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Intel Is Branching Out With Embedded SoCs1 comment

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 day ago: Intel, the world’s largest chip maker, is spreading its R&D efforts far outside of its ser … more »

Tags: NYT Company News, Appl, Apple, INTC, Intel, Nokia, Paul Otellini, Trolltech

Wireless HD Gets a New Standard Effort

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 3 days ago: [qi:_newteevee] Israeli chip startup Animon, which is pushing a form of whole-home, uncompressed wir … more »

Tags: broadband, Shorts, TV, Amimon, Hitachi, Mot', Motorola, Samsung, sharp

AMD Won't Offer Netbook Chips1 comment

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 4 days ago: AMD isn’t going after the mobile Internet device market that Intel and other chip vendors are … more »

Tags: Shorts, AMD, INTC, Intel

More Radios, Fewer Chips: Why Wireless Integration is Hot4 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 4 days ago: Without a radio, your cell phone is a small computer that can’t show web pages, check email or … more »

Tags: broadband, Mobile, Altair, Broadcom, Dash Express, kindle, nxp, Wavesat

Question Corner

surpluseq wrote 4 days ago: Since this blog is still fairly new, some of you may be a little shy. Please remember to post your n … more »

Tags: surpluseq, fiber optic news, fiber optic faqs, fiber optic questions, semiconductor faqs, question about fiber optics

Report: Compound semiconductors to drive 10G, 40G growth

surpluseq wrote 1 week ago: (courtesy of Lightwave, PennWell) JULY 16, 2008 — Strategy Analytics’ latest study, … more »

Tags: Fiber Optics, pennwell

AMD Has Gone From Scrappy to Sad2 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: Confession: Back when AMD was pitching its Opteron chipset, I convinced my husband to buy shares in … more »

Tags: AMD, Dirk Meyer, Hector Ruiz, INTC, Intel

Elemental Technologies Nets $7.1M1 comment

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: [qi:_newteevee] Elemental Technologies, a startup focused on faster transcoding, has raised $7.1 mil … more »

Tags: NYT Startups, Shorts, startups, elemental technologies, General Catalyst Partners, NVDA, nvidia, Voyager Capital

Altera & Xilinx, the Battle Continues…

semanticzen wrote 1 week ago: The past two days Xilinx and Altera have each reported quarterly results for their June quarter. Th … more »

Tags: Investing, platforms

Five Multicore Chip Startups to Watch8 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: As semiconductor firms get around the limitations of making individual processors faster by putting … more »

Tags: Featured, startups, Cilk Arts, IBM, Intel INTC, Itneractive Supercomputing, NVDA, nvidia, RapidMind

Does Intel Know What It Wants From Atom?8 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: Yesterday afternoon, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini seemed a little hazy on the future home for Int … more »

Tags: broadband, Mobile, INTC, Intel, Paul Otellini

How iPhone Could Resurrect Wireless Chip Makers2 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: The iPhones have been unboxed and torn down, so now it’s the Wall Street watchers’ turn … more »

Tags: Mobile, Appl, Apple, Bill Krenick, BRCM, Broadcom, DiBcom, freescale, Infineon

Sand 9 Gets $8M for Nano MEMs2 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 1 week ago: Sand 9, a Boston University spinoff, has received $8 million in a Series A round from Flybridge Capi … more »

Tags: startups, Flybridge Capital Partners, General Catalyst APrtners, Sand 9

Is More Affordable Solar Power Within Our Grasp?

askmom wrote 1 week ago: MIT researchers are looking into turning any glass building into it’s own ‘power plant … more »

Tags: Environment, Green/Organic, Science, affordable power, Dyes, fiber optic cable, MIT, solar cells, Solar energy

Spinning electrons research could enhance AF computers

worldmilitaryhistory wrote 2 weeks ago: Scientists funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research have used a single photon technique … more »

Tags: U.S. Air Force, Spinning Electronics, AFOSR, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, nanotechnology, Computers, Quantum Computing, High Speed Computing, David Awschalom

How DreamWorks Puts Multicore Chips to Work8 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 2 weeks ago: You wouldn’t think that next year’s DreamWorks movie, “Aliens vs. Monsters” … more »

Tags: Infrastructure, NYT Enterprise, IBM, INTC, Intel

TranSwitch Switches Its Stock for Centillium Cash1 comment

Om Malik wrote 2 weeks ago: It is a sad commentary on the state of the broadband chip market when a chip maker essentially gives … more »

Tags: centillium, transwitch

The iPhone Makes Semiconductors Fun Again!5 comments

Stacey Higginbotham wrote 3 weeks ago: For a while there, covering the chip industry was like covering a race run by a rabbit and a cheetah … more »

Tags: AMD, Apple, IBM, INTC, Intel, iPhone, NVDA, nvidia, qcom

Virident Makes Flash Memory Go Green4 comments

Om Malik wrote 1 month ago: The last time I sat down with Raj Parekh was eight years ago. He was involved with Comstellar Techno … more »

Tags: startups, DRAM, flash memory, MirrorBit, Raj Parekh Spansion, Virident


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