Reports that STMicroelectronics have failed to find a buyer for ST--Ericsson mean that only one option remains for ST-E and that is closure unless the French government bails it out. Last December ST committed to exiting from the jv by ...
Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA is shipping production volumes of its power amplification solutions that are compatible with Broadcom's 5G WiFi chips. RFMD ...
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Texas Instruments (TI) announced today it will begin shipping wireless charging chips this year that support multiple protocols, allowing a wider range of mobile devices to be charged using competing standards. The first multi-mode chips ...
In Star Wars terms, the small cells that mobile carriers and vendors will be talking up this week at Mobile World Congress are more like the odd-couple androids R2-D2 and C-3PO than like their foes, the Empire's phalanxes of identical storm ...
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Radio-frequency component and compound semiconductor company RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA says it is expanding its entry solutions product portfolio to include multiple new solutions for 2G and 3G entry smartphones. ...
Smartphones and tablets with the emerging Wi-Fi wireless networking technology, 802.11ac, will arrive early in the second half of this year, a Qualcomm executive said. Mobile devices based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 series processors ...
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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 ...
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SONY'S first digital baby monitor has night vision and a temperature sensor, and reports a baby's stirring on LED lights. NAVMAN MY ESCAPE II ($499) The MY Escape II is Navman's grey nomad special GPS. Navman research says over-55s are ...
Broadcom has unveiled its smallest ever 4G LTE-Advanced smartphone wireless modem. The race is on to amongst chip suppliers to take the initiative for the generation of super mobiles which will come after this year's LTE smartphones. The ...
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An ITU group has approved a successor to the H.264 video encoding standard, opening the door to future video transmission using only half the bandwidth that's now required. The International Telecommunication Union's H.265 standard is ...
Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
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The Wi-Fi Alliance demonstrated the emerging Miracast wireless display technology at International CES here Tuesday by sending live computer game animation from a smartphone to a 27-in. television. The new Miracast wireless display ...
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The event, which drew a large crowd and included a performance by Grammy-winning artist Alicia Keys, saw Harvey Norman win the gold award for being the Californian-based AV cables' company best retailer supplier in 2012. The awards were ...
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Raspberry Pi interface board PiFace will be shipping to the public in the next few weeks. The board adds eight output and eight inputs to Raspberry Pi, as well as various LEDs, switches, and a couple of relays. Most ...
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