NVIDIA’s Icera acquisition was not about integration was not about integrating baseband onto the processor chipbut about doubling the firm’s opportunity market wise, according to Mike Rayfield, the firm’s general manager of mobile.
Speaking to RCR at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, Rayfield said the purchase...
While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new phones to add to its network.
“At AT&T we’re looking for...
While Taiwan is clearly an important country to chip and device makers, US carriers look to the island for innovation too, with AT&T scouting the computex show in Taipei earlier this month for new phones to add to its network.
“At AT&T we’re looking for...
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 will give Intel a run for its money in both the computing and mobile...
Microsoft’s business model for next generation Windows may be better suited to the mobile industry than Google’s strategy for Android, according to Glen Burchers, director of Freescale’s global consumer industrial segment marketing.
A clear trend for improved audio appears to be emerging in the mobile space, with a plethora of companies from chip makers to speaker manufacturers trying to bring their own brand of harmony to the handset.
Is the smartphone space any place for sound snobs,...
Samsung Electronics has chosen Cavium Networks’ (NASDAQ: CAVM) Octeon processors for its 3G/4G systems, according to the firm.
Samsung has increasingly been dipping its toes into building out network solutions, and says it sees Octeon processors as “ideal” when it comes to 4G capable products...
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 a slight dip in sales according to market research from Cannacord Genuity. Low- and...
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, to high end multimedia systems.The multi-channel CC8530 radio frequency (RF) SoC for wireless headsets...
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 would it be scaling Android up to Chromebooks. Since Google's Chrome browser was unveiled...
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 from $6.87 billion in 2009 to approximatelyS$9.11 billion in 2010, growing 36.2%.
Meanwhile the global semiconductor...
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 from $6.87 billion in 2009 to approximatelyS$9.11 billion in 2010, growing 36.2%.
Meanwhile the global semiconductor...
The Statesman | May 6, 2011 | Kirk Ladendorf
Altera Corp. said Thursday that it is setting up a semiconductor design center in Austin that it expects will employ "several hundred engineers" within the next few years.
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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 longevity in the smartphone space, the Finnish company is going to be on the...
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 Taiwan an innovation hub.“What we see emerging from here is wave after wave of...
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 day and most recently its failed FLO TV offering. But Qualcomm's fortunes and greatest...
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 Atheros, which makes dual-band Wi-Fi in both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz frequency bands,...
TAIPEI, Taiwan – Intel Corp. has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year cadence.Speaking publicly at...
Taipei, Taiwan - Intel has invented a new category of mobile computers it is calling the “Ultrabook” the firm revealed at Computex on Tuesday. The company said it was also accelerating its Atom processor roadmap to a one-process-generation per year cadence.
Speaking publicly at Computex...
RCR Wireless News will be attending this week's Uplinq Conference in sunny San Diego. The two-day event is expected to give Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) an opportunity to announce its latest plans for its services offering and continue to blend the technology trends that are...
Austin, Texas-based chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor Inc. went public on Wednesday but fell short of company expectations, pricing stock 22% less than projected at $18 a share.According to an initial public offering filing (IPO), Freescale wanted to raise more than $1 billion, which is around...
Siano Mobile Silicon, supplier of mobile digital TV receiver chips, announced that it has completed a $20 million expansion capital financing round. The round was led by Israeli venture capital fund, Jerusalem Venture Partners. Gadi Tirosh, a General Partner at JVP, will be joining...
Microsoft has hit back at allegations from Intel that the four versions of Windows ARM would not run existing PC programs and would offer a poor experience to users.
