Samsung shared more details about its next-generation Exynos 5 Dual dual-core mobile processor, saying it will be twice as fast as comparable Exynos chips used in the company's smartphones and tablets. The chip will also consume 30% less ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is taking steps to bridge the gap between x86 and ARM processors, and hopes to build a foundation from which programs will operate on mobile devices like tablets independent of architecture, the company's chief ...
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The HSA Foundation is established to define and promote an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing Technology firms AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek and Texas Instruments (TI) have came together to form a non ...
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The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 UK based chip manufacturer for phones and tablets, Imagination Technologies has agreed to buy California-based chip designer, MIPS Technologies for $60m to compete ...
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Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
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Imagination Technologies risks being gazumped in its$60m(£37.6m)bid to acquire microprocessor designer MIPS Technologies after the board of MIPS opened talks with rival CEVA. The news follows a significantly ...
Just two weeks after revealing its plans for adopting ARM for low-power server technology,chip designer AMD has put itself up for sale–with a slew of industry companies,including Intel,Google,Samsung and Facebook–mentioned as ...
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IDG News Service-British chip designer Imagination Technologies plans to acquire the operating business of processor maker MIPS Technologies,as well as some of its patents,in an effort to strengthen its position on smartphones.At the same ...
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Toumaz has completed the acquisition of Frontier Silicon. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips,announced in July it had agreed to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer for ...
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Samsung has opened its defence in its patent dispute with Apple. Further reading Apple claims a quarter of Samsung's ₤19.4bn US sales result from infringements Apple and Samsung trade accusations in first day of $2.5bn patent ...
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A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
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