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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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indicates that the licensing cost itself of the GPU cores might be low. If you can pay royalty, then ...

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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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

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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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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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 spent on R&D.

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Sometimes, increased R&D spending can signal good things in the future. Other times, it just means ...

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 formats.

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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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You are correct Rick. NVIDIA indicates that a key reason they are adopting this business model is to ...

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 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 hardware.

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In their stated plans, it appears as if older iPhones than a 4S are screwed and Android is a mess ...

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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There was a time when export of technologies, like those Xeon chips, was strictly controlled by the ...

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

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

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

Steve Taranovich

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 ...

Gigabit speed and power over Ethernet

Al Presher

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 ...

Bristol Calling: Project looks to re-RISC the ARM

Peter Clarke

"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 instruction set.

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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 ...

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

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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This is PC scenario repeating for handhelds. Phones as computing device face the same ...

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. ...

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Michael Dell goes out on a limb against tablet competitors with his 24" screened laptop
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In their stated plans, it appears as if older iPhones than a 4S are screwed and Android is a mess ...
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That is bad, but to be fair, it was hard to write good code in Applesoft: there was not enough RAM ...
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I came to this piece looking for an UNBIASED search engine for engineers. Came away ...
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Sometimes, increased R&D spending can signal good things in the future. Other times, it just means ...
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without there own Customized Chips that differentiate them from likes of HP, intel, Dell & other ...
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As a roofing contractor, I am really happy with my work. I love and enjoy doing the construction of ...
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There was a time when export of technologies, like those Xeon chips, was strictly controlled by the ...
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This is PC scenario repeating for handhelds. Phones as computing device face the same ...
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How is this eDRAM?? Intel is using a separate chip for DRAM, then connecting CPU and DRAM together ...
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Energy Micro has had those features on Cortex-M devices for years..
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I remember at a trade show in the 90s, an engineer talked about a colleague who held up a PDA and ...
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Good point on the increasing difficulty of raising investment capital for early-stage companies. To ...
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Since the HEVC patents are invalid in India, would be interesting to see adoption here. The patent ...
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You are correct Rick. NVIDIA indicates that a key reason they are adopting this business model is to ...
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We have to remember that some of this is simply because the programmer is asked to acomplish a task ...
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I think they will find a lot of Superman video games. As I recall, Atari cancelled the game because ...
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Yes to Brian's comment! This is also applicable to tax audits, and one of the reasons to be ...
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To be clear, I'm talking about interface speed to PCs here. Switched Ethernet is the norm these ...
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Let me ramble a comment here. First, what the spreadsheet did for financial analysis is that it ...
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I think the underneath reason for David's success is that he has a personal passion for alternative ...
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It's in 3D so you don't get lines but rather circles from intersecting spheres. Each satellite ...
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The Chicago Blackhawks will look to even the Stanley Cup Finals at 2-2 when they face the Boston Bruins in Game 4 on Wednesday.

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Made in America Designation?

By DavidAQS on 05.31.2013

For a full box build and PCBA, if I buy components, PCB Fab, and plastics in China and assembly everything in the U.S. (component placement, testing, chassis

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There exists the NetXMS project, which is a software product designed to monitor computer systems and networks. It can be used to monitor the whole

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End of Moore's Law

By rick.merritt on 05.22.2013

Finally someone speaks out honestly about this.

Broadcom CTO Henry Samueli at #ethernet40 celebration:

Moore’s Law is coming to an

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Normally, in Ethernet World, bit rate is referring to both downlink and uplink separately. So, ...

Iron Man Action Figure

By toyswillmickeal on 05.20.2013

The second generation Iron Man red action figure can shine in two places: the round white lights on his eyes and palms. What is more, the lights are sound

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How do you think of this 7"TFT LCD Module?

By WangBao Electronics on 05.16.2013

Hello, everyone.

Don't you got a LCD Module yet? No. Now it is IT Ages and you need to own one, or you will out!
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This is a professional discussion forum at a place where advertisements are paid for. Please do not ...

Samsung takes 95% of Android Profits

By eewiz on 05.16.2013

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2268642/samsung-takes-95-percent-of-all-android-profits

The competition in Android market is pathetic

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Iphone5 Brings Bad Luck to Apple?

By Lavender on 05.16.2013

Recently, Apple seems to be unfortunate of experiencing “it never rains but pours” from 2012, or exactly just before the release of Iphone5. But this kind of

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