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Silicon Labs buys Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module maker for $61M
In another bet on the internet of things, chip maker Silicon Labs has purchased Bluegiga Technologies Oy, a Finnish company that makes…
Read MoreIntel buys Lantiq for some home networking smarts
Intel has purchased Lantiq for an undisclosed sum, a company familiar to those of us in the wireline broadband sector for its…
Read MoreAmbiq Micro has made a chip that consumes 10 times less energy
Ambiq Micro, a semiconductor company in Austin, Texas, has been working for the last five years to build a lower-power chip by…
Read MoreMIT shows off a programming tool for error-prone chips
Finding ways to cut battery consumption is driving all kinds of innovations in semiconductors, including building chips that are less accurate as a way of saving power.…
Read MoreReport: IBM is paying GlobalFoundries $1.5B to rid itself of its chip-making business
IBM plans a big announcement at its earnings call on Monday. Bloomberg has it that IBM has come to terms with GlobalFoundries on taking over its money-losing commercial silicon business.…
Read MoreTo combat fragmentation, ARM built a new type of OS for the internet of things
Does the internet of things need an entirely different style of operating system? ARM thinks so. It upgraded mbed to bridge full-featured OSes and the real-time OSes for the embedded market.…
Read MoreARM launches a high-powered microcontroller for the internet of things
ARM has released a higher-performance microcontroller core design aimed at the the internet of things, and several chip firms are already using it.…
Read MoreApple intros A8 chip because bigger iPhones need more horsepower
Apple's new phones are packed with more computing power without a significant cost to the battery life, thanks to upgrades of the A8 application processor and M8 motion co-processor.…
Read MoreThe chip firm behind Google’s Project Tango unveils its next-gen silicon
The company whose chip is bringing 3-D computer sight to a Google handset project has released a second generation SoC that would offer better vision with less of a battery drain.…
Read MoreIBM to invest $3B in R&D for next-generation chips
Big Blue's research plans calls for smaller silicon chips and a future in which silicon isn't even necessary as it invests in other areas of exploratory manufacturing.…
Read MoreIntel will offer a customizable chip to keep data center clients happy
To ensure that ARM or other alternative architectures don't gain ground in the data center, Intel is launching a customizable chip that marries its Xeon CPUs with an FPGA.…
Read MoreWhy Microsoft is building programmable chips that specialize in search
Microsoft has been experimenting with its own custom chip effort in order to make its data centers more efficient, and these chips aren't centered around ARM-based cores, but rather FPGAs from Altera.…
Read MoreCavium introduces its ARM-based server chip family that does it all
Cavium is latest company to launch an ARM-based server chip for the data center, but the networking chip specialist is doing so with an entire family of ARM-based chips for compute, storage and networking.…
Read MoreHere’s how Intel plans to keep webscale customers happy
We spill a lot of digital ink talking about the chips that will displace Intel's in the data center, but the chip giant isn't ceding that ground without a fight.…
Read MoreChip firms form prpl foundation to keep MIPS architecture in the pink
Imagination, the holder of the MIPS architecture license, and several other big-name chip firms have created prpl -- a foundation to make sure MIPS can compete when it comes to software resources and support.…
Read MoreAMD takes an ARM architecture license to offer both x86 and ARM instruction sets
AMD has unveiled what it calls its ambidextrous computing roadmap -- a strategy to combine both the x86 and ARM architectures to build products that are substantially different than what any other vendor can offer.…
Read MoreAmazon joins other web giants trying to design its own chips
Amazon is building a chip design center for its Amazon Web Services cloud business in Austin, Texas according to sources, job listings and LinkedIn profiles.…
Read MoreThin film electronics may hold the key to human size health care
Sensors and other electronics will drive tremendous innovation in medical devices, building off the current momentum in fitness and wellness devices.…
Read MoreThe internet of things is great for chipmakers and a challenge for Intel
Bringing everyday physical objects online is going to shake up the chip industry in a major way. There are new opportunities for startups and even Intel knows it has to change.…
Read MoreTalk of IBM selling off chip business heats up again
Chip chatter: Globalfoundries has emerged as the leading candidate to take on IBM's chip fab business, according to reports.…
Read MoreQualcomm’s Jacobs aims to predict your heart attack and isn’t sure about VR
Qualcomm's executive chairman isn't sure that virtual reality is the next big computing platform, but he's not willing to get too judgy about the $2 billion Facebook paid for Oculus Rift.…
Read MoreSunrise Micro Devices wants to become the ARM of radios
Right now the wearables market is hot. But how much hotter could it get if hardware designers had access to a ready-made radio core that consumed less than half the power?…
Read MorePhysicist proposes a new type of computing at SXSW. Check out orbital computing
Let go of your transistors. A physicist from SLAC who spoke at SXSW interactive has proposed using the state changes in the orbits of electrons as a way to build faster computers.…
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