Qualcomm wants to make tablets and smartphones more perceptive by giving the devices a “silicon brain,” company CEO Paul Jacobs said Wednesday. The company wants to load mobile devices with its Zeroth processor, which is ...
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For China Mobile executives, it seems like just yesterday that the mobile carrier was the only game in town. The company, the world’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, dominated the industry for most of the past decade. With ...
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(Credit: Screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) The Nokia Lumia 1520 is now officially available for preorder through both AT&T and Microsoft with a launch date of November 22. AT&T's preorder page shows the phone selling for $199 with the ...
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By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
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Semiconductor giant Intel is to open its fabrication facilities to ARM, after Altera announced that it had contracted with Intel to produce 64-bit ARM chips. The move opens the way for ARM microprocessors to be built to Intel's latest ...
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Dell will give its first public demonstration of a 64-bit ARM server this week, the latest step in an industrywide effort to build servers based on low-power chips like those used in smartphones. Dell will show a server based on a 64-bit ...
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Wireless charging of mobile devices was originally expected to see giant advances in the second half of 2013 and many smartphone brand vendors have been inquiring about related solutions. However, because of compatibility issues and prices, ...
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Tesco's bargain-tastic Hudl 7-inch tablet seems to be going great guns, selling 35,000 units in its first two days alone after release in the UK. It's cheap - coming in at just £120 (or £60 if purchased with specific Tesco ...
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Breaking away from the flat screens found in so many smartphones, Samsung is releasing its Galaxy Round handset with a curved display. The new Android phone will only be released in South Korea on Thursday, but is the world’s first ...
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They say that cheaters never prosper, which is why Samsung has yet to get away with tweaking the performance of the processors in its phones to get better benchmark scores. A recent discovery over at Ars Technica reveals that the ...
Mobile devices will be able to talk to wireless charging platforms through a partnership between the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP) and the backers of Bluetooth. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group and the A4WP announced a memorandum ...
LG has launched its latest flagship smartphone – the G2 – in India. The smartphone sports a dimension of 138.5 x 70.9 x 8.9mm, weighs 143 grams. The LG G2 features a 5.2-inch full-HD (1080x1920) display, with a pixel density of ...
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Homegrown Chinese mobile phone makers have seen a high-end chip supply shortage become a big obstacle on their expansion way. Gu Wenjun, a senior analyst with iSuppli, said in an interview recently that China imported USD 192 billion ...
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After years of oversupply, the supply and demand for solar devices is returning to a state of balance. Because of this, IMS Research is reiterating its forecast that global capital spending by producers of photovoltaic (PV) modules, cells, ...
Coca-Cola has partnered with DEKA R&D, IBM, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), McCann Health, NRG Energy, Qualcomm Technologies and UPS to supply water purification kiosk EKOCENTER to 20 nations by the end of 2015. Coca-Cola stated ...
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