Has ARM won the processor wars? Hardly!

ARM processor cores are used for everything from smartphones to tablets to basestations to servers, so one could believe that the company has just about won the processor wars. Not so fast. There are ... Read Full Story

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China Fabless: Resurgent Spreadtrum looks to expand

Spreadtrum Communications, one of China’s hottest fabless companies, is looking for ways to expand its global presence after making an impressive recovery. Read Full Story

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DIY Goes Back to Future with Nixies at DESIGN East

The creators of the Nixie Tube DIY clock will describe how the project was conceived and implemented during a special session at DESIGN East 2012. Read Full Story

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Slideshow: Chinese smartphone menu

Huawei, ZTE, Lenovo and Coolpad are the Chinese smartphone brands you probably know. But what about Kente, Meizu, SGiFe, ThL or Zopo? Read Full Story

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Renesas: Software is new battlefront in MCUs

Bundled software is becoming the new battlefront among microcontroller makers, said a Renesas executive in an interview just prior to the opening of ...

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AMD CFO Seifert steps down

AMD CFO Thomas Seifert (shown), who served as the company's interim CEO for seven months last year during the search for Dirk Meyer's replacement, ...

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PLX preps PCI Express fabric amid server debate

A lively debate has cropped up around using PCI Express as a fabric connecting servers as PLX Technologies works on a switch chip that could enable ...

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Group takes shortcut in quest for electronic brain

Despite calls from some for more complex programs, the European Union's Blue Brain Project said simpler supercomputer simulations are sufficient to ...

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ARM TechCon probes road to 14-nm ICs

A tutorial presentation at the upcoming ARM TechCon exhibition and conference is set to discuss the mix of challenge and opportunity represented by ...

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Kalray claims 25 customers for 256-core processor

Kalray SA, the well-supported French launching a parallel processing chip and software, has 25 customers and is hopeful of winning more in Germany and ...

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Whether F1 or IndyCar, clever engineering is key

Formula One teams spend $400 million a year while IndyCar spends a fraction of that amount. Still, Indycar engineering is no less amazing -- with a ...

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China IP debate: "Everyone's afraid their tech will be stolen. . ."

A heated debate took place during a Beijing forum over the nettlesome issue of intellectual property rights and what China must do to convince the ...

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Microchip unveils new 8-bit microcontroller at DESIGN East

Microchip will ship this fall a 4x4mm 8-bit controller with integrated USB for as little as 50 cents in high volumes, the company said at the DESIGN ...

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Intel's Haswell: a viable platform for tablets?

Intel's David (Dadi) Perlmutter believes it won't be long before Intel's core processor turns up in tablets, even if that means having to compromise ...

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London Calling: ARM's East copes with uncertainty

Warren East, the CEO of U.K. processor licensor ARM Holdings, has warned that sales will slow in second half in 2012 due global economic uncertainty.

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Biz Strategy Beyond Gates & Jobs

Entrepreneur Maheen Hamid looks beyond the iconic opposites to offer advice on your business strategy.

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Yoshida in China: Beijing’s science park 2.0

Big cities in China — even medium-sized cities in China’s flyover regions – are all hot to trot promoting high-tech science parks. But the mother of ...

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Making beautiful music with smart MEMS microphones

New "smart" MEMS microphones enable recording with a quality once reserved only for musicians and rich wannabes with their own private recording ...

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Intel, Apple may be two ships passing in the light

I was humbled—and just a bit frightened--to see the Apple and Intel cruise ships pass so closely as they sailed down San Francisco’s Howard St. this ...

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Survey claims over half of Americans 'disappointed' by iPhone 5

It has not even been 24 hours since Apple released its latest iteration of the now iconic iPhone, yet according to flash polls and several press ...

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Siggraph: ARM rolls new cores, market gains

Although much of the excitement around SIGGRAPH is on the high-end of computing, there is still much more in terms of graphics technology being ...

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Do engineers need an MBA?

In last week’s Careers newsletter, I asked whether readers thought engineers should bolster their technical education with a more business orientated ...

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Silicon Valley Nation: Five engineering lessons from race teams

Racing engineers can teach their colleagues in other disciplines some useful lessons.

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Early DIY electronics projects, 1910-1915

My experiences as a teenager building simple do-it-yourself automobile and radio electronics projects found in some volumes of “The Boy Mechanic” ...

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A 64-bit horse that can count

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The phenomenon of "The Clever Hans", Mr. von Osten's horse, was described in 1911 [1]. The Clever Hans was famous because of his ability to read and solve

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The compiler is to blame for everything

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Many programmers are very fond of blaming the compiler for different errors. Let's talk about it - http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0161/

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