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Lilbits: iPhone 14 announcement imminent, UE Wonderboom 3 has a micro USB port, don’t count out Netflix games just yet, and Linux phone news

by Brad Linder08/17/2022 3 Comments

Rumor has it that Apple could introduce the iPhone 14 family on September 7th and make the phones available in stores the following week. Meanwhile in Linux phone land, there have been some exciting developments recently… but also some friction between one of the companies that helped spur development of Linux for phones in recent […]

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AMD is buying Xilinx for $35 billion

by Brad Linder10/27/2020 9 Comments

Chip maker AMD has announced plans to buy Xilinx in a deal worth $35 billion which would lead to further consolidation of the semiconductor space while making AMD a significant player in the FPGA space. An FPGA (Field Gate Programmable Array) is a software-defined chip that can be programmed to perform in a variety of […]