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- IC Insights: Mobile processors will be hot commodities this year
Tablet processors and application processors for smartphones will be the fastest-growing chip categories this year, with sales increases of 50% and 28%, respectively, according to IC Insights. Picked to show a 15% decline in sales this year are NOR flash memory devices and static random-access memories, IC Insights forecasts. EE Times
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- Nvidia lowers outlook as it transitions to Tegra 4
Nvidia expects its revenue in the current quarter to be about $940 million, lower than the average of $1.067 billion that analysts had estimated. The company said it won't begin revenue shipments of its new Tegra 4 processor until July. Nvidia faces an uphill battle as it seeks to displace Qualcomm's dominant position in smartphones. Reuters
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- Kittson chip may symbolize the beginning of the end for Itanium
Intel's forthcoming Itanium chip, called Kittson, will be made using a 32 nanometer process instead of 64 and won't be socket-compatible with Xeon server chips. The changes may indicate that Intel intends to discontinue the Itanium product, industry watchers note. "It could easily be that this is their way of cutting it back and having essentially an exit strategy," said Insight64 analyst Nathan Brookwood. ITWorld.com/IDG News Service
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- Qualcomm exec: We're ahead of the competition on LTE chips
Qualcomm President and Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf said Wednesday that his company is well ahead of its competitors in providing chips for Long-Term Evolution smartphones. "If you look at the landscape of LTE, we're on our third generation," he said at an investment conference in San Francisco. "Most people are trying to figure out how to produce a device that would compete with our first generation." ZDNet
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JEDEC Mobile Forum: Save the dates
To be held in Santa Clara, Calif., on May 1 and 2, the Forum will focus on the latest developments and standards for mobile storage technology, including Universal Flash Storage (UFS), LPDDR3 & 4, and Wide I/O 2, as well as the mobile devices that utilize these standards, including smartphones, ultra-thin notebooks, and tablets. Online registration coming soon! Find out more.
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JEDEC updates JESD99, a key reference standard
JESD99C: Terms, Definitions, and Letter Symbols for Microelectronic Devices is now available for free download from the JEDEC website. The standard lists and defines more than 400 of the most common physical and electrical terms applicable to microelectronic devices and shows the industry-standard symbol and abbreviations that have been established for such terms.
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