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MobileActive Strategy Guides

Know-how for deploying effective mobile campaigns for activism and advocacy.

Freescale’s First Flexis MCUs

Freescale Semiconductor has announced the first family of pin-compatible 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers—the key ingredient in its “Microcontroller Continuum” strategy.

Editorial: Commodity Products Make Commodity Markets

Innovative design can prevent products from becoming low-margin commodities, but product designers seem to be striving for boring sameness.

Mobile Phones and Social Activism

Learn why the most important technical development of the past five years may be the mobile phone.

Trends in General Purpose Processors

This article is an edited transcript of a discussion panel at Microprocessor Forum 2007, which included participants from AMD, Intel, and Mears Technologies.

Processor Design Mistakes, Part 5

Despite Problems, The VLIW Lives In Several Microprocessors.

MIPS 74K Performance Update

Preliminary benchmark tests and power-consumption estimates indicate that the new MIPS 74K processor core is highly competitive with ARM’s Cortex-A8.

Market Watch: SuperSpeed USB Is Coming

USB 3.0 Will Accelerate PC Peripherals and Consumer Electronics.