PCs were upstaged by tablets, smartphones and TVs at this year's International CES show, with some companies maintaining a smaller presence or holding back product announcements for a later date. There were fewer product announcements ...
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RF Micro Devices has developed an ISM-band radio device for smart meters. The RFFM6403 operates in the 405MHz–475MHz frequency range, and so will support wireless links in general 433/470MHz ISM band systems. The chip is designed ...
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The PC market may be taking a beating but chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is has no plans to move toward the hot new market: smartphones. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at AMD, made it clear in an interview with ...
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IDG News Service - Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system failed to provide a spark to PC sales during last year's fourth quarter, with worldwide unit shipments falling by 6.4% compared to the same quarter in 2011, according to research by ...
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In a statement issued to the London Stock Exchange (LSE), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has a potential “significant acquisition”. This follows UK newspaper The Times reporting that, to ...
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Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has agreed to acquire the Kopin Wireless compound semiconductor epiwafer manufacturing division of Kopin Corp of Taunton, MA, USA (including its leased manufacturing ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has launched the RFPA520x series of three-stage WiFi power amplifier (PA) modules, designed for 802.11b/g/n applications. Other applications include: consumer premise equipment (CPE); picocells ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc (RFMD) of Greensboro, NC, USA has introduced a highly-integrated front end module (FEM) for Smart Energy/Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) applications at the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The ...
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Advanced Micro Devices showed off a Windows 8 tablet running the company's upcoming tablet chip code-named Temash,which the company hopes will reverse a string of past failures and provide enough ammunition to compete with tablet chip ...
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IDG News Service - Hewlett-Packard has priced its new Pavilion Touchsmart Sleekbook laptop at $699, claiming it's the most affordable device in its category. HP's Pavilion TouchSmart Sleekbook starts at $699 The laptop has a ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA has launched the highly integrated RFFM4501E front-end module (FEM) for 802.11ac notebook and mobile equipment applications. The firm says that its newest WiFi FEM meets or exceeds the system ...
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IDG News Service-Lenovo is challenging Google's Nexus 7 tablet with a new range of affordable IdeaTab tablets,which start at$299 and have the Android 4.0 OS. The US$299 IdeaTab A2109 comes with a 7-inch screen,while the$399 IdeaTab S2110 ...
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IDG News Service-Intel has started shipping 21 new processors for laptops and desktops,including a new Core i7 chip with a base clock speed of 3GHz,a new high for the company's mobile processors based on the Ivy Bridge microarchitecture. ...
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RF Micro Devices Inc of Greensboro, NC, USA says that RFMD fellow Kevin W. Kobayashi has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers by the IEEE board of directors. The IEEE grade of fellow was conferred ...
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Facebook, Red Hat, Hewlett-Packard and other big vendors have joined a project to develop Linux OS software for the upcoming generation of ARM-based servers, the companies announced Thursday. Advanced Micro Devices, Applied Micro, ...
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