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AMD Lines Up Backers For Mobile Chip
News AMD released a mobile Duron chip earlier this month, but that chip is offered only in the NEC's LaVie U notebook in Japan. Advanced Micro Devices will turn up the competitive heat on Intel in March, when major computer makers release notebooks...
[January 26, 2001, 8:44]
Intel Chip Speeds Mobile Devices
News As part of its push into wireless, Intel on Wednesday unveiled a flash memory chip that promises to reduce the time it takes to get information from cell phones and handhelds. The upcoming chip, called 3 Volt Synchronous StrataFlash, can retrieve...
[September 27, 2001, 9:22]
ARM Takes 3D To Phone Makers
News UK-based chip designer ARM has integrated advanced 3D graphics technology into its hardware development boards, a step toward making 3D graphics widespread in mobile devices such as handheld computers and mobile phones.
[October 24, 2003, 17:30]
Intel To Launch Processor For Handhelds
News Mobile phones are the target of Intel's recently announced PXA800F chip, code-named Manitoba. In addition, mobile phones require a digital signal processor (DSP) -- a chip that fine-tunes the digital signals that eventually get heard as a human voice.
[February 19, 2003, 8:56]
Mobile Phones: The Next Game Boy?
News The company dominates the market for mobile phone chip designs, and its cores also power Pocket PC handheld computers and the Game Boy Advance, as well as set-top boxes and other entertainment devices.
[September 12, 2002, 16:07]
Parthus And Psion Unveil 'breakthrough' Chip
News Parthus unveiled a single chip computer design called Infostream, which could drive a broad range of next generation mobile devices such as phones and Internet appliances. Parthus said the design, which would cost just a few dollars per chip in...
[October 18, 2000, 9:30]
ARM Launches Digital-music Product
News The first solution, announced on Wednesday, is for the development of SD Card-based system-on-chip devices that are designed using ARM's SD Card PrimeCell peripheral designed methodology. ARM has already established itself as the leading provider...
[August 1, 2001, 14:05]
ARM Plans Fast Java Chips
News ARM Holdings plans to unveil a series of chip designs later this year that will allow mobile devices to run everything from 3D games to enterprise applications on Java. ARM's chip architectures power handheld computers like the Pocket PC, mobile...
[May 10, 2001, 8:24]
Imagination Updates Mobile 3D Chip
News Imagination's PowerVR MBX core, designed with industry-leading chip designer ARM, has been adopted by many phone makers and will begin appearing in devices later this year, Imagination has said. UK-based Imagination Technologies is to support the...
[February 25, 2004, 13:50]
Mini Wi-Fi Chip Fits In Mobiles
News Atheros recently introduced a similar, power efficient Wi-Fi chip for mobile devices. He said competitors, such as Broadcom, "just announced an 802.11b-only chip for mobile space last week, but they are just catching up to the chip we've been...
[September 17, 2003, 17:20]
ARM Pushes 3D For Mobile Phones
News UK chip designer ARM Holdings is readying its first silicon designs that will bring console-class 3D graphics to mobile devices. This core was recently licensed by chip giant Intel, which separately licenses ARM's products for its XScale embedded...
[August 7, 2002, 15:48]
Mobile Internet And Bluetooth Boost Parthus
News The companies who manufacture semiconductors for mobile devices, such as Texas Instruments, Nokia, Ericsson, Intel and others, may have been landed with the chip industry's worst-ever year, but they have no plans to cut their research and...
[July 24, 2001, 14:42]
TechXNY: Crusoe Squeezes Into Meta Pad Spinoff
News Antelope, a company that makes mobile computing devices for niche markets, said on Wednesday that it will use Transmeta's Crusoe TM5800 in an upcoming device based on IBM's "Meta Pad" technology, a device the size of a PDA that morphs into a...
[June 26, 2002, 16:50]
China Advances Home-grown Chips
News Chinese scientists say they have developed the country's first mobile phone chip, and are readying a 64-bit processor for servers, major steps forward in China's ambition to control its own microprocessor intellectual property.
[March 6, 2003, 13:52]
Intel Touts Month-long Battery Life For Mobiles
News At the Intel Developer Forum in Amsterdam, Intel demonstrated an experimental single-chip system running at nearly 400MHz, more than twice the speed of today's typical mobile phone processor. Mobile chips only have to be fast enough," said a...
[May 18, 2001, 8:42]
Next-gen Bluetooth Chips Play Nicely With Wi-Fi
News Even as mobile devices are increasingly including Bluetooth connectivity, however, critics say interoperability and setup problems are keeping the technology from fulfilling its potential. Bluetooth is intended to replace the cables that connect...
[June 9, 2003, 14:13]
Qualcomm Launches Mobile Convergence Platform
News Qualcomm has launched a new chipset platform for portable devices, claiming it will offer a basis for mobile convergence across consumer and computing environments. Qualcomm also announced on Monday that it was expanding its "single chip" family to...
[November 13, 2006, 15:16]
Intel Names Its New Chip Brand 'Atom'
News The Intel Atom processor is the name for the new family of low-power processors, the brains of digital devices, that will power mobile internet devices and ultra low-cost and small notebook and desktop personal computers.
[March 3, 2008, 7:32]
Wireless Specs Are On Collision Course
News At Comdex in Las Vegas, an entire pavilion of vendors will be showing products based on Bluetooth, the code name of an emerging specification for low-cost, short-range radio links among mobile PCs, phones and other portable devices.
[November 15, 1999, 12:57]
Startup Aims To Inject Zing Into Net Telephony
News A startup run by a former senior executive of chip designer ARM is launching Monday a new high-capacity processor for Internet telephony equipment and handheld devices. Instead, ARM licenses its chip design to semiconductor makers that incorporate...
[January 16, 2001, 8:37]
