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AMD Enters ASMedia Partnership

by Raverstead

ASMedia, in Taiwan, has signed contracts for a partnership with AMD. Details of the relationship have not been disclosed, except to say that it is related to next-generation chipset technology.

Tags:AMD| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Taiwan| Vol 21 - Issue 47

Ams Supports Eight-Direction Gestures

by Raverstead

Ams AG has released a new family of chips that integrate six sensing functions, including gesture detection and Mobeam barcode emulation. The chips are part of the TMG399x family. They are intended for use …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Touch Controllers| Touch Interfaces| Vol 21 - Issue 45

Imagination Customers to Create ‘Kepler’ Competitor

by Raverstead

Imagination Technologies has said that it is working on coherent interconnect technology; this would enable Imagination’s newest multicore MIPS processors to be combined with ‘large arrays’ of its PowerVR GPUs. The intent is to …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| GPUs| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 44

Parade Extends Jitter-Cleaning to HDMI 2.0

by Super User

To promote the use of the HDMI 2.0 standard, Parade Technologies has released a jitter-cleaning repeater chip called the PS8409. It is designed to remove clock jitter and data jitter/skew from an HDMI 2.0 …

Tags:Chips| HDMI| Interface Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

ARM’s Big.Little Evolves at Ineda

by Super User

A low-power chip, developed by start-up Ineda Systems, has been developed to extend the lifetime of wearable devices. The chip works alongside the main processor. It listens for voice commands at all times and …

Tags:Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 21 - Issue 34| Volume 21

Silicon Labs Claims Industry’s Smallest Tuner IC Footprint

by Super User

Silicon Labs’ new Si2151 and Si2141 are the sixth-generation of the company’s TV tuner ICs. Developed for the global hybrid TV and digital TV markets, they support digital and analogue broadcasts and comply with …

Tags:Chips| DTV| DVB-T & T2| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Tuners| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Fujitsu Decodes HEVC, Encodes H.264

by Super User

The MB8AL2030 (aka HD62) is a SoC supporting HEVC decoding, from Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe. It is intended for use in home entertainment and in-care infotainment systems. An H.264 encoder is also built in. The …

Tags:Chips| HEVC (H.265)| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

LG Puts Mobile SoC to Work

by Super User

A new mobile SoC has been developed by LG Electronics and is already being used in a smartphone. The ‘Nuclun’ CPU has been installed in the LG G3 Screen, a Korea-exclusive handset. Built with …

Tags:Chips| LG Electronics (LGE)| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21

Intel Enters Octa-Core Market With Enthusiast Chips

by Super User

Intel’s Haswell technology has finally reached the highest-end markets that the company operates in. Three chips, known collectively as the Core i7 Extreme Edition, have been launched for overclockers and other enthusiasts. Intel claims …

Tags:Chips| CPUs| Intel| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 35| Volume 21

ARM Expands 64-Bit Processing With 50th License

by Super User

Demand has been growing for ARM’s 64-bit v8-A processors, the company has said. It has recently signed its 50th licensing agreement to produce chips based on the architecture. The licences, with 27 partners, are …

Tags:Arm| Chips| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Processors| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

Imagination Designs New MIPS for Android L

by Super User

Imagination Technologies has refreshed the ageing MIPS architecture with a new 64-bit processor, the MIPS I6400. It is a multi-core SoC with integrated graphics and simultaneous multithreading; up to four threads per core, simultaneously, …

Tags:Chips| Imagination Tech| Large Display Monitor| SOCs| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21

AMD: ‘If 28nm Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix it’

by Super User

Rory Read, AMD’s CEO, has detailed the company’s two-year roadmap at a presentation for Deutsche Bank in Germany. He said that 28nm would remain a major process for the company for some time, but …

Tags:AMD| Chips| CPUs| Large Display Monitor| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21