Nvidia has confirmed its plans to purchase the mobile chipmaker Icera for $367 million in cash in an effort to better compete with Qualcomm and Intel.
The deal will let Nvidia join the market for baseband/radio chips.
With the deal, Nvidia should be able to package its Tegra processors with cellular baseband chips, making it more potent.
The company says Icera should help it double revenue generated from sales of each tablet/smartphone.
Both Qualcomm and Intel offer combos of processors and radio chips, although Intel has yet to see much demand for its mobile processors or architectures.
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Samsung Electronics has said today that the company is planning on introducing HDTVs with Google TV at the CES event in January.
The company is the world’s largest TV maker.
Yoon Boo Keun, head of Samsung’s TV business, did not leave any other details except to say it was “open to using” new chips made by Intel for its TVs.
Last month, Sony began selling the first HDTVs with Google TV and sales have met expectations.
Fans of Google TV, however, have been disappointed as all the major broadcasters have blocked their signals from use through the service.
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Digitimes is reporting this week that global vendors are expected to begin selling netbooks and notebooks running the Google Chrome OS starting later this month.
Furthermore, Google will also launch its own Google-branded Chrome OS notebook, following a strategy similar to their launch of the Nexus One smartphone earlier this year.
The sources of the report are component makers in Taiwan.
Google’s branded device will be manufactured by Inventec with 70,000 expected to ship at launch. The Google Chrome OS notebook will run on “an ARM-based platform” and Google will not sell it through retail channels.
After Google’s initial launch, Acer and HP will launch Chrome OS notebooks in late December. ASUS is said to be watching the market before entering.
