The new chips certainly set the standard for technical virtuosity.
Qualcomm, Broadband, and others offer chipsets that are basically wireless phones on a chip or a set of chips.
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Its chips are in products from set-top boxes to X-ray machines.
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Why on the list: arm is the main designer of RISC (reduced instruction set computing) chips used in such battery-powered information appliances as handlheld PCs and mobile phones.
At present, players receive a set number of chips for free every day, but the opportunity to put some sauce in the pot could be a tremendous monetisation opportunity.
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So, if you look at Broadcom and Qualcomm, both companies use an ARM instruction set to build their chips.
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Marvell's networking ambitions ignited the ire of Broadcom, the leader in chips for network switches, modems and set-top boxes.
The 2012 capital expenditure will primarily be to set up a factory for 14nm chips.
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This time, however, Intel wants to crack the graphics market by doing the one thing it does best: cranking out chips able to run the so-called x86 instruction set that powers the overwhelming majority of modern computers.
The chairs are covered in fake zebra fur and small wooden tables are set with red candles and bowls of stale potato chips.
Aboard the boat was a cloth-covered picnic table set with handmade clay dishes and mugs, holding corn chips and homemade guacamole, a salad prepared with freshly picked chinampa produce, such as white onion and tomatoes, and served with two types of ranchero cheese, as well as plates of Oaxaca-style tamales filled with mushroom and guajillo chilli sauce.
The chips also let phones talk directly to card-swipe terminals in stores, which has set off a race to organize and control the new world of mobile payments.
We expect Qualcomm to continue to benefit from the diversified set of customers it has managed to woo, banking on its broad portfolio of Snapdragon chips that includes both integrated and standalone processors.
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