Nvidia on Tuesday announced the GeForce GTX Titan, a GPU designed to handle the most demanding games by harnessing the processing power of 2,668 graphics cores. The GPU, which the company claims is the world's fastest graphics processor, ...
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Lextar Electronics applied with the Taiwan Intellectual Property Office (TIPO) under the Ministry of Economic Affairs for 174 patents of which 125 ones were invention patents (the other two types of patents are utility and design) in 2012, ...
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In another illustration of the diminishing importance of the PC, a research firm today said that more than a third of surveyed consumers who once used personal computers to access content said they had switched to tablets and smartphones. ...
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Dublin-based fab-less chip company Ikon Semiconductor has jumped into the competitive LED light bulb market with its first product: a dimmable single-stage ac-dc converter. Like iWatt's new chip for non-dimmable bulbs (see page??), Ikon ...
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Germany-based Azzurro Semiconductor AG has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si (gallium on silicon substrates) LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of the second quarter of 2013, according to company ...
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A research firm on Friday said that more than a third of surveyed consumers who once used personal computers to access content said they had switched to tablets and smartphones. But unlike others, who, noting the same trends, have said it ...
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Azzurro Semiconductor AG’s Sales & Marketing vice president Erwin Ysewijn told to Digitimes that, the company has turned out sample 8-inch Ga-on-Si LED epitaxial wafers and plans to begin volume production as soon as the end of Q2 of ...
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Intel saw its sales and profits drop in 2012 as the company was hit by slower demand for personal computers and its continued inability to make it big in the smartphone and tablet markets, although its data center business continued to ...
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The first mobile devices with Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon chip, which features an integrated modem, will be shown off later this month, the firm said on Monday. Device makers will show tablets and smartphones with the new ...
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Dutch start-up Anagear has released a power management IC (PMIC) for wireless sensor nodes, that consumes an average of 600nA, said the firm. Typically, wireless sensor nodes have a microcontroller that spends most of its time in sleep, ...
Dell is trying to bring the ARM and x86 processors closer by supporting a new systems management technology, a step toward making both the CPU technologies interoperable, the company said on Wednesday. Dell will back the Open Compute ...
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HomePlug networks that use the electrical wires in your home to transfer data are distributed by some of the world's biggest broadband providers and available at major retail stores,but even HomePlug's cheerleader in chief calls it ...
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Epistar and Lextar Electronics, two Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip makers, as well as Everlight Electronics and Unity Opto Technology, two Taiwan-based providers of LED chip packaging services, saw their revenues for December ...
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With less than a week to go before this year's International CES Show in Las Vegas commences, it's unclear which new products will generate the most buzz among attendees of the massive trade show. However, Ultra HDTVs, Windows 8 tablets, ...
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IDG News Service-Intel has started shipping 21 new processors for laptops and desktops,including a new Core i7 chip with a base clock speed of 3GHz,a new high for the company's mobile processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. ...
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