We may not have flying cars of the future just yet, but at CES 2011, German car maker Audi and graphics firm Nvidia went that little bit further towards making automobiles just a tad more tech-tastic.
Everyone loves an underdog and that's why little British chip shop ARM has seen so much adulation, not only from its home crowd but from around the tech industry.
LAS VEGAS--Wednesday was a big day for Motorola Inc. at CES 2011, with the firm announcing a plethora of new devices, including new smart phones, and a Tegra 2 powered tablet made in partnership with Google Inc. and Verizon Wireless.
First up to be unveiled was...
Graphics maker NVIDIA announced on Wednesday that it would be working with mobile chipmaker ARM to build a non X86 CPU, on the same day that Microsoft announced its Windows software stack would now work on ARM chips.
LAS VEGAS — T-Mobile USA Inc. (DTEGY) is set to boost its HSPA+ network over the next 12 months, announcing plans to increase network download speeds up to a theoretical 42 megabits per second, or roughly twice the speeds the carrier currently offers for...
LAS VEGAS – Kicking off the International Consumer Electronics Show in style on Tuesday, Asian tiger AsusTek Computer Inc. unveiled a host of tablets and slates under its now famous Eee brand.Asus Chairman Jonney Shih showed his firm's tablet offerings, seen recently in...
Editor's Note: Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry. In many ways, 2010 was a landmark year in consumer devices: after years of...
Integrated Circuits (ICs) are an integral part of the mobile handset semiconductor market especially with the increasing demand for application processors within the wireless marketplace. In fact, the segment has one of the largest growth and development potentials in the industry due to an almost insatiable appetite for ever-growing levels of multi-functionality in next-generation handsets.
“PCs will soon seem very archaic,” said Trevett, whose firm currently relies on the PC market to make a living. “Mobile computing is the future. Mobile is the web, the web is mobile, the two are really integral,” he continued.
Popping up again like a recurring rash is the rumor that Intel is about to acquire German chip maker Infineon's mobile chip business, a move which would significantly help the firm in its ARM wrestle for significance in the mobile/wireless space.
Editor's Note:Welcome to our weekly feature, Analyst Angle. We've collected a group of the industry's leading analysts to give their outlook on the hot topics in the wireless industry.The Qualcomm Snapdragon platform continues to generate robust industry attention to accompany its steadily expanding customer...
In remarks to Chicago’s Executives Club on Wednesday, CEO of Motorola’s Mobile Devices and home business division Sanjay Jha announced another monster iPhone killer to be available by Christmas.
Now that the frenzied craziness that is Computex Taipei is done and dusted for another year, we can all take a step back and take a look at some of this year’s winners and losers.
Mobile pundits Sascha Pallenberg, JKK Mobile and Steve "Chippy" Paine discuss whether NVIDIA is still relevant to the tablet market and whether calls to "be patient" by the firm's CEO are justified.
Computex 2010 was always going to be about the tablets, and kicking off this year’s show, MSI did not disappoint, unveiling both a Windows 7 Intel Atom powered tablet and an Android version running on Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor. Talk about hedging your bets, MSI.
Google has just launched a new video codec initiative and “web media project” by the name of WebM, purportedly with the goal of providing the unwashed masses with a free and open video format on par with leading commercial choices.
Google has just launched a new video codec initiative and “web media project” by the name of WebM, purportedly with the goal of providing the unwashed masses with a free and open video format on par with leading commercial choices.
In a first quarter earnings call, NVIDIA executives patted themselves on the back for achieving “a major milestone,” in terms of completing and qualifying the firm’s first commercially available smartphone and for making history by being “the first PC technology company […]to cross the chasm from computing to mobile computing.”
One wouldn’t really expect any streaking at a serious corporate event like the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco, but when Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell took to the stage on Thursday, that’s just what happened.
As rumors go, it doesn't get more shocking than the whisperings Wednesday night, that gadget maker Apple Inc. was mulling a move to buy British chip shop ARM Ltd., the logic designer for the microprocessors and microcontrollers used in most of today's cellphones and...
While 2009 was dismal for overall semiconductor sales, smartphones, electronic readers and netbooks/smartbooks should help the industry in 2010. “The year 2009 will be remembered as one of the most dismal years in the history of the global semiconductor business, with a plunge of...
Editor's Note: Welcome to a special CTIA Show Daily edition of our weekly online feature, Analyst Angle. Every Monday at www.RCRWirelessNews.com you can find columns from the industry's leading analysts, including NPD Group's Ross Rubin, Enderle Group's Rob Enderle and more. Visit www.RCRWirelessNews.com/analyst for...
SUNNYVALE, Calif.-Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is set to scoop up graphics card specialist ATI Technologies Inc. for around $5.4 billion, putting ATI's long-standing relationship with Intel Corp. and graphics-developer Nvidia at risk since a combined ATI and AMD would be able to offer...
