Advertisements The biggest-ever takeover of a chipmaker Broadcom Ltd., which is the largest producer of the Wi-Fi chips, is reportedly exploring a $100 billion deal to takeover Qualcomm Inc in what would be the biggest acquisition of a chipmaker. Bloomberg, which exclusively reported the talks of the acquisition, is saying that the final decision to […]
Advertisements How many processor cores are too much? We are unlikely to get an answer for this question anytime soon as the chip-makers continue to increase the number of cores every couple of quarters. After quad, hexa and octa-core processors, Chinese chip-maker MediaTek has now unveiled a 10-core or deca-core processor in the form of […]
Advertisements MediaTek has officially launched its MT6592 octa-core mobile processor today. Touted as the world’s first true octa-core processor, MediaTek MT6592 will be available as a part of Android devices by the end of this year. MediaTek partners, including the likes of Intex, will be releasing Jelly Bean powered smartphones with MT6592 by 2013-end, however […]
Advertisements Reports are coming in that Taiwanese semiconductor company MediaTek has landed smartphone chip orders from Sony – suggesting that the Japanese manufacturer might be working on mid-range smartphones powered by MediaTek chips. Sony, which has normally used processors from Qualcomm (sometimes ST Ericsson too), might be planning to use MediaTek chips to bring down […]