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| TI/MIT claimed 0.4V lowest power SRAM |
2/8/2006 |
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The 0.4-volt, sub-threshold SRAM achieves 2.25 times lower leakage power, as compared to its six-transistor counterpart at 0.6 volts, according to TI and MIT. The SRAM also claims to incorporate 10 transistors per bitcell to enable operations down to 400-mV.
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| TV industry poised to expand |
2/8/2006 |
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South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. expects its strength in flat screen TVs to propel it to TV sales of $10 billion by 2010.
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| National Semi praises Bush's hi-tech policy |
2/8/2006 |
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Halla said that he is encouraged by the recent State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush in which he pledged to double R&D funding, boost funding for math and science education and seek more liberal immigration policies for high-tech workers.
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| Skype to offer 10 way conference with Intel processor |
2/8/2006 |
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Intel has said that with Skype version 2.0 or higher there is a conference call feature that can include up to ten people at the same time — but that’s only possible if the computer’s processor is an Intel Centrino Duo or an Intel Pentium D processor.
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| Elpida outsources development to India |
2/7/2006 |
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“Our decision to establish Edison in India leverages the available talent for circuit design, layout and evaluation experience in that region,” said Yukio Sakamoto. “Each of our design centers enhances our global strengths and expands our product development capabilities.”
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| ST/Hynix Nand alliance yield high speed 4Gbit chip |
2/7/2006 |
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“Moreover, we fully expect this type of approach to be implemented as an industry standard feature in 2-bit per cell devices, which are rapidly increasing their share of the NAND Flash market. This method realizes the cost advantages of multilevel cell technology, but without sacrificing system read throughput and reliability.”
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| SMIC looking for opportunity to acquire capacity |
2/7/2006 |
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"We will pursue alternative opportunities to expand our capacity through the use of strategic alliances,” Chang said in a statement presenting the company’s fourth quarter financial results.
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| Record budget for US military requested |
2/7/2006 |
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The record $493.7 billion request unveiled Monday (Feb. 6) contains funding increases for the U.S. Army's Future Combat System, including $3.7 billion in fiscal 2007 and $22.4 billion through over the next five years. The troubled program is the Army's highest priority as it seeks to link soldiers to sensors and weapons via an advanced network.
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| IBM and Freescale have high hope on Power Processor |
2/7/2006 |
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By next year, Mayer said fully half of all cars will have at least one Freescale PowerPC-based controller onboard. Kelly noted that IBM displaced the MIPS and Intel X86 processors enroute to gaining design wins in the game machines from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony. The companies want to duplicate those successes in the consumer market.
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| 3rd party PC chipset gained position |
2/6/2006 |
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It's Intel's inability to meet chipset demand from Q2 onwards that has seen its share of the graphics market tumble, and explains why strong chipset player VIA has done so well out of the year's market conditions.
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| IC designers are still better in the US |
2/6/2006 |
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Michael Fister, president and CEO of Cadence Design Systems Inc., said that intellectually there is not much difference between engineers in the U.S. and their counterparts in other parts of the world, but that experientially there is currently a big difference.
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| Solar cell industry consolidated |
2/6/2006 |
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“The transfer of Shell Solar to SolarWorld AG reflects the consolidation in the industry that has been emerging for some time. But for the foreseeable future, this could be the last major merger in the market."
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| Intel might have bought small processor company |
2/6/2006 |
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A source said it was believed that Conformative had been acquired by Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.) but that the acquisition had not been considered to be materially significant thereby explaining why Intel had not filed documents with the Securities and Exchange Commission and why no press release had been issued.
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| AMD website hacked |
2/3/2006 |
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AMD's Web site. Customer support discussion forums on the forums.amd.com site have been compromised and are being used in an attempt to infect visitors with malicious software.
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| Infineon produces 65nm samples |
2/2/2006 |
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Infineon Technologies AG announced that it has produced first sample chips based on its 65nm CMOS platform technology.
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| NAND dumping in China |
2/2/2006 |
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Distributors have reportedly dumped NAND-based flash memories from South Korean vendors into the China market, according to Gartner Dataquest Inc.
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| MCP memory to go to volume in Q4, |
2/2/2006 |
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Micron said it had launched a range multichip package (MCP) memories for use in mobile phones and would be manufacturing them in volume late in 2006
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| Apple may retire ipod shuffle |
2/1/2006 |
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The Shuffle may not be long for this world, it may soon be replaced by a 1-gigabyte version of the iPod Nano
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| Researchers Warn of File-Destroying Worm |
2/1/2006 |
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If you have computer files you'd rather not lose, now is a good time to make sure your anti-virus software is up to date. A worm set to activate Friday will corrupt documents using the most common file types, including ".doc," ".pdf," and ".zip."
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