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ARM's smartphone muscle powers jump in profits

...build on this success in 2012 with the release of a embedded chip design codenamed Flycatcher, which East said will be the company's "smallest... Read more

31 January, 2012 by David Meyer

China's homegrown chips get inspiration from Mao

Not one of the top 20 chipmakers is Chinese, even though the company is a PC component powerhouse. Loongson aims to change that and take on US leaders such as Intel — taking some lessons from Chairman Mao Read more

29 February, 2012 by Tom Hancock
Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

Tilera set to chase Intel into the cloud

The MIT offshoot, which designs chips that scale from 16 to 100 distinct compute cores, is taking on Intel in processors for cloud-computing tasks such as analysis of big data Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jack Clark

Marvell debuts ARM chip for console graphics on a phone

The three-core design from Marvell, which inherited Intel's ARM team, promises to result in smartphones able to run games and graphics nearly as good as those on Sony's PlayStation 3 Read more

25 September, 2010 by Rupert Goodwins

Microsoft signs deal to license ARM chip architecture

The partners have signed a new licensing deal covering ARM's chip architecture used in portable devices and handsets, such as smartphones running Windows Phone 7 Read more

23 July, 2010 by Jack Schofield

Intel unveils 3D future for low-powered chip design

Intel is to build a '3D' transistor design called Tri-Gate into its upcoming 22nm Ivy Bridge processor platform, the... Read more

4 May, 2011
Network-on-<endeca_term>Chip Design</endeca_term> for High Performance Demanding Multimedia Application

Network-on-Chip Design for High Performance Demanding Multimedia Application

Systems-on-Chip architecture integrates several heterogeneous components on a single chip. A key challenge is to design... Read more

20 October, 2011
A Quantitative Evaluation of a Network on <endeca_term>Chip Design</endeca_term> Flow for Multi-Core Consumer Multimedia Applications

A Quantitative Evaluation of a Network on Chip Design Flow for Multi-Core Consumer Multimedia Applications

A growing number of applications are integrated on the same System on Chip in the form of hardware and software... Read more

30 March, 2011
A Mapping Flow for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multi-Core System-on-<endeca_term>Chip Design</endeca_term>

A Mapping Flow for Dynamically Reconfigurable Multi-Core System-on-Chip Design

Nowadays, multi-core Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) are typically required to execute multiple complex applications, which... Read more

6 March, 2011
A Wireless Network-on-<endeca_term>Chip Design</endeca_term> for Multicore Platforms

A Wireless Network-on-Chip Design for Multicore Platforms

Aggressive scaling of transistors allows integration of hundreds of processors on a chip. However, on-chip interconnects... Read more

17 December, 2010
<endeca_term>Chip Design</endeca_term> of a 0.18μm RF CMOS-Based Analog Low-Pass Filter for WSN RF Front-End

Chip Design of a 0.18μm RF CMOS-Based Analog Low-Pass Filter for WSN RF Front-End

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an interrelated network which processes and transmits information. It consists of a... Read more

1 June, 2010

ARM says hands off

The chief executive of chip design company ARM has issued an appeal to shareholders to keep the... Read more

24 August, 2011

ARM predicts wave of servers for 2015

...to ship in volume until 2015, according to the president of the chip design company. "We firmly believe this is going to happen. We know... Read more

31 May, 2011

Cisco hires former Apple hardware executive

...over iPhone 4 antenna reception problems, will join Cisco to lead switch chip design Read more

15 November, 2010 by Edward Moyer
SoC Design for Wireless Communications

SoC Design for Wireless Communications

The paper emphasizes methods, architectures, and components for system-on-chip design. It describes the basic knowledge and skills for designing high-performance... Read more

21 June, 2011

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