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Taiwan-based motherboard and chipset makers are optimistic that the upcoming price war between Intel and AMD will drive up demand in the PC market. Foxconn Electronics (the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry) pointed out that demand in the PC market has been weak during the first half of the year, as users have been waiting for new products to come out later in the year.
Santa Clara (CA) - Computerworld is reporting that Intel will unveil new solid-state drives with capacities of up to 160 GB. The 1.8" and 2.5" drives will be available in the second quarter and no price has been specified. Most likely, these new drives will be demonstrated at next month"s Intel Developers Forum in Shanghai. TG Daily will be sending two editors to the event.
Sharp recently introduced a new 65" LCD monitor (PN-655RU) specifically designed for operation in a portrait mode. To ensure reliable operation and backlight life for use in portrait mode, Sharp has optimized the internal cooling, air flow and backlight system.
Sun Microsystems today said it would lay off a further 3,000 employees because of the delays in closing the deal with Oracle.
Spansion has unveiled product roadmaps for its MirrorBit HD-SIM family, its next-generation flash memory-based SIM card solutions. The Spansion HD-SIM solution is designed to offer increased flexibility, performance, and storage capacity to help mobile network operators, content, and application vendors create new differentiating services for their customers, says Spansion.
Las Vegas (NV) - Most booths at the Consumer Electronics Show are pretty bland, but Spectra International"s booth stood out with several walls of eye-searing pink Hello Kitty electronics. The cat face with its trademark missing mouth, a symbol of international cuteness, was plastered on everything from phones to USB sticks. There were even Hello Kitty toasters and hair dryers on display. Click through our gallery to see the dozens of weird and wacky Hello Kitty products.
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Market research firm IDC expects the global mobile worker population to increase by more than 200 million within the next four years, climbing from 650 million in 2004 to more than 850 million in 2009. According to the market research firm, the United States had the highest percentage of mobile workers in its workforce in 2004, and is expected to reach over 70 percent mobile workforce penetration by the end of 2009.
IBM researchers have achieved a milestone by creating an integrated circuit out of a single carbon nanotube, a feat that makes the material a likely candidate to replace silicon as the main ingredient for making chips.
Panel prices may stabilize in June when the current inventory level is gradually digested, according to David Hsieh, president of DisplaySearch Taiwan. The gap between monitor panel shipments and monitor system shipments from OEM makers is currently 8-9 weeks, while the normal gap should be six weeks, Hsieh indicated.
Sources told Tom"s Hardware Guide that there will not be any commercial R520 graphic cards on display at the upcoming Computex trade show. Some vendors however said that ATI may use the buzz of the show to display R520 chips integrated on 512 MByte cards at its booth.
Comcast and Facebook are partnering up to gather and share user-created videos in a new television series. Starting in March, Facebook users can submit video diary segments which will be viewable on both Facebook and Comcast"s Ziddio.com site. The videos will also be viewable on Comcast"s ON DEMAND service. Some of the best videos will be used in a new television series called "Facebook Diaries".
Hamilton police may have solved a murder by posting surveillance tape footage to YouTube. 22-year-old Ryan Miller was stabbed to death at a hip-hop concert on November 17th. Hoping to reach the teenager and early 20-year-old demographic, police posted up surveillance footage of security guards searching concert goers. The one-minute video apparently spooked the suspect so much that he turned himself in.
Melbourne (Victoria, AU) - Australia"s second most populous state has enacted a sweeping ban on YouTube at schools, after a street gang uploaded a video of themselves assaulting another student.
Cupertino (CA) - Apple"s latest personal notebook computer, the Macbook Air, is now on its way to eager consumers, as the company announced it has begun shipping orders today.
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Intel plays with the idea to introduce a new brand name and a new sequence numbering system for its upcoming Yonah mobile dual-core processor, TG Daily has learned. Sources indicated that Intel will introduce a completely new numbering system consisting of letters and numbers for the dual-core chip and low-power single-core Yonah chips.
Just days after Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in the way the Windows operating system renders certain types of graphics files, a hacker has published details of two new flaws that affect the same part of the operating system.
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HP and Dreamworks want to give business professionals a better video conferencing option than tiny webcam images for virtual meetings. The two companies are forming a partnership called Halo Collaboration Studios which will offer teleconferencing with studio quality sound and life-sized images. The conferencing is done from "Halo" rooms which are basically broadcast studios with cameras, plasma screens and a fast network connection.
