STMicroelectronics has introduced a dual video stream high definition decoder chip for set top boxes, digital video recorders and DVD players. The SoC supports the HD DVD and Blu-ray formats, in addition to high definition satellite and cable tv standards.
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Confirming the recent swirl of rumours, Apple unveiled its iPhone at MacWorld. The device combine three products – a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an internet communications device.
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Electronic component orders in the US rebounded in December after a slight dip in November, according to the four to five-week index compiled by the Electronic Components, Assemblies and Materials Association (ECA).
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In a move aimed at improving led driver capabilities, Catalyst Semiconductor has unveiled the CAT3643, which it claims is the smallest fractional charge pump yet developed. It adds the device also offers the highest efficiency.
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In a move to improve the asic verification process, Synplicity has developed a new approach which it has named TotalRecall. According to John Gallagher, senior director of outbound marketing, it’s ‘3000mpg for asic verification’.
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A chipset from Zetex, unveiled at CES, is said to support a sound quality rivalling that of the best linear amplifiers.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has unveiled the industry’s first terabyte hard drive. When it appears in shops in the next few months, the Deskstar 7K1000 will have a suggested retail price of $399 or 40cents per gigabyte.
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DRAM manufacturer Qimonda has signed an agreement to license Rambus’ XDR memory interface solution. Rambus XDR will be implemented in Qimonda’s 75nm process technology for integration into high volume applications, including game consoles, digital televisions, set top boxes and pc graphics.
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The early morning winter ritual of demisting the inside of the car may soon be a thing of the past, with the development of a nanotechnology based lacquer that acts as a heat source.
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In one of the largest European electronics venture capital investments, Cambridge University spin out Plastic Logic has announced plans to build the first plastic electronics ‘fab’, allowing flexible active matrix display modules to be manufactured on a commercial scale.
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Responding to recent developments regarding the WEEE Directive, Sims Recycling Solutions has announced that it is installing new processing capacity at its Newport plant in South Wales plant.
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Northern Paragliding and the University of Hull’s Department of Computer Science have developed the world’s first immersive paragliding simulator.
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Microsoft and McLaren Electronic Systems (MES) have formalised what the inside track knew back in the summer – that they are the official suppliers of standard engine control units (ecus) for the Formula One World Championships for 2008 to 2010.
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Guitar effects company Damage Control has used Analog Devices’ dsp technology to recreate and digitally enhance strengths of analogue valve preamplifiers.
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STMicroelectronics is reorganising itself to address three main product areas: application specific groups; flash memory; and the industrial and multisegment sector. In this way, says the company, it is better aligned to meet market requirements, whilst preparing for a strategic repositioning in flash memory.
The move, which takes effect at the ...
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In some houses, it’s becoming more difficult to place audiovisual equipment alongside the tv. Even if you can, the SCART cable is difficult to deal with and to conceal.
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According to Dr Chang-Gyu Hwang, president and ceo of Samsung Electronics’ semiconductor business, we are at the doorstep of ‘the largest shift in the semiconductor industry ever, one that will dwarf the pc and even the consumer electronics eras’.
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Producers of electrical and electronic goods will have to meet the cost of dealing with waste equipment as from July 2007. From that date, all companies who import, manufacture and rebrand electrical and electronic equipment will have to finance its treatment, recovery and environmentally safe disposal.
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NEC Electronics, along with Elpida Memory and Oki Electric, has developed a packaging technology that it says will allow mobile phones and other portable devices to be equipped with as much memory as a high performance computer.
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Technology venture company IP Group has joined with the University of Surrey's Advanced Technology Institute and CEVP to form Surrey NanoSystems. The company is looking to provide commercial nanomaterial production tools to ‘revolutionise’ the semiconductor industry.
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Micron Europe is planning a $10million expansion of its Bracknell based Imaging Design Centre, which is tasked to develop the company’s foundation IP.
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Ofcom is proposing the largest single release of radio spectrum yet in the UK. It believes the 215MHz it is looking to auction could be used for a range of new services such as mobile broadband.
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Applied Biosystems has signed an agreement with Eagle Research and Development to collaborate on the further development of a single molecule detection device invented by Eagle. This device is said to offer the potential of eventually correlating DNA and its expressed proteins with specific disease states using an inexpensive, disposable and ...
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Scientists from IBM, Macronix and Qimonda will present research results at this week’s IEDM meeting in San Francisco that give a major boost to phase change memory, one of the technologies with the potential to be the successor to flash.
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The Mathworks has introduced Aerospace Toolbox, an enhancement ot MATLAB which provides reference standards, environmental models, support for importing aerodynamic coefficients and 3d visualisation capabilities.
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