Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA (which manufactures high-reliability analog and mixed-signal semiconductors) says that several OEMs and smartphone providers are leveraging its SkyOne front-end solution. The SkyOne platform, ...
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ST-Ericsson’s Thor M7450 LTE-Advanced modem, currently being sampled, uses a single radio for carrier aggregation. Called M7450, it supports all relevant 3GPP specified frequency bands having 10 flexible RF ports enabling 17 ...
Sequans Communications says its first LTE-Advanced chip will be sampling next quarter. Supporting 3GPP Release 10 specifications, the Cassiopeia chipset implements carrier aggregation of 40MHz total bandwidth. “The key feature is ...
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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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The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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Godson-3B1500 is a two-node eight-core 172.8Gflop/s MIPS64-compatible processor from Loongson in Beijing - a company whose processors have been adopted in several tablets. Fabricated in 32nm 10 Cu-layer high-k metal-gate bulk CMOS, it ...
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Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's theme is '60 years of (em)powering ...
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Nikon Corporation today released its advanced, high-performance DX-format D7100 digital SLR camera. This compact lightweight camera (W × H × D: approx. 135.5 × 106.5 × 76 mm; weight: approx. 675 g -- for the camera ...
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Nikon calls this an entry-level camera but the specs are high-end. The D5200 features a new DX-format CMOS sensor with 24.1 million pixels and an optimised EXPEED 3 image processing system. We present a selection of the latest in hi-tech ...
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Micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of Grenoble, France says that it will coordinate a four-year project aimed at building a European-based supply chain in silicon photonics and speeding industrialization of the technology. The ...
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ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
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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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SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and mterials manufacturers) says that South Korean annealing furnace manufacturer Poongsan has joined its Front End Processes (FEP) ...
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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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The technology extends the talking time in mobile phones. Toshiba has released a CMOS power amplifier that claims to increase the talking time for mobile phones. The new technology uses two half-sized amplifiers with their own power ...
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