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1. ARM multicore chip challenges Intel's hegemony

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 20 October 2009

   ... cost handsets, phones, smartphones. The design uses ARM MPCore technology, already licensed by Broadcom, NEC, Nvidia, Renesas and Toshiba. It supports Android, Adobe Flash, JAVA SE, Java FX, Linux, ...

2. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sunday, 19 July 2009

   Toshiba may finally concede in the high-def disc format war if we believe a media report claiming that the company may roll out its first Blu-ray player before the end of the year. Of course, if true, ...

3. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Friday, 17 July 2009

   ... time and has only resorted to law because the talks have gone nowhere. Mosaid has a long list of licensees for its DRAM and embedded memory patents including Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ...

4. Quantum key distribution network breaks all records

   (Security/Security Features)

   Wednesday, 01 July 2009

   ... organisations including the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (formerly Austrian Research Centers), id Quantique, Toshiba Research in the UK, Université de Genève, the University of Vienna, CNRS, Thales, ...

5. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 22 June 2009

   ... weak desktop shipments, which dragged down its overall market share," Wilkins said. The rest of the top five saw Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba achieve market shares of 11.1 percent, 6.7 percent, and 5.2 percent ...

6. Hacker-proof communications get one step closer

   (Networking/Networking Features)

   Friday, 01 May 2009

   ... - quantum cryptography, a completely watertight means of communication. It is now a big step closer to being used practically, as researchers from Toshiba and Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory ...

7. ATI releases new 40nm 4800-series Mobile GPUs

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 03 March 2009

   ... ASUS N81Vp, N51Tp and W90, which use 4600-series or desktop 4870-series today. MSI's GT727 will upgrade from 4850. And Toshiba's Satellite 300 up from 4570 or 4650. AMD also has additional partners that ...

8. Verizon Wireless honoring pre-cap contracts

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

   Tuesday, 10 February 2009

   ... with the broadband card. In my case, I use a PCMCIA adapter in my Toshiba Satellite notebook, though there is also a micro-PCMCIA and USB card available. From VZAccess Manager, Internet connections are ...

9. Toshiba, IBM and AMD develop smallest, most stable FinFET SRAM to date

   (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

   Wednesday, 17 December 2008

     Yesterday, Toshiba, IBM and AMD announced that via a joint effort they have developed a SRAM cell just 0.128 μm2. The cell is more than 50% smaller than the previous record holder, a nonplanar-FET ...

10. Blu-ray player prices congregate at $400 while HD DVD hits rock bottom

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 23 April 2008

    ... fall out.  The Toshiba HD-A3 now has an average price of $80, and the number of retailers carrying it is on par with the level we've seen over the past month or so.  This is despite the fact ...

11. Toshiba launches IBM Cell-based video processor for the Blu-ray world

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 April 2008

      There has been been a lot of speculation how Toshiba will change its high definition strategy now that HD DVD is officially gone. The Blu-ray adventure may have cost Toshiba about $1 billion, but ...

12. Blu-ray prices continue to climb

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 02 April 2008

    ... began to fall and HD DVD was resoundingly defeated. By the end of February, prices began to climb.  This is just around the time that Toshiba announced it would stop producing HD DVD players and ...

13. Toshiba joins the ‘stunning’ notebook crowd

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... Toshiba now also has ‘stunning’ notebooks that provide a “premium blend of modern style, performance and affordability.” But then, design is really a matter of taste and we may be stretching the meaning ...

14. Surprise: No Blu-ray for the Xbox 360

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Thursday, 13 March 2008

    ... wrong foot when Toshiba announced to shut down HD DVD, but the company surely should have seen (and certainly did see) the trend. While it is picking up the pieces from the failed external HD DVD drive ...

15. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... looking back in time to recap how the defeat of HD DVD developed.   Following the announcement of Toshiba to pull the plug on HD DVD, we felt that it was time to have a closer look at our reports ...

16. Toshiba shuts down HD DVD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    The HD format war is officially over, as Toshiba today announced that it has stopped developing, manufacturing or marketing of HD DVD players. Tokyo (Japan) – The HD format war is officially over, ...