Las Vegas (NV) - AMD briefly discussed a new and upcoming AMD Live! platform its analyst briefing last month and MSI appears to be the first company to have announced the first product built on this second generation platform. Live! PCs, just like some Intel Viiv devices, will also be available in the form factor of a traditional set top box.
Hong Kong (China) - Just how low can USB flash stick prices go? Try $12.99 for a 1 GB USB flash stick. Starline International Group is selling USB sticks as a promotional offer, but the average consumer can"t exactly run out and buy them. A minimum quantity must be ordered and the company requires several days of lead time to produce them.
Westlake Village (CA) - Have you ever wondered why your wireless connection drops or slows down suddenly during the day? With the help of Cognio"s ISMS Mobile spectrum analyzer, you can identify the problem and track it back to the source. Among the devices that can drag down your Wi-Fi performance, are microwaves, cordless phones and even Bluetooth devices.
Avermedia a company, which is known for its television and multimedia products, has showcased an interesting device at Computex this year; GPS on a TV Tuner stick
Yahoo, Inc., an internet portal and web hosting provider, is quadrupling the amount of storage provided with its free e-mail accounts and upgrading its desktop search software.
These are the ways you can upgrade to Windows 7.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft has pulled the emergency brake and decided that it will not pursue a purchase of Yahoo. In a letter sent to Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry, Microsoft CEO said that Yahooò€™s demands of a 70% premium of the companyò€™s closing price on January 31 were unreasonable and he made it clear that Yahooò€™s decision to strike a deal with Googleò€™s advertising solutions were the decisive blow to kill the deal altogether. We are now waiting Yahoo stockholders suing the company and Google continuing its current pace of growth.
Mountain View (CA) - Inquisitive Internet users will no longer be able to ask new questions on Google Answers, as the search giant announced on its blog that the online Q&A service is officially canned.
In depth - The good old movie theater is ready for a big step into the future. We haven"t seen dramatic innovations in years and even if high-definition is on its way and some believe that theaters can be transformed into classy dining places, people always have been attracted to a special movie experience they can"t get at home. TG Daily recently met with Dolby to find out how the much anticipated transition to 3D is coming along - and found that this technology has all the potential to keep movie theaters from becoming entertainment dinosaurs nobody will remember.
Santa Clara (CA) - The successor of the first generation dual-core desktop processor Pentium D 800 has been in mass-production for well over three months. Today, Intel announced the flagship of the upcoming second-generation Pentium D 900, code-named Presler: The Pentium D 955 rings in the transition from a 90 to a 65 nm production process and the final stage of the aging "NetBurst" architecture.
Maxtor has added 500 GByte versions to its 3.5" harddrive product portfolio. According to the company, half a teraByte space is now available in the firm"s 7200 rpm MaxLine Pro series for the enterprise segment, in the QuickView family of consumer electronics drives and in the desktop-targeted DiamondMax 11 drive series.
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TnT Expense Management, the premier global provider of telecommunications and technology expense management, announced that their new "Telecom Expense Management for Dummies," is now available for download on TnT"s website.
Las Vegas (NV) - You didn"t think that Intel would leave all that dual-socket fame for itself, did you? At CES, Intel showed off an 8-core desktop system build on a 2P workstation board with two quad-core processors. Intel claims that the system trumps AMD"s fastest Quad-FX by 61% in one key benchmark. And yes, we do have pictures of this beast.
For many aging (sorry folks, itò€™s true) PC gamers, Wolfenstein 3D was one of the first truly compelling computer action games. Doom also fits into the same category, but Wolf3D was the grand daddy of it first-person shooters.
Microsoft has released a beta version of Microsoft Security Essentials, the companyò€™s latest attempt at producing an antivirus software package.
One of the oldest peer-to-peer (P2P) services, iMesh, is offering instant messaging and an enhanced search function in its upcoming client. iMesh 6.5 will allow users to send messages and share songs with other users. In addition, friends can simultaneously listen to the same songs with the "Listen Together" feature.
PC monitor shipments will hit 155 million units in 2006, with LCD monitor shipments reaching 125 million units for an 80% share of the market, according to a forecast from DisplayBank. LCD monitor shipments are expected to increase 19% this year, while CRT shipments should drop 31%, about the same rate of decrease the segment saw in 2005, the market research firm noted.
