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| Freesacale offers radio chip at 2.45GHz |
6/8/2004 |
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Freescalehas launched two low-power, 2.45-GHz integrated radios — one for proprietary applications, the other with a full Zigbee protocol and network stack, IEEE 802.15.4 compliance and support for star and mesh topologies.
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| Cellphone TV endorsed by Samsung |
6/8/2004 |
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DMB, now coming online in Korea and Japan, is a multichannel broadcasting service with high-quality video. In principle, DMB will allow subscribers to watch television, listen to music, receive text messages, play videogames or cruise the Internet on their cell phone screens.
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| Tessera appoints new board member |
6/7/2004 |
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Nothhaft was chairman, president and CEO of Concentric Network Corp. from 1995 to 2001; Nothhaft guided the company through its successful IPO and merger with NextLink in 1999.
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| Freescale to revolutionize UWB with home products |
6/7/2004 |
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Freescale said its products address the demand for low power, cost effective UWB solutions for application such as media players, digital cameras and camcorders. The product families will also be designed to integrate sophisticated power management tools to help extend battery life.
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| Wine Industry uses MEM sensor to control climate |
6/7/2004 |
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Developed by Australia's Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for microTechnology and Motorola, the 4mm square chip is ideal for micro-climate measuring compared to traditional, much larger sensors, according to the device's developers.
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| Acer conceded in Tablet PC |
6/7/2004 |
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The company cited a lack of applications to drive adoption and the need to shrink the price premium tablets now command over standard notebook PCs.
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| First G3 CDMA2000 chips sampled |
6/4/2004 |
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The standard provides users with broadband capabilities to their cell phones, PDAs and other mobile devices, offering high-speed Internet connectivity that is ten times the speed provided by current cdma2000 1X and GPRS products.
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| EU looking for economic growth |
6/4/2004 |
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Meanwhile Future Horizons' Penn reserved most of his vitriol for the European politicians and bureaucrats he feels are letting the region down with reforms dogged by fudge and compromise and politicians tied to out-of-date ideologies and big gestures.
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| Vonage cut price on VOIP kit at retail stores |
6/4/2004 |
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An adapter and two months of Vonage service--has been lowered at 5,000 retail stores, including Best Buy, Circuit City, Fry's, and Radio Shack. The limited-time offer costs $79.99; a $50 rebate brings the final price to $30.
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| Hong Kong gets the spot light for Telecom World 2006 |
6/4/2004 |
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After considering revised bids from both locations, the offer from Hong Kong would offer savings in direct costs to exhibitors of between 30% and 50% depending on the size of stands, compared with Geneva.
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| Taiwan gears up for LCD TV |
6/3/2004 |
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Global shipments of LCD TVs are estimated to soar up to more than a hundred percent totaling around 10.2 million units this year, according to Topology Research Institute.
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| New memory module company makes its mark |
6/3/2004 |
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A-data's Vitesta 533MHz DDR2 DIMM is being showcased at Computex Taipei, plus it is being tested by three of the major motherboard manufacturing companies.
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| Broadcom to offer high-bandwidth I/O server engine |
6/3/2004 |
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AMD and Broadcom provided details this week of a strategic relationship that leverages both companies’ expertise in high-performance system input-output (I/O), storage management and control, and microprocessor technologies.
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| SMIC equips Beijing 300mm fab |
6/3/2004 |
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The equipment move-in at Fab 4 demonstrates SMIC's ability to compete in the global semiconductor market by providing our customers with the most advanced foundry services currently offered in the world,
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| Intel unveiled embedded processor one day behind AMD |
6/3/2004 |
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The company said the M 745 will be targeted at point-of-sale terminals and industrial computing, while the Celeron M will be aimed at wireless and wireline infrastructure. The PXA270 will serve in graphics-rich applications.
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| 8.5G DVD+R/R disc debuted at Computex |
6/2/2004 |
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It is their goal to be able to secure orders during the 5-day show in Taipei. They are also dispatching samples to different clients for certification in time for production, which is set to begin in the middle of June.
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| Skepticism felt on new Intel architectures |
6/2/2004 |
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The scrutiny is due to the fact that there are a substantial amount of changes as a result of the new interface and there is a huge possibility that this would keep end-users from upgrading.
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| Infineon joins IPextreme to improve quality |
6/2/2004 |
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IPextreme operates on the premise that design team behavior must changed to eliminate bugs before they are even coded and utilizes its Extreme Programming development process to achieve quality IP, the company claims.
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| Hynix divested non-memory business |
6/2/2004 |
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A year in the making, the sale was orchestrated by the company's creditors, which control the company, and is expected to provide Hynix with an important source of cash to expand its memory business
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| SIA reports high growth in Q1 |
6/2/2004 |
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The results exceeded analysts' expectations. Handelsbanken Capital Markets had underestimated the chip market growth after forecasting last week a 35.3 percent year-on-year growth for the quarter.
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| AMD announces new embedded processor push |
6/2/2004 |
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Will Strauss, president of Forward Concepts (Tempe, Ariz.), said AMD "is going to war" with a renewed interest in embedded, evidenced by its benchmarking initiative, aggressive marketing push and, most important, products that consume less power.
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| Alliance to expand design in India |
6/2/2004 |
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Alliance Santa Clara, Calif.) has so far invested $20 million in its centers here and in Hyderabad. They employ 150 engineers. The Bangalore center was started in 1998 and currently has about 100 engineers.
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