17. HD DVD defeated: Toshiba halts production of players

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Saturday, 16 February 2008

    HD DVD has been put on life support after Netflix, Best Buy and Wal-Mart dropped the format last week and it appears that even Toshiba has lost all confidence that it can win the format war, industry ...

18. HD DVD: Time to quit?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Monday, 11 February 2008

    ... aim at Blu-ray now. Otherwise Toshiba can only hope for a miracle or actually admit defeat. But it is not only Toshiba that loses. Opinion - The HD DVD camp suffered two major blows today and no matter ...

19. Update: Blu-ray and HD DVD support demystified

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 31 January 2008

    ... in past generations. Toshiba remains is the major driver in developing and marketing HD DVD and thus it commands the market for HD DVD players.  The same goes for Sony with Blu-ray, especially because ...

20. Microsoft steps up support for HD DVD format

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 04 October 2007

    Microsoft today announced that it will be forming with Toshiba the Advanced Interactivity Consortium (AIC), intended to become an “open forum” that aims to accelerate the adoption of “advanced ...

21. Playstation 3 kills HD DVD

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Friday, 17 August 2007

    ... heavily invest into the format. Recently revealed advantages of Blu-ray in movie sales are pretty substantial for a format war just one year in the making. However, Toshiba says standalone HD DVD players ...

22. A comparison of next-gen display interfaces

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 31 July 2007

    ... 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 ...

23. Xbox 360 HD DVD player price falls to $179

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 26 July 2007

    ...  Toshiba's least expensive player was cut to around $300 several weeks ago, with retailers taking that down to as low as $230.  The cheapest Blu-ray player is currently the Playstation 3 at around ...

24. Samsung announces hybrid Blu-ray - HD DVD player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 25 July 2007

    ... to HD DVD technology knowledge through TSST, a product development and manufacturing joint venture with Toshiba, the primary supporter of the HD DVD format. Samsung also announced its first Blu-ray home ...

25. Toshiba opens up next-gen features for HD DVD

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 29 June 2007

    Downloading bonus content from a movie studio, sending clips to other HD DVD players, and voting in interactive polls are all possible with Toshiba's latest update to the HD DVD architecture. Wayne ...

26. PC trends 2007

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Opinion)

    Friday, 13 April 2007

    ... and the hardware that will make it sing.   We had three early products pointing the way to the future - the two Touchsmart machines from HP and the hot Toshiba R400 laptop blazed the way. But they ...

27. Sony ready to drop Blu-ray entry-level player to $600

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 26 February 2007

    ... VCR and carries a whopping price tag of $1200. Sony and Toshiba are still very much engaged in pushing their own formats. But not all hope is lost that there will be more dual-format HD players to choose ...

28. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 January 2007

    ... developments that may not have been so obvious. Take, for example, the introduction of Toshiba's announcement of low cost HD-DVD players and recorders. Besides the fact that HD becomes a bit more affordable ...

29. CES 2007: A preview of what you can expect to see on the showfloor

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 05 January 2007

    ... Pioneer, Toshiba, Philips, Sharp, RCA, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony), we already count about 20 noteworthy announcements. The Tom's Hardware editorial team will hit the Las Vegas Convention Center to bring ...

30. Consumer Electronics Show 2007

    (Event Coverage/Event Coverage Features)

    Sunday, 31 December 2006

    ... another frivolous iPod add-on or a valuable accessory? Aliph's Jawbone headset and Noise Shield sound too good to be true Sony shows OLED TV prototypes Toshiba offering four embedded NAND ...

31. Ecma confirms Microsoft's Office Open XML format as standard

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 08 December 2006

    ... was brought forward by Microsoft as well as eleven other organizations - Apple, Barclays Capital, BP, The British Library, Essilor, Intel, NextPage, Novell, Statoil ASA, Toshiba, and the U.S. Library of ...

32. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... $600, integrates the first Cell processor that consumers actually can buy, Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" graphics engine, Toshiba's Emotion Engine, 256 MB GDDR3 graphics memory, 256 MB XDR memory, a 60 ...

