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Articles tagged with: Digital Signal Processor
New digital signal processor is super-fast, ultra energy-efficient
A new, extremely energy-efficient processor chip that provides breakthrough speeds for a variety of computing tasks has been designed by a group at the University of California, Davis. The chip, dubbed AsAP, is ultra-small, fully reprogrammable and highly configurable, so it can be widely adapted to a number of applications. more
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Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008
Shakespeare's adage, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," was certainly true for the kings of the semiconductor industry in 2008, with eight out of the Top-10 suppliers suffering revenue declines for the year, according to iSuppli Corp. more
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Recession to Wreak Havoc on Semiconductor Sales
The global recession will wreak havoc on semiconductor sales this year, reports In-Stat. Worldwide semiconductor revenue will decline by nearly 20% in 2009 to $199.2 billion, the high-tech market research firm says. The industry will not recover to 2007 levels until at least 2012. more
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Octasic Launches First True SDR Solution for GSM/EDGE Basestations
Octasic has shown off its first Software Defined Radio (SDR) platform for GSM, EDGE and EDGE Evolution Base Transceiver Station (BTS) applications. Vocallo BTS is the first product of Octasic's recently announced wireless program that uses its Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology. more
Related Tags: 3g, edge, bts, software-defined-radio, sdr, edge-evolution, gsm, 4g
iSuppli Raises 2006 Chip Estimate
After years of coming close to breaking into the top-10 global semiconductor rankings, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and Hynix Semiconductor finally hit the big time in 2006, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli Corp. In the telecoms world, Qualcomm maintained its ranking while Broadcom managed to jump a couple of places.
Preliminary Ranking of the World's Top-25 Semiconductor Suppliers in 2006 (Ranking by Revenue in Millions of U.S. Dollars)
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Related Tags: broadcom, advanced-micro-devices, amd, texas-instruments, flash-memory, isuppli, infineon-technologies, ibm, toshiba, texas, memory-chips, hynix, nand, hynix-semiconductor, dram Strong Cellphone Shipments to Fuel DSP Sales The digital signal processor (DSP) business will regain some of its lost luster in 2006 by growing at nearly twice the rate as the entire IC market this year thanks to strong demand for cellular phones, new investments in broadband communications networks, and the spread of digital video applications in consumer products. more Related Tags: Cellphones Drive Semiconductor Sales Rise The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) has reported that worldwide sales of semiconductors rose 8.1% in April 2006, compared to April 2005. Sales reached US$19.6 billion, driven largely by mobile phones. more Related Tags: semiconductor-industry-association, semiconductors, analog, nand, dram Agere joins open standards group Agere Systems has joined the global Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI). Agere offers many critical technologies and components for wireless base stations. These include digital signal processors (DSPs), RF power transistors, world-leading traffic management silicon and highly sophisticated serializer/deserializer (SerDes) "macros" that are available to all of the OEMs that Agere serves with custom silicon. more Related Tags: bts Single processor for cellphone modem TTPCom has launched a cellular modem reference design implemented on a single processor. Integration of the complete modem, from protocol stack to RF drivers, on one processor, frees up the second processor completely for hosting applications or open operating systems. more Related Tags: New image sensors for camera phones STMicroelectronics says that it has introduced a leading-edge solution for mobile phone cameras. Consisting of the VS6552 CMOS Image Sensor module and the STV0974E Mobile Imaging DSP (Digital Signal Processor), the new mobile camera kit offers image quality equivalent to CCD (Charge Coupled Device) image sensors without the well-known disadvantages of CCD technology. more More stories tagged with Digital Signal Processor
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