As Intel mulls a plan to expand its contract-manufacturing operations, the company has lost ground as the world's top semiconductor company to chip suppliers benefitting from the success of mobile devices, according to a study by IC ...
Lime Microsystems has launched an open-source RF initiative to support the wireless design community. Dubbed Myriad-RF, the non-profit initiative, aims to attract the interest of hobbyists and design engineers with low-cost RF boards and ...
Qualcomm Technologies is working with Europe's largest semiconductor technology centre, Imec on advanced CMOS logic and memory technologies including MRAM. Magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory which could be a low leakage ...
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We roundup some of the major electronics news stories from CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2013, which runs 8 - 11 January in Las Vegas. Thursday 10 January CES: LG unveils curved OLED TV LG debuts a curved model of its OLED TV ...
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Chinese chip firm Allwinner expected to discuss its quad ARM core A31 SoC at CES. At its heart are four ARM Cortex-7 processors with 256kbyte L1 cache and 1Mbyte L2 cache. On-die alongside these is a eight core PowerVR SGX 544MP2 ...
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Freescale Semiconductor CEO Gregg Lowe is pushing forward a major restructuring of the loss-making chip firm. "We conducted a thorough and extensive review of all our businesses,markets and regions during my first three months,"said Lowe. ...
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Peregrine Semiconductor has opened a design,development and sales facility in Reading as expansion of its European operations. Peregrine is recruiting for its European team as part of the expansion plan. Some of the worlda's most ...
Toumaz has completed the acquisition of Frontier Silicon. Toumaz,a developer of specialist medical sensors and low power wireless chips,announced in July it had agreed to acquire Frontier Silicon,the digital radio chipset developer for ...
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Lime Microsystems has signed an agreement with the strategic investment firm In-Q-Tel,which specialises in supporting technology used by the US Intelligence Community. The UK-based multi-band,multi-standard transceiver chip firm has ...
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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 ...
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MIPS Technologies and China-based mobile system-on-chip firm Actions Semiconductor have announced a design in for an Android 4.0'Ice Cream Sandwich'tablet. The miumiu W1 tablet from China-based tablet manufacturer Ramos incorporates the ...