SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at PC and server ...
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IDG News Service - SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at ...
Broadcom Tuesday unveiled a single chip that combines Near Field Communication technology with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and FM radio. The company expects that the new chip will boost the use of NFC in smartphones and other mobile devices. NFC ...
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New processors from AMD and Intel will provide the horsepower for next generation desktop applications, that could previously only run on specialist workstations. Integrated chips used to be the poor cousins of dedicated systems. PC ...
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Nvidia plans to integrate CPU cores alongside graphics cores in Tesla high-performance chips, which is a change from current Tesla chips that have only graphics processors. Tesla is targeted at supercomputing and enterprise applications. ...
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Fabless semiconductor firm RFaxis Inc of Irvine,CA,USA,which designs RF semiconductors and embedded antenna solutions for the wireless connectivity and cellular mobility markets,has started sampling its latest 5GHz 802.11ac RF Front-end ...
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In booth 3745 at Super Computing 2012 (SC12) in Salt Lake City (12-15 November), high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA is conducting product demonstrations to showcase its expertise in high-speed, high-density ...
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LED, a kind of semiconductor diode, can transfer electrical energy to optical energy, and emit yellow, green, blue and other visible light as well as infrared and ultraviolet invisible light. Compared with small incandescent bulbs and neon ...
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IBM has hit a milestone in its quest to come up with a successor to silicon computer chips. The company said its research into semiconductors based on carbon nanotubes, or CNTs, has yielded a new method to accurately place them on wafers ...
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IBM has demonstrated that it is commercially feasible to bake optical circuitry into silicon processors using existing fabrication techniques, which could set the stage for radically faster and lower-cost computer communications. Silicon ...
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HP has announced new Pavilion Sleekbooks, which the company is pitching as laptops that are cheaper than Ultrabooks but competitive in weight and thickness. The new Pavilion Sleekbooks will come in two models. The Sleekbook 14 has a ...
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Advanced Micro Devices is taking steps to bridge the gap between x86 and ARM processors, and hopes to build a foundation from which programs will operate on mobile devices like tablets independent of architecture, the company's chief ...
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With the LED TV backlight market slowing, and the general lighting market yet to take off, LED makers are looking to all sorts of innovative ways to improve cost and performance to drive adoption — from disruptive new technologies to ...
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Out of India's total use of electrical power, over 60% in domestic and commercial area is for lighting. As India continues to sleep, China is today lighting up many Indian homes and commercial premises through Indian LED trading businesses ...
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The new bluetooth low energy application software includes a master-slave feature that enables a CC254x SoC to support both master and slave modes at different times Wireless connectivity applications provider Texas Instruments (TI) has ...
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