Samsung Galaxy S4 Costs $237 to Build, Teardown Analysis Shows

Samsung buys a lot of components from itself.
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Intel Still Nibbling Around the Edges in Mobile

The company announces its dual-core chip, along with a new Egyptian carrier partner, but the big-name wins continue to elude the chipmaker.
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Mobile World Congress: The Event You Don’t Want to Miss — Or Launch a Product At

There will be plenty going on in Barcelona next week, but some big players are taking a siesta from product launches.
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Qualcomm’s New Snapdragon Processor Packs Two More Surprises

Always-on voice activation and faster charging are two more features of the Snapdragon 800, which is due to ship on more than 50 devices starting in the second half of the year.
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Nvidia Readies Its First Chip With LTE Built In

Add Nvidia to the list of chipmakers hoping for a piece of the market dominated today by Qualcomm.
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Broadcom Readying Its First LTE Chip, Which It Claims Will Be Smaller Than Rivals’

Though it won’t land in phones and tablets until next year, Broadcom’s CEO said its small size and powerful features should allow the new chip to compete for a spot at the high end.
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At CES, Chipmakers Go All In on Mobile

The biggest names in the processor industry all want to power your smartphones.
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Taiwan’s MediaTek Enters the Quad-Core Chip Race

The Taiwanese chipmaker is looking to move beyond its low-end phone roots.
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Will Apple Switch the Mac to ARM? Why the Rumors Do — And Don’t — Ring True.

It could be done. Apple would first have to design chips that are substantially better than what it’s getting from Intel. No small task, that.
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Teardown Shows Apple iPad Mini Costs at Least $188 to Build

IHS dissects the newest member of the iPad family to find out who makes the parts that make it tick, and how much those parts cost.
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Seven Questions for ARM CEO Warren East

Broadcom Buys NetLogic