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If anything can put a dent in the appeal of a wireless peripheral, it is how they tend to run out of power at the worst moments, since it is always a bad moment when they are in use.
Broadcom means to make this problem go away through its latest invention.
What the company did was create a special Bluetooth chip t... |
7 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Many buyouts have occurred in the IT industry, like they have been happening in all other segments of the industry as a whole, and the newest one to be announced is the deal sealed by Broadcom and NetLogic.
Broadcom already has an extensive collection of wired and wireless communications chips, but its portfolio ... |
12 September 2011
07:56 GMT |
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While Intel's Pine/Oak Trail and NVIDIA's Tegra 2 SoCs are the main platforms used in tablets, it seems that CES 2011 was the site where other contenders, like Broadcom's Persona, made themselves heard.
That the tablet market is on a course definitely set for expansion has already become a generall... |
8 January 2011
04:55 GMT |
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It seems that filing lawsuits during the holiday season is starting to become a sort of tradition now that Rambus has once again called a number of companies to court, one of them being, some might say unsurprisingly, NVIDIA.Rambus has been meeting the likes of NVIDIA, IBM and others in court for years and it seems ... |
2 December 2010
02:17 GMT |
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Finally! Broadcom, through Henry Ptasinski, proudly announced a few hours ago the immediate availability of the first open source Wireless driver for Linux-based operating systems. The driver is designed for Broadcom's latest generation 11n chipsets.Believe it or not, Broadcom has finally decided to open source ... |
10 September 2010
04:15 GMT |
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HP, like all of its competitors on the PC front, has been quite active throughout the entire month of June, releasing or previewing a significant number of computers, especially laptops. Naturally, this came as a consequence of the new chips that AMD and Intel released during the previous months.Now, the same PC supp... |
2 July 2010
05:35 GMT |
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No less than over a month ago, ASUS announced that it would be raising the graphics standard on netbooks by just a little bit by implementing a special component that would confer upon one of its upcoming Eee PC netbooks a decent capability to handle HD video files (without using NVIDIA's ION graphics, that is).... |
14 April 2010
06:34 GMT |
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Netbooks have been selling quite well over the past year, even despite the fact that they are very limited in terms of graphical and multimedia capabilities. Still, with the advancements in efficient computing and the development of better mobile graphics accelerators, such products are starting to better cope with m... |
9 March 2010
03:19 GMT |
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Netbooks have already evolved from low-performance devices, barely usable for Internet browsing and document processing, to machines that, although still not in the same league with notebooks, have started to integrate more and more graphics and media rendering capabilities. Broadcom promises even better netbook capa... |
22 December 2009
05:12 GMT |
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Leading provider of semiconductors for the wired and wireless industry Broadcom Corporation unveiled recently a new multimedia processor aimed at mobile devices. According to the company, the new Broadcom BCM2763 VideoCore IV multimedia processor has been developed using the 40 nanometer (40nm) CMOS process technolo... |
17 December 2009
12:51 GMT |
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The people at M.H.A LCC have developed an application called Airlock, which allows you to control your computer's behavior using your iPhone. We’re currently reviewing the app and it’s impressive, but its functionality is affected by a recently discovered bug in the Bluetooth chip employed by Apple M... |
17 December 2009
10:35 GMT |
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ARM continues to push its technology into the mobile space, as an increasing number of chip makers are licensing the company's solutions for use in some of their upcoming products. The latest to join is Broadcom, one of the industry's leading providers of wired and wireless communications solutions, which h... |
28 September 2009
08:17 GMT |
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A teardown of the third-generation iPod touch has somewhat confirmed rumors that Apple intended to put cameras in its new iPod-touch lineup, and that the device is likely capable of the new 802.11n standard. iFixit carried out its usual routine and took apart a third-generation iPod touch unit only to find that, &ld... |
15 September 2009
05:40 GMT |
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Apple has released a new firmware update for Macintosh systems equipped with Bluetooth based on the Broadcom chipset. Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0 is a free download that provides bug fixes and enhanced compatibility with the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard, according to the Mac maker. On the... |
18 June 2009
04:05 GMT |
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Acer, one of the world's leading vendors of computer systems, has just announced that it has selected Broadcom's latest Crystal HD solution to enable high-quality, high-definition media playback on a new line of ultraportable PCs, part of the company's Aspire One series. With the addition of the new Cr... |
2 June 2009
08:49 GMT |
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For a long time now, NVIDIA has been actively promoting the additional capabilities of its GeForce lineup, bringing GPU acceleration into the mainstream market. One of the most recent examples of the company’s work in the field is the announcement regarding bringing GPU acceleration to one of the most widely us... |
2 June 2009
03:52 GMT |
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Just recently, Bluetooth SIG (Special Interest Group) has announced the next iteration of the short-range Bluetooth technology dubbed Bluetooth 3.0. The new solution is expected to become commercially available on various devices in the next 9 to 12 months. Following the much anticipated release, member companies, in... |
23 April 2009
10:17 GMT |
