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1. Apple lines up against Palm, Microsoft. And Apple

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Opinion This week was the big Apple iPod refresh and the interest was almost as focused on what Apple didn’t announce as it was on what they did.   I think the overarching news was that despite ...

2. TG Daily’s Dads and Grads Product Giveaway: Play along and win!

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Web and walkie-talkie service. V-MODA’s Vibe II with Microphone :  a stylish, dual-use headphone/headset. Vibe II features two comfortable earbuds with soft silicone fittings and a hands-free microphone ...

3. AMD’s Globalfoundries to ramp with 22 nm chips

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... to stay close to its former rival, which now, at least in theory, could be a future customer. Globalfoundries said that it taped out first 32 nm SRAM silicon in Q4 2008 and will begin producing high-k ...

4. The next iPhone looms on the horizon

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... AT&T's 4G (LTE) network because it won't arrive for at least a year or more. The Silicon Alley Insider argues that faster Internet could simply mean a faster 802.11n Wi-Fi (versus the slower 802.11g/b ...

5. Intel needs to build car batteries, co-founder says

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... as one of the brilliant minds in Silicon Valley and he may have the right idea with his envisioned battery business – a product category car manufacturers are clearly struggling with. The 2010 Chevy Volt, ...

6. Studies find laser printers emit lung-damaging particles on the order of cigarette smoking

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

     Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, a German research company that just completed a study on laser printer emissions, reports that volatile organic-chemical emissions (ozone), silicon oil, paraffin and ultra-fine ...

7. Tilera goes pro with TilePro64

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... needed for the silicon die. The original Tile64 offered only a 64-core version. This new release introduces a 36-core version called TilePro36 (in addition to the 64-core version). TilePro36 ...

8. Nanoantennas envisioned as possible replacement for solar cells

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   ... models, the team created real-life prototypes to test their computer models. They used conventional production methods to etch a silicon wafer with the nanoantenna pattern. The silicon-based nanoantennas ...

9. National Semiconductor reinvents itself and goes solar

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

     One of the oldest chip companies of Silicon Valley has placed a big bet on green technology: National Semiconductor (NSC), is entering the photovoltaic market and announced a Solar Magic, a technology ...

10. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... graphics and what you traditionally find on a motherboard are squeezed onto a single silicon die. What is particularly impressive about this device is the fact that this chip measures just 144 mm2, which ...

11. Apture: The Birth of a New Google?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

      Analyst Opinion - Living in Silicon Valley has its advantages.  One of them is that every once in a while a company like Netscape or Google pops up which threatens to change dramatically ...

12. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... F1 Team: Dell, Albert2, 512 sockets, 2048 cores (Intel Xeon) Vodafone McLaren Mercedes: Silicon Graphics Altix, 512 Sockets, 1024 cores (Intel Itanium 2) Red Bull Renault: IBM, 512 sockets, 1024 core (upgrading ...

13. Intel fires up new Atom processors

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... years, supported by several fine-tunings over time. When asked directly what clock speed the processor will actually be able to handle, we were simply told that the “silicon is capable of high frequencies.” ...

14. UPDATE: Asus goes HDMI crazy with new sound cards

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... capability, Asus put some serious silicon on the board itself: "Splendid HD" no longer is a software feature, but rather supported through a real video processing chip that will mix the sound and audio ...

15. AMD’s Markham labs: Flushing out graphics bugs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... Instead, Nvidia simulates the hardware design in a little-known, but massive supercomputer installation located at its Santa Clara headquarters. Nvidia’s first silicon of a new chip is the actual chip ...

16. AMD: To merge or not to merge?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... IBM into worlds that are currently closed for the company, such as the consumer electronics segment, where ATI Imageon chips go head-to-head against STMicro, Thomson, Philips, Silicon Optix and others.  ...

17. Multiple: 2007 top ten lists

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    NewScientist went all out in preparing some top ten lists for 2007.  Well, not really, but it is a way to pass an hour of your time if you have nothing better to do.  The Inquirer has a brief ...

18. UPDATE: HD 3800: AMD’s Midrange Rebuttal - benchmarks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... nm process means a lot for several reasons. RV670 requires half the silicon per wafer to produce than Nvidia’s 8800GT. This should translate directly into lower pricing, higher units per wafer (higher ...