Osaka (Japan) - With Blu-ray Disc hardware notoriously more expensive than the competing HD DVD players, Sharp has developed a new technology to bring down the cost of BD recorders. The new model will drop in price from current units that topple the $1500 mark.
Sharp will put its first Blu-ray Disc recorder on sale in Japan in December, the company says.
Samsung has unveiled what"s possibly the world"s largest plasma monitor screen - a monster 255cm (102in) high density panel codenamed "Atlas".
FabulaTech updates Virtual Serial Port Kit. The program goes 5.2.2 and the new version features improved virtual serial port driver and CodeGear RAD 2007 and 2009 controls added to SDK.
Computer users are being invited to join the hunt for minute grains of star dust that a NASA spacecraft should return to Earth this weekend.
While shrinking transistor sizes to ever decreasing nanometer lengths is a popular topic in the industry today, several companies are working towards removing physical copper connects altogether, replacing them with super high speed laser connections
Sony Europe will start shipping blank Blu-ray discs next month. Rewritable single-layer discs will be available in retail stores in mid March, while write-once discs will start selling in April. Sony also plans on selling blank dual layer discs later in the year.
Albatron recently unveiled its PX915P-2V, a new motherboard based on the LGA-775 Intel Pentium 4 processor featuring the Intel 915P chipset and two PCI Express (PCIe) graphics card slots.
Globalstar, world"s first satellite messenger producer, chooses FAQ software by Web-Site-Scripts Company, the global leader in FAQ systems.
There is more to radio-frequency identification than the passive RFID that retailers are looking to deploy. The U.S. Department of Defense, in fact, is testing both types - active and passive - in the same supply chain applications. And some expect that big retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target will ultimately add active RFID to their now emerging passive RFID deployments.
Bots are registering user accounts on thousands of phpBB forums across the Internet, raising concerns that the bot"s authors are laying the groundwork for mass exploitation down the road. The activity of a bot named FuntKlakow was discussed in a Digg thread Sunday, with many forum owners confirming that FuntKlakow had created accounts and even posted simplistic messages.
Mainz (Germany) - It is estimated that there is only a 10 years supply of indium left on the entire planet. Indium is a crucial resource in creating solar cells, LCD and other devices which must have transparent electrodes to carry out their function. However, a new discovery related to single atomic layer sheets of carbon (graphene) could prove to be a better replacement, according to researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Germany.
Redmond (WA) - If you change the nuts and bolts of an operating system you might as well also swap the washers. Jensen Harris, lead program manager in Microsoft"s Office user experience team, announced in his blog, that the company will replace the good old Tahoma fonts in Windows Vista and Office 12 with an updated font named Segoe UI.
PNI has a new flagship workstation graphics card in its SDI series, which, according to the company, up is "seen all over NAB 2008".
Texas Instruments (TI) recently showcased DLP (digital light processing) TV technology that enables 3D viewing in the home, and demonstrated the ability to display two separate image sources at the same time on a DLP HDTV screen at the ongoing 2008 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. DualView capability is a technology especially geared towards two-player gaming that gives each gamer independent full screen views.
Chicago (IL) - The developers of the forthcoming Color OLED keyboard Optimus 103 are facing higher development and production costs than what was generally estimated. In a recent posting on the Optimus blog, Art Lebedev wrote that finding displays small enough for a key turned out to be a challenge and will get much more expensive than anticipated.
Las Vegas (LV) - Ohh Christmas and a banana, even though Macworld is a bazillion miles away we can"t escape the ubiquitous iPod accessories here at CES Unveiled in Vegas. Duracell (yes, the battery makers) has launched their PowerFM iPod deck, with the aim of "conslodating the best features of all the iPod accessories on the market." Yes, well, I suppose if you"re late to the market the best bet is to just steal everything that"s there and make it better. A lesson learned by Microsoft, being used to help Apple"s minions. Irony.
Microsoft has gone public with a tentative date for its third service pack for Windows XP. And that date - the latter half of 2007 - is considerably later than many company watchers were expecting.
Former co-founder of Game Plan Technologies launches new video editing company, promises more cost effective solutions for coaches, software includes volleyball, football and basketball, video web portal
Las Vegas (NV) - Ebay announced several new features that are designed to create an improved communication among Ebay sellers and buyers. Member blogs and a Wiki application will bring more user-created content to the auction site, while Skype IM and VoIP functionality is making a first, cautious step into Ebay listings.
