User:Calamites

Articles within my interest:


 * Amlogic - Submitted as article for creation on 23 April 2014; declined 5 June, resubmitted 6 June 2014 after modifications; accepted 7 June. Calamites (talk) 18:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * MediaTek - I have provided improvements and additions, primarily to the chip product tables, addition of WikiProject templates, and a new section with details about the competitive business landscape faced by the company currently and historically. See also List_of_Devices_Using_Mediatek_SoCs, List_of_devices_using_Mediatek_tablet_processors. Calamites (talk) 12:33, 20 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Trident Microsystems - I have improved an expanded this article, including information describing the company's role as a major chip provider during the LCD TV boom from about 2004 to 2008. Calamites (talk) 02:30, 27 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Oak Technology - I have improved and expanded this article to document the company's history as a major chip supplier for optical storage drives in the past, and its success in the stock market at the time.


 * TSMC - I have made improvements to this article reflecting the global importance of this company as an independent manufacturer of the vast majority of the high-performance SoC chip solutions used smartphones, GPUs and many other applications. I have added detailed financial and market information. I have also highlighted the potential impact of chip manufacturing capacity demand cycles and shortages, which can have the potential to affect the global market for consumer electronics such as smartphones because of a shortage of leading-edge capacity at TSMC, which is currently virtually the only manufacturing source of SoC solutions that meet the requirements of today's smartphones and other applications, leading fabless semiconductor companies to an inability to satisfy demand for their chips. Calamites (talk) 18:27, 5 January 2015 (UTC)


 * RF Micro Devices, Qorvo -- I have improved and expanded the article with a detailed history and other improvements, reflecting its role as a major supplier of GaAs RF power amplifiers (a critical component of mobile phones) in the past, it strong relationship with Nokia from the late 1990's to about 2010, and documenting its early stock market success around the time of the tech bubble in 2000 when it had a high market capitalization and was included in major stock indexes. Calamites (talk) 18:54, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Rockchip - I have updated and improved the article on this major Chinese supplier of tablet SoC solutions, including a section on its competitive market position. Calamites (talk) 17:39, 24 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Allwinner Technology - I have updated the structure and grammar to be more comformant to Wikipedia standards, and have provided a few clarifications. Calamites (talk) 09:08, 8 June 2014 (UTC)


 * Actions Semiconductor - Updated, with amongst others changes, corrected CPU specifications for the ATM7029. Calamites (talk) 16:14, 24 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Leadcore Technology -- I have expanded the article on this emerging Chinese supplier of smartphone SoC solutions. Calamites (talk) 16:54, 16 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Zoran Corporation -- I have expanded and updated the article on this historically important provider of chipsets consumer devices such as DVD players, digital cameras and digital TVs. Calamites (talk) 19:11, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * Qualcomm Snapdragon -- Minor contributions. Calamites (talk) 18:28, 5 January 2015 (UTC)