ARM has released a new low-end core that adds higher-level math to chips inside microwaves and headsets to prepare for a connected future. If we're gonna connect everything to the web, that means even the tiny brains inside relatively dumb devices need a boost.…
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On2 Shareholders Finally Agree to Google Deal — What’s Next?
On2 shareholders finally agreed yesterday to allow the encoding company to be purchased by Google (s GOOG), after the search giant raised…
Read MoreCan Qualcomm Compete As Smartphones Become Computers?
Our mobile devices are getting smarter, faster and mimicking the functionality of a full-fledged PC. As the top wireless chipmaker, Qualcomm has long been the "Intel inside" for mobile phones. But can it compete against a host of new processors with better graphics and more performance?…
Read MoreMobile World Congress: Don't Call It a Phone Show
Over the last few years Mobile World Congress, the mobile phone industry trade show, has experienced a shift from being about mobile phones to being about always-on connectivity. Mobile broadband has changed the value of the mobile ecosystem and thus the players who care about it.…
Read MoreThe Nexus One: A Non-Story
The Google phone, dubbed the Nexus One--an unbranded HTC-made carrier-unlocked handset running Android 2.0--looks slick. Here is why it won't be an iPhone killer, though.…
Read MoreAndroid Gets Some Serious Support for Consumer Devices
ARM (s armh) and more than 35 other companies have banded together to create an alliance dubbed the Solution Center for Android,…
Read MoreThe Daily Show‘s Stepchildren Now Include Escapist News Network and Newsish
[show=unskippable]Every icon has his or her imitators, and while The Daily Show‘s Jon Stewart didn’t invent the concept of snarking at the…
Read MoreTI Says Calculators Aren't Dead Yet, Releases iPhone App
Texas Instruments (s TXN) today launched a calculator for the iPhone that will cost $14.99 and perform all the functions of its…
Read MoreiTunes 9 Genius: It’s in the Mix
Having spent a day with iTunes 9 and OS 3.1 on an iPhone and iPod touch, I find that I am completely…
Read MoreAs TI Dumps Wireless, Mind the Gap
[qi:gigaom_icon_chip] Texas Instruments (s txn) last year said it would exit the wireless baseband business (it will still make custom radios for…
Read MoreGoogle Chrome OS & What It Means For Future of Computing
Google's Chrome OS may or may not make it, but the attempt shows how far the computer industry has come from a bulky PC chained to a desk by its power cord and Ethernet cable. The computer is evolving from those dinosaurs to a smaller, mobile model that is always connected to the web. The iPhone brought us apps that are lightweight so users don't get bogged down by smaller processors and slower wireless web connections on mobile devices. Google's Chrome OS attempts to keep that speed, while preserving a platform for Google to make money through advertising.…
Read MoreEurope Gets Handset Makers to Agree to Universal Charger
Nokia (s NOK), Motorola (s MOT), Research in Motion (s RIM), Apple (s aapl) (yes, even Apple) and six other cell phone…
Read MoreTI Sees Multicore Phones Coming in 2011
Texas Instruments (s TXN) is betting that a more powerful cell phone, one that uses identical computing cores working in parallel inside…
Read MoreIntel Buys Wind River To Put a Computer In Every Toaster
Intel (s intc) today said it plans to acquire Wind River Systems (s wind) for $884 million — a deal that gives…
Read MoreWeb Celebs Declare They Are Geeks!
It’s hard to hate too much on the Society for Geek Advancement. I’m not quite sure what or how serious the project…
Read MoreIntel Going Mobile With Moorestown, Pushing Nehalem Everywhere
Intel (s INTC) made a series of announcements last night that push its low-power Atom processor closer to the smartphone side of…
Read MoreNetflix and Facebook Link Movie Ratings
Netflix (s NFLX) tonight is announcing integration with Facebook Connect, meaning users can link their accounts and relationships across the two services.…
Read MoreHybrid Computers Will Hide in the Cloud
Heterogeneous computing, where hardware vendors mix a variety of processors (graphics processors, CPUs, embedded chips or DSPs) on a server to increase…
Read MoreTexas Instrument Places a Risky Mobile Bet
Our mobile phones are getting smarter, even as our laptops are getting dumber. Instead of packing fast processors into a notebook, PC…
Read MoreBig Computer Brains Need Big Memory Bandwidth
As semiconductors try to get faster without breaking the laws of physics (not that researchers aren’t trying that, too) multicore processors have…
Read MoreTI Wants to Use DSPs for Low-power Computing
Texas Instruments (s TXN) is looking to hop on the trend of using non x86 processors in the data center, according to…
Read MoreComputing+Connectivity+Application=TI's Formula for MID
As technology companies try to define the slew of devices that are smaller than a laptop or bigger than a smartphone, the…
Read MoreSmartphones and Netbooks: Closer Than Kissing Cousins
You know how you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover? Well, when it comes to smartphones and netbooks, a…
Read MoreTexas Instruments to Offer a Champion Chipset for Mobile
Texas Instruments (s TXN) is expected to this week release details of its next-generation application processor, the OMAP 4 family of chips,…
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