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I design DTV SoCs for a living, specifically video IP. The SoC in your DTV already does all of the above in this article if it has 2D local dimming of the LED backlight. Most mid -> high end now have this as standard. Aspect ratio info is …
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The DTV business is fundamentally broken. I'm an EE who designs IP for DTV SoCs and the industry is in big trouble. No one, not even Samsung, is making money out of DTV. The R&D costs are simply too high in comparison to the overall cost of …
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I honestly think people underestimate just how important and good, Tim Cook is at his job. Apple may produce good and innovative products but it is only successful because it can make a lot of those products, make them at an appropriate price, an…
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Was able to recover all the data, bar recent changes, from a local PC backup taken on 13/10/2011. Still none the wiser about why this data got removed from my iCloud backup. A bit worrying and I think I will still be doing weekly local backups to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tylerk36 Ok so this fire device, it doesn't have a cell unit built in and from what it looks like to me it is a bit small for books. I mean the color screen and the size of that screen isn't as nice to read a book on …
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Quote: Originally Posted by wizard69 Yeah I could see where working on TVs would be a sin. Not so much for the hardware but rather the industry they get attached to. So how did Intel and Broadcom kill the DTV industry? A businessman …
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For my sins I work as an electronics engineer coding RTL for IP for SoCs that are used in DTVs. Most, if not all of these are more complicated than Apple's magical A5. They contain multiple CPU cores along with demods, dsps and frcs ( frame rate con…
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You are aware that the A5 does not contain 512MB of RAM within the SoC... You seem to be implying this in your article and are incorrect. The 512MB of DDR SDram is off die, hence the DDR memory interfaces.
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Patent law is a joke. I say that as an electronics engineer working in semiconductor SoC design. Everyone's product, design and architecture infringes on everyone else's patents. Proving infringement is extremely difficult, as is defending ones I…
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As an Iphone 4 user I have always though WebOS is superior to iOS. It actually multi-tasks and actually has decent notifications. The foundations of the operating system are fantastic. What it lacked was good HW, the Palm/HP devices were old when…
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The iPad HW isn't selling the iPad, the iTunes 'ecosystem' is. Easy to purchase content and apps is the killer feature. Android still continues to be too fragmented.
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When is the Sandybridge MacMini arriving, that is what I want to know.
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Much better than the current multi-tasking dock but the mechanism to close apps is messy. Why not just support the WebOS implementation of flicking them off the top of the screen which is much more intuitive. Same can be said of the stackable cards …
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Quote: Originally Posted by guch20 Just a quick note: If Apple doesn't release a full-on iPhone 5 this year and instead opts to do a "4+" or whatever, then the next model after that would not be the iPhone 5; instead, it would be the iPhone 6,…
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Although Google TV has not quite taken off as much as they would have liked most SoCs ( System on Chips ) in modern connected TVs are moving to an Android OS on the application processor ( ARM A9, MIPS 74K, Intel Atom etc ). This means that all the …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor I really like the design of the iPhone 4. I think it looks and feels awesome, and while the antennae issue was real, it was so easily avoided that I hardly see it as a major issue. Ditto, I think the flat …
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I was in Shanghai on business in December and visited the Apple store, it is very impressive although a bit out of the way in Pudong. The new store will be located on East Nanjing Road which is the main shopping district. Having said that Pudong is …