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December 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.

EET ON THE QT



December 2010

The Droid Man

Iqbal Arshad, the man behind the Motorola Droid, helped turn around one of the most storied companies in the mobile communications business, and it wasn’t easy. Indeed colleagues gave the project the code name Mission: Impossible. Arshad was responsible for delivering hardware and software for Motorola’s smartphones. The goal with the Droid was to leverage the wildly popular Google Android software to create a smartphone that would rival the Apple iPhone and help pull Moto out of an eight-year slide.

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