From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has announced that its Grid technology is powering the Playcast cloud gaming service being offered to customers of French fixed and mobile operator Bouygues Telecom. The service is available on TVs for users of Bouygues Telecom's Bbox Sensation set-top box for instant...
From eWeek: For a feature story on the connected car market, I recently spoke with Chris Penrose, senior vice president of AT&T's Emerging Devices organization. While AT&T hasn't yet shared pricing details concerning the Long Term Evolution (LTE) connectivity that it will soon support in a number of...
From EETimes: Last week saw an interesting shift in programmable SoC devices, especially in licensing IP.
XMOS Semiconductor signed a deal last Thursday, Oct. 24, to use ARM-based chips from Silicon Labs alongside its own deterministic multicore silicon in a single package. Part of this is an...
From DailyTech: LG unveiled its latest smartphone today called the G Flex following leaked details of the device earlier this month. The smartphone features a curved screen designed to follow the contour of the user's face. LG says device also takes advantage of a new user experience with features...
From X-bit Labs: Nintendo this week notified its customers in Japan that production of the legendary Wii video game console would end shortly. While the company has made no such announcements in other regions, it is clear that Wii is facing its end-of-life. While it may be sad to see the device to...
When I was younger, I have always thought their current leader of Kuomintang and president of Taiwan, Ma Ying-jeou, has an awesome name. For those who don't know how Chinese names work, the family name precedes a person's given name; where each part of the name is its own character, and each character is roughly the English equivalent of an individual word. Ma Ying-jeou's family name, 'Ma', literally means 'horse'. Mandarin speakers will probably...
From InfoWorld: Samsung Electronics' net profit in the third quarter was up 25.6 percent year-over-year on record revenue driven by sales of its memory chips and smartphone products.
The South Korean electronics giant reported Friday a net profit of 8.24 trillion won ($7.8 billion), up from 6.56...
From eWeek: Microsoft announced on Oct. 24 that the company had generated revenue of $18.53 billion in the first quarter of its fiscal year 2014, a record for Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker reported net income of $5.24 billion and earnings per share of $0.62, handily beating...
From EETimes: IBM has licensed a set of five ARM cores for use in communications ASICs it makes for its semiconductor customers. The move is a milestone in the shift toward the ARM architecture in communications.
IBM licensed the ARM Cortex-A15, A12, A7, and M4 processors, as well as the Mali-450...
From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp., the world’s third largest maker of hard drives, has introduced its MQ02ABF-series hard drives for laptops, the company’s first 2.5”/7mm dual-platter HDDs. The drives will provide 750GB and 1TB storage capacities and will join Toshiba’s family of mobile storage...
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