ST-Ericsson's CEO Didier Lamouche has decided to resign from his post as owner Ericsson looks for a way to ensure its future. The news comes following STMicroelectronics' decision in December to exit the joint-venture which was started in ...
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Qualcomm has a big, well-funded research and development operation, but its program for commercializing innovations is still a learning experience for the wireless chip maker. Qualcomm Labs was set up about two-and-a-half years ago to ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and chip packager Lextar Electronics expects the proportion of LED backlight unit (BLU) orders for clients other than AU Optronics (AUO) - Lextar's parent company - to increase from 40-50% ...
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Executives from both firms have discussed the issue in the past year but no agreement has been reached. Apple is reportedly in talks with Intel to manufacture mobile chips. The firm currently sources its chips from it's rival Samsung. ...
LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker Epistar, LED chip packaging house Unity Opto Technology and fellow maker Lextar Electronics have seen orders increase significantly in March, according to the companies. Due to increased orders for LED ...
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Chip maker Maxim has changed internal procedures to reinforce best-practice in embedded security products. The firm's efforts add to a security wave crossing the industry to protect intellectual property and to block stuxnet-like attacks ...
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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 ...
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Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and LED chip packager Lextar Electronics on March 4 released its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2012, with the 2012 business operation swinging from a net loss of NT$138 million in ...
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ARM is promising close to 70% processor power savings with a new chip design called Big.Little, and mobile devices on display at the Mobile World Congress provided the first glimpse of how the technology works. The concept of Big.Little ...
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One of the first low-cost Android tablets with an Intel x86 processor was announced at Mobile World Congress, setting the stage for a long battle between the world's largest chip maker and ARM, whose processors go into most tablets today. ...
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Intel has released its own Apache Hadoop distribution as the firm looks to extend its reach in the big data market. Apache Hadoop is an open source framework that specialises in running data applications on large hardware clusters. ...
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Software engineers at Intel are exploring new ways people can use the human voice, gestures and head-and-eye movements to operate computers. Intel's Barry Solomon uses hand gestures in a demonstration of a perceptual computing toolkit ...
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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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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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Even though PC giants Hewlett-Packard and Dell reported significant year-over-year sales declines, tech stocks, buoyed by signs of confidence from other IT vendors, started to rise again Friday after slumping for most of the week. Vendors ...
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