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Broadcom announced recently that its single-chip cellular platform would be included by Samsung in some of its EDGE mobile phones. Broadcom's advanced EDGE platform is built around the BCM21331 single-chip EDGE processor, which is being manufactured under the 65 nanometer (nm) fabrication process and also featur... |
11 February 2009
03:08 GMT |
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Broadcom announced recently that the latest Android operating system featured as a standard component the software in charge with control over its Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM combination solution. This would be the first time the Android platform would have native support for multi-functional wireless connectivity, a solution... |
6 February 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Broadcom Corporation, a leading company in semiconductors for wired or unwired technologies, is taking it to the next level with its latest chip development. The new product, the BCM4329, is definitely raising the bar for all other Mobile connectivity developers, simply because this new invention not only delivers co... |
9 December 2008
06:26 GMT |
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Broadcom, one of the global leaders in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, has recently announced that Samsung, one of the major consumer electronics makers, selected the company's third generation of Blu-ray chipset solution to integrate in Samsung's upcoming lineup of Blu-ray Disc player... |
9 December 2008
05:15 GMT |
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Today, Broadcom announced that its portfolio of services would be enriched with a Wi-Fi Positioning System. The company said it would integrate and deploy the Wi-Fi positioning developed by Skyhook Wireless and which can determine position by triangulating nearby cell towers rather than satellite-based GPS.The Assist... |
1 October 2008
05:58 GMT |
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As mentioned in several of our previous articles, Advanced Micro is having a tough time managing its chip business and driving it to profitability, as competitor Intel is gaining ground in several market segments, leaving AMD to make do with the second spot. While the company's graphics chip business is finally ... |
26 August 2008
05:51 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced a while ago its plans to sell the "non core" businesses, and the latest news indicates that this may include selling the consumer electronics TV business unit the company acquired back in 2006 together with ATI Technologies. According to an analyst, the possible buyer of the company&#... |
1 August 2008
02:57 GMT |
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Taking into consideration the fact that Blu-ray won the war on HD format, Broadcom has announced new products capable of enhancing low end computers to playback Blu-ray films, without making buyers empty their pockets. The company stated that its new products would bring Blu-ray playback on those widely spread low pe... |
4 June 2008
10:35 GMT |
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Intel's long-awaited G45 chipset is reportedly choking on another problem that might delay its unveiling for a long period of time. This time, the issues are not related to driver support, as in its older brothers' case (G965 and G35), but rather a hardware-related mess up. According to the rumors, the chip... |
17 April 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Microsoft is hard at work on the development of the Next-Generation IPTV System-on-a-Chip in collaboration with Broadcom. The partnership will result in the interoperability between the Microsoft Mediaroom IPTV and multimedia platform and the Broadcom BCM7405 system on a chip (SOC). According to the Redmond company, ... |
7 January 2008
11:00 GMT |
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Broadcom announced that its power management unit is now shipping with the new SGH-J750 mobile phone manufactured by Samsung Electronics. Broadcom's BCM59001 power management unit delivers both optimized system-level power consumption and lower overall system cost in mobile handsets."Broadcom power management te... |
8 October 2007
09:55 GMT |
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Some new world records are about to be broken in terms of mobile phones and their performances. Broadcom Corporation has just unveiled a processor that should be capable of supporting a large number of great features, including that of delivering a HD camcorder that also provides an up to 12-megapixel digital camera.... |
5 October 2007
05:29 GMT |
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Broadcom announced its first single-chip GPS receiver, a solution which promises to set new standards in terms of performance and power consumption. The BCM4750 is specially conceived for mobile devices and is expected to provide faster signal searches, accurate real-time navigation, improved tracking sensitivity and... |
1 October 2007
10:05 GMT |
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Broadcom Corporation has recently joined the Linux Mobile Foundation (LiMo) as an associate member. LiMo was originally formed by NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Motorola Inc., Vodafone plc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. It is chartered to deliver a good open-source Linux platform for mobile phon... |
20 September 2007
05:07 GMT |
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Broadcom Corporation announced the launch of a new generation of wired networking devices, the Gigabit Ethernet switches that are built using the 65 nanometer fabrication process based on a CMOS compatible technology. The networking equipment manufacturing company developed the StrataXGS 200 series which is intended ... |
30 August 2007
08:47 GMT |
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Qualcomm's request for a stay of the ban for its chips has been dismissed by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The situation will go on like this until the presidential review period is over.Things have been going pretty bad for Qualcomm in the last period. Verizon has decided to pay Broadcom to lice... |
23 July 2007
02:49 GMT |
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Broadcom Corporation and Verizon Wireless made public a licensing agreement which allows Verizon to import and sale devices that are currently subject of dispute between Qualcomm Incorporated and Broadcom and have been banned from the U.S. by ITC (International Trade Commission).The licensing agreement enables Verizo... |
20 July 2007
09:13 GMT |
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