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Nvidia demos Cat 4 LTE-Advanced Modem

May 21st 2013

NVIDIA’s mobile processor for mainstream smartphones – Tegra 4i, which includes an integrated NVIDIA i500 LTE modem, chewed through 150Mbps of LTE data in a demo this week at CTIA 2013 in Las Vegas. First shown at Mobile World Congress in February at Cat 3 100mbps, this Tegra 4i demo is fully based on a software update – no new hardware, no new processor.

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Techwatch May 8th 2013

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As we reported, the legal battles over copy protection are just getting started and so far they seem to be going well for those who would like to see copy protected CDs clearly labeled (if the things have to be sold at all). As it turns out, copy protected …Click here to read this news article

The optical disk business gets tougher

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Micron demonstrates home brewed DDR/DDR-II at VIA Technology forum

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