Epson Develops USB Host Controller with Built-in Software

Epson announced that it has begun shipping samples of the second product in the company’s line of USB controller LSIs with integrated USB software for USB memory connection applications.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Simple On-Site Assembly of Glass-Fiber Optic Cables

Siemens’s Industry Automation Division has developed a new system for the quick assembly of fiber-optic cables (FOC).

Popularity: 7% [?]

HP and Sun Sign Partnership Agreement for Solaris on HP ProLiant Servers

HP and Sun announced an expanded multi-year partnership agreement that enables HP to distribute and provide software technical support for Sun’s Solaris 10 Operating System on the HP ProLiant server and blade system platforms.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Pioneer’s Blu-ray Unit Writes Up to 8X Speed

The BDR-203BK is Pioneer’s first Blu-ray writer to achieve write speeds of 8X on Single Layer (25GB SL) and Dual Layer (50GB DL) BD-R discs.

Popularity: 7% [?]

ARM Launches Its Most Energy Efficient Processor

ARM announced the ARM Cortex-M0 processor, the smallest, lowest power and most energy-efficient ARM processor available.

Popularity: 7% [?]

LG Electronics and Intel Collaborate on Future Mobile Internet Devices

LG Electronics and Intel announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs) based on Intel’s next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed “Moorestown,” and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform.

Popularity: 8% [?]

NVIDIA Enables $99 HD Mobile Internet Device

NVIDIA introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA Tegra 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Sun Establishes First Open Source Standard for Storage Encryption Solutions

Sun announced the release of the first generic communication protocol between a Key Manager and an encrypting device into an open source community. This latest effort in the Open Storage initiative gives customers greater choice, value and flexibility through the resources in open source communities.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Honeywell and Gavitec Offers Area-Imaging Solution for Mobile Ticketing

Honeywell and Gavitec - mobile digit, a provider of mobile ticketing technologies, announced the availability of XELIA, an area-imaging solution that scans bar codes directly from mobile phone and PDA displays.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Qualcomm Expands HSPA+ Product Portfolio and Targets Sub-$150 Smartphones

Qualcomm unveiled a new family of chipset solutions that expand its HSPA+ product portfolio. The new HSPA+ products, which include solutions for mobile handsets and data cards, will enable an enhanced user experience by combining support for advanced mobile broadband technologies with powerful processing and multimedia capabilities.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Qualcomm Introduces Gobi2000 Module for Mobile Internet Access

Qualcomm introduced its second-generation embedded Gobi module, delivering multi-mode 3G mobile Internet access on either HSPA or CDMA2000 EV-DO networks in markets around the world.

Popularity: 6% [?]

New IBM Petaflop Supercomputer to Be Most Powerful in Europe

The German research center Forschungszentrum Juelich has selected IBM to develop the first supercomputer in Europe capable of one Petaflop, or one thousand trillion operations per second.

Popularity: 6% [?]

SanDisk and Toshiba Develops 32-Nanometer NAND Flash Technology

SanDisk and Toshiba announced the co-development of multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory using 32nm process technology to produce a 32-gigabit (Gb) 3-bits-per-cell (X3) memory chip.

Popularity: 5% [?]

SanDisk Announces First High Performance X4 Flash Memory Technology

SanDisk announced that it will begin mass-production of the first high performance 4-bits-per-cell (X4) flash memory. Using 43nm process technology, this breakthrough enables 64-gigabit (Gb) memory in a single die – the highest capacity in the industry and suitable for the most demanding storage applications.

Popularity: 6% [?]

Intel to Invest $7 Billion in U.S. Manufacturing Facilities

Intel would spend $7 billion over the next two years to build advanced manufacturing facilities in the United States. The investment funds deployment of Intel’s 32 nanometer (nm) manufacturing technology that will be used to build faster, smaller chips that consume less energy.

Popularity: 5% [?]

Epson and Infineon Develop Next Generation Single-Chip GPS Receiver

Epson and Infineon announced the development of the next generation of advanced global positioning system (A-GPS) technology. The new GPS single-chip design, the XPOSYS, is optimized for mobile devices for the consumer market; especially cellular phones with navigation features.

Popularity: 5% [?]