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May 27, 2013

Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 packing Pantech flagship benchmarked, it’s crazy stupid fast

HTC's 2013 flagship phone, Samsung's 2013 flagship phone, even LG's 5.5 inch 1080p flagship, they all have one thing in common: They're powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600. It's

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Apr 27, 2013

Why OIS will be standard tech in our Android flagships in 2014

There has been a lot of talk about smartphone hardware 'plateauing', with future improvements mainly being in software, but I disagree, there's still a way to go in hardware too. At least, in terms

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Apr 18, 2013

Samsung and Wolfson sign a pretty sweet sounding deal

Samsung has just entered into a "multi-year IP license and component supply agreement" with Wolfson Microelectronics. If you've never heard of them, that's OK. They make some of the best audio processors

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Apr 12, 2013

NVIDIA tells investors that the Tegra business isn’t going to grow this year

Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA's CEO, recently told investors that the company's Tegra business isn't going to grow this year. He says he wants the company to focus on getting chips that have

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Mar 21, 2013

Now that ST-Ericsson bit the dust, is it time for Renesas to do the same?

Earlier this week, ST-Ericsson said the joint venture was going to be shut down by the end of this year. There aren't many companies out there who know how to make a capable

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Mar 18, 2013

It’s official: ST-Ericsson is dead

How odd. Less than 24 hours ago I published a piece saying ST-Ericsson tried to sell themselves to Samsung, and Samsung said no. Now this Reuters article just hit the wire: "STMicroelectronics and Ericsson

COMPONENTS

Mar 17, 2013

ST-Ericsson asked Samsung to buy them, and Samsung said no

Chances are you've never heard of ST-Ericsson, despite the fact that they've announced some pretty amazing silicon in the past. Short summary: It's a joint venture between the French chip company