. Responding to Cisco’s move, Juniper and Polycom have formed an alliance to offer videoconferencing systems and associated network infrastructure to service providers.

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Readers, you know that I have been working on Vision India 2020 for almost two years. The book is a collection of my 45 business ideas leveraging India’s strategic advantages, spanning a diverse set of sectors ranging from technology to education, healthcare to infrastructure, film to rural development.

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It's no longer just for the big shots ensconced in expensively equipped board rooms. High-speed IP networks, low-cost web cams and improved video compression are letting the rest of us in on video conferencing and video chatting.

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Nvidia's Tegra 250 will be the first mobile processor to reach production using ARM's Cortex-A9 CPU, giving it a performance advantage for smartphones, tablet computers, and other mobile devices. The second-generation Tegra processor has been sampling since 3Q09 and is expected to reach production in 2Q10. ST-Ericsson's U8500 and TI's OMAP4, which also use Cortex-A9, are due to enter production later in 2010.

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This post is bound to get lost in the barrage of the other "me-too" blog posts and even mainstream media coverage. (That’s right. Even Fox News LA was at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco. The Fox on-air personality and Leo Laporte of TwiT interviewed each other on their respective networks.) Always fearless as a follower, though, I will proceed.

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At the 2005 ISSCC, a panel of experts looked beyond the horizon to consider what the hot topics might be in 2010. Did anyone get it right? Let’s see from the panelists’ statements that I have quoted completely out of context.

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At last week’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Intel formally launched 27 new processors produced with the 32 nanometer process technology. It also demonstrated the LG GW990, a smartphone built with the company’s yet-to-be-released Atom Moorestown platform.

This marks Intel’s first attempt to crack the smartphone market. According to Gartner, by 2013, mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common way to access the Web. The number of PCs in use will reach 1.78 billion while the number of smartphones and Web-enhanced phones will be 1.82 billion by the same year.

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Although 3D TVs received the most publicity at CES this past month, the emergence of the ?smart? or Internet-connected TV is more significant. TV-maker Vizio exemplifies the trend. The company displayed TVs running widgets to connect to Facebook, Yahoo Widgets, Netflix, and YouTube. Most of these applications previously had been in the domain of PCs.

The emergence of PC-like applications in TVs has set up a clash between long-time suppliers of consumer-electronics (CE) chips and Intel, paralleling the battle for smartphone technology.

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You want to read the book, see the movie, or play the game? How about all three at the same time? Or, maybe little bites of all three at once. It sounds ridiculous but it’s plausible that the embryonic e-book market could be moving in that direction.

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It is not just the great three-dimensional sound effects in “Avatar” where you will hear the Dolby effect. Dolby today is everywhere, as part of, fittingly enough, its Dolby Everywhere campaign for Web-connected TVs, Blu-ray movie players, PCs, smartphones, set-top boxes, and game consoles. Let’s take a closer look at the company’s performance.

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I had the privilege to hear Andrew Grove address the Churchill Club on November 6, 2001 at a dinner meeting in San Jose. His autobiography “Swimming Across” had recently been published and he recounted some key events in his life in the course of his talk.

After he escaped from Hungary following the collapse of the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 he made his way to New York in 1957 and associated with a group of fellow Hungarians.

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With CES currently underway in Las Vegas, it might be time to consider how much of a gamble semiconductors will be in the coming year. Some devices at the Consumer Electronics Show may have already factored into Mike Cowan’s statistical analysis while some may drive future sales. Whatever the partial pressures of the vaporware at CES, it’s useful to look at real IC revenues and use them to establish the market trends. That’s the value of the Cowan LRA Semiconductor Forecast.

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Last year was tough for the optical component manufacturers JDS Uniphase and Finisar as telecom operators reduced their IT spending. However, the two companies recently reported good quarters as the economy recovers.

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What’s a blog without some sort of obligatory year end TOP 10 list?

So, without further ado, here is my list of the TOP 10 events, happenings, occurrences, observations that I will remember from 2009. This is my list, from my perspective, of what I will remember.

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Many of you have read my New Year’s resolution post, and asked me how you can help further the entrepreneurship movement.
One of the best received free services that I have pulled together are the strategy roundtables. The next one is on January 7, 2010, at 8 a.m. Pacific. You can register here and also listen to recordings of prior sessions. And you can bring the entrepreneurs and aspirants you are trying to encourage and influence into them.

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The year just ended must have been one of the worst for the semiconductor sector. However, the recent strong earnings results from Infineon, Micron, and National Semi indicate that 2010 may be more promising.

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While CES will be replete with gaudy 3D HDTV and 3D Blu-ray demonstrations, likely complete with Avatar and Up! clips, a far more consequential innovation will be purposefully well-hidden—wireless HDMI.

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