Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine, CA, USA, which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets, says that it has started volume production of its RFX333 ...
Ukrainian steel pipe and wheel producer Interpipe has announced the putting in place of a local support team to work on the ground in the southern Iraqi city of Basra following the receipt of approval from South Oil Company (SOC), one of ...
The shift toward smaller tablets will accelerate in the second half of the year when a slew of tablet makers, including Apple, introduce new models with screens 8-in. or smaller, said Richard Shim, an analyst with DisplaySearch. Although ...
Tags: Smaller Tablets, 2013
Taiwan's MediaTek has launched a new quad-core ARM processor for tablets that is slated to be used in an upcoming IdeaTab device from Lenovo. The MT8125 chip features a quad-core processor built with ARM's Cortex A7 CPU and can run at up ...
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AMD today launched three new additions to its 2013 A-Series and E-Series Mobile Accelerated Processing Unit (APU) lineup – delivering solutions ideally positioned to address today’s evolving PC market with dramatically increased ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says that its AWL9281 and AWL9581 WiFi front-end integrated circuits (FEICs) have been selected for use with the industry’s ...
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This week during the Google I/O developers conference, Vivante Corporation announced product readiness for the latest Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2 operating system update. Today's Google TV? products featuring the Vivante GC1000 IP cores ready ...
Broadcom Corporation today continued the expansion of its Wireless Internet Connectivity for Embedded Devices (WICED) product family with the announcement of the immediate availability of its new WICED Smart Development Kit through ...
Claimed to be a major building block in future Intel chips for mobile gadgets, microservers and car entertainment systems. Intel has introduced the new Silvermont micro-architecture for its Atom processors to take on Qualcomm in ...
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 ...
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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
Alexander Duesener, v-p of worldwide field operations in EMEA for Cadence Design Systems believes chip designers have a crucial role in maintaining Europe’s strengths in wireless and automotive systems. The biggest challenge in ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Chip Design
Europe's gas demand in the first quarter of 2013 rose 2.2% from the previous year, according to Societe Generale estimates. An unusually cold March saw gas demand soar by 26.3% from 2012, pushing up the first quarter as a whole, the SG ...
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Back-end segment and the wafer-level packaging (WLP)-related segments ruled the semiconductor market during the year Global semiconductor capex on manufacturing equipment declined 16.1% during 2012 to $37.8bn compared to 2011, according ...
AMD says it is looking to grow its business in markets outside the PC industry, with an emphasis on embedded systems. The processor firm has announced its latest embedded system-on-chip (SOC) platform based on the AMD next-generation ...
Tags: Embedded Market, Jaguar Chip