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| FTC closes Rambus anti-trust case |
2/19/2004 |
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"[The] ruling dismissing the FTC case is a fundamentally important step for Rambus as we seek to be fairly compensated for the use of our intellectual property," said John Danforth
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| MRAM getting real |
2/19/2004 |
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MRAM is one of several candidates as a "universal memory" technology offering the combination of non-volatility and high-speed random access, and which once mature could displace many established forms of solid-state memory.
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| Outlook on Set-Top-Boxes |
2/18/2004 |
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The US and Europe regions will have greatly change to enjoy digital STB first before elsewhere in the world. Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan likely to switch to digital in next few years.
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| Intel announces "Digital Home" reference design |
2/18/2004 |
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"Our vision is actually very straightforward," he said. "It's about giving consumers what they want. Consumers will be able to enjoy content anywhere, anytime and on any device in their home."
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| VoIP software to go open source |
2/18/2004 |
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Now, to increase adoption of its software in the enterprise world, the Woburn, Mass.-based company will hand over the code for its software to a third-party non-profit organization, which will distribute the code as open source.
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| NEC researchers unveil super clock chip design |
2/18/2004 |
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A chip might have one IP core that is suitable for sequential processing whose operating frequencies was 10 GHz and also have four IP cores that are suitable for parallel processing whose operating frequencies are 2.5 GHz and are fed from the same clock signals.
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| Intel settles 64bit on common MS64 operating system |
2/18/2004 |
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Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said in a videotaped presentation that Microsoft has released a beta version of its 64-bit Windows for Extended x86 Systems. That OS will support both the new Intel chips and Advanced Micro Devices' 64-bit Opteron and Athlon CPUs.
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| Cingular won bid to acquire AT&T Wireless |
2/17/2004 |
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Cingular Wireless won the bidding war to acquire AT&T Wireless Services for nearly $41 billion in cash. The merger between the second and third largest U.S. wireless companies was announced as Britain's Vodafone Group PLC withdrew from the contest after four days of rising bids.
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| Carl Icahn wins auction on Allegiance Telecom |
2/17/2004 |
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Allegiance has been in Chapter 11 bankruptcy since May 2003. It will seek court approval for the XO deal from U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Robert Drain in New York on Feb. 19.
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| Importer beware of Chinese currency changes |
2/17/2004 |
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China is feeling the worldwide pressure to raise the value of its currency. After refusing to consider revaluation last fall, Chinese officials are now volunteering that they are studying the problem.
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| Intel unveils Fully Buffered Memory architecture |
2/17/2004 |
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The interconnect scheme rests on a number of technical advances in transmitter and receiver circuitry. Primary among them are the ability to conduct simultaneous bi-directional transactions over a single wire, using receivers that perform a simple subtraction to separate incoming from outgoing signals.
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| Fab runs full capacity |
2/16/2004 |
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UMC, the Taiwanese foundry, expects to be at 100 percent capacity this quarter, which represents, according to CEO Jackson Hu, an opportunity for UMC to increase its prices.
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| TI announces path to single chip mobile phone technology |
2/16/2004 |
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The company is presenting details at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) this week on how its digital RF processor design can reduce power consumption, die area and system board space by up to 50 percent over analog designs.
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| FCC go hands off on VoIP |
2/16/2004 |
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The moves are designed to ensure more opportunities for consumers through VoIP, while recognizing the advantages of other services in terms of communications costs, innovative services and features, greater economic productivity and growth and expanded network redundancy.
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| Opticom hit technical difficulty in polyma memory development |
2/16/2004 |
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Opticom and TFE have been working on a polymeric three-dimensional memory technology for Intel for several years but in 2003, without going in to details, the company said there had been persistent problems perfecting the technology.
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| India companies accused of visa abuse |
2/16/2004 |
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Gildea accused the companies of bringing Indian workers into the United States through the L-1 visa program and later subcontracting them out to other businesses.
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| Dell to offer gamer notebook |
2/13/2004 |
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Dell have moved deeper into the high-end gaming computer market with a notebook computer priced at more than $2,800, pitting it against specialty PC makers like Alienware and Voodoo
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| Rapid growth of VOIP in Europe |
2/13/2004 |
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The market for enterprise Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) in Europe will grow from $133 million in 2003 to $7.1 billion in 2008.
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| Dell aim for PC growth in China |
2/13/2004 |
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After a year of explosive growth in China,Dell said it hoped to grow at triple or more the market's overall growth rate this year
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| European Patent Office revoke Rambus patent |
2/13/2004 |
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Rambus said that the Technical Board of Appeals of the European Patent Office (EPO) today made a ruling at the close of a three day hearing revoking Rambus' European patent.
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| PC sales in Asia grows almost 10% in 2003 |
2/12/2004 |
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Sales of personal computers n the Asia Pacific region, excluding Japan, rose 9.5 per cent in 2003 to 29.7 million units with Lenovo of China the top selling brand.
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