Samsung buys CSR's connectivity and location business for $310m
Adds another 21 patents to its portfolio
Texas Instruments releases two multi-core DSP evaluation boards
It's not all about OMAP
Intel claims EU used 'profoundly inadequate' evidence in antitrust case
Trying to overturn $1.33bn fine
Google picks NXP's PN65 NFC chip for its Nexus 7 tablet
NXP cements its position in the NFC market
AMD ropes ARM, Imagination and Texas Instruments into heterogeneous computing
Big names sign up to AMD's vision
Intel won't license Atom x86 architecture to other chip vendors
Android on x86 will be an Intel operating system
Globalfoundries looks to Mentor Graphics for 20nm fill techniques
20nm silicon expected in 2H 2012
Renesas will cut 10,000 jobs and seek $1.3bn in restructuring
NEC, Mitsubishi and Hitachi might chip in
VIA announces a $49 APC Android system targeting Raspberry Pi
Promises more connectivity
CPU and GPU chips account for half of $111bn chip market
Application specific cores are the next big thing
Nvidia sees profits tumble despite Kepler success
The race for the mainstream
Toshiba's chip business sees higher NAND income
Apple helps out Samsung's rival
Infineon posts 81 per cent drop in profits as margins tumble
More gloom to come
HP can force Intel to develop Itanium until at least 2022
Itanic will cling on for a while yet




