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MIPS Acquisition Drawing to a Close, BroadCom and ARM in Forefront?
ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS NEWS
After the years of lobbying, the Chinese government gave up and opened the field for others. Several months ago, we reported that MIPS Technologies was still in the process of looking for a buyer.
On 9/20/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Poaches Jim Keller from Apple, One of Greatest Contemporary CPU Architects
HARDWARE, BUSINESS NEWS
There's no doubt that AMD lost quite a lot of brain power over the past couple of years. Ever since the company announced the acquisition of ATI, former senior management did its best to... screw things up.
On 8/1/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

China: NVIDIA Loses Face and a 10 Million PC Order over Linux Drivers and NRE's
GRAPHICS, BUSINESS RUMORS
After years of focusing on building infrastructure, one of priorities for the Chinese government is educating the focusing on building the knowledge infrastructure as well. A big market opportunity.
On 6/21/2012 by Nebojsa Novakovic... Comments (0) Read more
Android announces MIPS ABI in latest NDK
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE NEWS
Tuesday afternoon, Android Developers Forum announced the latest update to their NDK. At Linley Tech Mobile Conference 2012 the audience heard from Amit Rohatgi, Google would add the MIPS ABI into the Android NDK.
On 5/2/2012 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more

MIPS shows Philips 7-inch tablet at Linley Mobile Conference 2012
HARDWARE, CLOUD COMPUTING NEWS
Monday afternoon at the Linley Tech Mobile Conference 2012 CPU manufacturers Qualcomm, Intel, and Ingenic/MIPS talked about their latest application processor that’s shipping.
On 4/18/2012 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
AMD Wants to Buy MIPS, but can they Beat Google?
HARDWARE, BUSINESS RUMORS
According to our sources, it looks like AMD is not done with acquisitions in 2012, and their second potential acquisition might be the most important they made in 20 years. The question is...
On 4/16/2012 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more

ANALYSIS: Third Player Arrives - MIPS Makes $99 Android 4.0 Tablets a Reality
HARDWARE, SOFTWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Last week MIPS and Ingenic Semiconductor, announced worldwide availability of the world's first tablet based on Google’s Android 4.0, known as 'Ice Cream Sandwich' (ICS). It’s retailing for less than $100 in China.
On 12/16/2011 by John Oram... Comments (0) Read more
Web Video Wars: Google, Others Launch a Legal Shelter for WebM
SECURITY, BUSINESS NEWS
In a bid to strengthen the position of the WebM format in what can only be described as the "web video wars", Google and other WebM proponents formed a Community Cross-License (CCL) initiative.
On 4/28/2011 by Marcus Pollice... Comments (0) Read more

MIPS Architecture Goes 64-bit, Multi-Core and Multi-Threading
HARDWARE, ENTERPRISE NEWS
MIPS Technologies announced that the compay developed a 64-bit IP processor architecture that supports simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) tech as well.
On 3/28/2011 by Theo Valich... Comments (0) Read more
Intel Atom(ic) future revealed: 14 32nm SOC chips
HARDWARE, BUSINESS ANALYSIS
Last week during Intel's Technology Conference, Sunit Rikhi explained their new approach to building 32nm system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors.
On 8/5/2009 by Thomas Gordon... Comments (0) Read more

New Attack Targets the Edge of the Network, Routers and Modems - Updated
HARDWARE, SECURITY NEWS

In the world of home based networking, when people go out and shop for a router they check to see f it has some sort of firewall protection, buy it then bring it home and just plug it in

On 3/25/2009 by Sean Kalinich... Comments (0) Read more
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