The recently released 2.6.14 Linux kernel has dozens of fixes, including eight from Linus Torvalds himself. Fixes for USB2 and NTFS were included, but the most interesting fix may be in wireless. The Intel Centrino wireless chipset is now a standard feature.
Redmond (WA) - Following recent complaints by companies such as Symantec and McAfee, Microsoft today announced that it will revise the feature set of Windows Vista, which is on track for a global launch in January 2007. The European and Korean editions will see changes in the areas of security, search and the new file format XPS, the company said.
Google today announced that it will be sending out thousands more Google Wave invitations to users eager to preview the service.
MIT researchers have started putting entire gas-turbine engines on tiny silicon chips. With the help of some military funding, researchers have fashioned millimeter-sized compressors, combustion chambers and turbines and placed them on layers of silicon wafers. The new engines promise to run more than 10 times longer than batteries of the same weigh and could help lighten the load for future soldiers.
Millions of World of Warcraft fans will finally get their own movie. Blizzard Entertainment and Legendary Pictures have announced an upcoming live-action movie based on WoW. Almost no other details have been released, with Blizzard Entertainment saying that further details about the director and cast, "will be revealed in the months ahead."
Las Vegas (NV) - While we are just noticing a greater adoption of the first-generation high-definition media formats and a new wave of 50 GB Blu-ray will be shipping in the first quarter of this year, we have spotted the next generation of Blu-ray at CES.
ATI continues to deliver on its promise to issue a driver update for its graphics cards. The big news in the June .6 update is a new Windows Media Center Edition Video Conversion utility. This tool allows users to convert video content that is either recorded or available to Media Center Edition to formats such MPEG-2, MPEG-4 SP, MPEG-4/AVC and Windows Media. Apple"s Ipod video and Sony PSP"s are also supported, ATI said.
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No more doubts about the impact of physics processing in the graphics industry. Following Ageia"s announcement to offer a physics card last year, Nvidia and ATI have been somewhat quiet about the future of hardware-based physics processing. Now, the two firms appear to be trying to catch up quickly.
New release of NetZoom supports Windows 7, Microsoft Office Visio 2010 and AutoCAD 2010
Konica Minolta replaces its entry level 2400W printer with the new 2500W. Offering an identical feature set, the new model comes in a slightly revised design for the same price. The $300 price tag is low enough to raise an interesting question: Do you buy a new toner set or a new printer for about the same price?
evocos is proud to announce the successful completion of the evocos trademark registration. The trademark consists of the corporate name, represented as evocos and EVOCOS.
Oxford Semiconductor claims to be the first company to offer a SATA interfacing bridge chip to external storage manufacturers. Five new chips to be introduced during this quarter will enable the integration of multiple interfaces on one external storage device - such as harddrives. Oxfords 92x product family supports USB2.0, FireWire400, FireWire800, and external SATA.
A radiation watchdog group in Finland called the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority will be testing the effects of cellphone radiation on the skin of human volunteers. The ten volunteers, who are all employees at the group, will have small areas of their skin exposed to cellphone radiation for the duration of a long call or about one hour. Skin samples will be taken after the exposure and compared with one before.
Online Employee Scheduling Software Raises the Bar on Speed and Ease of Use
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Virtual Auction, a fast-growing company that specializes in providing live online auctions to a wide array of businesses and industries, will be unveiling its unique technology to the auction industry this month.
Japanese electronics maker Sharp said on Friday it had agreed to share technology on liquid crystal displays (LCD) used in personal computers with Taiwan"s AU Optronics.
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Are you tired of losing your small USB keychain drive? Walletex has begun selling Wallet Flash, which is a credit card sized USB flash drive that easily fits in your wallet. The drive comes in 128 MByte to 2 GByte capacities.
Samsung Electronics called for the standardization of LCD glass sizes among display makers worldwide and has proposed new mother glass substrate size standard for next-generation liquid crystal displays (LCDs).
Prices for large-size TFT LCD panels will fall this month, with the price decrease for monitor and TV applications to be the most significant, due mostly to seasonal effects, according to Henry Wang, CEO of WitsView Technology. Panel makers" profitability this quarter will be more affected by the price falls of PC-related panels, as makers have been better at reducing costs for producing LCD TV panels, Wang said.
