Category Archives: General News

6th Annual Image Sensors Conference

Posted on April 9, 2013 by rwilliamson

Contributed by Ray Fontaine The 6th annual Image Sensors conference was held in London, UK on March 19 to 21. Having attended in 2010, it was nice to return this year and find an ever increasing scope of technical content and … Continue reading →

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Apple’s TV surprise – a new A5 chip!

Posted on March 12, 2013 by rwilliamson

This Technology Blog will be live updated to include some cross sectional and polysilicon shots of the Apple A5. If you are seeing this message then check back regularly or follow us on Twitter @chipworks to get up to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Advanced CMOS Technology, App's processors, Design Wins, General News | 13 Comments

MWC – NFC Everywhere with the help of NXP and Broadcom

Posted on March 8, 2013 by rwilliamson

Consumers (mostly) all know that we have had these little NFC chips in our phones for a while.  Touted as a specification we should care about, and yet the darn thing just doesn’t seem to do anything.  Well, if the … Continue reading →

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ISSCC 2013 – Monster chips from IBM, Oracle and AMD

Posted on March 7, 2013 by rwilliamson

contributed by Randy Torrance Hot on the heels of a “cores, cores everywhere cores” blog created at the Mobile World Congress, we have an alternative view of the world coming from the International Solid State Circuits Conference.  And it isn’t … Continue reading →

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