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IBM puts Power5 in low-cost Unix server
News Power processors also are used in embedded computing tasks such as network equipment, next-generation video game consoles and Apple computers. The Power5 chips can run several operating systems: IBM's AIX, Linux from Red Hat or Novell, and, for...
[February 9, 2005, 8:40]
Mobile industry gets 4G buzz
News Executives at Intel, Samsung Electronics, Motorola and Sprint Nextel say that day is coming soon, using an Internet Protocol-based network technology called WiMax that will quadruple download speeds over current cellular technology, and offer cost...
[August 14, 2006, 9:00]
Magnetic memory chips come to market
News On Monday, the Austin, Texas-based specialist in embedded semiconductors released its MR2A16A chip, which the company says is the first commercial MRAM, or Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, device.
[July 11, 2006, 8:20]
Pentium 'Classic' in short supply
News He added that the Pentium would continue to be offered for specialist applications by Intel's embedded product group. Even though Intel is keen to move users quickly to MMX, some big buyers such as government, education and defence who commit to...
[July 23, 1997, 10:29]
Malaysian govt buys identity microchip
News Hitachi, for example, is rumoured to be developing a speck-sized radio chip to be embedded into Euro currency notes as a security measure. The Malaysian government has bought the rights to tiny chips that can embed IDs into currency notes, bullets...
[September 8, 2003, 11:00]
Chip implant aims to replace cashcards
News Ultimately, it could be embedded in anything -- someday, maybe even under the skin. When embedded in human bodies, RFID tags raise unique security concerns. Applied Digital Solutions is hoping that Americans can be persuaded to implant RFID chips...
[November 28, 2003, 14:45]
Security risks of e-passports exposed
News In addition, they suggested that RFID tags embedded in travel documents could identify US passports from a distance, possibly letting terrorists use them as a trigger for explosives. Grunwald did say that he has not unearthed any flaws in the...
[August 7, 2006, 8:55]
IBM and Webraska push location services
News LBS technology begins with a basic idea that with an embedded chip, anything or anyone can be located anytime. Also in the works is embedded hardware in a wearable device that can monitor someone's pulse and other health indicators, then alert...
[February 22, 2001, 9:37]
Motorola tech gets flashy
News The papers all deal with the ability to get voltage (use) down to six volts from the nine to twelve volts (of today)," said Ko-Min Chang, manager of memory devices in the Motorola Semiconductor Product Sector's embedded memory centre.
[February 7, 2003, 10:46]
Microsoft defends Windows CE code-share
News Microsoft has been listening to what customers tell us," said Hardy Poppingar, EMEA product manager for embedded products at Microsoft. The embedded market is especially good for this sort of initiative," said Poppingar.
[April 10, 2003, 13:28]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4
Blog It also needs to respond to what Microsoft is doing with Hyper-V, with Red Hat proposing to deliver KVM both as part of the RHEL OS and standalone in the form of a product called the Embedded Linux Hypervisor.
[September 23, 2009, 22:10]
Indian giant backs RFID
News In a statement issued earlier this week, the Indian company said it will start marketing a new offering based on radio frequency identification (RFID), a technology to keep tabs on stock levels through microchips embedded in individual products.
[January 2, 2004, 8:05]
National chief executive predicts date of tech upturn
News Cameras and fingerprint readers will also be embedded in cell phones, smart cards, portable Web tablets and other devices, Halla predicted. The gamey optimism is largely based on two factors: the ability of chip manufacturers to simultaneously...
[November 20, 2002, 7:41]
Intel releases details of Web Tablet
News The tablet, which lets users connect to their PC and surf the Web from anywhere around their house, will use Intel's StrongARM SA-1110 processor, based on the low-power embedded chip architecture from the UK's ARM, and StrataFlash memory.
[February 27, 2001, 7:02]
Smart jacket handles mobile calls and MP3s
News These fibres link the module to headphones and a microphone embedded in the collar, and to a textile keyboard sewn into the left sleeve. The weave of conductive fibre studded with sensor chips and LEDs could even be able to guide visitors around a...
[July 26, 2004, 14:20]
Chip rewires itself on the fly
News Stretch provides a development environment that runs under XP or Linux, and run-time support through its own BIOS and for Montavista Linux, which is a popular distribution for embedded developers. Designers that have had to use multiple digital...
[April 26, 2004, 10:05]
ARM welcomes the iPhone
News Some cores, people will license from us for use in deeply embedded microcontroller-type applications, things like Cortex-M3. East is too savvy to directly comment on whether Apple is using a chip based on one of ARM's designs, which ARM licenses to...
[June 27, 2007, 16:06]
OSDL to push Linux for mobiles
News Among the 20 OSDL member companies involved are chipmaker Intel and embedded operating system companies MontaVista Software, Wind River Intel has pushed Linux for years, funding development and working on several projects itself, and the operating...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
Camera phones give IT sector a lift
News Many PDA manufacturers are already producing digital camera plug-ins for their devices, but Strategy Analytics estimates that embedded-camera PDAs -- where the camera is integrated into the PDA -- will only make up six percent of total PDA sales...
[August 1, 2002, 11:49]
ARM targets Intel with 2GHz multicore chips
News If you look at the high end of embedded systems, netbooks and the like, there's not much innovation relative to the mobile phone area. Cambridge-based chip company ARM has today announced the development of dual-core, quad-core and eight-core...
[September 16, 2009, 10:00]