AKVIS Software Inc. proves once again that there is no end to perfection and releases version 9.0 of AKVIS Sketch for Windows and Macintosh. Version 9.0 has a new improved algorithm for photo-to-sketch conversion, adds new parameters and a new interface.
Imagination, a UK-based IP company that licenses its technologies to chip and electronics manufacturers such as Intel and Nintendo, unveiled a new graphics core technology, which promises to advance 2D and 3D graphics acceleration on mobile wireless devices.
Asustek Computer yesterday unveiled its PVL-D series server motherboards, coinciding with Intel"s recent launch of its dual-core Xeon CPU that will improve the performance and response time of multi-threaded server applications.
San Francisco (CA) - CPUs are accelerating their gain of processing power and, in the near future, Intel believes that a single chip could perform a trillion instructions per second and replace dozens of servers. At the IDF, the firm gave a sneak peek of an upcoming 80-core processor for the "mega data-center."
"Let"s put things that shouldn"t go in water in water," seems to be a slightly recurring theme here at the moment. Apart from Foxconn putting all their motherboards in big tubes with running water down the outer glass sheet, which only got amusing when the water stopped flowing, and others with their crush proof USB drives, Vission has the Iceman; a totally rigged, outdoor friendly computer.
Asustek Computer recently unveiled three new graphics cards based on Nvidia and AMD GPUs (graphics processing units), the EN9800GTX/HTDP/512M, EAH3850X2/HTDI/1G and EAH3650 SILENT/HTDI/1G.The EN9800GTX is able to deliver full-throttle gaming experiences at extreme HD resolutions, while providing optimal power management with the built-in HybridPower technology, according to the company.
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Landmark figure achieved by Tracesmart to fight identity fraud
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Millennium Trust Company Adopts BenefitSpan as the Exclusive HSA Platform
NEC Electronics is shipping image detection chips that can tell cars to hit the brakes, before hitting a person or another car. The chips will first go into Toyota"s Lexus LS460 car this fall and NEC hopes other car companies will adopt the chip. The Imapcar, short for Integrated Memory Alley Processor-Car, has 128 parallel processing units and can detect objects at 30 frames per second.
The award-winning military simulation was created in Caspian Learning"s Thinking Worlds and went on to win the Best Game Award at the Elearning Age Awards 2009.
This one is packing a badass quad-SSD in RAID 0 configuration.
Yahoo!, IBM, Intel, eHarmony and others sponsor inaugural Hadoop World October 2 in New York City
Via Technologies today announced top-to-bottom chipset solutions supporting the transition to socket AM2 by AMD.
Ridgefield Park (NJ) - Samsung announced a new flagship digital SLR camera, which will be positioned above its GX10: The GX20 increases the maximum image resolution from 10.2 to 14.6 megapixels and enables users to take an "unlimited number" of JPEG images in a continuous shooting mode.
New Brunswick (NJ) - Physicists at Rutgers University, NASAò€™s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the State University of New York at Buffalo have developed a nano-sized electronic circuit, which can detect light invisible to the human eye and todayò€™s radio telescopes, opening an opportunity to analyze the greatest portion of the light emitted since the "big bang" and gain insights into the earliest stages of star and galaxy formation almost 14 billion years ago.
Santa Clara (CA) - Skulltrail is about as useful to the average PC user as a Ferrari in your daily commute. But, of course, if you have the money to spare, the dual-socket board with two 3.2 GHz processors rewards you with supercar-like bragging rights.
With major handset vendor Motorola aggressively adopting MicroSD cards for its handsets, memory card makers see potential in the market segment. However, there are concerns about the production requirements for higher density cards, as one of the present NAND flash chip production strategies, of stacking single level cells to achieve higher densities, still faces production barriers.
Integrated supply chain software solutions improve flow of merchandise through distribution centers
Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) will start volume shipments of its Intel P4 PCIe-enabled core-logic chipsets, the SiS649 and SiS656, in the second half of December, according to the company.
Following its planned price cuts on April 3 of this year, Intel will follow with price cuts on four of its 915-series and two of its 945-series integrated graphics chipsets on July 3, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers.
Chicago (IL) - Transcend has updated its Compact Flash portfolio with a 32 GB 133x card.
Culver City (CA) - The fastest mobile phone texter could win $25,000 in LG"s upcoming National Texting Championship. Owners of LG"s enV or V handsets can compete in two regional events in Hollywood California or New York for $10,000. The winners of the events will then meet in New York and compete for an additional $15,000 dollars.
