IDG News Service-After more than 25 years the venerable VGA port is finally disappearing from computers,but the interface is proving tough to phase out completely and will linger for years in projectors,monitors and TV sets. The VGA(Video ...
Tags: VGA Ports, VGA hardware, home computers, Digital Flat Panel
A major fabless semiconductor company is emerging from the UK's high tech start-up community. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips is to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer ...
Tags: UK, high tech start-up community, fabless semiconductor, Toumaz
Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system,also called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors,the company said this week. The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port ...
Tags: Intel, Google updating Android 4.1, Atom tablets, smartphones
ROG Maximus V Extreme includes five PCI Express 3.0 slots ASUS has introduced a new motherboard, ROG Maximus V Extreme which is based on Intel Z77 chipset and supports a range of 2nd and 3rd generation Intel Core processors. The ...
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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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On the same day that it released a Bluetooth Low Energy module,Murata announced that it has joined a European configurable radio research programme. The 20.0x13x2.4mm module,called LBCA2ZZVZE,includes a chip antenna and all the Bluetooth ...
Tags: Murata, Low Power Radio, Bluetooth Low Energy module, Texas, IMEC
20 June 2012 NXP's 0.65mm x 0.44mm x 0.2mm SiGe:C GPS LNAs offer 0.60dB noise figure NXP Semiconductors N.V.of Eindhoven,The Netherlands,which provides mixed-signal and standard product solutions,has unveiled the BGU8006 low-noise ...
Tags: NXP Semiconductors, WLCSP, GPS LNAs, BGU8006 LNA
RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro,OR,USA has launched what is claimed to be the first 802.11ac-ready Wi-Fi RF module for next-generation mobile devices.In addition to ...
Tags: TriQuint, Wi-Fi, Mobile Device, Download
Specialty foundry TowerJazz(which has fabrication plants at Tower Semiconductor Ltd in Migdal Haemek,Israel,and at its subsidiaries Jazz Semiconductor Inc in Newport Beach,CA,USA and TowerJazz Japan Ltd)and Phasor Solutions Ltd of ...
Tags: TowerJazz, SiGe, BiCMOS, Satellite Communications
In booth 1210 at the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium(IMS)in Montreal,Canada(17-22 June),RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro,NC,USA has launched four RF front-end modules(FEMs)for next-generation WiFi applications.The ...
Tags: RFMD, WiFi, FEM, IMS, WiFi applications
In booth 815 at the 2012 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium tradeshow in Montréal,Canada(19-21 June),M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell,MA,USA(which makes analog semiconductors,components and subassemblies for ...
Tags: M/A-COM, Technology, Chipset, Wireless
GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)says that its HXR/T4104 high-speed optical driver and receiver chipset is being used in the high-speed data ...
Tags: GigOptix, Chipset, Semiconductor, Laser
Luminus Devices, Inc., the maker of the Big Chip LEDs(TM), has announced it has tripled the brightness of its green LEDs over the last five years, and expects to at least double it again. Green light is reportedly considered by the industry ...
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Luminus Devices, Inc., the maker of the Big Chip LEDs(TM), has announced it has tripled the brightness of its green LEDs over the last five years, and expects to at least double it again. Green light is reportedly considered by the industry ...
Tags: led chip
5 June 2012 GigOptix showcasing wideband amplifier and E-band solutions at IMS GigOptix Inc of San Jose,CA,USA(a fabless supplier of semiconductor and optical components for high-speed information streaming)is to showcase its portfolio of ...
Tags: GigOptix, IMS, E-band solutions, wideband products