STMicroelectronics'strategy of being a'competitive follower'in process technology means that the advantage in gaining access to processing equipment gained by the Intel,Samsung,TSMC lithographic alliance with ASML will not affect ST. "We ...
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STMicroelectronics is the third largest spender on R&D in the semiconductor industry and has the second highest ratio of R&D spend to sales revenue among the major players,reports IC Insights. ST came third after Intel and Samsung in ...
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Digital Core Design,Poland-based processor core design house,has been awarded for its design of"the world's fastest 8051 CPU". Bytom-based DCD was recognised for the DQ80251 processor in the Marka Slaskie-Silesia ...
IDG News Service - The recent move by Microsoft to compete against its computer-maker partners and launch its own tablet PC is a good thing for the market, a senior executive of Lenovo said Thursday at the IFA consumer electronics show in ...
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IDG News Service-Applied Micro lifted the curtain on its 64-bit ARM-based server platform at the Hot Chips conference this week and ignited a debate about whether ARM is the right architecture for the data center. Pat Gelsinger,a former ...
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Hewlett-Packard on Thursday announced an Envy X2 tablet-laptop hybrid device with the Windows 8 OS,signaling the company's re-entry into the consumer tablet market,which it abandoned after the highly publicized failure of its TouchPad ...
Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
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MIPS Technologies hopes to challenge ARM in the market for high-end tablets and smartphones with an upcoming processor design it presented at the Hot Chips conference in Silicon Valley on Tuesday. MIPS is known for chips used in home ...
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Details of Intel's upcoming Atom platform have been leaked,with the next-gen system taking firm aim at rival manufacture ARM and representing the biggest evolution of Atom since its 2008 arrival. Codenamed Bay Trail and scheduled for a ...
Korean semiconductor and electronics giant buys 3%stake in the Dutch lithography company,joining Intel and TSMC Samsung has followed its fellow chipmakers Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing ...
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Samsung intends to fight Friday's landmark jury award of $1 billion to Apple over smartphone and tablet patent violations -- possibly for years. But while it fights on, Samsung and other cellphone makers are expected to make changes to ...
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Following Intel and contract chip maker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), Samsung Electronics will invest US$976 million in Dutch chip manufacturing equipment maker ASML to further development of next-generation lithography ...
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PC World - The past six months or so have seen a veritable flurry of tiny, Linux-powered PCs descend upon the market, including not just the widely embraced Raspberry Pi but also the Mele A1000, the MK802, and the Oval Elephant, to name ...
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Computerworld-Attending the Republican National Convention in Tampa this week is Perse Faily,the CEO of startup EMN8,who will deliver a message on the tech industry's contribution to job growth.When the convention is over,she will head to ...
Staying ahead of Microsoft itself,VMware has updated its Workstation desktop computer hypervisor so it can run Microsoft's soon-to-be-released Windows 8. VMware Workstation 9,available now,also includes the ability for users to access ...
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