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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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AMD touts trio of 2014 server chips

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

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UMC extends FinFET partnership to 10-nm

UMC will send researchers to Albany, New York, to work on the development of 10-nm FinFET process technology with IBM.

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UMC found out IBM's process was not manufacturable so they decided to develop their own. Hope it ...

Image sensors go organic

Sensor startup and established plastic display firm claim to have created the first conformable organic image sensor on plastic substrate.

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Silicon Labs makes IoT play with Energy Micro buy

Mixed signal and wireless company has persuaded serial entrepreneur Geir Forre to flip his microcontroller startup for up to $170 million as they set ...

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Keep us posted Peter! One comparison to look at would be the acquisition of Teridian by Maxim for ...

ITC votes to ban importation of iPhones, iPads

U.S. regulatory body finds that several models of Apple's iPad tablet and iPhone smartphone violate patent held by Samsung.

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Samsung’s chip FRAND will not cost Apple that much even of Apple pays

ARM aims at mid-range with three processors

At the Computex show in Taiwan ARM has launched CPU, GPU and video cores that is says combine area- and cost-efficiency for the mid-range smartphone ...

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ARM seems to be positioninng the A12-T622 against the A57-T628, and the A53-T450 combinations for ...

Analyst: Chip sales were weak in April

Financial analyst sees signs of weakness in the chip market and predicts market contraction in 2013.

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SanDisk's 1Y flash stays at 19-nm

Flash-based storage specialist is sampling its 1Y-based products and they are at same minimum geometry as the 1X generation.

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So finally, a company is giving up shrinking. Intrinsic variability at small nodes is a well know ...

Cloud-based virtualization goes mobile

Innovations by Citrix and Nvidia could take virtualization to its logical conclusion, allowing users to access their desktops from any mobile device.

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Indeed everything old is new again. Way back in the mid-90s, we had dumb X terminals at home that ...

Europe launches $12 billion chip support campaign

Europe is planning to spend $12 billion to reverse the continent's decline in chip production. Recreate the success of Airbus in semiconductors, said ...

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Andreas idea about investing seeds in many actual technology startups is what the US should have ...

Europe backs FDSOI fabs

A $465 million collaborative R&D project is set to support pilot lines in Dresden and Grenoble for production of fully depleted silicon on insulator ...

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Tax payer money wasted. Again and again.

ST's strategy is a tale of two segments

ST tells analysts it is going to report financial results for both its digital and analog business segments for "transparency" but remains committed ...

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One 300mm fab split into 3 areas with 1/3 being for FDSOI will not have scale to compete on cost in ...

Memory IP startup pursues FinFET, FDSOI processes

Startup is developing physical IP for geometries at 20-nm and below with an initial focus on SRAM structures for implementation in FinFET and FDSOI ...

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Bell Labs group aims at 90% energy-saving in networks

GreenTouch consortium claims the energy consumed by networks in 2020 could be reduced to 10 percent of 2010 levels while supporting large increase in ...

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The difference between wishful thinking and reality is a plan with evidence. How much energy ...

News & Analysis

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.

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smart move. Intel can license Nvdia GPU and make a mega combo CPU-GPU for gaming machines and the ...

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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BlackBerry's turnaround hinges on Q10

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

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AMD touts trio of 2014 server chips

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 hardware.

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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.

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ya, chinese's allwinner has the cpu now to do the job, but it would take 30 million of them, just ...

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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Smartphone demand makes Spreadtrum guidance soar

Demand for smartphone chips from Chinese fabless chip vendor causes it to provide a major uplift to Q2 sales guidance.

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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.

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IBM aims to become a pure software systems company, so they are jettisoning the hardware related ...

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

Semiconductor News

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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UMC extends FinFET partnership to 10-nm

UMC will send researchers to Albany, New York, to work on the development of 10-nm FinFET process technology with IBM.

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UMC found out IBM's process was not manufacturable so they decided to develop their own. Hope it ...

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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Opinion

How to testify in a deposition for patent litigation

Elizabeth Rader

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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I can only imagine the pressure on the engineer before and during questioning. Engineers like to ...

Consumer electronics: From atoms to software and back

Simon Barker

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

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

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

Junko Yoshida

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

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These bozos have been exposed since the '90s. There is a tremendous market opportunity in replacing ...

Terms of engagement

Rick Merritt

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. ...

How are you measuring that power consumption?

Bill Schweber

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

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London Calling: What is ST's plan B?

Peter Clarke

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

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All what I see is that finance corrupts and slows down technology and science !

Are Microsoft and Intel on the comeback trail?

Motely Fool

Despite a sluggish PC market, shares of Intel and Microsoft have been bucking the trend this year. Both companies have outperformed the broader indexes by a hefty margin, which could indicate that investors are anticipating a PC resurgence may be near. However, there isn't much convincing evidence to support the belief that the state of the PC market is currently improving.

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The idea is to expand the PC market "down" by grabbing market share from mobile ARM-based. Not yet ...

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