Microsoft Windows is the software language of choice for business, and the Redmond company is making sure that language translates to tablets. The company says key Windows applications will run on tablets powered by ARM-based chips, the processors that power most tablets and smartphones...
Arteris, a venture backed by some of the semiconductor industry's major players, says it has licensed its chip-to-chip interconnect technology to China's Ingenic. Ingenic makes the processor that powers the Novo7, an Android 4.0 tablet that sells in China for $99.
Arteris says its...
Device makers spent more on chips for wireless products last year than on chips for computers or any other product. The latest research from IHS iSuppli shows semiconductor spending for wireless products at $58.6 billion in 2011, up more than 14% from 2010.
Wireless...
When the chips are down, mobile computing is not so much about the device as about the experience that device provides, according to Intel CEO Paul Otellini. Of course Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) wants to power the experience on as many devices as possible, and...
Qualcomm's Paul Jacobs believes the future of tech – in all its sci-fi glory – is already here, presenting amazing opportunities as well as serious challenges.Speaking to Om Malik on Qualcomm Live, Jacobs discussed the embedding of wireless into almost all objects, in a...
Despite another strong quarter for chipmaker Intel in terms of revenue, the chipmaking giant couldn’t help but be disappointed by its continued failures to break into the mobile market and the decline of its low powered Atom chipset.
Intel posted Q311 revenue of $13 billion,...
NVIDIA’s upcoming Kal El mobile processor may be the only 40nm quad core on the market according to sources in the know.
According to Fudzilla, NVIDIA will be the only chip firm to attempt a quad core build on ARM’s A9 architecture, while the likes of...
Apple may dump Samsung and move to Taiwanese chip manufacturer TSMC for production of its A6 chip, it has been claimed.
According to ComputerWorld, the 28nm chip will be fabbed in Taiwan, rather than Korea, after a spate of legal disputes between Apple and Samsung...
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...
GlobalFoundries has fired its top tier management this morning, effective immediately, replacing the CEO, COO and chairman of the board with appointees of the Abu Dhabi government investment arm ATIC.“The board of directors of GlobalFoundries – along with its majority shareholder, the Advanced Technology...
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...
The Statesman | May 6, 2011 |Â 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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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...
TAIPEI, Taiwan — It was another significant week in the mobile device world this week as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) gave the world it's long awaited preview of Windows 8 at the All Things “D” conference in California and the Computex trade show in Taiwan....
Microsoft, impeccably timed bunch that they are, held two Windows 8 first-look events within hours of one another on different sides of the globe. First, Windows President Steven Sinofsky took the stage at the D9 conference in California to unveil the new OS, then just a few hours later Microsoft held a partner preview at Computex in Taipei.
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.
A few months ago Microsoft Corp. announced it was building a version of Windows to run on ARM architecture, the kind found in system-on-a-chip silicon used by smartphones, tablets and other portable devices.
A few months ago Microsoft Corp. announced that they were building a version of Windows to run on ARM architecture, the kind found in system-on-a-chip silicon used by smartphones, tablets and other portable devices. Around a month ago Microsoft surprised attendees at their MIX developer conference in Las Vegas by demoing an apparently fully-functional version of Windows on ARM architecture.
The leaked video shows glimpses of a thin, stylish looking device complete with a nice looking camera, though the few peeks at the screen seem to show Symbian Anna rather than MeeGo or Windows phone 7.
Freescale Semiconductor used the Embedded Systems Conference in San Jose this week to announce its Make It Challenge design contest, which asks engineers to build a robot or system design based on the firm’s latest sensor development kit. In other words, a walking robot...