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Feb. 11, 2014 -
ARM today announced an enhanced suite of higher performance and more energy-efficient products specifically designed for the rapidly growing mid-range mobile and consumer electronics markets. The suite, comprised of processor, graphics processor and physical IP, is an update to ARM's mid-range IP offering ...
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Jan. 28, 2014 -
MIPS presents a game changing threat to the CPU side of the mobile SoC world, but nobody wants to address it.
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Jan. 24, 2014 -
With the latest smartphones all vying to support the 4G wireless technology known as Long Term Evolution (LTE), smartphone chipset suppliers will be fighting to become part of the LTE handset modem landscape currently dominated by industry giant Qualcomm, according to a new LTE Modem Insights brief ...
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Jan. 16, 2014 -
Imagination Technologies reports significant deployment of its technologies in many products demonstrated at International CES 2014. Imagination’s technologies were at the heart of a broad range of products from IoT (internet of things) and wearables to the latest mobile phones and tablets to UltraHD ...
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Jan. 13, 2014 -
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Dec. 20, 2013 -
The global smartphone applications processor market registered 31 percent year-on-year growth to reach $4.9 billion in Q3 2013, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies (HCT) service report
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Dec. 11, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies today announces results for the six months to 31 October 2013. Group half-year revenues up 19% to £85.2m (2012: £71.4m)
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Dec. 10, 2013 -
Arasan announced today the availability of compatible mobile storage interfaces for 64-bit processors, using system host interfaces AHB, AXI or OCP. Compatible standards include: SD 3.0, SD 4.0, SDIO 3.0, SDIO 4.0, eMMC 4.51, eMMC 5.0, ONFI 3.2, and UFS 2.0.
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Dec. 04, 2013 -
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $315.4 billion in 2013, a 5.2 percent increase from 2012 revenue of $299.9 billion, according to preliminary results by Gartner, Inc. The top 25 semiconductor vendors' combined revenue increased 6.2 percent, a significantly better performance than the rest of ...
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Nov. 07, 2013 -
The top-20 ranking includes three pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC) and five fabless companies.
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Oct. 30, 2013 -
ARM today unveiled new additions to its Mali™ GPU family, the industry’s most widely-licensed GPU IP, which scales the entire product stack from premium mobile devices to cost-optimized smartphones.
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Oct. 23, 2013 -
ARM Holdings PLC reported a record quarter based on closing 48 new licensing deals, 11 with new customers. The deals drove revenue up 26 percent year-on-year to $286.7 million and pre-tax profits up to about $150 million.
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Oct. 22, 2013 -
ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended 30 September 2013.
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Oct. 17, 2013 -
The global smartphone applications processor market continued to show strength and grew 44 percent year-on-year to reach $4.4 billion in Q2 2013, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report
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Oct. 14, 2013 -
By Strategy Analytics estimates, Qualcomm captured a record 63 percent revenue share in the cellular baseband market in Q2 2013, followed by MediaTek with 13 percent revenue share and Intel with 7 percent revenue share.
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Sep. 25, 2013 -
Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry's research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced estimated personal mobile devices graphics chip shipments for the first half of 2013. Personal mobile devices include smartphones, tablets and handheld game consoles.
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Aug. 07, 2013 -
There seems to be a certain amount of excitement brewing around Samsung's Exynos Octa versus Qualcomm's quad-core Snapdragons and MediaTek's forthcoming True Octa-ness. I thought I would share some of the "big-little" thinking of ARM that I received on a recent trip to Cambridge, Mass.
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Aug. 02, 2013 -
The top 20 worldwide semiconductor (IC and O S D—optoelectronic, discrete, and sensor) sales leaders for 1H13 include eight suppliers headquartered in the U.S., four in Japan, three in Europe, three in Taiwan, and two in South Korea.
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Jun. 19, 2013 -
Imagination today announces results for the year to 30 April 2013. The Group’s partners shipped 700m units consisting of 535m (2012: 325m) from Imagination excluding MIPS Technologies, Inc. (MIPS) and 165m from MIPS in the 12 weeks since the business was acquired on 7 February 2013.
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May. 30, 2013 -
The HSA Foundation has released Version 0.95 of its Programmer¹s Reference Manual. The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium dedicated to developing architecture specifications that unlock the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines ...
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May. 10, 2013 -
Global smartphone applications processor market showed a robust 60 percent year-on-year growth in 2012 to reach $12.9 billion, according to the Strategy Analytics.
