The global smartphone applications processor (AP) market climbed 41% on year to US$18 billion in 2013, while the market for tablet APs grew 32% to US$3.6 billion, according to Strategy Analytics. In the smartphone AP sector, Qualcomm ...
Freescale Semiconductor has signed a major new ARM license agreement which will cover the Cambridge firm’s most advanced processor cores. Freescale has taken a multiyear subscription license with ARM beginning with the ARM ...
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The first mobile devices with Qualcomm’s new quad-core Snapdragon chip, which features an integrated modem, will be shown off later this month, the firm said on Monday. Device makers will show tablets and smartphones with the new ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset,but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of dominant ARM chips. ...
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It's been a year since the introduction of the first Intel Inside handset, but the company's struggles to break into the smartphone market continue as rivals Nvidia and Qualcomm improved speed and power efficiency of ARM chips, which ...
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ST-Ericssona's integrated applications processor and modem,NovaThor,recorded 28%sequential growth in shipments in Q2,according to Strategy Analytics. While Qualcomm maintained its lead position with 48%of the apps processor ...
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Mobile and media consumption device markets contributed for the hybridisation trend Hybrid processors that include two or more different types of cores make up half of the $111bn processor market revenue, according to a new report by IMS ...
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Amazon may be entering the semiconductor business.The company is in talks with TI about buying TI's wireless chip business. TI supplies the chip-sets for Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet.It is thought that TI's wireless chip business could be ...
STMicroelectronics has taped out a dozen SOCs on Samsung's 32/28nm HKMG process.The chips are for mobile,consumer and network applications. "We have successfully started production of STMicroelectronics'new-generation 32/28nm SoC ...
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Next week STMicroelectronics will start running the 28nm FD-SOI NovaThor integrated modem and applications processor designed by ST-Ericsson,Jean-Marc Chery,Chief Manufacturing and Technology Officer of ST told EW in Crolles yesterday. ...
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Samsung will become the largest foreign corporate investor in the history of Texas when it spends the$4bn on its Austin fab which it announced today. The$4bn will bring to$13bn the amount invested by Samsung in Ausatin. Samsung intends ...
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While the CPU market is growing in single digit percentages,the applications processor market is growing at 40%a year and,by 2015,the value of the markets will match at around$33-34bn,according to Nomura. With ARM-based processors ...
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ST-Ericsson has had its modem/applications processor integrated chip NovaThor adopted by a smartphone called Coolpad launched by China Unicom and Yulong Telecommunications this week. ST-E has been looking to diversify its client base ...
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