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Intel launches new chip for consumer electronics

In its latest bid to expand beyond PCs and servers into industrial and consumer electronics applications, Intel has announced a new family of embedded processors. These chips are not based on the Atom processor already used in netbooks and Mobile Internet Devices MIDs--those versions won't arrive until...

Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics, Intel Corp., Chip, Atom, SoCs, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Hardware, Networking, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-07-24

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Intel and TSMC reach Atom deal

Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. TSMC today announced a collaboration involving Intel's Atom processor. Under the deal, Intel will port Atom CPU cores to TSMC's technology platform, a move intended to expand its market for Atom System-on-Chip SoC processors. In a statement, the company said: With this joint...

Tags: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Intel Atom, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-02

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and Freescale

Speculation on Papermaster's "huh?": IBM, Apple, and FreescalePaul-the-pseudonym is probably rightFor a long time, Apple has been managing its supply chain as a lean, JIT organization with a good deal of outsourcing. Their strategy: We are the best at design, let's increasingly move manufacturing and integration to subcontractors willing to...

Tags: Processors, Apple Inc., IBM Corp., PPC

Discussion threads 2008-11-04

The battle for the soul of your smartphone

The cut-throat market for the chips that power smartphones and handhelds just got more competitive. In the past few days, no fewer than five semiconductors companies, including Samsung, ST Microelectronics, Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and, yes, even Nvidia, have all announced new application processors: Nvidia APX 2500 press...

Tags: Software, Apple iPhone, Processor, Mobile, Smart Phone, NVidia Corp., Chip, Application Processor, SoC, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Hardware, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-12

Ready or not, here comes Silverthorne

At the International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San Francisco this week, Intel revealed details of its new low-power processor, which promises to deliver performance similar to a low-end laptop in a package that uses only a bit more power than a smartphone. The design is innovative--and significant since it marks...

Tags: Ultramobile PC, Internet Device, Intel Corp., Mobile Internet Device, Chip, Silverthorne, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Smart Phones, Semiconductors, Processors, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-02-08

Reaping the Benefits of SoC Processors for Video Applications

Today's demanding consumer video applications often require the high performance of System-on-a-Chip SoC integration, yet SoC processing engines have created new challenges for system developers. SoCs have traditionally been based on closed architectures, giving developers few options for implementation; however, video applications ranging from consumer communications to multimedia products are...

Tags: Multimedia, Benefit, Video, Texas Instruments Inc., Corporate Communications, Marketing

White papers 2007-03-01

How to Build a Cisco Security Operations Center Architecture, Processes, and Outputs

A Cisco Security Operations Center SOC can help to protect the network and the customers' networks and business traffic. Carefully balancing technology, processes, and people, a Cisco SOC equips to continuously monitor networks for security incidents and then react quickly when such threats arise. In fact, speed of response is...

Tags: Security, Network, Cisco Systems Inc.

White papers 2006-11-01

Packet-Switching Network-on-Chip Features Exploration and Characterization

The era of bus-dominated communication architectures for SoCs might end soon: the increasing number of cores used on a single die used in response to the power-hungry applications tends to make SoC designs more and more communication-centric. Communication structure synthesis is an increasingly challenging problem; bus-based structures are still leading...

Tags: Packet-switching, Hardware, Network Technology, Networking

White papers 2006-04-28