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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

Intel, GloFo, and TSMC battle for position as the market moves to mobile Big companies, big smart companies, have the ability to take a body block and keep going. Cash reserves, tons of engineers, and determination are their muscle. And like any company, they make false starts, and unsupportable claims. That delights the press, and short-siders, but doesn’t really add much to the ecosystem. This week Intel revealed its latest power core design, Silvermont, fabricated on its 22nm FinFET process, a variant of the 22nm process it started to use last year for Ivy Bridge, but adapted for use …

Apple having trouble shipping G4 flatpanel iMac. Steve Jobs, on the other hand says all is swell

In a kind of business as usual announcement Apple has told customers that the new iMacs will be delayed as a result of LCD shortages. Supplies of 15-inch, 17-inch monitors are in especially short supply and the 14-inch and 15-inch are going to notebooks in ever higher numbers. We …Click here to read this news article

Zoran shells out $5 million for stake in Hong Kong box builder with Chinese connections

Zoran has taken a stake in DVN a Hong Kong firm that builds set-top boxes for the China Cable TV market. ZVN says they’re happy with the deal because a relationship with Zoran will enable them to build set-top boxes at competitive prices. Zoran, of course, is very interested …Click here to read this news article

ESS adds a little high-end glitz with strategic relationship including Linn Products and Sony to add

ESS is hoping to broaden its market into higher priced markets with the addition of SACD support for its DVD products and by offering a development platform built by consumer electronics manufacturer Linn. The Linn Silver Disc Engine debuted at CES 2002. It combined Sony’s SACD capabilities with the …Click here to read this news article

Nvidia answers ATI with Select Builder program for US channel partners

Nvidia has indeed lost a few fractious partner to ATI’s new open platform strategy. And, we have been assured by ATI’s representatives that there are plenty more deals going on. In addition, ATI announced at Cebit a renewed effort at developing relationships with System Integrators, OEMs, and VARs. ATI …Click here to read this news article

ntel ships 2.4 GHz Pentium 4

We know you where worrying about this, but relax, the 2.4 GHz Pentium 4s are shipping. The chips codenamed Northwood are Intel’s first chips to be built using the .13-process and 200mm wafers but next month Intel plans to start releasing chips built using the .13-process and the new …Click here to read this news article