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Broadcom promises dual-core power for budget prices
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a fine device. Its Android 4.0 OS, dual-core processor and crop of next next-gen radios lead market in the technological sophistication, but at more than $600 without...
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When DVRs sleep, do they dream about energy-saving chips?
Ranked by the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as a domestic electrical power hog on gluttonous par with the refrigerator, the HD DVR is about to be put to sleep. Don’t worry. It’ll wake up in...
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Who and what to watch in the new era of the living room
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Cloud computing infrastructure: 2012 and beyond
Cloud computing continues to change and shape the technology industry, and these days discussions are about more than simply reorganizing the IT department. New developments in chip and hardware...
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Cloud computing’s impact on chip and hardware design
Cloud computing is shaking up the worlds of computer design and microprocessor-chip design, and its related concepts and business models have changed both industries, possibly forever. In the near...
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Gamers rejoice: New screen-shifting tech coming to high-end phones
Does the world need another wireless radio crammed inside a smartphone? Silicon Image, which is pushing a wireless standard known as WirelessHD hopes so. The company, which is behind the HDMI standard,...
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Broadcom’s new chip could bring 150 Mbps mobile broadband to your phone or...
Just because phones and tablets are now taking advantage of fast LTE networks doesn’t mean we can’t get ready for the next big thing. That’s exactly what Broadcom is doing. On Tuesday, the company...
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ZTE to use Nvidia’s latest Tegra 4 chip in next-gen phones
Fresh off the launch of its Tegra 4i chips that integrate a modem and the tegra applciaiton processor, Nvidia is announcing a customer win for its standalone Tegra 4 applciaiton processor. ZTE, the...
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Roku is getting AirPlay-like wireless video mirroring with Miracast
Roku has teamed up with Broadcom to bring Miracast video mirroring to its video streaming devices. The technology will allow consumers to stream video and mirror a device’s desktop directly from their...
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Intel’s switching dreams will be Cisco’s and Juniper’s nightmare
Intel may be struggling on the PC side of its business, but the chip giant is making aggressive moves in the data center and enterprise computing sector. After buying networking silicon vendor Fulcrum...
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Can chip companies profit off the maker movement? TI is betting on it
TI launched a new version of its BeagleBone development board Tuesday that cuts the price in half and offers a lot more functionality. It also launched a $50 sensor board bundle packed with on-board...
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Heck yeah! Facebook’s Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided that utterly disrupting the server and storage market isn’t enough. On Wednesday, it said it would...
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Smart TV forecast: gigabit Wi-Fi in the living room
The smart TV market will grow from 67 million units shipped in 2012 to 134 million shipped in 2015. As it expands, a simultaneous transition to higher-speed Wi-Fi connections based on a new standard —...
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Zigbee and Z-wave are out. Broadcom’s new chips bet on Bluetooth and Wi-Fi...
There is nothing that hardware nerds love than a good old-fashioned standards battle. LTE versus WiMAX, VHS versus Betamax, Ethernet versus InfiniBand … the list goes on. The internet of things is...
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The internet of things: a market landscape
What can we expect the IoT landscape to look like, and how will its impact be felt? And is the attention being given by governments, manufacturers, and industry players merited, or is this just a fad?...
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Cumulus Networks shakes up networking with an open OS for switches
Super-stealthy startup Cumulus Networks has launched with what could be a hot property in the burgeoning world of open networking gear. The startup, founded in 2010 by two former Cisco engineers, has...
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Reports of ZigBee on handsets would be a big deal for the connected home (and...
Could ZigBee gain some real ground when it comes to the connected home? Pocket-lint is reporting that Samsung and HTC are both thinking about adding a ZigBee chip to their handsets. If true, that would...
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ZigBee wants to be the Bluetooth of the internet of things. Too bad everyone...
Poor ZigBee. As a wireless standard, it has long faced an identity crisis that pitted it against Wi-Fi in the home and proprietary standards or Bluetooth for low-data rates. But as companies such as...
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Broadcom to buy LTE chip biz for $164M
Broadcom is aggressively moving forward with radios to connect all of the things, saying on Wednesday that it will buy a carrier-validated LTE system on a chip from an affiliate of Renesas. The carrier...
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Where is wearable tech headed?
Imagine a small adhesive strip that can collect intimate biological data and tell your smartphone that you need to apply sunscreen or hydrate. How about a sensor for service dogs that enables them to...
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