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More Radios on Fewer Chips
Without a radio, your cell phone is a small computer that can’t show web pages, check email or even make phone calls. In a sense it’s BrickBreaker playing brick. While it may come as a surprise to learn that it’s radios that do the heavy lifting to...
 
IvanStefanov
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Graphene Confirmed as the World's Strongest Known Material [Graphene]
The scientific community has been praising graphene as some sort of miracle material for years now—even going so far as to say that it could eventually replace silicon. Well, graphene can now add another statistic to its impressive resume now that...
 
gigaom61
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AMD Has Gone From Scrappy to Sad
Confession: Back when AMD was pitching its Opteron chipset, I convinced my husband to buy shares in the company on the belief...
7 days ago GigaOM | Topics: Semiconduc..., AMD, Dirk Meyer, Hector Ruiz
 
igufi
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Graphene Confirmed as the World's Strongest Known Material [Graphene]
The scientific community has been praising graphene as some sort of miracle material for years now—even going so far as to say that it could eventually replace silicon. Well, graphene can now add another statistic to its impressive resume now that...
 
gigaom61
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Five Multicore Chip Startups to Watch
As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting more cores onto a single...
 
TradeRadar
TradeRadar posted a blog entry
More trouble in store for OmniVision?
OmniVision (OVTI) is a California semiconductor company that makes solid state image sensor devices, or camera chips, for cell...
8 days ago Trade Radar | Topics: tech, semiconduc...
 
Sramana
Sramana posted a blog entry
Applied Materials Seeks Expansion into Solar
Continuing my discussion on the semiconductor manufacturing equipment sector, here is my analysis of Applied Materials (AMAT),...
 
gigaom61
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DesignArt Wants a Slice of the 4G Pie
The move to 4G will not be cheap. Carriers must consider network upgrade costs and a refresh of their handsets, not to mention...
17 days ago GigaOM | Topics: Mobile, Semiconduc..., Startups, DesignArt...
 
giavasan49
giavasan49 posted a blog entry
The secret lives of invisible magnetic fields
04.47 minutes / 16:9 widescreen / 2007A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt shot at the NASA Space Sciences...
20 days ago Giavasan | Topics: Web, magnetic..., semiconduc..., video
 
gigaom61
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The iPhone Makes Semiconductors Fun Again!
For a while there, covering the chip industry was like covering a race run by a rabbit and a cheetah. AMD was the rabbit, while...
21 days ago GigaOM | Topics: Semiconduc..., AMD, Apple, IBM
 
a.l.e.x.
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EMEA router market generated $1.01 bln in Q1 2008.
The router market in EMEA continued to grow in Q1 2008. The enterprise router market grew by 8.4% from $933 mln in 4Q 2007 to...
23 days ago IT Facts | Topics: Semiconduc..., Telecom
 
Xconomy
Xconomy posted a blog entry
Neopad Tech Raises $14 Million
Neopad Technologies, a nanotech company based in Hillsboro, OR, has raised some $14 million in Series C funding, according to...
 
a.l.e.x.
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Global PC COU shipments slowed in Q1 2008 to –9.2%
Worldwide PC microprocessor shipments slowed notably in Q1 2008, resulting in sequential growth of -9.2% over Q4 2007. In YOY...
25 days ago IT Facts | Topics: Semiconduc...
 
sykam
sykam posted a blog entry
Pillars of India Economy: Complete list of Navaratna and Miniratna CPSEs
List of Navaratna and Miniratna CPSEs ( As per available information on May5, 2008 ) List of Navaratna and Miniratna CPSEs...
 
sykam
sykam posted a blog entry
Pillars of India Economy: Complete list of Navratna and Miniratna CPSEs
List of Navratna and Miniratna CPSEs ( As per available information (5.5.2008)List of Navratna and Miniratna CPSEs ( As...
 
Pradeep C
Pradeep C posted a blog entry
Semicon half year over, what next now?
Wow! A majority of my predictions made on this blog for the global semiconductor industry have so far turned out correct -- in...
 
mike andrew
mike andrew posted a blog entry
Hard to Find Electronic Components
A semiconductor is basically a solid material that has electrical conductivity in between the conductivity of a conductor and...
 
digitaltv
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Consumer electronics consortium to forge future of remote control technology
Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), Samsung, Sony and Panasonic (NYSE:MC) have announced they have joined forces to develop a...
 
