The South Korean tech giant is reportedly eager to do so in order for it to boost its wafer foundry utilization rate, as well as increase its share of the mobile
phone chip market.
Not exact matches
Products like the OnePlus One
phone and ShareFile alone are proving that through quiet iteration and innovation, you can
chip away at any Goliath's hold on a
market.
Although it has canceled several families of
chips designed to serve as the main processor for
phones and tablets, the company is still pushing hard to gain share in the
market for modem
chips, a secondary but nonetheless important part of
phones.
Fueled by the exploding
market for smart
phones, tablets and other mobile devices, computer
chip packaging has become a critical factor in driving innovation amid the growing reliance on computer
chip technologies in nearly every industry.
There are many nanotechnology - enabled products on the
market ranging from coatings for superhydrophobic waterproofing products to carbon fibre - enhanced golf clubs to nanoscale
chips for computers and components for
phones to athletic materials impregnated with silver nanoparticles for their antibacterial properties (clothes you don't have to wash as often) to cosmetics and beauty products, e.g., nano sunscreens, and there are more.
Even though certain
phone models can read RFID
chips, there's no guarantee Nintendo will take advantage of the feature — even though the very prospect of doing so is interesting, given how the piracy
market of hard - to - find amiibo has been thriving this past year.
Even more concerning is that while RIM waits for new LTE
chips before it can launch any BlackBerry 10
phones — apparently the vendor is only working on 4G smartphones right now, despite the fact that many of its biggest
markets have not even begun to deploy LTE networks — the company also continues to have huge development issues that grow more daunting each day.
ComiXology CEO David Steinberger (via cel
phone) and
Marketing VP
Chip Mosher answered questions and discussed the future of the digital comics company with WonderCon attendees
Intel, which has more than 80 percent of the PC -
chip market, hasn't been able to parlay that dominance into
market share in
phones or tablets.
While Tegra 2
chips are only a small piece of the Android smartphone
market and are in
phones like the original Atrix or the T - Mobile G2X, they make up about 75 percent of all truly native Android tablets on the
market, the tipsters said.
In addition to selling
chips into the mobile
market, Qualcomm receives royalty payments for its CDMA
phone technology.
There is upside to companies with emerging
market exposure in smart
phones and playing the trend through the
chip manufacturers may carry less risk from the rollout and success of particular products like that of mobile players like Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL).
From its premium design, to being a
phone powered by Qualcomm's latest generation Snapdragon 835
chip, and still one of the few in the
market to boast a 4K HDR - ready display, the Sony Xperia XZ is just oozing with so much tech goodness that we can't hardly wait to get it in our hands to check out even deeper.
It will be interesting to see how the likes of Qualcomm and Samsung plan on taking on Apple's dominance in the mobile
chip market, but in the meantime, if you're looking for the best - performing
phone on the
market, then the iPhone 8 may be your best bet.
The severity of these compromises are obviously tailored to the user, but an NFC
chip should be included in every
phone on the
market, no matter the cost.
When you put it all together, the S8's muscle blitzes every other Android
phone on the
market, but it falls short of the iPhone 8's A11 Bionic
chip.
The Z1S's system - on -
chip (SoC) is on par with many other
phones out on the
market, including the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and LG G2, which both launched late last year.
Most importantly, Huawei aims to use the Kirin
chips to differentiate its
phones from a vast sea of competitors, including Samsung, who overwhelming rely on rival Snapdragon
chips from Qualcomm, the
market leader in mobile
chip design.
According to our
Phones, Wearables and Tablets Writer James Peckham, the best tablet on the
market right now is the new iPad (2017), with its sharp 9.7 - inch display, beautiful design, and A9
chip — and all for a price that isn't going to break the bank.
The smartphone race has plateaued — all three operating systems (OS)-- iOS 8.1.x, Android 4.4.x/5.X and Windows
Phone 8.1.x (and soon Windows 10) run on similar hardware — forget the
marketing BS / hype — they all use ARM based systems on a
chip.
Like Samsung, Xiaomi will probably fit its
chips into its low - end and mid-range models first to test how they fare in the
market before putting them into their flagship
phones next.