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May. 02, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies is today issuing a trading update for the year to 30 April 2013. Despite an active pipeline of licensing engagements, the closure timing of a number of deals has been subject to higher levels of uncertainty due to structural and organisational changes among a number of semiconductor ...
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May. 02, 2013 -
Unlike the relatively close annual market growth relationship between fabless IC suppliers and foundries, fabless IC company sales growth versus IDM (integrated device manufacturer) IC supplier growth has typically been very different.
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Apr. 17, 2013 -
ARM has announced a new licensing model to enable broader access to big.LITTLE™ processing technology for ARM partners. By using multiple processors that are developed for different energy and performance budgets, big.LITTLE provides optimum performance and maximum efficiency.
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Apr. 10, 2013 -
Global semiconductor revenue in 2012 declined by 2.2 percent from 2011, according to final results from the IHS iSuppli Competitive Landscaping Tool (CLT) from information and analytics provider IHS (NYSE: IHS). The preliminary forecast issued by IHS in December projected a drop of 2.3 percent.
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Mar. 28, 2013 -
The top 25 ranking includes three pure-play foundries (TSMC, GlobalFoundries, and UMC) and six fabless companies. In 2012, the pure-play foundries and fabless companies were the star performers.
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Mar. 14, 2013 -
After reaching a worrisome high in the third quarter of 2012, global semiconductor inventories held by chip suppliers fell at a surprisingly fast rate in the fourth quarter, led by dramatic reductions for market leader Intel Corp.
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Mar. 12, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies is today issuing its Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 November 2012 to 11 March 2013.
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Mar. 07, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies reports that at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona, many leading semiconductor suppliers, mobile and telecom OEMs, and key strategic ecosystem partners expressed their strong support and enthusiasm for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics, video and vision roadmaps, as ...
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Feb. 26, 2013 -
ARM today unveiled that its big.LITTLE processing technology has been adopted by many of the world’s leading mobile chip manufacturers. Samsung and Renesas Mobile have already announced their plans, and subsequent implementations will be revealed during 2013 by five more companies including CSR, ...
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Feb. 25, 2013 -
ARM’s Mali™ GPU Partners report a significant increase in shipments – rising to more than 150 million processors in 2012 – and licenses grow by 30% due to superior graphics performance
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Jan. 16, 2013 -
Intel Corp.’s introduction of a new Atom processor platform designed to target the fast-growing market for low-end smartphones in emerging economies represents a shrewd strategy that could allow the company to expand its currently minimal market share in the industry, according to the IHS iSuppli/Screen ...
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Jan. 16, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies reports significant growth in penetration in TV and other consumer markets. This was demonstrated by yesterdays’ announcement regarding Mediatek and a record number of new product announcements from its partners at CES 2013 in Las Vegas.
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Jan. 14, 2013 -
Although overall semiconductor industry growth was nearly flat in 2012, sales of mobile semiconductors reached $31 billion in 2012 according to The Linley Group, an increase of 18 percent over the previous year.
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Jan. 09, 2013 -
Contrary to some opinions, the fabless/foundry business model shows no signs of "collapsing". The report shows that the fabless IC suppliers grew by 6% in 2012, 10 points better than the 4% decline registered by the IDMs and eight points better than the 2% decline shown by the total IC market last year. ...
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Jan. 09, 2013 -
Imagination Technologies is showing the products and technologies that are enabling the next wave of TV and STB (Set-Top Box) evolution at CES 2013.
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Dec. 12, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies today announces results for the six months to 31 October 2012. Group half-year revenue up 27% to £71.4m (2011: £56.3m)
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Dec. 07, 2012 -
In a miserable 2012 semiconductor market that will see revenue decline at seven of the world’s Top 10 semiconductor suppliers, Qualcomm Inc. is standing out, with a double-digit increase in sales that will make it the world’s third-largest chip maker this year.
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Nov. 14, 2012 -
Imagination Technologies announces the latest six-cluster PowerVR GPU IP core in its ground-breaking PowerVR Series6 family.
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Oct. 23, 2012 -
ARM Holdings plc announces its unaudited financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended 30 September 2012. Total dollar revenues in Q3 2012 were $227.9 million, up 18% versus Q3 2011. Q3 sterling revenues of £144.6 million were up 20% year-on-year.