The US International Trade Commission (ITC) has inducted a ban on the import of mobile phones, which are developed with Qualcomm chips. The order was issued following the federal agency’s claim that the world’s second-biggest mobile chip maker has infringed Broadcom patents. ITC has also barred the company from testing its semiconductors in USA. The [...]
Qualcomm chips banned in USA
Faraday debuts first ARM v5 compliant processor
First ARM v5 instruction set architecture compliant processor, FA626TE is now available from Faraday Technology Corp. The processor has a 32bit RISC excellent computing and power-efficient capabilities for applications like infotainment systems, portable navigation devices, IP-STBs, industrial PCs, high-speed network and storage SoCs. FA626TE processor is the first hard core, which reaches the worst clock [...]
Toshiba claims development of new NAND flash technology
Toshiba Corp. has proudly announced the development of a new 3D memory cell array structure that augments cell density and data capacity with a trifling increase in the chip die size. The new structure has been created by using through-silicon vias and features pillars of stacked memory elements that go vertically through multi-stacked layers of [...]
Toshiba’s 60GHz IC receiver technology uses CMOS device
Tokyo based company, Toshiba Corporation has launched the new technology, which opens the way to manufacture powerful ICs for the millimeter waveband. The company has unveiled the technology on June 15, 2007 at the 2007 Symposia on VLSI Circuits, in Kyoto, Japan. Toshiba’s new technology uses a low cost CMOS process to achieve high-speed, highly [...]
Discovery: An innovative search engine from Amvona
Sometimes, I really get confused when I find one search engine in another search engine. I think it happens with you also!! Well! I hope, Amvona’s new search engine will not adopt this theory. Amvona has unveiled Discovery, a revolutionary patented media search engine where users can independently handle twelve variables to fine and tune [...]
Fujitsu develops platform technology for 45nm logic chips
Fujitsu Limited and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have developed a platform technology for 45 nanometer (45nm) generation LSI logic chips that combines technologies for low power consumption and high performance interconnect. The new platform reduces the leakage current, when current is wasted in wait states to one-fifth that of previous levels and reduces interconnect induced lag [...]
Toshiba Corporation has unveiled a new series of embedded NAND Flash memories for mobile phones, which offers configurable single-level cell (SLC) memory area and a multi-level cell (MLC) memory area to allow applications and data to be stored on the same chip. Toshiba’s new NAND Flash memory allows mobile phone manufacturers to use SLC NAND [...]
Sun Microsystems’ Ranger: The world’s largest supercomputer with 62,976 CPU cores
Sun Microsystems has announced that the company is building the world’s largest supercomputer named Ranger. Ranger will house 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of main memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space and a whooping 504 teraflops of performance. The computer will be hosted at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the University of Texas, Austin. [...]
Fujitsu unveils FRAM ICs with high-speed writing
Again Fujitsu Microelectronics Asia Pvt. Ltd has unveiled two FRAM ICs to expand its product range. Fujitsu’s new FRAM are featured with high-speed writing and the high number of available write cycles allows its application to store event counts or parameters and log every event in office equipment. The MB85R2001 and MB85R2002 are featured with [...]
MicroNet unveils Platinum RAID Pro, a 5 terabyte Platinum RAID for SMBs
An innovator in storage solutions for small and medium business (SMBs), MicroNet Technology has unveiled the Platinum RAID Pro, a multi-terabyte eSATA RAID solution, which transcends the capacity limitations of SATA disk arrays. The Platinum RAID improves the performance bottlenecks of USB and FireWire storage with a compact transportable unit, which provides simplicity and easy [...]