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| NEC to use Rambus backplane strategy |
2/15/2005 |
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The Rambus RaSer X is designed to tackle difficult interconnect issues associated with backplane environments in high-speed enterprise switches and routers.
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| ST exits 2G GSM development |
2/15/2005 |
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With the mobile phone market shifting to 3G, "It did not make sense to offer a 2G chip now," Philippe Geyres, ST's executive vice president, said here at the 3GSM World Congress. The cancellation is one of Geyres' first significant decisions.
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| Infineon to replace wirebond flip-chip with FCOS |
2/14/2005 |
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Getting rid of the wiring saves space, allowing a bigger chip to be used (maximum 5mm by 6mm as opposed to a maximum 1.9mm by 1.9mm for wirebonding), which means the IC can have more functionality, the company said.
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| AMD announced HyperTransport PCIX2.0 |
2/14/2005 |
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"PCI Express is really a technology that our workstation customers want because it enables very fast graphics. In the server world, we are seeing some of our high-performance computing customers wanting to use processor servers that are going to PCI Express,"
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| Judge to keep Rambus case in California Court |
2/14/2005 |
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Rambus Inc. scored a victory in its antitrust case against several DRAM suppliers Monday (Feb. 14), with the California appellate court upholding a trial court decision to continue case litigation in the California Superior Court in San Francisco.
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| Cypress exits MRAM market |
2/14/2005 |
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"Based on our latest calculations at Cypress, we no longer believe that the 1T-1MTJ MRAM technology will be able to successfully attack the SRAM market, leaving MRAM as a niche technology with higher bit pricing than that of SRAM."
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| Texas Instruments to ramp up 90-nm DSP Device |
2/14/2005 |
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At the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) here, Texas Instruments Inc. disclosed that it will shortly begin sampling its first 65-nm devices amid an aggressive ramp on the 90-nm front
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| HP to unveil AMD powered Blade Server |
2/11/2005 |
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Hewlett-Packard plans to unveil on Monday its first blade servers using Advanced Micro Devices' Opteron processor, as well as a more conventional server and a workstation that use the new chip.
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| IBM to ship low-end Unix Server |
2/10/2005 |
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IBM announced this week that it will be offering two new low-end Unix servers, running on its 64-bit Power5 processor.
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| HP searching for New CEO |
2/9/2005 |
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Carly Fiorina is out at Hewlett-Packard and Robert Wayman has been named interim CEO. Patricia Dunn was tapped as nonexecutive chairman
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| Microsoft buy anti-virus company |
2/9/2005 |
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Microsoft announced plans to acquire a company whose software aims to protect corporate networks from e-mail borne threats and said it would sell a product based on the technology.
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| Intel to ship Dual-Core Processor |
2/8/2005 |
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Intel said it has completed initial production runs of its forthcoming dual-core processors, and is on track to begin shipping them to market next quarter
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| Toshiba Launch Memory Interface Standard Group |
2/7/2005 |
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A group of leading semiconductor companies, led by Spansion and ARM, today launched the Platform Independent Storage Module (Pismo) advisory council, an industry organization focused on streamlining system-level memory validation and test
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