Nearly every single smartphone sold last year uses a processor originally designed by ARM. On Tuesday, the British company announced new processor designs that will likely end up in devices in 2016… Read more »
This past week, Qualcomm’s been beginning to reveal what its new flagship smartphone and tablet chip can do. If you’re buying a new phone in the next year, pay attention: There’s… Read more »
CSR said Microchip’s bid — rumored to be as much as $3 billion — was too low. Microchip now has four weeks to either make a firm bid or walk away. Read more »
With Apple’s deal for buying chips from TSMC, the revenue for the chip foundry market is expected rise 21 percent by the end of this year. The overall semiconductor market is… Read more »
Spending on chips actually shrank 3 percent in 2012, but was helped out by Samsung and Apple’s seemingly insatiable appetite for semiconductors. Read more »
“Selling finished goods with good pricing is an old strategy.” Korea Times has inside word that LG will show off its own ARM-based chip(s armh) at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show… Read more »
Qualcomm may be late to the market with quad-core smartphone superchip, but now that it’s made its way into its the LG Optimus G, Qualcomm can probably make up for lost… Read more »
Samsung makes Apple’s A5 custom-designed chips at its Austin plant, used in the iPad 2, iPhone 4S and new iPad. The part of the factory that’s getting a makeover could build… Read more »
Struggling British chipmaker CSR is selling its mobile business to Samsung in a deal worth $310 million, in what appears to be the latest episode in the ongoing global patent war. Read more »
Those hoping for iPad lightning to strike twice this year might be disappointed by a new report out Friday. The A6 processor, cited as the central component for a new, more… Read more »