Articles tagged with: Texas Instruments and Tim

Strong Consumer Interest in Wireless Power Charging

Citing research from sources including Ipsos Vantis, AcuPOLL, and Frost & Sullivan, the Wireless Power Consortium says there is a strong demand for its wireless power charging systems. However, it should be noted that much of the mobile industry had already agreed to standardise on a micro-USB charger for all future phones.  more

Related Tags: frost-&-sullivan, wireless-power-consortium, micro-usb, texas, ovi, iden, driving, lte, rsa, semiconductor

Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Down in 2008 - Qualcomm Bucks the Trend

Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $255 billion in 2008, down 5.4 percent, or a decrease of $14.5 billion from 2007 revenue, according to the final market share analysis by Gartner. The steep decline in the market in the final quarter of 2008, combined with the ongoing economic weakness, signals far worse declines in 2009.  more

Related Tags: broadcom, ethernet, , wi-fi, semiconductor, intel, samsung, qualcomm, bluetooth, infineon-technologies, gps, cdma, ovi, gartner, toshiba, sharp, switches, 3, memory, nand, notebook, modem, flash, dram

Rice-led project aims to boost performance on microprocessors

The USA's Rice University has been given a US$16 million fund to develop a new set of tools that can improve the performance of virtually any application running on any microprocessor. The funding came from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), as part of its Architecture Aware Compiler Environment Program  more

Related Tags: , iphone, amd, intel, itu, gps, ibm, texas, rcom, stanford, playstation, 3, memory, weather, rice-university, life, USA