Wireless giant Qualcomm is serving up something sure to make mobile lovers everywhere salivate with anticipation – videos of its new 1.5GHz third generation SnapDragon processor in action.

While Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel Corp. has no phones on sale that use its processors, whispers are hinting that the chip maker may be trying to break into the smartphone industry soon in an attempt to lower dependence on Intel’s personal computer strategy. The company is rumored to have designed a recent handset similar to [...]

Possibly the most exciting revelation RCR has discovered about this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Vegas is that both triple and quad core tablet devices will be on display.

With the demand for better, faster smartphones increasing exponentially by the day, it comes as no real surprise that little British chippie ARM has managed to beat even its own earning expectations and gain market share, pushing from handsets into all kinds of other electronics, from fridges to MP3s.

Relatively rare just a few years ago, smartphones – or superphones as some are now calling them – have become as ubiquitous as Usher on the radio. But just how well do you know your sophisticated handset gadgetry? RCR Unplugged recently spoke with ARM wireless segment manager James Bruce to identify the five most important components of today’s smartphones (in no particular order).

In Singapore recently, RCR was privileged to be able to get a glimpse behind the chipmaking curtain at GlobalFoundries’ fab 7, where wafer upon wafer of chips are churned out daily from within the impressive maze of cleanrooms.

It’s a good time to be a niche chip maker and Cavium Networks is spring boarding off its recent major growth spurt by releasing a new line of embedded multi core processors – the OCTEON II CN68XX line – for the next generation of routers, as Internet data skyrockets.