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Samsung, Huawei Pursue Low Power Servers

Samsung and Huawei appear to be joining the growing ranks of companies pursuing low power servers that can act as alternatives to the Intel x86.

Altera, Xilinx Bet on High Frequency Trading

The market for FPGA boards in high frequency financial trading is expanding both in size and in its role as a strategic technology test bed for FPGA market leaders Altera, Xilinx and others.

Ted Tewksbury’s IDT Makeover

Ted Tewksbury (shown), a veteran analog engineer, joined IDT as CEO on April Fool’s Day in 2008. Since then, he has become the primary architect of IDT's new strategy that was undertaken without anyone’s “really noticing it,” during a period of economic upheaval.

Questions Cloud Outlook at 'New' AMD

The new AMD has plenty of passion and experience, as well as a reasonable strategy around SoCs. But it’s unclear whether those factors can propel it forward.

ARM Mulls Non-Volatile Memory IP acquisition

ARM CEO Warren East (shown) says the U.K. processor IP vendor would consider acquiring non-volatile memory IP as a way to bolster its physical IP division.

Marvell’s Weili Dai bets on Kinoma for TV, Mobile Strategies

Marvell co-founder Weili Dai says the chip maker can offer “all the necessary basic ingredients for pizza” – with SoCs serving as the metaphorical pizza dough, the OS as tomato sauce, the Kinoma user interface covering as the cheese along with various apps like pepperoni, anchovies and other toppings.

Neul 'White Space' Radio ICs to Sample in 2012

Despite a white space communications standard that remains in flex, U.K. startup Neul is proceeding with plans to develop and begin sampling a radio chip later this year.

ARM, Intel on the March in Military Electronics

ARM is slowly marching into military electronics responding to a need for smaller, lighter systems for drones, wearable computers and robots as Intel’s x86 has come to dominate Freescale’s Power chips that once ruled this sector.

Exclusive: MediaTek President Sees Android Key to China TVs

In an exclusive interview during CES, C.J. Hsieh (shown), president of Taiwan-based SoC specialist MediaTek, discusses the company's cross-platform strategy and the way ahead in China's TV market.

PowerVR GPUs to Support Ray Tracing

Ray tracing technology being readied by Imagination Technologies promises to bring high-end graphics to the mainstream.