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Intel's closely watched gross margin increase was driven mostly by lower microprocessor unit costs and higher chip revenue.
IMEC announced a chip that can handle a variety of advanced forward error correction technologies used in a range of wide and local area wireless networks, a future component for a software-defined radio platform it demonstrated.
TechInsights used its Embedded Systems Conference: Bangalore site to launch TechOnlineIndia.com amid an ongoing push by that region to develop the hardware design and manufacturing expertise needed to expand beyond its historic dependence on software development—and possibly to compete with China.
TI's three-core TMS320C6474 is its fastest DSP, yet it consumes 1/3 less power than single-core solutions and cuts cost and board space by a factor of three.
At one time, MRAM technology was hot. But recently, MRAM has fallen out of favor in the market, because the technology has taken longer than expected to commercialize.
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Under the Hood: Robot Guitar embeds autotuning
Gibson Guitar has been an aggressive technology adopter. On the heels of its Ethernet Out (digital) guitar, the company has released the Robot Guitar, which automatically tunes to a range of standard and alternative tunings at the touch of a button.
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On September 9, Apple announced a new line of iPods. This lineup included changes to the shuffle, nano and touch. Semiconductor Insights was eager to see what components were different between the first- and second- generation touches, as well as compare it with the iPhone 3G, which was released only months ago.
For its 75th anniversary edition, Esquire magazine took a bold technology flyer, embedding a pair of E Ink electrophorectic displays in a limited edition of its cover.
The highly integrated device adds an FM radio and WiFi connectivity.
Qualcomm's prominent place inside the first Android mobile phone is a feather in the company's cap, but doesn't mean there won't be stiff competition from rival wireless chip set vendors for design ins on future handsets to run the Google-backed operating system.
Component breakdown site iFixit also tore down the new iPod Nano and found similarities between it and previous versions of the music and video player.
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