| Qualcomm woos Nokia to buy chips
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2008-11-19 |
| Qualcomm Inc. is hoping to win chipset orders from mobile phone maker Nokia, now that the companies have at least partially settled some of their differences |
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| How to grow an electronics giant
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2008-11-17 |
| How Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd made the transition from a CE dwarf to a global brand is a well-told story. Less well-known, however, is the story of how Samsung, based in Seoul, South Korea, achieved its current supremacy by battling Japan companies on their own turf—CE and memory chips. |
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| LG, Sharp, Chunghwa to pay $585M for LCD price-fixing
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2008-11-14 |
| The U.S. Department of Justice announced that LG Display, Sharp and Chunghwa have pleaded guilty and will pay a total of $585 million in criminal fines for their roles in conspiracies to fix LCD panel prices. |
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| A high-five for high-k reinvented transistors
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2008-11-12 |
| Nov.10 marks a major milestone: the one-year anniversary of shipping the world's first ever Intel processors manufactured on our 45 nanometer process—based on an entirely new 'high-k metal gate' transistor formula. |
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| IBM transits to 45nm SOI
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2008-11-12 |
| With an objective to lead in an emerging technology, IBM's Microelectronics Group has launched what it claims as the industry's first 45nm, SOI foundry offering. |
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| Mobile TV gets broadcaster's approval
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2008-11-12 |
| A large U.S. TV broadcaster has announced good results from recent trials in Chicago and Denver of mobile TV using a draft standard from the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC |
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| TSMC tips high voltage .13µ process
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2008-11-07 |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. has enhanced its 0.13µm process technology with immediate availability of a 1.5-/6-/32V technology, targeted at high resolution mobile handset display drivers |
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| Internet TV: Next attraction
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2008-11-05 |
| Now, the pieces are being integrated to turn today's appealing flat-panel screens into full Internet clients. |
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| TI to shed about 350 jobs in France
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2008-10-30 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. announced its intention to cut 300 to 350 jobs, out of 900, at its site in Villeneuve-Loubet, in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Cte-d'Azur. |
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| White spaces marked off as wireless arena
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2008-10-16 |
| When the U.S. DTV switchover takes place, white spaces scattered throughout the 54MHz to 698MHz region of the RF spectrum will be available for use. A range war is raging over how this should be done. Google, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Motorola and public-interest groups and media companies have created the Wireless Innovation Alliance (WIA) to sort it out. |
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| iSuppli: LCD TVs to top CE market by 2012
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2008-10-13 |
| iSuppli Corp. forecasts that the global LCD TV market will continue its rapid growth during the coming years, causing it to become the largest segment of the consumer electronics industry by 2012 |
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| Chipmakers pack multimedia functions in processors
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2008-10-01 |
| Semiconductor vendors tailoring video chips for the consumer market have taken integration to the next level. As price pressure from consumers persists in the flat-panel, DTV, DVD player, notebook and mobile phone sectors, chip companies are taking a cue from OEMs to provide devices that pack more video functions to minimize costs |
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| Cellphones push mobile growth in rural India
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2008-10-01 |
| It is not the gleaming edifices housing thousands of software engineers nor the bustling cities caught up in perennial traffic jams, but the bleak, endless landscapes of 600,000 villages in India that is becoming the next frontier for mobile handset makers to conquer |
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| Viaccess gets help to secure access to mobile TV
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2008-09-24 |
| Viaccess, a France Telecom company, announces a partnership with LG Electronics, Enensys, Expway and Sagem Orga to secure access to mobile broadcast TV based on the OMA BCAST SmartCard Profile Standard |
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| Mobile broadband aims to bridge elderly, caregivers
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2008-09-22 |
| The Vodafone Espaņa Foundation, the Spanish Red Cross and Qualcomm are joining forces to launch a pilot project named "3G Connecting Generations." |
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