| Mobile market gets boost from medical, home apps
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2009-06-08 |
| According to a Qualcomm exec, much of the future for mobile comms lies in mobile health and digital home networking. |
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| The problem with massively parallel chips
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2009-06-08 |
| Companies that make massively parallel chips and tools will have to grapple with "stickier" software. |
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| NetLogic set to acquire RMI
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2009-06-03 |
| NetLogic Microsystems has agreed to buy RMI for $175.4 million in stock and $8.0 million in cash. |
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| Green movement puts memory on hot seat
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2009-06-03 |
| In servers, the notoriously voracious microprocessor is passing the power-hog mantle to the DRAM. |
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| IMS study shows Internet TV boom
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2009-05-14 |
| An estimated 6.5 crore households had the capability of viewing Internet video on their TVs at the end of 2008. |
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| Adobe-ARM Web video promise not ready
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2009-05-13 |
| The duo said progress has been good, but the complexity of the job may push out broad availability until early 2010. |
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| JasperGold now used in AMD design centres
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2009-04-29 |
| Jasper Design Automation has signed an agreement with AMD to place JasperGold in AMD design centres worldwide. |
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| Oracle-Sun deal stirs questions on Java's future
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2009-04-22 |
| The Oracle-Sun merger raises questions about the outlook for Sun's hardware, Java software and the database giant itself. |
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| GPUs vs. CPUs for EDA simulations
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2009-04-15 |
| There are three ways to make the simulation go faster: better algorithms, faster processor clocks and parallelism. |
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| Marvell's quest: Connecting the next billion users
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2009-04-14 |
| In this interview by Junko Yoshida, Marvell Technology's co-founder and CEO Sehat Sutardja shares his vision of enabling the next billion users of connected devices. |
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| 'Moore's Law is running out of gas'
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2009-04-13 |
| IBM's Anderson says the semi industry has matured to the point that the pace of continued innovation is slowing. |
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| IBM-Sun deal breaks down, what's next?
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2009-04-08 |
| With its proposed acquisition of Sun apparently shelved, IBM executives are breathing a sigh of relief. |
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| IBM gives research awards to three Indian universities
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2009-04-06 |
| IBM has granted IIIT-Hyderabad, ISB-Hyderabad and SPJMIR-Mumbai its Shared University Research awards that total Rs.1.04 crore ($210,000) in research funding targeting areas of mutual interest. |
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| Multicore CPUs face roadblocks in comms
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2009-03-24 |
| Processors with four or more cores will probably represent little more than 10 per cent of the comms market in 2012. |
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| Intel gains in declining graphics market
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2009-03-24 |
| According to financial analysts, Intel will make some gains at the expense of Nvidia in a declining graphics market. |
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| IBM-Sun: Perfect combination?
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2009-03-20 |
| An IBM-Sun deal makes business sense and has significant implications for the Sparc and Power microprocessors as well as Java software. |
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| Synopsys CEO says ICs will rebound
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2009-03-19 |
| De Geus said the semi industry would remain critical to the world after emerging from a long and deep recession. |
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| Indian colleges to compete in IBM's 'Blue Battle'
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2009-03-02 |
| IBM has launched the first of its kind Gen-next technology challenge, dubbed the "IBM Blue Battle", in over 25 leading engineering colleges across India. |
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| Intel looks into optical interconnects
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2009-02-16 |
| Intel is looking into optical interconnects with an eye towards replacing chip-to-chip electrical interconnects. |
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| Trio to demo greener WiMAX solution
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2009-02-12 |
| The three companies integrated their reference designs and commercial products into a base station reference design. |
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| Intel lists challenges for chip scaling
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2009-02-12 |
| At the ISSCC, Intel's Mark Bohr listed five major stumbling blocks for the 32nm node and beyond. |
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| Experts discuss road to 25Gbps backplanes
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2009-02-09 |
| In as short as three years, Ethernet could move up to 40- and 100Gbps data rates using 10Gbps and eventually 25Gbps serial channels. |
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| Intel opens Europe labs
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2009-02-02 |
| Intel has announced its "open labs" to be formed in Leixlip and Munich. |
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| Issues cloud silicon photonics
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2009-01-30 |
| The computer industry wants optical interconnects in its future multi-core processors, but just how it will get them remains unclear |
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| The collapse of massively parallel chip vendors
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2009-01-29 |
| BDTI examines the causes and implications of the fall of three massively parallel chip vendors. |
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| 'Programmable broadband' has arrived for PC TV
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2009-01-21 |
| CrestaTech has demonstrated a "region-free TV," capable of receiving analogue or digital TV broadcast, radio and GPS signals. |
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| iPhone Nano brings good news to semi industry
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2009-01-15 |
| The iPhone Nano is expected to launch in June, which means that chip orders could come as soon as March. |
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| Lessons learned from Google
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2008-12-26 |
| Get an insight on the future of computing from Randy Katz, a computer science professor at UC Berkeley, who shares what he has learned from working at Google. |
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| Altera: Slowdown presents opportunity
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2008-12-23 |
| Altera Corp.'s head John Daane points out growth opportunities despite market slowdowns, and talks about the company's strategy in Asia. |
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| The Portland Group, AMD ink deal on compiler tech
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2008-11-24 |
| The Portland Group has entered into an agreement with AMD to jointly work on a compiler technology for AMD FireStream compute accelerators. |
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