19. AMD goes against Nvidia’s Tesla with new stream processor card

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... by the way, to find the original Pentium FDIV bug, it was very slow.  Sometimes on the order of 10x to 100x slower than dedicated silicon. Still, some needs exist today for 80-bit math.  Most ...

20. AMD gets B2 stepping, could see 3.0 GHz Barcelonas very soon

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... early next year. Note:  Processors go through various steppings or revisions throughout their life.  Brand new silicon is called A0.  When a company reaches the ponit where it has ...

21. Background: Inside Intel's Tera-scale project

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... every router between A and B knows exactly how much is coming.  And after it's sent, those routers can automatically realign themselves for whatever workload comes next. In terms of silicon real-estate, ...

22. Fermilab: Excursions into matter, space and time

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... According to Moore, a level one trigger decides within 5 microseconds through dozens of thin and strategically placed silicon sensors (having the least possible resistance to pass through for the created ...

23. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... redefined to move data in this way, but are not currently. Supporters Intel, Compaq, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, NEC and Silicon Image Hitachi, Matsushita, Philips, Silicon Image, Sony, Thompson, Toshiba ...

24. Epic Games gets slammed with lawsuit over Unreal Tournament

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Silicon Knights is suing Epic Games over the Unreal Tournament engine, claiming a breach of contract caused significant damages to its upcoming game Too Human. Raleigh (NC) - Silicon Knights is suing ...

25. Analyst opinion: Is Apple lying?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... but think that it was about Microsoft standing up for itself, it was highly unusual for any company to leave such an attack unanswered for so long. I can think of other companies in Silicon Valley, Oracle ...

26. CES 2007: 3D gaming, surround sound, and waterproof accessories

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... One of Atlantic's newest products is the GameSEAL, which will cover the PSP or DS Lite in a protective, waterproof case that uses a specially designed silicone sealing gasket and snap-locking latches that ...

27. Opinion: Can AMD reinvent the microprocessor?

    (Opinion/Opinion Features)

    ... mode. APU - solution for the future? The other, more significant example is "Fusion," a code-name for a processor that "fuses" a graphics core with a traditional CPU and the Northbridge on the silicon ...

28. SGI goes after ATI with patent infringement suit

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Silicon Graphics Incorporated (SGI) announced Monday that it has filed a patent infringement suit against graphics processor manufacturer ATI in a Wisconsin US District Court. Mountain View (CA) - ...

29. Wikipedia goes mobile with Webaroo

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... browse it without the need for an internet connection - has released an offline version of Wikipedia. Read the complete story here. (silicon.com)  ...

30. AMD and ATI: Will their technologies merge as well?

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... of the solution. Then longer-term, ultimately we believe that there is going to be some silicon integration - not right away, but in the future - where we would have had to own the IP to really make that ...

31. ATI goes physics gaga

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... silicon to do the job. Where Nvidia has been concentrating on the high definition end of things at this years Computex, ATI has been screaming at the top of its lungs about physics, and why their GPUs ...

32. Intel claims 40% performance gain with new Core 2 Extreme processor

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... in...almost a negative margin. And then to sell titles. In terms of silicon technology, for us, we see it. But to be able to do that other half, that's a big deal. That's something that takes a lot more ...

33. Virus alert: Bacros goes back to the future

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has spotted a new virus, Bacros, doing the rounds. Finnish antivirus firm F-Secure has spotted a new virus, Bacros, doing the rounds. Unlike the average virus which ...

34. Compaq Shows Off New iPAQ PDAs

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... copper and one level of polysilicon. It uses STI (Shallow Trench Isolation) and twin wells in a P- epi on a P substrate. Cobalt silicide is employed on the polysilicon and diffusions (salicide process), ...

35. Canon's 4-Megapixel Powershot G2

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... - Cable), DOCISIS (Data-Over-Cable Service Interface Specification), and analog PAL&NTSC (Phase Alternating Line & National TV-Standards Committee). First silicon of the TAIFUN TUA6034 in the TSSOP-38 ...

36. RealArcade Goes Online With Gads of Games

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

      The biggest computer hardware junkies are also frequently big-time game enthusiasts. JPEG2000, a new, wavelet-based digital still-imaging compression format will be out on the street in silicon ...

37. DivX video code goes open-source

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    ... Rambus DRAM shipped last year. For more information, see siliconstrategies.com and electronicnews.com.  ...