LAS VEGAS, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Chipmaker Nvidia
showed off its newest Tegra mobile processor, its next step in
its expansion into tablets and smartphones and also unveiled a
new hand-held game device.

The Tegra 4 chip, with four central processing cores, will
be Nvidia’s first to include LTE technology for high-speed
telecommunication networks, Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang said
at a press conference in Las Vegas on Sunday ahead of the
Consumer Electronics Show.

SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) – At the world’s largest technology conference that kicks off on Monday, the most intriguing innovations showcased may be gadgets and technology that turn everyday items into connected, smarter machines.

This year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas promises a new generation of “smart” gadgets, some controlled by voice and gestures, and technology advancements in cars, some of which already let you dictate emails or check real-time gas prices.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 20 (Reuters) – Micron Technology
posted a quarterly net loss and lower revenue as it struggled
with a slowing PC industry and macroeconomic uncertainty.

Consumers’ growing preference for smartphones and tablets
instead of laptops has been hurting PC manufacturers, which
traditionally have been major buyers of DRAM chips made by
Micron and rivals like Samsung Electronics.

BOSTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Technology giant Oracle Corp said software sales growth will stay strong into the new year despite a looming fiscal crisis that investors have worried could cause a slump in IT spending.

Shares of the world’s No. 3 software maker rose 2.6 percent after it reported fiscal second-quarter revenue and earnings that surpassed Wall Street forecasts.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Freescale Semiconductor Ltd’s chief executive painted a bleak outlook for chip demand which has been hit by economic uncertainty and said his plans to refocus R&D resources on key businesses would likely pay off with gains in market share in 2015.

Gregg Lowe left Texas Instruments Inc to lead Freescale in June and has embarked on a restructuring that he expects will reverse losses in market share that the chipmaker has suffered in nine of the past 10 years.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Freescale Semiconductor Ltd’s chief executive painted a bleak outlook for chip demand which has been hit by economic uncertainty and said his plans to refocus R&D resources on key businesses would likely pay off with gains in market share in 2015.

Gregg Lowe left Texas Instruments Inc to lead Freescale in June and has embarked on a restructuring that he expects will reverse losses in market share that the chipmaker has suffered in nine of the past 10 years.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries’ chief executive said European governments should offer incentives to build multibillion-dollar advanced manufacturing plants and help keep Asia from reaping the benefits of European innovations.

Speaking at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, Ajit Manocha said he has tried to convince policymakers to invest more to stimulate chip manufacturing in Europe.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 11 (Reuters) – Intel launched a
data-center chip using low-power technology found in
smartphones, stepping up competition in the nascent microserver
market and winning a nod from Facebook.

The Atom chip rolled out on Tuesday uses much less
electricity than Intel’s previous processors for servers and
comes as Intel’s rivals also eye the low-power server niche.

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 10 (Reuters) – Intel presented
new manufacturing technology that it said keeps it on track to
launch a new generation of chips for smartphones and tablets as
it rushes to catch up with Qualcomm and other rivals in
the fast-growing mobile market.

The world’s largest chipmaker dominates the PC industry but
has been slow to adapt its processors for mobile gadgets that
depend on batteries and demand power efficiency.

SAN JOSE, California (Reuters) – Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics squared off again in court on Thursday, as the iPhone maker tried to convince a U.S. district judge to ban sales of a number of the South Korean company’s devices and defended its $1.05 billion jury award.

Apple scored a sweeping legal victory in August at the conclusion of its landmark case against its arch-foe, when a U.S. jury found Samsung had copied critical features of the iPhone and iPad and awarded it damages.