Pradeep C
Pradeep C posted a blog entry
Indian semicon needs concrete plans
The Indian semiconductor market is still in a nascent stage. In the Indian context, while we are very good in design services,...
 
digitaltv
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Pinnacle Selects Xceive XC5000 for New PCTV Tuner Lines
Xceive has announced that Pinnacle Systems, the consumer division of Avid Technology (NASDAQ: AVID), has selected the XC5000...
 
digitaltv
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Xceive Launches XC800 COFDM Digital Demodulator with Exclusive Digital Tuner Interface
Xceive has unveiled the XC800 COFDM demodulator. Featuring Xceive's innovative direct digital interface (XDDI), the XC800...
51 days ago Digital TV News | Topics: Computex, Digital Video, ICs, IDTV
 
digitaltv
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Malata Selects Xceive Smart Silicon Tuner for Latest Digital Television Line
Xceive has announced that Malata has integrated the Xceive’s XC5000 tuner IC within 19-inch and 22-inch integrated...
 
digitaltv
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Tatung and Qpixel Offer New H.264 Reference Platforms for Transcoding and Place-shifting on STBs, and Content Re-formatting for Viewing on Portable Media Devices
Qpixel Technology and Tatung have announced their joint efforts to bring value-add capabilities to standard STB (set top box)...
 
digitaltv
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DiBcom Enables High Performance Mobile Reception for Free-To-Air TV on LG Handset
DiBcom has announced that its latest generation Mobile TV receiver enables Free-To-Air (FTA) TV on the new HB620T mobile phone...
51 days ago Digital TV News | Topics: 3G/4G, DVB-H, Digital Video, Germany
 
digitaltv
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Industry’s Lowest-Power Full HD H.264 Codecs With the Broadest Feature Set Unveiled by Qpixel
Qpixel Technology has unveiled, at Computex, its High Definition (HD) QL303 and QL305 codecs, the latest members of its...
 
digitaltv
digitaltv posted a blog entry
Service Operators Look to Existing Home Wiring for Networking Set-Top Boxes
Service providers are moving toward networking their set-top boxes together, and they have been looking for existing-wire...
 
Pradeep C
Pradeep C posted a blog entry
Top semicon articles of 2008
A very kind reader left a comment yesterday that he (or she?) spent three hours on my blog! I am simply overwhelmed and...
 
digitaltv
digitaltv posted a blog entry
Samsung Selects Silicon Motion DVB-H Tuner for New Mobile Phone
Silicon Motion (Nasdaq:SIMO) has announced that its FC2750 DVB-H mobile TV tuner has been selected by Samsung for its recently...
56 days ago Digital TV News | Topics: DVB-H, Digital Video, Europe, Mobile
 
digitaltv
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Mirics develops global solution for TV on a PC utilizing software demodulation
Mirics Semiconductor has announced the Mirics FlexiTV™ broadcast receiver, a complete RF, host interface and software...
 
digitaltv
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Freescale unveils next-generation i.MX processor for portable multimedia devices
Freescale Semiconductor has introduced the i.MX37 multimedia applications processor – a highly advanced device for portable...
 
Pradeep C
Pradeep C posted a blog entry
Dubai -- an emerging silicon oasis
Don't be surprised if you wake up one day and read a headline that heralds the coming of age of Dubai as a silicon frontier!...
 
digitaltv
digitaltv posted a blog entry
NEC Electronics Introduces Cost-effective EMMA Digital SoCs for Next-Generation H.264 Video Standard
NEC (TSE: 6723) has introduced two new image-processing solutions based on their EMMA™ platform. The new EMMA3SL/HD™ and...
 
StockRake.com
StockRake.com posted a blog entry
Its a Bird, Its a Plane, Its a Chart Fest and Maybe a Learning Experience
JOYG, CPST, DRYS, GU, EDEN, EWZ, DRQ, CAT, KOL.Of these stocks which ones do I still own?CPST (can’t complain about...
 
matsm
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Semiconductors economics
There is a really interesting article the IEEE Spectrum by Clayton M. Christensen, Steven King, Matt Verlinden, and Woodward...
 
saj d
saj d posted a blog entry
Memory vendors investment thesis: timely call.
Here’s an interesting video which shows the advantages of a Solid State Drive over a Hard Disk.The article I had written...
 
arafiq786
arafiq786 posted a blog entry
Replacement of Multi-Chip Solutions
By Amna Nasir Malik Jamal re-printed from Cyber@Print, Jang News He shared his thoughts and opinion - steps...
 
saj d
saj d posted a blog entry
Contrarian pick: Buy flash memory vendors because of elasticity.
The investment thesis in flash memory vendors consists of the following: Memory prices are in the dumps.The creation of newer...
 
Daysha
Daysha posted a blog entry
Why did Apple buy a chip company?
Why is Apple getting into the chip business? Are they really getting into the chip business? Probably not.
 
shahid s
shahid s posted a blog entry
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors
Wide Bandgap SemiconductorsFundamental Properties and Modern Photonic and Electronic DevicesPages:460This book offers a...
 
arafiq786
arafiq786 posted a blog entry
Silicon Valley Pakistani Company: Celebrates 1 Year since IPO
May 2nd, 2008 marked the one year anniversary since the Silicon Valley Pakistani Semiconductor firm, Cavium Networks went...
 
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