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Broadcom to build new ARM-based chips with integrated LTE

Broadcom is probably best known in the mobile space for making wireless chips, but the company also produces processors. For instance, the Raspberry Pi runs on a low power Broadcom chip. Now it looks like Broadcom plans to step things up a bit. The company is licensing ARMv7 and ARMv8 technology for upcoming chips featuring ARM Cortex-A9, […]

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Chip updates: New processors for tablets, phones on the way

It’s a busy period for chip makers. Qualcomm, Broadcom, Samsung, and Rockchip are all working on new processors designed for smartphones, tablets, and other low power devices. Here’s a quick roundup of some of the chip news that’s been making the rounds over the past 24 hours or so. Samsung Exynos 5440 quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 […]

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Raspberry Pi graphics code is now open source

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released the source code for the graphics core of the mini-computer’s Broadcom BCM2835. That makes the Raspberry Pi the first ARM-based system-on-a-chip computer with vendor-provided open source drivers. What does that mean? If you’re a developer it means that you can now get to work porting operating systems or optimizing software to […]

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Open source graphics drivers for the Raspberry Pi on the way

The Raspberry Pi is a dirt cheap mini-computer with a Broadcom BCM2835 700 MHz ARM11 with Broadcom VideoCore graphics. A basic model with 2 USB ports, HDMI and Ethernet sells for about $35, and the developers plan to offer an even cheaper $25 model without Ethernet soon. While the processor isn’t very powerful, the Broadcom […]

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Broadcom acquires NetLogic for $3.7 billion

You know how mobile chip-maker Qualcomm has been on a bit of a buying spree, snapping up smaller companies to bolster its technology? It turns out Qualcomm isn’t alone. Chip-maker Broadcom just announced that it’s spending $3.7 billion to buy NetLogic Microsystems. Broadcom produces chips that are used in smartphones, tablets, personal computers, and set-to-boxes, […]

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Broadcom pushes combination WiFi, Bluetooth chip for notebooks and tablets

Wireless chips that bundle WiFi, Bluetooth, 3G, GPS and other functions are pretty standard for smartphones. But most notebooks and netbooks which offer Bluetooth use separate wireless cards for WiFi and Bluetooth functions. That makes it easy to offer Bluetooth as an option rather than a standard feature. But wireless chip-maker Broadcom wants to make […]

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Habey shrinks its Broadcom HD video decoder

Habey has introduced a new version of its HD video decoder which is even smaller than the HB-VD904 PCIe mini card the company introduced last summer. The new Habey HB-VD920 is a half height PCI Express Mini card which you can add to any netbook, tablet, or desktop computer to enable support for 1080p HD […]

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Acer Aspire One Happy netbook to get HD video bump?

The Acer Aspire One Happy is an upcoming 10 inch netbook from Acer that appears to be a rebranded version of the Acer Aspire One D255. The main difference is that the Happy comes in bright pastel colors — and oh yeah, it has slightly more ridiculous name. But Peter at Netbook News spotted another […]