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| Gartner: PC shipment to grow 9% |
2/16/2005 |
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"Market growth could prove stronger if PC manufacturers are somehow able to position the PC as a digital media hub," said Gartner analyst Kiyomi Yamada, in the same statement.
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| Chinese university has broken most used security certificates |
2/16/2005 |
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The SHA-1 hash is broadly used to create digital certificates. It is a key technical underpinning of Secure Sockets Layer, a private-key technology used broadly to send secure information such as credit card numbers over the Internet.
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| UMC Taiwan office raided |
2/16/2005 |
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Taiwan law allows semiconductor manufacturers to invest in Chinese fabs using 200-mm wafer technology only after a lengthy review process. One of the criteria applicants must meet is having a fully operational 300-mm wafer fab in Taiwan.
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| Taipei City wire-in (by cutting the wire) |
2/15/2005 |
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Early this week, the Taipei City Government has announced the completion of the first stage of the "M-City" (mobile city) project, which allows residents to access the Internet in and around 30 mass rapid transit (MRT) stations through wireless connections.
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| Sony Ericsson put iTunes into hand phone |
2/15/2005 |
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Sony Ericsson President Miles Flintsaid said the new music phone will have sufficient storage for six to ten CDs, a USB port to transfer music from a PC, music browsing and support for open standards.
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| Carly to get $45M |
2/15/2005 |
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The $45 million is based on the current value of roughly $23.5 million in previously awarded stock options and a $21.4 million severance package awarded to Fiorina after she resigned last week.
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| China government regulates Internet usage |
2/15/2005 |
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China is moving aggressively to shut down "illegal" Internet cafes that it says are corrupting youth through exposure to pornography, gambling and too much computer gaming.
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| India government opens way for Wi-Fi |
2/15/2005 |
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The new measures will help Internet service providers adopt Wi-Fi technology and speed Internet penetration, whereas until now they could only use dial-up access.
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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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