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Broadcom gears up to bring UltraHD video into homes, 8 Jan 2013, Networkworld
  • BCM7445 silicon platform will be able to process incoming video from cable, carrier and satellite services that has four times the resolution of typical 1080p video.
  • It is expected to be in volume production by the middle of next year, in time for mainstream UltraHD TVs that will probably hit the market for the late 2014 holiday season
  • HEVC (High-Efficiency Video Coding) is a compression standard that will cut by at least half the bandwidth required to send UltraHD video
  • At the core of the silicon platform is Broadcom's Brahma15 application processor, a quad-core ARM-based chip.


 Qualcomm Upgrades Mobile Chip Lineup, 8 Jan 2013, Bloomberg
  • Snapdragon 800 and 600 processors, from keynotes in 2013 CES
    • the new 800-series chip has four cores running at 2.3 GHz integrating LTE modem
    • delivering the same performance with half the power in a phone or tablet. The new chips are already in 50 different handsets and mobile computers
    • will make their way into phones and tablets by the middle of this year, perform 75 percent faster
  • Qualcomm is ranked as the 3'rd following only Intel and Samsung Electronics (IHS iSuppli)
    • has amassed a 42 percent slice of the mobile-application processor market (SA)
    • Qualcomm last year surpassed Santa Clara, California-based Intel for the first time to become the largest chip-maker by market value.
    • Qualcomm, whose shares rose 13 percent last year, is trading at a 18 percent premium to the S&P Information Technology Sector Index on a price-to-earnings basis. Intel, which declined 15 percent in 2012, trades at a 40 percent discount on the same basis.

Intel's first quad-core Atom chip, Bay Trail,  for tablets, 7 Jan 2013, ComputerWorld

  • Intel plans to release its first quad-core Atom processor before the end of the year, trying  to capture a bigger share of the tablet market dominated today by ARM-based processors.
    • Bay Trail and manufactured on a 22-nanometer process, the Atom chip will offer double the performance of Intel's current tablet chip, known as Clover Trail.
  • It's aimed at the smart phone market for low-cost Android phones sold in developing countries such as India and China.
    • The platform includes an Atom Z2420 processor at up to 1.2GHz and an HSPA+ modem
    • support for 1080p video and a burst mode for photography that allows phones to capture seven images per second at 5 megapixels.
    • The platform was known internally as Lexington

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