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Geoffrey A. Fowler, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 21 at 6:05 pm PT
The billionaire founders of PayPal and Broadcom Corp. are among a dozen wealthy families that have agreed to give the majority of their wealth to charity, following in the footsteps of technology entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
Arik Hesseldahl in Mobile on April 11 at 5:30 am PT
Nokia’s choice in components shows a deliberate strategy to compete on price against Apple and Google in the smartphone wars.
Ina Fried in Mobile on March 27 at 12:52 pm PT
Speaking with
AllThingsD, Broadcom CEO Scott McGregor says the company has quietly made processors for Android a meaningful part of its business.
News Byte
John Paczkowski in News on March 19 at 8:05 am PT
The tentative ban Broadcom won against Emulex earlier this month is now permanent. The chipmaker said today that a federal court
made permanent an injunction that prevents Emulex from selling controller chips that were found to infringe two Broadcom patents. Emulex’s BladeEngine2 and BladeEngine3 Ethernet controllers and Lancer chips are among the affected products. Under the terms of the ruling Emulex can continue to sell those products for another 13 – 15 months to customers who have already ordered them, but it must pay Broadcom a 9 percent royalty.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on March 16 at 3:19 pm PT
Another iPad release day spurs another round of teardowns, and at least one cost estimate.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on February 13 at 6:26 am PT
In an interview, the British chip design firm’s CEO talks about its unique business model, and some of the more unusual places its chips are showing up.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 30 at 6:44 am PT
A start-up called Tilera has a server chip that can do roughly the same work that a server chip from Intel does, but uses less power.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 10 at 5:00 pm PT
In an interview, Intel’s top phone executives talk about the company’s big bet on Android.
John Paczkowski in News on September 12, 2011 at 7:30 am PT
The fourth-largest acquisition of a U.S. chipmaker in the past five years.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on July 3, 2011 at 2:26 pm PT
The release of Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad tablet — its answer to Apple’s iPad — may not have brought out many consumers lining up to buy it. But it did bring out the gearheads wanting to take it apart, see what’s going on inside and make an educated guess on what it cost to build.
