Didier Lamouche has resigned both as COO of STMicroelectronics and CEO of ST-Ericsson. No replacement has been named and there has been no announcement about whether Lamouche is moving to a new job. In Q3 this year, ST has said it ...
The company expects its sales in the wireless segment to increase by19% per year to $20bn by 2016. Swiss semiconductor firm, STMicroelectronics, expects that demand from Apple and Samsung Electronics will give a $1.4bn boost in ...
ST-Ericsson’s Thor M7450 LTE-Advanced modem, currently being sampled, uses a single radio for carrier aggregation. Called M7450, it supports all relevant 3GPP specified frequency bands having 10 flexible RF ports enabling 17 ...
ST-Ericsson has cranked its forthcoming smartphone processor up to 3GHz. The quad-core NovaThor L8580 will include a PowerVR graphics processor and an LTE modem with support VoLTE (Voice over LTE) and next-generation LTE technology carrier ...
ST-Ericsson is planning a Jobs Fair in Nijmegen, Holland on February 20th to find posts for its engineers. The move suggest that STMicroelectronics and Ericsson have failed to find a buyer for the company as a going concern.
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The company's Q4 loss widens Swiss semiconductor firm STMicroelectronics said it will write down about $500m to exit its struggling mobile chip joint venture, which was formed in 2008 with Swedish telecoms equipment manufacturer Ericsson. ...
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The recent spat between Samsung and Qualcomm with Samsung announcing an eight core IC for mobile phones and Qualcomm's CEO dismissing it as a publicity stunt, is put in context by ST-Ericsson Fellow Marco Cornero and Andreas Anyuru. ...
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In 2013, a high-end smartphone should have a full-HD 5-inch screen and a 13-megapixel camera to remain competitive, if products launched at International CES in Las Vegas this week are an indication of the state of the art for mobile ...
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ST-Ericsson has announced its fastest LTE smartphone platform, the NovaThor L8580 ModAp has an eQuad application processor running at up to 2.5GHz. The NovaThor L8580 will be available to sample in Q1 2013. It is built on 28nm ...
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Fabless IC suppliers grew by 6% in 2012, 10% better than the 4% decline registered by the IDMs and 8% better than the 2% decline shown by the total IC market last year. Except for 2010, fabless company IC sales growth has outpaced IDM IC ...
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Semi-conductors supplier ST-Ericsson last night unveiled a mobile device chipset that it says will add five hours to the battery life of smartphones once adopted by industry. The Swiss based company, which supplies chipsets and ...
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IDG News Service - An enhanced version of USB 3.0 will deliver up to 10Gbps, twice the data speed of current connections. The 10G bps SuperSpeed USB supplement to the existing USB 3.0 specification is expected to be completed by the ...
Tags: USB, CES, cables, connectors, Intel
If anyone missed the launch of USB 3.0,good news:SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is on the way and will be available next year. Details about the roadmap for the new standard were unveiled on the preview day of the Consumer Electronics Show(CES)in ...
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If anyone missed the launch of USB 3.0,good news:SuperSpeed USB 3.0 is on the way and will be available next year. Details about the roadmap for the new standard were unveiled on the preview day of the Consumer Electronics Show(CES)in Las ...
Tags: CES, 2013, SuperSpeed USB 3.0, Las Vegas
Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
Tags: ARM-based servers, Linux OS, Linaro