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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Zetex is claiming a technical breakthrough in the development of a 4:2 IF switch aimed at satellite tv applications.
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Xilinx has launched the Spartan-3A fpga family, extending its Spartan-3 family to provide what the company describes as a ‘flexible and cost saving solution’ for high volume industrial and consumer applications.
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The latest member of Atmel’s SAM9 family, the AT91SAM9263, features a 200MIPS ARM926EJ-S based microcontroller that is said to help breakthrough communications bottlenecks tyically encountered when ARM9 based MCUs are used in graphically interfaced data intensive applications.
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Ashley Evans, currently chief executive of Electronics Scotland, has been appointed as chief executive officer of the Electronics Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN)
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Manufacturing problems have held back the commercialisation of carbon nanotubes in electronics applications. But a team from the University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has described a technique capable of fabricating nanotubes with progressively less and less defects.
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Meet the radio that is literally programmed according to your make and model of car. JVC’s KD-S100 incorporates a new dsp technique that aims to replicate the sound that booms out over a studio’s speakers – even in a Ford Focus.
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Cambridge Consultants will launch a platform design at the forthcoming Consumer Electronics Show which it believes will rewrite the economics of the emerging internet radio market.
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Agere Systems has introduced the TrueNTRY X122, a low cost mobile phone platform for the market’s largest segment. The platform, which comprises chips, software and a development kit, adheres to the GPRS standard.
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David Milne, chief executive of Wolfson Microelectronics, has been named Personality of the Year at the techMARK awards, the UK’s top technology business awards.
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LSI Logic is buying Agere Systems in a $4billion deal. The move will allow the new organisation to offer a wide set of building block solutions.
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Tensilica has unveiled the seventh generation of its Xtensa configurable processors in the shape of the Xtensa LX2 and Xtensa 7 cores. Both processors feature several architectural enhancements which reduce power consumption by up to 30%.
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Liquavista, the fabless display manufacturer which span off from Philips Research earlier this year, has raised €12million in funding from a consortium including Amadeus, GIMV and New Venture Partners.
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