HTC buys S3 Graphics for $300Million

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HTC today announced that it has bought US based S3 Graphics for $300 million. Company stated that this acquisition will help it in enhancing its multimedia capabilities. S3 Graphics is a California-based graphics technology licensing firm.

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Does htc want to jump on the arm bandwagon so soon?

maybe. bored using Qualcomm made SOCs.

Sam said:
maybe. bored using Qualcomm made SOCs.

TI and Samsung makes good socs too.

^^ When will nvidia's "kalel" show up?

Qualcomm is world leader in mobile SOCs followed by Samsung (credit to Exynos) & TI (Android ice cream sandwitch will be optimized for their OMAP4 SOC).

now Motorola has Freescale (was once a part of Motorola), Samsung has their world-famous Hummingbird & Exynos, SE has Ericsson SOC (though they don't use them in the highend market) & now LG too is planning its own SOC for 2012. who is left out? HTC & so they want their own SOC now. Apple has its A-series.

vickybat said:
^^ When will nvidia's "kalel" will show up?

maybe Q4 2011 for tablets & Q1 2012 for mobile.

Sam said:
Qualcomm is world leader in mobile SOCs followed by Samsung (credit to Exynos) & TI (Android ice cream sandwitch will be optimized for their OMAP4 SOC).

now Motorola has Freescale (was once a part of Motorola), Samsung has their world-famous Hummingbird & Exynos, SE has Ericsson SOC (though they don't use them in the highend market) & now LG too is planning its own SOC for 2012. who is left out? HTC & so they want their own SOC now. Apple has its A-series.

maybe Q4 2011 for tablets & Q1 2012 for mobile.

they say that it will even outperform Intel's Core2duo desktop processor.
Cool!!!!........huh?

Now every company makes their custom CPUs and GPUs.

Boy this market is far faaar more heated up than good ole INTEL and AMD in their respective segments

royal.tarun said:
they say that it will even outperform Intel's Core2duo desktop processor.
Cool!!!!........huh?

Never happen. Not on pure performance basis atleast.