GlobalFoundries takes aim at TSMC’s customers in patent action
GlobalFoundries is calling for imports of chips fabbed by TSMC into the US and Germany in multiple actions based on a list of 16 patents.
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Imagination to slim down to graphics core
Hit by the loss of major client Apple, Imagination Technologies plans to sell off its MIPS and Ensigma divisions. The move signals a shift away from previous plans to diversify out from graphics processors.
COMPUTEX 2015: Wrap II – New customers
Electronics design needs to cope with a combination of major brands and tiny start-ups looking to exploit its skills even where their resources are thin.
COMPUTEX 2015: Qualcomm edges Intel out of UK smartwatch start-up
Blocks' promo video says its work was 'Funded by Intel' but Qualcomm has announced that the modular watch company will be using its Snapdragon 400.
Douglas Adams 1: Apple Watch 0 (game in progress)
'Bling' for fashionistas and the B Ark lot. Apple Watch limps as the S1 SIP fails to offer convincing battery life. Silicon shortfall still dogs wearables.
Chip tariff eliminated and the big winner is… China?
Not just Intel and TI but also Lenovo and Huawei have cause to welcome end to 25% import tax. And could it even help reinvigorate Chinese start ups?
Foxconn’s wishlist for wearables and the Internet of Things
Manufacturing giant says we need a new category of WPUs - wearables processing units - to create a mass market and that ARM needs to go smaller than the MO.
Future Horizons: prepare for a tight 2014
Even though inventories are slack right, chipmakers could be struggling to find wafers in 2014.
The silicon industry’s crunch time
Future Horizon’s forecast meeting for the first half of 2013 made it clear how the electronics sector and the semiconductor industry in particular is facing big problems.