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Integrated Circuits (ICs) are an integral part of the mobile handset semiconductor market especially with the increasing demand for application processors within the wireless marketplace. In fact, the segment has one of the largest growth and development potentials in the industry due to an almost insatiable appetite for ever-growing levels of multi-functionality in next-generation handsets.

Intel seems to have taken yet another surreptitious step towards the world of cellular, snapping up bankrupt Israeli based Comsys Mobile Communication and Signal Processing, a WiMAX/GSM modem chip maker for a reported $30 million.

The growing surge of mobile devices, as evidenced by the myriad display of smart phones and tablets at Computex 2010, combined with near-glacial pace of battery technology almost ensure ARM chips, with their battery sipping ways, continue to play starring roles in dedicated mobile devices.

Our intrepid reporter, Carolyn Green, heads down to the gadget district in Daegu, Korea to check out Samsung’s latest local offering, the 3.3-inch AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600.

Our intrepid reporter, Carolyn Green, heads down to the gadget district in Daegu, Korea to check out Samsung’s latest local offering, the 3.3-inch AMOLED Beam SPH-W9600.

Google has just launched a new video codec initiative and “web media project” by the name of WebM, purportedly with the goal of providing the unwashed masses with a free and open video format on par with leading commercial choices.

Google has just launched a new video codec initiative and “web media project” by the name of WebM, purportedly with the goal of providing the unwashed masses with a free and open video format on par with leading commercial choices.

In a first quarter earnings call, NVIDIA executives patted themselves on the back for achieving “a major milestone,” in terms of completing and qualifying the firm’s first commercially available smartphone and for making history by being “the first PC technology company […]to cross the chasm from computing to mobile computing.”

ESC is not exactly known as a thrilling technology conference, but Texas Instruments (TI) was certainly doing its bit to liven things up, showing off its new video series, entitled "Smash IT" at its booth.