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Intel launches 32nm Core processors
News They are aimed at a range of platforms, including ultra-thin portable devices, laptops, desktops, embedded systems such as ATMs, high-performance displays and home servers. Intel has launched 27 new Nehalem-based chips in the Core i3, Core i5 and...
[January 8, 2010, 12:20]
SiO2 is cheaper than Cu
Talkback Everything else would be either glass channels embedded in the "pcb" or fibers connected in some fashion running from chip to chip. They were already anticipating that every signal passed between "integrated circuits" would be handled by glass...
[December 18, 2009, 7:00]
Freescale aims Android at embedded kit
News Freescale Semiconductor has begun taking orders for a Power Architecture development platform for Android-based products, opening a new category of embedded devices to Google's open-source mobile operating system.
[October 29, 2009, 16:10]
Contactless payments launched in Liverpool
News Barclays has also been pushing ahead with contactless technology and, since March, all Barclays replacement debit cards have come embedded with NFC (near field communications) chips, allowing the user to pay for transactions under £10 by swiping...
[October 28, 2009, 13:38]
ARM ups speed, drops power with new chip
News ARM has launched its Cortex-A5 MPCore processor, the latest in its series of embedded chips aimed at internet-connected devices such as handsets, set-top boxes, industrial and consumer electronics equipment.
[October 21, 2009, 17:09]
'Wimpy nodes' could cut datacentre power bloat
News The cluster, called Fast Array of Wimpy Nodes (Fawn), is made up of large numbers of nodes of embedded processors, such as those used in netbooks, combined with between 2GB and 16GB of flash memory. The researchers found that a prototype 21-node...
[October 19, 2009, 9:23]
Japanese researchers harness parallel chips
News We are developing software de facto standard or API for multicore processors for consumer electronics and real-time embedded systems, [such as those used in] automobiles," he explained. Our targets are for consumer electronics and real-time...
[September 30, 2009, 15:22]
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]
Intel Developer Forum 2009 - day one
Blog But before I mention Paul Otellini's keynote - Moblin, Atom, embedded chips, graphs go up and down (rarely with numbers), smiling people juggle exciting technology - I think we should take a moment to examine that new force in semiconductor...
[September 23, 2009, 16:09]
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]
IBM System x3650 M2 review
Reviews Like the competition, IBM makes it possible to specify an embedded hypervisor — in the case of the IBM server, using an internal bootable USB port. The placing of the Xeon 5500 chips isn't of any relevance, but with just 16 memory slots the IBM...
[August 20, 2009, 12:37]
Intel showcases new technologies
News In the nearer term, light will be used to transmit data between servers in a datacentre and then within a computer chassis, Mayberry said, but photonics embedded completely in silicon should arrive afterward.
[June 22, 2009, 13:19]
Wind River launches embedded hypervisor
News Wind River has released a hypervisor for embedded systems, a key part of its effort to enable multiple operating systems to run on single or multicore processors. The embedded software specialist, currently in the process of being acquired by...
[June 18, 2009, 12:43]
Wind River gives Intel a shot in the software arm
News Intel is best known for selling CPUs under brand names such as Pentium, Xeon and Core, but it's also trying to get its newer Atom processor family to catch on in embedded computing. Wind River's brand will live on at Intel, but the acquisition will...
[June 5, 2009, 13:50]
Texas Instruments sheds 3,400 jobs
News Templeton said the layoffs would occur mostly in TI's internal support functions and "non-core" product lines, leaving a greater focus on the company's analogue products — such as power-management units, data converters, amplifiers and interface...
[January 27, 2009, 15:06]
GLUON Slugger ID
Downloads If you run a production studio with complex or high-volume jobs, then GLUON Slugger will make sure that your documents always travel with pertinent, dynamically updated information embedded. Slugs can include company logo, color chips, colorbars...
[January 21, 2009, 13:59]
GLUON Slugger
Downloads If you run a production studio with complex or high-volume jobs, then GLUON Slugger will make sure that your documents always travel with pertinent, dynamically updated information embedded. Slugs can include company logo, colorbars, signoffs...
[January 21, 2009, 13:59]
Barclays set to make all debit cards contactless
News From March, any replacement cards issued by the bank will come embedded with NFC (near-field communications) chips, enabling users to pay for goods under £10 by swiping their card over a reader, without the need to enter a PIN.
[January 7, 2009, 9:18]
NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software
News The APIs will enable developers to write software for mobile devices that have embedded NXP Mifare RFID chips, for use with NFC (near-field communications) technology. The cryptography on Mifare Classic chips, used in travel smartcards including...
[October 31, 2008, 17:11]
Texas Instruments to launch energy-efficient chips
News By contrast, many of the embedded chips that control motors and power supply in appliances are not very nuanced: the power is either on or off. The key to energy efficiency in everything from hybrid cars to air conditioners is smarter chips...
[September 8, 2008, 11:38]
