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Oct. 22, 2012 -
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for the first half of 2012. Mobile devices include smartphones, tablets, and game consoles.
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Sep. 11, 2012 -
Due to strong growth in the mobile device market, The Linley Group estimates that the mobile processor market grew more than 60 percent in 2011.
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Aug. 08, 2012 -
global smartphone applications processor market showed a solid 55 percent year-over-year growth in Q1 2012 reaching $2.47 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report
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Aug. 06, 2012 -
ARM today announced the second generation of the ARM® Mali™-T600 Series GPUs. Each of the products features a 50% performance increase and are the first to include Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC), a texture compression technique that originated from ARM.
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Aug. 06, 2012 -
Shipments of GPUs conformant with the Khronos OpenGL ES family of graphics APIs (Application Programming Interface) will reach 1 billion units per annum by 2014 according to Imagination Technologies
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Aug. 01, 2012 -
Rambus today announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has issued its notice of final determination in the action brought by Rambus against LSI Logic, ST Microelectronics and other Respondents.
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Jul. 20, 2012 -
Rambus today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2012. Revenue for the second quarter of 2012 was $56.2 million, down 11% sequentially from the first quarter of 2012.
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Jun. 19, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies today announces results for the year to 30 April 2012.
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Jun. 15, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies, a leading multimedia technologies company, announces the latest IP cores in its ground-breaking PowerVR Series6 GPU core family.
The PowerVR G6230 and G6430 GPU IP cores are the latest in a growing family of PowerVR Series6 GPU cores and deliver high compute efficiency ...
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Apr. 26, 2012 -
Among the top 10 cellphone vendors, Nokia, Samsung and Apple topped 2011 unit shipments. Chinese suppliers Huawei, ZTE and TCL moved into the top ten. In revenue, however, Apple led over Samsung and Nokia. We expect Samsung to pass Nokia in smartphone shipments in 2012, taking the 2nd position behind ...
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Apr. 19, 2012 -
Rambus today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2012. Revenue for the first quarter of 2012 was $62.9 million, down 25% sequentially from the fourth quarter of 2011.
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Mar. 28, 2012 -
New NPD In-Stat research reports that the growth of mobile processors in 2011 exceeded 43% and is forecast to grow at a 22% CAGR through 2016.
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Mar. 23, 2012 -
JPR announced estimated mobile devices graphics chip shipments for 2011. Mobile devices include smartphones, tablets, cameras, vehicles, and game consoles.
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Mar. 15, 2012 -
The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) today launched its standardized, industry-approved method of evaluating Android-enabled devices. The EEMBC benchmark, named AndEBench, is available for download on Android Market, now part of Google Play, and soon at the Amazon Appstore for Android. ...
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Mar. 06, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies has released version 2.10 of its industry leading PowerVR Insider SDK (software development kit). The PowerVR Insider SDK fully supports the development of applications using the Khronos OpenGL® ES 1.1 and 2.0 APIs.
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Feb. 28, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies announces that the first two cores of its new PowerVR Series6 ‘Rogue’ family, G6200 and G6400, are now available and deliver the highest performance for all markets.
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Jan. 31, 2012 -
MIPS Technologies announced that dozens of the world's leading electronics companies introduced and demonstrated devices and technologies based on the popular MIPS® architecture at the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).
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Jan. 10, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies announces the first IP cores in its ground-breaking PowerVR Series6 GPU core family. The PowerVR G6200 and G6400 GPU IP cores are the first in a growing family of PowerVR Series6 GPU cores.
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Dec. 15, 2011 -
Qualcomm Inc. has become a new Imagination Technologies licensee, along with MStar, Ricoh and Rockchip, joining existing partners like Sony, Intel, Mediatek, Renesas, Samsung, Sigma and Realtek.
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Dec. 13, 2011 -
Imagination Technologies today announces results for the six months to 31 October 2011. Adjusted pre-tax profit jumps 52% to £15.3m; driven by strong licensing and continued royalty revenue growth
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Dec. 05, 2011 -
After three years of seeing its dominant position in the global semiconductor market whittled away by aggressive competition from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Intel Corp. is set to reverse the trend in 2011, with a combination of strong sales and an acquisition allowing the company to rebuild its margin ...
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Nov. 14, 2011 -
The total market for standards-based wireless connectivity ICs is expected to exceed 3.5 billion units per annum in 2011. “Broadcom leads the market with Qualcomm, CSR, and Texas Instruments all snapping at its heels,” says Peter Cooney, practice director, semiconductors. “The market will total ...
