Intel
Finally Official? – Intel to buy Infineon Wireless for $1.4B
VentureBeat is reporting that Intel has agreed to purchase Infineon’s mobile chip business for $1.4 billion, the companies said late Sunday.
The move by the world’s largest chip maker will help boost the company’s presence in smartphones, which have begun to dominate the computing landscape. Rumors of the deal have been around for a while.
Sandbridge SDR Selected as ACE/EE Times Insight Award Finalist
Under the category of Most Innovative Mobile Processor, Sandbridge Technologies SB3500 was selected as one of the EE Times Insight Award 2008 finalists.
Here is the full list:
Sandbridge SB3500 Flexible Baseband Processor
Intel 45nm Atom Processor
Qualcomm QSD8650 Mobile Processor (Snapdragon Platform)
Samsung S5L8900B01 Applications Processor
Texas Instruments 65nm OMAP3530 Applications Processor
I wonder if a “productivity factor” can be used [...]