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Motorola Mobility sold off their factories for manufacturing mobile handsets in China and Brazil to Flextronics. Flextronics is headquartered in Singapore and is one of the world's major OEM manufacturers of electronics. Until now they have cooperated with Motorola Mobility. Back in May of 2012 Google bought Motorola Mobility for around $12.5 billion, and since then Google has been downsizing Motorola's operations.

Intel has presented a new technology for the production of mobile chips for small portable devices. These new chips should be more competitive in the market that is now dominated by chips based on ARM's designs. They presented their ultra-low power SoC designs already at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco this year. Intel's 22-nanometer technology for SoC's should be ready for mass production of these chips during the next year.

STMicroelectronics intends to get out of a joint company with Ericsson to manufacture mobile chip due to loses they have in this project. But analysts warn that STMicroelectronics will not be able to exit easily from the investment that just last year operated with a loss of $841 million, beside that Ericsson probably will not be interested in completely taking over the company.

Microsoft proudly unveiled Surface tablets during the launch of the new Windows, even though many said that the release of devices with a completely different processor architecture (ARM) was a very risky move. Although the team from Redmond repeatedly declared that they are satisfied with its initial sales, the two figures released so far appear at odds; Microsoft’s figure of 4 million tablets planned for the 4th quarter is now reduced to 2 million. Now a brokerage firm, Detwiler Fenton, that allocates brokerage ranks, said that Microsoft should be happy if they manage to sell 1 million tablets by the end of the year. Detwiler says that Microsoft has sold between 500 and 600 thousand units so far.