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Sun taps new source for low-end chips
News Server giant, Sun Microsystems, has tapped Taiwanese chipmaker United Microelectronics (UMC) to build some of its low-end CPUs, currently made by Texas Instruments, but products from the new alliance won't emerge for months.
[May 4, 2001, 10:35]
Qualcomm doubles its chips for next-gen mobiles
News The answer, coming already from chipmaker Texas Instruments, and now from Qualcomm, is to drop another processor into the phone: one for the phone's typical functions, such as making calls, and the other picking up the slack, or given tasks such...
[May 23, 2003, 8:01]
PalmSource teams with Nvidia on graphics
News Graphics chipmaker Nvidia has signed up to tailor its mobile-graphics hardware for Palm OS-based devices, in a move that could beef up the devices' imaging, video and gaming capabilities. PalmSource will supply Nvidia with the materials necessary...
[February 12, 2004, 11:10]
Intel switches off TV plans
News The chipmaker said on Monday that it will not come out with a chip for making inexpensive large televisions this year and that it will rework the chip that has been in development for a later commercial release.
[August 17, 2004, 8:50]
Texas Instruments, Broadcom warn on revenues
News Chipmaker Texas Instruments has warned that its current-quarter sales and earnings will come in far below earlier estimates. Texas Instruments did not provide further details in its press release, but said it would hold a conference call to discuss...
[December 9, 2008, 7:54]
TI chips to slip into Palms
News Handheld maker Palm announced on Monday that it has chosen chipmaker Texas Instruments to power its next generation of wireless handhelds. Under the deal, Palm's upcoming wireless devices will use Texas Instruments' chips and its OMAP (Open...
[December 18, 2001, 10:09]
MediaQ chip pushes into low-end PDAs
News MediaQ, a small chipmaker that creates graphics accelerators for handheld devices, is expected to launch a new chip next week that could challenge Texas Instruments and Intel. The chipmaker's current graphics chips are used in a number of different...
[May 14, 2003, 10:49]
Intel to launch processor for handhelds
News Motorola's Dragonball processors are used in most handheld devices using Palm's operating system, and TI is the leading chipmaker for mobile phones. In separate news, TI announced on Tuesday that Japanese cellular carrier NTT DoCoMo will use the...
[February 19, 2003, 8:56]
Intel calls software makers to rally round XScale
News However, Intel's strategy could also bolster the chipmaker's dominance in the Pocket PC market. Last year Microsoft shifted the platform exclusively to the ARM architecture, with the expectation that device manufacturers could use ARM-based chips...
[June 28, 2002, 16:01]
Broadcom sues Microtune over patents
News Communications chipmaker Broadcom has sued rival Microtune, alleging that Microtune's power amplifiers, tuners and Bluetooth products violate Broadcom patents. The chipmaker is currently a plaintiff or defendant in patent lawsuits involving Intel...
[January 28, 2003, 8:25]
Dell gives 64-bit processors another chance
News Clusters have also helped fuel growth by chipmaker Intel in the high-performance and scientific computing market. The chipmaker will come out with a version of Madison specially designed for dual-processor systems, said Tom Gibbs, director of...
[June 26, 2003, 9:25]
Will all hail Bluetooth?
News It's very typical for a lot of hype to happen with a new technology," said Scott Bibaud, Bluetooth marketing director at Broadcom, an Irvine, California-based communications chipmaker. It wasn't even known to the world two years ago," said David...
[December 4, 2000, 16:55]
Intergraph sues PC giants over Pentium
News The chipmaker is obliged to send a letter to PC makers notifying them of that circumstance, said an Intergraph spokeswoman. In 1998, a trial court in Alabama ruled that the chipmaker infringed on Intergraph's patents.
[December 18, 2002, 16:25]
Linux heads for mobile phones
News Among the big names backing Linux for mobile phones are chipmaker Texas Instruments and device maker NEC, representatives from the two companies confirmed on Friday. Texas Instruments representative Dana Meyers said Friday that several...
[January 13, 2003, 8:55]
Group gives nod to faster wireless
News The standards organisation is expected to approve the standard in a final vote next year, said John Allen, a spokesman for chipmaker Intersil. The key element in the new standard is that the 802.11g technology is built the same way as the 802.11a...
[November 16, 2001, 14:12]
Intel's Bulverde puts muscle in mobile phones
News The chipmaker has worked with developer Intrinsyc on a communications device to serve as a model for how the new Intel parts can be used in finished products. Intel has been looking to take away some of rival Texas Instruments' market share in the...
[April 12, 2004, 10:50]
Sony Ericsson issues stark profit warning
News The warning comes little more than a week after chipmaker Texas Instruments said it was lowering its quarterly outlook due to a decline in demand from phone manufacturers for high-end and 3G chips. Sony Ericsson has issued a profit warning a month...
[March 19, 2008, 13:39]
ARM backs Linux for consumer devices
News Motorola, NEC, Samsung, European chipmaker STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments are also members of the forum. UK chip designer ARM, whose technology drives most mobile phones and recent handheld computers, said it has joined an organisation...
[October 27, 2003, 16:30]
Mobiles set to record conversations
News Now, in the latest example of the mobile phone industry's "anything goes" attitude, Japan's NTT DoCoMo and chipmaker Texas Instruments are planning to produce a device with the built-in ability to record phone calls.
[September 4, 2003, 11:30]
Chipmaker TSMC sees drop in quarterly profits
News Major contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co has announced that its fourth-quarter income dropped 64 percent year-on-year, blaming a worldwide recession and a sharp drop in demand. The Taiwanese manufacturer makes semiconductors...
[January 23, 2009, 15:12]
