MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, the China-based mobile CPU developer have worked with Karbonn Mobiles of India to offer a low cost Android 4.1 'Jelly Bean' tablet. In India it is priced at Rs. 6999 (approximately $125). ...
Tags: India, tablet, $125, Android 4.1
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), has more than doubled production of bonded silicon-on-sapphire ...
Tags: RF, CMOS, Silicon On Sapphire, UltraCMOS, RFIC
A pricing battle is looming in the desktop chip market after Advanced Micro Devices shipped aggressively priced Trinity desktop chips, which might prompt a price-reduction response from Intel, analysts said. AMD has priced the Trinity ...
Tags: pricing battle, desktop chip market, Advanced Micro Devices, price
Intel kicked off its Intel Developers Forum in San Francisco Tuesday showing off an Ultrabook with iPhone Siri-like functions, new gesture controls for PCs, and its newest Haswell Core processor aimed at the mobile PC market. Intel ...
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA, has gained design wins for its new high-performance acoustic wave filters in 4G smartphones from manufacturers including Samsung, ...
Tags: TriQuint, 4G smartphones, design wins
ST-Ericssona's integrated applications processor and modem,NovaThor,recorded 28%sequential growth in shipments in Q2,according to Strategy Analytics. While Qualcomm maintained its lead position with 48%of the apps processor ...
Tags: ST-Ericsson, NovaThor, growth, Android
CBR talks to desktop GPU-cum-mobile 'system on a chip' maker NVidia about the major players in the mobile space, and what we can expect from the company in 2012. CBR talks to the maker of the Tegra 3 quad core system on a chip (SOC) ...
Tags: NVidia, chip'maker, Google Nexus 7 tablet, transition
For third-quarter 2012, GaAs-based broadband wireless and wireline communications component maker Anadigics Inc of Warren, NJ, USA has reported net sales of $28.6m, down 23.1% on $37.3m a year ago but up 14.1% on $25.1m last quarter. ...
Tags: wireless ainfrastructure, CATV infrastructure, wireline communications
For third-quarter 2012, RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA has reported revenue of $200.8m, down 7% on $216m a year ago but up 13% on $178m last quarter, driven by ...
Tags: TriQuint, TriQuint Semiconductor, smartphone, Mobile Devices
Optical components, modules and subsystems developer Oclaro of San Jose, CA, USA has reported financial results for its fiscal first-quarter 2013 (ended 29 September 2012), including about ten weeks of operating results of Opnext Inc of ...
Tags: Oclaro Opnext, Quarterly Earnings Slip, financial results
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has introduced a new multi-band,multi-mode power amplifier(MMPA)that it says simplifies the increasingly complex RF front-end for ...
For second-quarter 2012,RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has reported revenue of$178m,down 22%on$228.8m a year ago and down 18%on$216.7m in Q1/2012(exceeding the ...
Tags: TriQuint, RF, Semiconductor, USA
Backlog at Electro Scientific Industries swells to a six-year high on new design wins,prompting 20%stock bounce. ESI stock:up 20%on positive outlook Electro Scientific Industries(ESI),the provider of laser systems used in a variety ...
Tags: ESI, Laser, semiconductor, consumer electronics, LED
For its fiscal third-quarter 2012(ending 29 June),Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn,MA,USA(which manufactures linear products,power amplifiers,front-end modules and radio solutions for handset and infrastructure equipment)has reported ...
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Imagination had a 53% rise in profits to$57.7m and a 30% rise in revenue to$200m for the financial year to the end of April. Royalty revenue was up 55%to$100m.Licensing revenue was up 21%to$54m.Revenues from the Pure digital radio ...
Tags: Profits, economic, environment