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  • Intel in holding pattern for Ultrabooks

    He claimed that the company is more competitive with licensees of ARM microprocessor architecture, such as Qualcomm, Broadcom, and Nvidia.
  • Intel can buy the stairway to heaven

    Gwennap thinks that Nvidia, Broadcom, and Qualcomm can pass along the higher costs of more expensive transistors, while those selling into markets for cheaper devices may not be able to afford the most expensive process technology.
  • TSMC sales up 18.9 percent on year

    TSMC has the mobile craze to thank for its stellar results. It manufactures mobile chips designed by Qualcomm, Broadcom and Nvidia. If rumour mongers are to be believed, TSMC has also landed a massive contract from a certain fruity gadget maker based in Cupertino.
  • Broadcom squares up to Qualcomm in LTE

    Qualcomm is facing a fresh wave of competition in the LTE chip space, including from Broadcom, which has hinted that it expects to become a serious challenger in the market.
  • Semiconductor revenues decline in 2012

    The only other top 10 semiconductor vendor to record positive growth in 2012 was Broadcom, which rose from the 10th to the ninth position with growth of 8.8 percent.
  • Nvidia will stick ARM chips in Tesla

    ARM has been keen to trumpet AMD, Broadcom, Calxeda, HiSilicon, Samsung and STMicroelectronics's involvement.
  • Rambus loses patent suit against LSI and STMicroelectronics

    The battle began back in December 2010 when Rambus went on a suing spree - filing patent infringement suits left, right and centre. In its firing line were Freescale, Broadcom, MediaTek and Nvidia, which were forced to settle and sign licence agreement deals.
  • Hybrid processors fuel $111 billion market

    Apple, Broadcom, Marvell, MediaTek, NVidia, Qualcomm, Samsung, St Ericsson, Texas Instruments and many other processor vendors have offered heterogeneous application-specific processors with a microprocessor core integrating a GPU to add value within extremely confined parameters of space, power and
  • IDC predicts more chip market consolidation this year

    He pointed out that a number of mergers and acquisitions came to fruition in 2011, most notably Qualcomm and Atheros, Texas Instruments and National Semiconductor, SMSC and Conexant, Broadcom and NetLogic, CSR and Zoran, and Microsemi and Zarlink.
  • Intel elbows its way into baseband market

    He added that Broadcom's W-CDMA baseband share should improve because it is doing well in baseband-integrated smartphone processor market.
  • Lumia cost $209 to make

    In addition to a Qualcomm chipset, the Lumia 900 uses Samsung's $58 display, memory from Micron and Elpida, and smaller components from Broadcom and STMicroelectronics, the researcher said.
  • US does not give a XXXX about Aussie patent win

    The "bad guys" were the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, or CSIRO, which after ten years managed to score a $229 million settlement from a group of nine companies that make a variety of wireless devices and chips, including Broadcom, T-Mobile, AT&T, and Lenovo.
  • SIA positive despite chip sales slide

    Intel and AMD stopped giving the WSTS chip sales data program and Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Altera are not involved either. Now, the WSTS uses forecasting and estimation methods to predict the sales which we would have thought was a bit like guessing, reading Tarot cards, or asking the cat.
  • Apple iPad tear down reveals surprises

    The iPad includes a Qualcomm LTE mobile chip as well as a Qualcomm wireless modem for 3G and 4G. Broadcom supplies a semiconductor handling wireless tasks like wi-fi and Bluetooth, according to iFixit.
  • Micron shows off the first working RLDRAM 3 hardware

    Other partners include some high-fliers like Altera, Broadcom, Cavium, LSI Logic - which should provide an interesting complement for its newly bought SandForce controllers - and Tilera, the developers of the famous 64- and 100- core CPU.
  • Tablets and smartphones: Why PC vendors should panic

    AnalysisFinally, ARM licensees have seen business booming as their system-on-chip designs are now powering just about everything handheld. Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics and even second tier Chinese contenders like Rockchip have found a home with the SoC.
  • Shaky semi industry propped up by wireless boom

    Some firms, such as Texas Instruments and Freescale, are already targeting the market, while companies like PicoChip and Broadcom are also readying scaled up versions of system on chip devices from femto bases.
  • Broadcom prepares second coming of wi-fi

    Wireless maker Broadcom is set to announce products with the new IEEE standard 802.11ac in what is being dubbed as the second coming of wi-fi.

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