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October 2010 Issue - EE Times Confidential

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Multi-screen wars: MediaTek/Mstar vs. Qualcomm, Marvell, Nvidia
The larger significance of the merging of Taiwan’s “M Brothers” may have escaped the notice of some western observers.

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October 2010

Group Forming to Tackle Terabit Ethernet Dilemma

Operators of Internet data centers have developed an addiction that chip and system designers can no longer readily serve: They need ever larger Ethernet switches to link traffic from ever more powerful servers, and those switches have to fit within reasonable cost, size and power budgets. A small group of technologists is looking for a way forward, but insiders say the path will likely force some disruptive technical and economic changes.

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