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Oct. 06, 2011 -
Analysis of findings from the recently published Semicast report “Opportunities for ARM in Embedded Processing—2011 Edition” suggest the rapid growth of the ARM architecture is set to continue over the medium term, with annual shipments of ARM-based processors set to match the world’s population ...
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Jul. 12, 2011 -
Preliminary findings from Semicast’s forthcoming report “Opportunities for Embedded Processors in the Digital Home” show ARM increased its position as the leading architecture for embedded processors in digital home applications in 2010, ahead of MIPS, Power Architecture and x86.
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Jun. 17, 2011 -
Mosaid today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2011. The Company is pleased to report that revenues and pro forma net income for both the fourth quarter and for the full fiscal year exceeded guidance.
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Jun. 06, 2011 -
Vitesse Semiconductor today introduced a portfolio of Gigabit Ethernet intellectual property (IP) cores for simple and efficient integration of 10/100/1000BASE-T functionality into Ethernet IC solutions for consumer electronics, broadband access, network security, printer, smart grid, storage, and other ...
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May. 20, 2011 -
Philippe Lambinet, ST’s senior executive vice president, sees ST-Ericsson’s pioneering work critical, as his team switches its core from ST40 to ARM in its upcoming DTV SoC platform.
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Apr. 18, 2011 -
Total worldwide semiconductor revenue reached $299.4 billion in 2010, up $70.7 billion, or 30.9 percent from 2009, the largest dollar increase for the semiconductor industry in any one year, according to Gartner, Inc. However, the industry just fell short of the milestone $300 billion revenue threshold. ...
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Feb. 14, 2011 -
ARM and a number of its Partner Community today highlighted their ongoing activity in baseband modem designs and momentum in the LTE and LTE-Advanced markets. The group also welcomed the acceleration of LTE / 4G technologies that will provide consumers with improved mobile experience based on the ARM® ...
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Feb. 02, 2011 -
CEVA today announced that it will showcase its leadership in mobile intellectual property through a range of new and innovative communication and multimedia technologies at Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona
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Dec. 14, 2010 -
Imagination Technologies today announces results for the six months to 31 October 2010. Adjusted pre-tax profit jumps 131% to £10.1m; driven by doubling of chip unit volume and strong licensing
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Nov. 16, 2010 -
Forward Concepts has announced the publication of its newest in-depth study of the worldwide cellphone chip market.
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May. 10, 2010 -
VeriSilicon and On2 Finland today announced a wide-ranging partnership that adds the multi-format video encode/decode solutions from On2 Finland to VeriSilicon's expanding, system level star IP portfolio. The agreement gives VeriSilicon access to On2 Finland’s silicon proven IP, with support for a ...
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May. 06, 2010 -
IP house MIPS Technologies Inc. recently revealed that it had landed a major cellular baseband/application processor licensee based in Asia.
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Mar. 29, 2010 -
Total worldwide semiconductor revenue reached $228.4 billion in 2009, down $26.8 billion, or 10.5 percent, from 2008, according to Gartner Inc. Gartner said that this is the first time the industry has seen two consecutive years of revenue declines. However, the industry performed much better than expected ...
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Feb. 17, 2010 -
CEVA today announced that Samsung Electronics has deployed CEVA DSP core technology in their first generation commercial Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem. The Kalmia modem chipset supports download speed up to 100Mbps and upload speed of 50Mbps within the 20MHz frequency bandwidth.
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Feb. 10, 2010 -
CEVA today announced that Sequans Communications, a leading 4G chipmaker, has licensed the CEVA-X1641 DSP core to power its next generation LTE and WiMAX baseband processors.
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Jan. 26, 2010 -
Mindspeed and CEVA announced today that CEVA’s proven, high-performance CEVA-X1641 DSP for wireless infrastructure applications is deployed in Mindspeed’s new Transcede 4000 wireless baseband packet processor.
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Jan. 21, 2010 -
Cellular phone chip supplier Qualcomm remained the number one fabless IC supplier, registering $6.6 billion in sales in 2009, a 2% increase. The most impressive gain by a large (i.e., greater than $1.0B in sales) fabless IC suppler in 2009 was MediaTek, which registered a strong 22% increase in sales ...
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Dec. 21, 2009 -
The semiconductor industry will post a revenue decline for just the sixth time in the last 25 years, with worldwide revenue totaling $226 billion in 2009, an 11.4 percent decline from 2008, according to preliminary estimates by Gartner, Inc.