Tilera’s Server Chip Challenges Intel, Sort Of

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.
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Intel Shows Just How It Plans to Get Into Phones (Video)

In an interview, Intel’s top phone executives talk about the company’s big bet on Android.
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Broadcom Buys NetLogic

The fourth-largest acquisition of a U.S. chipmaker in the past five years.
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HP’s TouchPad Teardown: Its Deepest Secrets Revealed

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.
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Broadcom Diagrams the Smartphone of Tomorrow

Meeting with reporters in San Francisco, the company’s top wireless executive said that NFC, Wi-Fi Direct and a new low-power version of Bluetooth will all make it to the mainstream by early next year. However, those expecting dramatically better call quality or battery life might not want to hold their breath.
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Intel Hits the Oak Trail but Has Its Eyes on the Cedar Trail

Oak Trail and Cedar Trail are codenames for versions of Intel’s Atom processor, a tiny, low-power flavor of chips aimed at smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. The first is available today; the other still lies ahead.

Days After Its Release, the IPad 2 Gets the Teardown Treatment

Like night follows day, an Apple product release is always followed by a bunch of reports by people who live to tear the latest gadgets apart to see what’s inside, and more importantly to investors, to estimate what everything inside them costs. The release of the iPad 2 has been no different.

Broadcom CEO on Low-cost Android Phones, Free Tablets and the Promise of Russian Satellites

In a wide-ranging interview from Mobile World Congress, Scott McGregor points out all kinds of new opportunities for the communications chipmaker. One of the big ones is in cellphone chips, where Broadcom hopes to score big in the low end as rivals like Nvidia and Qualcomm battle it out for high-end smartphones and tablets.

You've Heard About Windows for ARM Chips; Now Meet ARM

There’s been a lot of attention in recent days paid to Microsoft’s creation of a version of Windows for ARM chips from TI, Qualcomm and Nvidia. But what do you know about ARM, the company behind all those chips designs?

Who Isn't Rambus Suing at the ITC?

The chip interface designer known best for its epic court battles is taking a virtual who’s-who among tech companies to the International Trade Commission.

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