| Programmable broadband heightens PC TV hype
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2009-01-21 |
| After searching many years for the yet-to-blossom mobile TV handset market, vendors are increasingly shifting their focus to the PC-TV market |
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| 60GHz, MoCA take center stage at CES
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2009-01-14 |
| The Consumer Electronics Show demonstrated the latest advances home networking and interconnect but the 60GHz wireless and Multimedia over Coax (MoCA) showed the most traction. |
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| CES: Hard times evident in empty seats
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2009-01-13 |
| The empty seats and booths at the recently concluded Consumer Electronics Show bore witness to how much the electronics industry really is suffering. |
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| Bluetooth enters the digital living room space
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2009-01-13 |
| Broadcom and Sharp Electronics are delivering Bluetooth for next-gen DTV products. Sharp is now shipping its AQUOS XS1 series of DTVs with built-in Bluetooth from Broadcom featuring the BCM2046 single-chip Bluetooth receiver in both the TV and the remote control |
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| How much do you know about OFDM, WiMAX?
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2009-01-09 |
| A virtual "sit down" with some industry leaders offers a peek at where OFDM and WiMAX technology is and where they think it is going. |
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| Will PMPs survive the digital video world?
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2008-12-25 |
| With online digital video content inching its way to different viewing channels from mobile handsets to the PC monitor and right onto the living room TV, how does the traditional personal media player (PMP) compete in a digital video future populated with more multifunction devices |
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| Enabling next-generation mobile TV handsets
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2008-12-18 |
| Designers faced with making ubiquitous mobile TV a reality have a fair number of challenges in front of them, including battery life, reception, range, screen size, and picture quality |
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| Intel eyes energy harvesting for electronic apps
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2008-12-15 |
| Intel Corp. is working on harvesting free energy to power devices such as mobile phones, as well as researching other technologies to reduce power in electronics devices and data centers |
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| Sony outlines initiatives to improve profitability
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2008-12-11 |
| Sony Corp. has embarked on a series of measures to strengthen its corporate structure and bolster profitability across the Sony Group. These initiatives are in response to the sudden and rapid changes in the global economic environment. |
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| Analysis: China IC industry battles slowdown
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2008-12-10 |
| The mad rush to invest on the emerging Chinese semiconductor industry is slowing down. The fever has been in fact cooling since a year ago, well before the credit crisis hit the global market. |
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| Private IC firms quietly lay off staff
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2008-12-08 |
| Privately held companies, unbound by regulations requiring them to report layoffs, have not gone unscathed as they too, have shed staff—albeit more quietly. |
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| Make way for software-based mobile TV
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2008-12-08 |
| Armed with a reconfigurable multi-standard tuner IC, Mirics Semiconductor, a U.K.-based startup, claims that it still remains the only company offering a software-based TV and radio demodulator |
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| Tandem to work on CMMB solutions for PCTV
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2008-12-05 |
| Mirics Semiconductor and Spreadtrum Communications Inc. have teamed up to deliver embedded TV solutions for portable PC platforms that support the CMMB standard |
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| Mobile to beat PC, TV for consumer affection
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2008-12-04 |
| Although the cellphone, the TV, and the computer have big roles to play, mobile devices will potentially replace TVs and computers as the electronic devices most central to people's lives |
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| IMEC pushes SDR effort forward
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2008-12-01 |
| A variety of advanced FEC technologies used in a range of wireless WAN and LAN can be handled by a chip introduced by IMEC as part of its effort to assemble a full suite of silicon for software-defined radio. |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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