This post caught my eye, from ZDNet by Larry Dignan, reporting on Computex Taipei. Basically, it confirms that Android will underpin Samsung's future tablet efforts.

Raspberry Pi is a tiny ARM-based single board computer that enables a TV to run Linux and scripting languages such as Python.

Like many test houses TRaC is UKAS accredited. Because of the wide range of test and certification services we offer, our schedule is over 70 pages, and not surprisingly many customers have asked me to explain exactly what it means.

Intel’s efforts at diversification have become something of an industry joke. Ventures into consumer electronics (twice) ASICs (twice) telecoms (multiple) have gone sadly awry.

ARM is aiming for half the mobile personal computer market by 2015. ARM includes tablet computers in its definition of  mobile personal computers. ARM co-founder and president Tudor Brown says ARM is in about ten per cent of mobile PCs currently and should be in 15% by the end of this year as tablets grow their share of the overall ...

Broadcom’s latest combo Bluetooth and Wi-Fi transceiver IC is its first to be fabbed on a 40nm process. The move to 40nm not only reduces device size, it also offers a 40% reduction in power consumption compatred with the previous generation combo device, said Broadcom. The BCM43142 supports single stream IEEE 802.11n and Bluetooth 4.0 + HS. It also has ...

Lattice Semiconductor has signed a global distribution agreement with Digi-Key. Lattice has been reorganising its distribution channel and this is the second major signing in the last two months.

Mirics, the developer of software-based global TV receiver, has secured a design in with Intel on a motherboard. Intel’s DH61AG motherboard will include a dual-tuner digital terrestrial TV mini-card based on silicon and software developed by Mirics. The FlexiTV-powered MC002 mini-card is produced by Yuan High-Tech and will provide digital terrestrial TV reception across all global standards. “The addition of Mirics’ ...

In electric vehicle research, the US Government is to build 125 solar-assisted charging stations from Knoxville to Memphis in Tennessee. 25 have been...

Austriamicrosystems says it will aim to become a carbon neutral business by 2015. The semiconductor maker said it has been reducing its carbon footprint since 2004, achieving a reduction of 50% of CO² equivalents or 31,000 tons until 2010 since implementing actions. This year its target is to reduce CO² emission equivalents by more than 9,000 tons by switching to 100% green ...