GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA is shipping production volumes of its AWL9581 front-end integrated circuit (FEIC) for a new 802.11ac router manufactured by a Japan ...
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Increases Intel's ability to deliver silicon convergence, integrate hardware and software programmability US based programmable logic application provider Altera has signed a deal with Intel to manufacture field-programmable gate array ...
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Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA says it is shipping production volumes of its AWT6651 ProEficient power amplifier (PA) to Samsung Electronics for the Galaxy Music ...
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Seoul Semiconductor Co., Ltd is a Korean company manufacturing LED devices. The company is listed on KOSDAQ. The company is producing LED packages in two plants in Ansan, Korea. The total production capacity is 4 billion LED packages per ...
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Chinese handset maker ZTE said it will consider releasing smartphones built with eight-core processors in the future as the company prioritizes the high-end market this year. ZTE plans to launch before mid-year in China so-called "super ...
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Intel will start shipping its high-performance Atom smartphone chip with 3D transistors to device makers later this year, who will then test the chip for use in handsets. The Atom chip, code-named Merrifield, will improve performance and ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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STMicroelectronics is making application processors on its FD-SOI process running at 3GHz with ‘greater power efficiency at a given operating frequency than alternate technologies,’ says the company.
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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Toshiba says it has developed a highly efficient CMOS power amplifier that extends talk time for mobile phones. All mobile phone have power amplifiers to communicate with base stations. The output power is affected by distance from a base ...
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ARM’s close collaboration with the foundries on next generation processes is paying off. Globalfoundries says that an ARM chip made on its 14nm finfet policy delivers twice the power efficiency of its ‘super low power’ ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset,but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of dominant ARM chips. ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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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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