Apple’s apps processor, used in the iPad, is still the market leader tablet processor with 61% unit share in Q1 2011, according to analyst Strategy Analytics. The nearest rival to Apple’s A4 and A5 iPad processors come from Nvidia. Nvidia’s Tegra 2 processor had a 34.4% unit volume share in Q1 2011, it is a dual-core Cortex-A9 processor and supports the ...

IMAPS-UK and NMI, in conjunction with the IeMRC at Loughborough and the PEATER Research Group at the University of Warwick, is inviting Posters Submissions for the forthcoming iPower Technical Conference.

ARM has decided to extend its relationship with the University of Michigan low-power electronics research team that ARM R&D vice president Krisztián Flautner worked with before joining the IP company. According to Peter Clarke at EETimes: “The five-year, $5 million extension of an existing research partnership will run until 2015 and cover technology for ultra-low energy computing and applications areas ...

Hitachi, Sony and Toshiba are to merge their small and medium-sized LCD operations with government backing in the face of fierce competition from Taiwanese and Korean competitors. $2.6bn will be put into the joint venture by the public-private-partnership Japanese body Innovation Network Corporation which will own 70% of the company. Sony, Hitachi and Toshiba will own 10% each. The new ...

Interesting to see these top chaps in the US bemoaning the lack of interest in engineering shown by US youngsters. Not one of these glitterati ever mentions the lack of rewarding careers for many engineers in the US.

The Irish Times reports that the $500m refurbishment of an Intel fab at Leixlip outside Dublin is being delayed, while reports from Barclay’s Capital and Citigroup say the decision to install a 22nm process at Leixlip is on hold and will be announced in two weeks’ time. The Irish Times says that contractors working on Fab 14 were told the ...

Market research has shown just how important the market for hybrid electric and pure electric vehicles can be for analogue chip suppliers.

A simple question, but who could gainsay it? Ted Kritsonis, on the Calgary Herald, asks Are there too many Android devices to choose from? He writes: Walk into any mobile phone store or kiosk, or browse their websites, and you’re likely to see several Android devices offered. Are they running the same version of Android? What’s the difference between, say, ...

According to Rich Kapusta, v-p in the SoC products group at Microsemi, the aim is to widen the performance and cost options for the FPGA platform

Not only do photons travel at the universe's fastest possible speed, now they have been made to both change colour and shape-shift. The feat brings the dream of ultrafast quantum computers a step closer.