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• Freescale exiting mobile ICs, opens opportunity for Qualcomm
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Oct 3, 2008
  Freescale exiting mobile ICs, opens opportunity for Qualcomm Freescale eliminates its minimum...benefits to the company, Freescale's decision to close the door on mobile ICs could also open a window of opportunity for Qualcomm, analysts...
• The 2009 Intel Developer Forum: Mobile Electronics Hands-On Highlights and Humdrum
  
  Author: Brian Dipert | Date: Sep 25, 2009
  ...RSS Woes: NewsGator's Enterpri... » Friday, September 25, 2009 The 2009 Intel Developer Forum: Mobile Electronics Hands-On Highlights and Humdrum Sep 25 2009 10:30AM | Permalink |Comments (0) | I'm still digesting...
• IMEC, Renesas research reconfigurable RF transceivers
  
  Author: By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor | Date: May 28, 2008
  ...new approaches to digitize future RF architectures, IMEC and Renesas said. To bolster development of future mobile electronics products, Renesas said it will place researchers onsite at IMEC to closely collaborate with the research team...
• EDN: Information, News, & Business Strategy for Electronics Design Engineers
  
  ...solid-state drives 8/20/2009 Self-serving “synergy” 8/6/2009 The 2009 Intel Developer Forum: Mobile Electronics Hands-On Highlights and Humdrum The 2009 Intel Developer Forum: Near-Immediate Tweets, Follow-On Deets...
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Capacitive touch sensors fulfill early promise
  
  Author: By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor | Date: Jun 8, 2006
  ...5-mm leadless CSP. A key feature of this device is its self-calibration capability, which is essential for its mobile- electronics target market. The sensor works by generating a 240-kHz square-wave signal that drives one of each button's electrodes...
• guidesTOC on EDN: Electronics Design, Strategy, News
  
  ...Intellectual property and DRM (digital rights management) Local and personal area networks Mass storage Mobile electronics Multimedia capture, processing, and output PC architecture evolutions and revolutions PCI Express ...
• This week in gEEk: Dissecting the new iPod Touch, 28-nm process technology, and Atmel
  
  Author: Suzanne Deffree | Date: Oct 3, 2008
  ...things apart, check out the second-generation iPod Touch EDN tore apart this week. More mobile ICs, anyone? There will be no more mobile ICs for Freescale. The company has decided to exit that business and is looking at its options...
• Infineon Technologies OptiMOS3 M: N-channel MOSFETs suits mobile-system applications
  
  Date: Dec 6, 2007
  ...LiveJournal | Digg This | Slashdot This | add to Del.icio.us Aiming at dc/dc-converter applications for mobile electronics, the 30V OptiMOS3 M series N-channel MOSFET family targets applications with a 5V drive. The BSC100N03MS G...
• instat on EDN: Electronics Design, Strategy, News
  
  ...Integration Still Has Its Challenges Mobile electronics is the fastest growing segment of...Next Generation Consumer Devices Mobile electronics is the fastest growing segme...Integration Still Has Its Challenges Mobile electronics is the fastest growing segment of...
• Microsoft, Yahoo, and the SoC business model
  
  Author: Ron Wilson | Date: Feb 1, 2008
  ...cameras, handsets, positioning devices, and mobile computers. This could justify a wholesale replacement of mobile electronics, giving a major boots to a market that appears to be saturating and drowning in useless feature creep. And that...
• Handheld Game Systems Proliferate, Touting Varied Features and Price Tags
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, EDN | Date: Jan 25, 2006
  ...a portable gaming console? That's a tough question to answer; to understand why, look at another rapidly growing mobile- electronics category: the portable computer. For more of this story, written by Electronic News ssiter publication EDN, click...
• Silicon foundations simplify assembly lines
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor | Date: Feb 1, 2007
  ...assembled AM/FM receiver consumes, a particularly vital attribute in highly integrated, small-form-factor mobile electronics devices, such as Microsoft’s Zune. And some of the conventional receivers Silicon Labs showed were also...
• Lessons from the last mile
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: 12 hours 5 minutes ago
  Chip designers' struggles to provide triple-play HD service to telephone, cable, and wireless customers are changing the nature of SOC architecture.
• Report from Europe: Convergence outcome unclear but opportunity-rich
  
  Author: By Drew Wilson, Contributing Writer | Date: May 1, 2007
  ...European Briefing Series 2007 in Budapest, Hungary, where analysts gave an overview of the dynamics reshaping the mobile electronics market. What’s clear is that the mish-mash of stand-alone gadgets such as digital cameras, MP3 players...
• Deep packet inspection optimizes mobile applications
  
  Author: By Mike Coward, Continuous Computing | Date: Oct 8, 2009
  Mobile data provides a notable growth opportunity for cellular operators, but adoption will be slow unless networks can provide good service to all subscribers. Deep packet inspection enables operators to understand the applications their subscribers are using and to build appropriate networks.
• Toshiba: Ask The Embedded Flash Expert
  
  Author: by Toshiba | Date: Apr 5, 2007
  ...single package to simplify layout and save valuable board space in cellular phones and other space-constrained mobile electronics devices. As a leader in MCPs that incorporate NAND Flash for high-volume consumer applications, Toshiba has...
• Pico projectors set to grow
  
  Author: Edited by Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Sep 3, 2009
  iSuppli identifies DLP and other MEMS-display technologies, as well as LCOS technology, as showing strong promise in the embedded pico projector market.
• Useful Sites on EDN
  
  ...hunting for exciting exclusives with regard to consumer electronics. Our main points of interest are home, car and mobile electronics.We also let you know how the markets are acting - and how consumers are reacting. Or vice versa. Analysis...
• Three killer apps and some not-so-killer
  
  Author: By Paul Rako, Technical Editor | Date: Jul 23, 2009
  A trip to the IEEE International Microwave Symposium in Boston creates good feelings for the future of semiconductors.
• Variations on a theme: Handheld game systems proliferate, touting varied features and price tags
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor | Date: Jan 19, 2006
  ...a portable gaming console? That's a tough question to answer; to understand why, look at another rapidly growing mobile- electronics category: the portable computer. Like the portable gaming console, the portable computer has achieved mainstream popularity...