| Class conflict chase mobile WiMAX
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2007-07-02 |
| With the US, Europe and Asia carriers throwing the switch on broadband wireless networks and Intel beginning to ship its Wi-Fi/WiMAX module for PCs, Taiwan system vendors are expecting a spike in demand for 802.16e products. |
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| AMD, Intel compete in laptop arena
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2007-07-02 |
| With notebook designers striving to differentiate their systems by packing new features into thinner, lighter models, AMD and Intel are pulling neck-and-neck in the race to define the core high-end silicon for notebooks. |
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| Wireless USB sets to near Rs.4,000 price point
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2007-06-11 |
| With one of the companies promising Rs.4,045.80 ($99) dongle and hub packages on retail shelves, chipmakers hope to deliver cheaper wireless USB systems in the market by year's end. |
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| Signal-integrity issues trouble multi-gigahertz era
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2007-03-16 |
| Engineers want a new bag of tricks to manage signal integrity as data rates soar into multi-gigahertz territory. |
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| Avnet announces promotion on Xilinx products
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2007-03-06 |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing launched a promotion on Xilinx products on the first day of the 12th annual IIC-China Conference and Exhibition in Shenzhen. Discounts up to 73 per cent can be availed through April 15. |
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| PCIe spec extends 'outside the box
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2007-02-13 |
| PCI-SIG has released the PCIe external cabling 1.0 specification, which extends the PCIe interconnect architecture 'outside the box |
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| High-speed interconnects carry data at 6Gbps
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2007-02-02 |
| A handful of high-speed interconnects are driving changes in how designers handle fast signals. The SPI-S from the OIF aims to carry data at 6Gbps and up between chips or boards in a communications system. |
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| PCIe 2.0 spec doubles transfer rate
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2007-01-18 |
| PCI-SIG, the Special Interest Group responsible for the PCIe standard, has released the PCIe base 2.0 specification, which doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5GTp to 5GTps to support high-bandwidth applications |
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| PCI-SIG enhances PCIe ver 2.0
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2007-01-16 |
| The PCI-SIG is making progress on feature extensions to its latest 2.0 spec that could enhance system performance as well as smooth a path for accelerators and storage devices riding the interconnect. |
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| SiCortex tips x86 ASIC for HPC cluster servers
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2007-01-16 |
| Start-up SiCortex settled on a custom system chip that integrates six MIPS Technologies 64-bit 5Kf cores running at up to 500MHz as well as a proprietary fabric switch architecture. |
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| Fujitsu adopts ARM Velocity's standard cells
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2006-12-13 |
| ARM's Velocity PHY for PCIe Gen-2 and the Advantage v2.0 standard cell library has been adopted by Fujitsu Ltd on its CS200 HP 65nm platform. The agreement enables Fujitsu to offer foundry customers access to ARM physical IP, which provides an optimal design solution for advanced LSI development |
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| Motorola to acquire RFID/Wi-Fi product provider
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2006-09-21 |
| Motorola Inc. has agreed to purchase RFID and Wi-Fi product supplier Symbol Technologies Inc. for Rs.18,123.30 crore ($3.9 billion) in stock. |
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| PLDA, Rapid Bridge join hands to produce ASIC solution
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2006-07-27 |
| PLDApplications (PLDA) and Rapid Bridge Systems have announced an agreement to pool their PCIe proficiency to produce an ASIC solution |
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| Display interfaces face off in digital home
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2006-07-03 |
| Separate groups of engineers are finishing work on two incompatible display interfaces—DisplayPort and the UDI—vying to become the standard for a secure digital link in consumer systems and computers. |
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| PCIe shifts gear into v2.0
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2006-06-13 |
| The 2.5Gbps PCI Express interconnect is slowly shifting gears into a 2.0 version. |
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| Advantech, Congatec, Ampro form XTX standard alliance
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2006-06-09 |
| Embedded platform providers Advantech, Congatec and Ampro Computers have announced an alliance to help promote the XTX standard for computer on modules. |
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| 10Gb Ethernet gains with board, chip designs
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2006-05-01 |
| NetXen's programmable dual-port 10Gbit server card and Broadcom's 20-port 10GbE chip for stackable switches are expected to speed up the slow shift to 10GbE. |
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| PLDA, EVE partner on PCIe verification
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2006-03-06 |
| PLDA and EVE have forged a partnership on PCIe verification. With the integration of PLDA's PCI-SIG-compliant x4 PCIe Xpress IP, EVE's ZeBu now supports rapid verification of PCIe-based SoC designs |
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| Broadcom bares 3G RAID architecture at IDF
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2005-08-24 |
| Broadcom Corp. is demonstrating what it claims to be the first SAS/SATA RAID-on-Chip (RoC) device with integrated PCI Express (PCIe) host bus architecture support at the ongoing Intel Development Forum 2005 (IDF) in San Francisco |
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