AMD has accused four former employees of stealing 100,000 confidential files before leaving to work for rival chip manufacturer Nvidia, filing a suit described in the case document as "an extraordinary case of secret transfer [,] ...
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If the global economy rebounds smoothly, global LED lighting demand is likely to begin to increase significantly along with expected improvement in performance-cost ratio for LED lighting devices as early as the second half of 2013 rather ...
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Swiss IGBT driver manufacturer CT-Concept is to open custom design centre in Ense, Germany. It will develop semi-custom gate-drive designs based on its driver cores, and produce full-custom drivers using the firm's Scale-2 chipset for ...
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Advanced Micro Devices has been granted by a court in Massachusetts a temporary restraining order against four former employees, three of whom are alleged to have left the company to join Nvidia with confidential documents and trade ...
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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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New 802.11ac routers launching at International CES promise users gigabit-speeds and better performance when streaming video. Since last year's CES, 802.11ac -- which is the latest in IEEE's family of WLAN standards -- has gone from a new ...
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Computerworld - Users will some day soon toss aside their keyboard and mouse because their computers will understand their hand gestures and even the look on their face. That's Intel's vision anyway. The world's largest chip maker is ...
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Asus, Lenovo,Intel and Nvidia are using CES to show off their latest tablet and PC innovations headed to store shelves later in 2013. But gadget makers would be better off focusing on slates rather than notebook PCs, one market research ...
IDG News Service - As TV makers show off UltraHD TVs at CES, communications chip maker Broadcom is introducing the guts of future gateways that will be able to bring video for those sets into viewers' homes. Broadcom's BCM7445 silicon ...
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A jury in Pennsylvania has ordered chip maker Marvell Technology to pay $1.17 billion for patent infringement in one of the largest awards of its kind. The jury found that Marvell infringed two patents related to hard disk drive ...
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Computerworld-Intel's former head of Ultra Mobility,hired Monday to become Qualcomm's chief marketing officer,shows that the San Diego-based chip maker is finally serious about marketing,one analyst said. The hiring of Anand ...
Computerworld-The PC industry got another does of sour news Friday when Intel announced it's cutting its third-quarter revenue outlook. The world's largest chip maker lowered its revenue forecast from an expected$13.8 billion to$14.8 ...
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Samsung is building a tablet based on Windows RT for release sometime in October, according to unnamed sources who spoke to the Bloomberg news service. Samsung joins Acer and Asus, among other device makers, to build the touchscreen ...
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The Wi-Fi Direct standard may get a much-needed boost next year from work by the Wi-Fi Alliance to make it easier to use for both consumers and developers. The specification for peer-to-peer links among devices debuted in 2010 and has ...
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Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday cut its revenue forecast for the third quarter, saying a challenging economy hit demand for all its products. The chip maker now expects revenue for the quarter ending Sept. 29 to be down about 10 ...
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