Taunton (MA) - An allegedly text messaging driver has been charged in the hit and run death of a Taunton Massachusetts teenager. At approximately 12:30 AM on December 27th, 31-year-old Craig Bigos was driving his Ford Explorer and hit a 13-year-old boy who was walking along the side of the road. The boy later died at the hospital.
It"s a disturbing thought: being able to remotely control the way a person moves at the push of a button. But scientists have already managed to do just that - although not with the same repertoire of complex movements as, say, a practiced nine-year-old controlling a toy race car.
Apple has finally released patches for bugs in Leopardò€™s iCal application seven days after Core Security Technologies published the vulnerabilities.
Experian has revealed the results of a new survey which shows that the focus for UK organisations over the next six months will be on enhancing business efficiency and reducing cost with payments regulation also high on agendas
Yahoo! Autos cooking oil-powered car set a land speed record over the weekend at the El Mirage Dry Lake Bed near Victorville California. The heavily modified six-cylinder, "Lipid Lightning" truck reached 98.155 mph which, according to Yahoo, is a record for a grease car.
IBM is due to unveil its first two 64-bit servers based on Intel"s dual-core Xeon chip, formerly code-named Paxville DP, when the chip giant launches the processor Monday. Under a promotional deal to last through year-end, Big Blue will sell one of the servers for the same price as the single-core model it replaces, according to an IBM executive. The move is designed to provide an additional incentive for users to adopt dual-core computing sooner rather than later.
Redmond (WA) - Microsoft announced that it will be rolling out the commercial version of its OneCare Live service in June of this year. Designed to compete with similar products typically offered by anti-virus companies, Microsoft hopes to gain traction with and extended service that is seamlessly integrated into Windows.
Chicago (IL) - Kingston has announced an improved version of its 800 MHz HyperX memory. The PC6400 modules now come with CL4-4-4-12 timings and are available in capacities ranging from 512 MB to 2 GB.
Epson today expanded its printer product line with two new products that offers users photo printing functions and the functionality to directly print onto the surface of CDs and DVDs.
While first-tier notebook vendors such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba are planning to roll out 4 GB notebooks starting from the first quarter of 2008, the move is expected to give a boost to the DRAM market, according to memory module makers. The current mainstream specification for notebooks is 1 GB.
Lexar has announced the availability of its new Crucial DDR3 triple-channel memory kits for the Intel Core i7 platform.
After introducing its 80 nm DDR2-800 memory during June, Japan-based Elpida Memory today announced it is shipping 80nm made 2 Gbit DDR2 SDRAM samples.
The SD Association (SDA), the organisation that oversees the SD memory card format, has formally taken on board the TransFlash specification and renamed it MicroSD.
After less than impressive financial results and the introduction of Nvidia"s 7800 chip, ATI may need much more than just a competitive product, Omid writes in his latest post. Instead, he feels the Canadian graphics chip maker should think about an image makeover - or lose the battle for the high-end desktop.
However, another supplier has made a major impact on the new video-game console with some less glamorous but no less-important chips: ON Semiconductor, which is providing key power-management discretes for the console.
Taiwan-based memory module maker Transcend Information recently announced the availability of a hard disk drive (HDD) based portable storage device called the StoreJet OTG (On-the-Go).
A total of 30,200 overseas visitors attended Computex Taipei 2006, up 7.8% from the number recorded last year, but the number of visitors from emerging markets such as China, India and Thailand increased significantly, according to event organizer the Taipei Computer Association (TCA). Visitors from the US, Japan, Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore were the top five visitor regions, while China, India and Thailand ranked number six, nine and 10 respectively, the organizer said.
Scio Consulting and VersionOne today announced a partnership to help software companies who are focused on building SaaS applications to adopt Agile development practices across distributed teams.
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Although flat panel TVs (LCD TV and PDP TV) will experience significant growth in 2006, global demand for RPTVs (rear-projector TVs) is expected to drop due to the declining shipments of CRT RPTVs, according to DisplaySearch. RPTVs can be classified into two main categories based on their different technologies: CRT-based RPTV and Microdisplay-based (MD) RPTVs.
FabulaTech launches Sound over RDP with the major update and a handful of enhancements for the remote sound program.
