Chips – Semiconductor

Dallas-based Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN) announced it has won the Femto Forum Femtocell Industry Award for “Enabling Technology” for its latest small cell base station System-on-Chips (SoCs).For more click on …

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Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) introduced a network processor that improves performance four times above the fastest Internet Protocol networks available today. The company’s FP3 processor can handle 70,000 simultaneous high-definition video streams …

SINGAPORE — Here on the show floor at CommunicAsia, there’s been a strong emphasis on quality in the wealth and breadth of phones and devices on hand. From curved screens …

Freescale Semiconductor (FSL) recently announced a new generation multi-core platform called the Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series and is billing it as the chip-maker’s biggest draw in several years.The new product …

ZD Net | June 17, 2011 | Rachel King Google already promised at the launch of Google Wallet that NFCtechnology would be coming to more Android handhelds beyond theNexus S. Sony Ericsson is helping out. …

The fascinating thing about the ARM partnership and ecosystem is the “unholy alliance” of competitors within it, according to the firm’s founder and president Tudor Brown who believes ARM licencees …

Verizon Wireless has been keeping the U.S. smartphone channel afloat in May and June thanks to the launch of no less than six high-end Android smartphones, while rival carriers saw …

Texas Instruments Incorporated (TXN) today announced its second device in the family of PurePath Wireless audio products which can be used for anything from consumer music players to mobile phones, …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Visiting Taiwan during Computex 2011, Google’s senior VP of Chrome, Sundar Pichai said the firm would not be porting its Chrome OS to tablets or handsets, nor …

Taiwan is poised to overtake Japan in 2011 as the world’s largest semiconductor materials market, according to data from SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International). SEMI, a global trade organization, also said Taiwan’s market grew …

SAN DIEGO — Until Nokia Corp. (NOK) releases some actual equipment running on Microsoft Corp.’s (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system, signaling a return to better days and some semblance of …

TAIPEI, Taiwan — In his keynote session at Computex this week, vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of the Embedded and Communications Group, Doug Davis called …

SAN DIEGO — Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) is an engineer shop at its core. It has flirted with some direct-to-consumer apps and gear, most notably its device division back in the …

TAIPEI, Taiwan – Qualcomm Atheros Inc., Qualcomm’s networking and connectivity subsidiary, is showing off several next-generation wireless chipset technologies this week at the Computex Taipei 2011 conference in Taiwan. Qualcomm …