Worldwide semiconductor revenues decreased by 2.2 percent year over year to $295 billion in 2012, according to the latest version of the International Data Corporation (IDC) Semiconductor Application Forecaster (SAF). The industry witnessed ...
Tags: Semiconductor, Revenue Growth, 2013
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 is the world's first dual-core SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, FM-radio, GPS and ...
Tags: MediaTek, Android, Smartphone
Semiconductor company MediaTek wants to improve the performance of low-cost, Android-based smartphones with its latest system-on-a-chip (SoC), the MT6572. MT6572 is the world’s first dual-core SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, FM-radio, ...
Tags: Mediatek, Android Smartphone
A processor with a hardware video accelerator can provide an interesting alternative to a traditional DSP-based multimedia system design, writes Israel Shem-Tov, high-end applications engineer at Future Electronics (Israel). Recent years ...
Tags: Video Processing, Hardware Acceleration, Consumer Electronics
The fact that LTE connectivity is becoming ubiquitous in smartphones and tablets isn't lost on Intel, which aims for its baseband processors to be used in more mobile devices and base stations. Intel is optimizing LTE modems to be paired ...
Tags: Intel, Computer Products, Computer
ARM's big.LITTLE processing combo, which pairs a Cortex A-15 with an A-7, has been adopted by five users - Renesas, Samsung, CSR, Fujitsu and MediaTek, ARM announced at MWC today. ARM says the technology saves up to 70% of processor ...
Tags: ARM, LITTLE, processing combo
Qualcomm, with its 50% share of the baseband processor and application processor markets and 86% share of the FDD-LTE modem market, is entering the LTE RF front-end market with a chip-set which works across all the 40 different frequency ...
With 86% of the 47 million LTE cellphone modems shipped last year, Qualcomm will certainly continue its domination in 2013, says Forward Concepts. "Samsung followed with 9% of the shipments, while tiny GCT Semiconductor managed to grab 3% ...
Broadcom says it's invented a chip that can tell your phone where you are all the time without quickly draining your battery. The BCM47521 chip, which will be demonstrated at Mobile World Congress next week, should make it easier to use ...
Tags: chip, Broadcom chip, Mobile World
Neul has announced its first transceiver chip for 'white space' communications in 470-790MHz UHF TV bands. Called Iceni, the chip is intended for secure non-line-of-sight machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. Both 6 and 8MHz ...
Tags: Neul, transceiver chip, communications
Tablet processor sales are expected to grow 50% in 2013. , while cellphone application processor sales by 28% Improvement in global PC demand and continued growth in mobile SoC processors are expected to drive sales of microprocessors ...
Microprocessor sales are expected to grow 12% to $65.3bn after only 5% growth in 2012 because of weakness in standard PCs, says IC Insights. However, the microprocessor market will gain strength between 2013 and 2016 with modest growth ...
Tags: microprocessor, PCs, tablet computer
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 ...
Tags: ST Ericsson, smartphone platform, eQuad application processor
IDG News Service - As TV makers show off UltraHD TVs at CES, communications chip maker Broadcom is introducing the guts of future gateways that will be able to bring video for those sets into viewers' homes. Broadcom's BCM7445 silicon ...
Tags: UltraHD TVs, TV, Broadcom, BCM744
New processors from AMD and Intel will provide the horsepower for next generation desktop applications, that could previously only run on specialist workstations. Integrated chips used to be the poor cousins of dedicated systems. PC ...
Tags: New processors, AMD, Intel, desktop applications, Integrated chips