Motherboard maker Micro-Star International (MSI) yesterday introduced the DRE16-B, an external DVD/CD burner that supports single- and dual-layer DVD solutions as well as the DVD-RAM format.
Web-Site-Scripts Company, Leading KM System Provider, announced corporate version of knowledge base software.
Despite a tough economy, Epic continues to roll capturing nearly 40 percent of new large hospital EMR sales in 2008, while McKesson and Siemens also earn unusual wins
Santa Clara (CA) - Innovative Silicon, which made waves earlier this year by announcing a license agreement with AMD, today said that the second generation of its Z-RAM technology is available. The memory could be used as foundation for much denser L2 cache integrations in microprocessors.
Westlake Village (CA) - Intel"s next-generation processor micro-architecture, which apparently will be named simply "NGMA," will be posting about 20% more performance per clock cycle than AMD Socket 939 Athlon processors, according to a Cnet report. Industry sources confirmed this claim to TG Daily, but mentioned that opportunities for comparison between AMD and Intel chips are limited, as Conroe processors are only available as 1.8 GHz engineering samples at this time.
Qimonda today announced availability of 183 MHz, DDR-366 mobile RAM devices. Targeted for use in compact mobile devices such as smartphones and PDAs, the new chips come in a 512 Mbit (64 MB), 60-ball FBGA package and use the same 1.8 volt power supply of preceding 133 MHz (DDR-266) chips.
Although LCD component suppliers are in the midst of expanding their capacity, shortages in large-size glass substrates, TAC films and notebook-use CCFLs (cold cathode fluorescent lamps) are likely to occur in the second half, DisplaySearch predicts. According to DisplaySearch, leading substrate supplier Corning will build 12 new furnaces in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan this year, though sources at the glass maker stated that total is not correct.
Ahsay Systems Corporation, the developer of the leading Ahsay Backup Software, now offers a professional design service that helps backup service providers and resellers to enhance brand identities.
Performance DDR3 memory that requires a voltage higher than 1.65V may permanently damage Core i7 CPUs.
Sharp will invest 500 billion yen (about $4.26 billion) to build a tenth-generation (10G) TFT LCD plant, with construction to begin in the third quarter of 2007 and volume production to begin in mid-2008, according to the Japanese-language Nihon Keizai Shimbun.
Today at the Embedded World 2006 exhibition in Nuremberg (February 14 -16), Infineon Technologies announced the availability of new microcontroller (MCU) products - 8-bit, 6-bit and 32-bit TriCore family of devices - for the automotive market. The Infineon MCUs, well suited for motor control systems, can reduce system-level costs by up to 40% compared to conventional solutions with external components including DSP, PWM ASIC, Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), external oscillators, and others.
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Intel is expected to solidify its position as the world"s leading semiconductor supplier this year, posting the highest revenue growth among the top 10 chipmakers for the year, according to a preliminary ranking from iSuppli. The US microprocessor giant is expected to generate semiconductor revenue of US$35.8 billion in 2005, up 14.4% from US$31.3 billion in 2005, according to iSuppli.
After having being completely absent from the US market for several years, S3 is returning to the US market with initially two graphic card models. Newegg is the first etailer to carry 128 MB and 256 MB S27 cards.
An open source project maintaining a free DOS-compatible operating system commonly used in embedded devices such as cash registers has achieved its first-ever major release. FreeDOS 1.0 features improved file, memory, and CD-ROM subsystems, and now provides a "stable and viable MS-DOS replacement," according to a project spokesperson.
Ritek and CMC Magnetics, in view of growing global demand, will expand their monthly production capacities of DVD DL (single-sided double-layer) discs from three million discs to five million, and from one million discs to two million, respectively, at the end of this year, according to the two companies.
Third-party chipset suppliers including Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies could suffer from Intel"s resuming production of its 865-series chipsets, as Intel"s current 865-series offerings are priced only slightly higher than equivalent chipset series from SiS and VIA, according to unspecified motherboard makers in Taiwan.
Australian words like g"day, Sheila and bogan will be added to the Microsoft Office 2007 dictionary. More than 24,000 Australians voted for the top 20 words with g"day, short for good day, leading the pack. Office currently misrecognizes the words, thinking that they are misspellings and tries to correct them.
The fruits of Novell"s development agreement with real-time systems specialist Concurrent Computer will be released in October in the form of SUSE Linux Enterprise Real-Time, according to reports.