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5G · 07/14/2016

MediaTek’s Turnkey Empire: Feature Phones, Shanzhai, and the Acquisition Machine (2006 to 2015)

Give a workshop in Shenzhen, one of MediaTek’s complete phone kits, the chip already sitting on a reference board with the firmware and test…

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CHIPS & AI · 07/12/2011

Qualcomm Just Spent $3.1 Billion on Wi-Fi and Promised to Build Its Own CPU

Qualcomm's acquisition of Atheros for $3.1 billion expands its control over smartphone components, combining cellular and short-range radios. With the upcoming custom Krait CPU…

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APPLE · 06/08/2010

Samsung 45nm: Building the Apple A4 for a Rival

Samsung 45nm silicon built the Apple A4, Apple's first in-house chip, on the same Intrinsity Hummingbird core Samsung put in the Galaxy S, even…

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MediaTek’s Turnkey Empire: Feature Phones, Shanzhai, and the Acquisition Machine (2006 to 2015)

Qualcomm Just Spent $3.1 Billion on Wi-Fi and Promised to Build Its Own CPU

Samsung 45nm: Building the Apple A4 for a Rival

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