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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
  ...2009 Intel Developer Forum... | Main | Friday, September 25, 2009 The 2009 Intel Developer Forum: Mobile Electronics Hands-On Highlights and Humdrum Sep 25 2009 10:30AM | Permalink |Comments (1) | I'm still digesting...
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Capacitive touch sensors fulfill early promise
  
  Author: By David Marsh, Contributing Technical Editor |
  ...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...
• 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...
• Silicon foundations simplify assembly lines
  
  Author: By Brian Dipert, Senior Technical Editor | Date: Feb 1, 2007
  ...discrete-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...
• 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 ...
• Hardware And O/S Virtualization, CPU Expansion: Delusions Amidst The Conceptions
  
  Author: Brian Dipert | Date: Mar 10, 2010
  ...many folks might automatically equate the word 'Android' and 'ARM', by virtue of the latter's dominance in mobile electronics devices such as cellular handsets and tablet computers, MIPS takes great pains to remind me each time we meet...
• 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...
• Cellphones: Tactile Keyboards And Subpar Alternatives
  
  Author: Brian Dipert | Date: Dec 8, 2009
  ...to boot). But the Cliq's implementation is definitely usable, even for extended hen-peck sessions. Mobile electronics manufacturers, I'm curious. What variables factor into your design decision to select a virtual versus physical...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
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  ...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...
• 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...
• test toshiba
  
  Date: Jun 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...
• Multicore mobile processor shipments on rise
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Jan 7, 2010
  According to In-Stat, ARM architecture will see a high growth rate as the architecture moves to multicore configurations.
• Datang, Philips, Samsung Shed Light on TD-SCDMA Venture
  
  Author: Online staff | Date: Jan 21, 2003
  ...critical mass of subscribers in record time.” Datang also announced last week that it will license its TD-SCDMA IP to STMicroelectronics and provide the technical support required for STMicro to make TD-SCDMA mobile ICs available.
• 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.
• STMicro Inks TD-SCDMA Deal with China's Datang
  
  Author: Online staff | Date: Jan 16, 2003
  ...TD-SCDMA core technology and know-how, Datang will provide the technical support required for STMicro to make TD-SCDMA mobile ICs available. The IPR licensing of TD-SCDMA technology follows other recent initiatives by STMicro, such as the development...