33. Microsoft takes Zune website live

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 06 November 2006

    ... 14 November for $250 Opinion: Zune in, Zune out Toshiba to build Zune for Microsoft Apple intros sleeker and higher capacity Ipods, adds movies to Itunes First look: Watch out Ipod, here comes ... K5? ...

34. Microsoft releases final version of Windows Defender

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Tuesday, 24 October 2006

    Microsoft released the final version of its proprietary antispyware application, Windows Defender. The security tool, which saw its last public beta release in February, is a free download for US customers ...

35. Lenovo, IBM recall 526,000 Thinkpad batteries

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    ... to a potential fire hazard in Sony batteries, which prompted Dell to recall a total of 4.1 million notebooks and Apple 1.8 million notebooks. Toshiba also recalled 340,000 batteries dues to a charging ...

36. Microsoft's Zune to hit retail on 14 November for $250

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 28 September 2006

    ... The Zune media player is manufactured by Toshiba and comes with a 30 GB hard drive and a 3"" color LCD screen that can display pictures, videos, and song information. It comes equipped with wireless functionality, ...

37. Microsoft unveils Zune media player

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 14 September 2006

    ... built by Toshiba, will be offered in three colors - white, black and perhaps not the prettiest brown. It has a 1.8"" 30 GB hard drive, a 3"" LCD, an integrated and RDBS-capable FM tuner, an USB 2.0 port ...

38. Samsung announces 40 nm Flash, predicts 20 nm devices

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 11 September 2006

    ... files. Key to the capacity increase is a new approach that Samsung calls "charge trap technology." Compared to the currently manufactured NAND flash - which was introduced by Toshiba in 1989 - uses a metal ...

39. AOL's new Music Now service gears up for the Zune era

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 August 2006

    ... portable players, including Creative Labs' Zen, SanDisk's Sansa, and Toshiba's Gigabeat. All three players were featured in AOL's new advertising this morning, the Zen most prominently among the three, ...

40. Could 10 - 20% yields for Cell processors lead to problems for Sony PS3?

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 14 July 2006

    Comments made by an IBM engineering VP in last week's Electronic News have raised concerns about the Sony/Toshiba/IBM alliance's capability to produce Cell processors at the rate, and in the quantities, ...

41. Freescale first to put MRAM into mass production

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 10 July 2006

    ... to offer a (256 kb) NOR Flash module back in 1988; Toshiba is credited with inventing NAND Flash. MRAM is promised to combine the non-volatile storage characteristics with the speed of SRAM devices and ...

42. "Print" key derails copy protection in first-gen HD software

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 07 July 2006

    ... it has verified the capability with Sony's first Blu-ray PC VGC-RC 204 von Sony as well as Toshiba's HD DVD notebook Qosmio G30. Both devices use a first-generation HD version of Intervideo's WinDVD application. ...

43. Samsung to consider "dual Blu-ray/HD DVD player"

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 21 June 2006

    ... second company to officially confirm plans for such a device: The technology would simply be drawn from a joint venture with HD DVD backer Toshiba. Chicago (IL) - Undecided between Blu-ray and HD DVD? ...

44. Seagate to offer hybrid hard drives for Vista notebooks

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 07 June 2006

    ... among the largest hard drive manufacturers. Late last year, Toshiba initiated the PMR age with a little impressive single-platter 40 GB 1.8" drive, followed by Seagate with a 160 GB 2.5" device that was ...

45. Wildtangent to offer casual games on Toshiba notebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 15 May 2006

    Wildtangent announced the launch of Toshiba Games, a virtual gaming console application and an online casual game portal it developed specifically for Toshiba notebook computers. Under the partnership, ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 11 May 2006

    ... to see more segmentation in the [mobile] market, moving towards more gaming-specific laptops. These days, Dell and Toshiba, these are the big guys introducing segment-specific gaming laptops. I think the ...

47. Update: Microsoft to offer HD DVD drive for Xbox 360 in Q4

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 08 May 2006

    ... firm states. "Consumers and retailers can now see the immediate price gulf between HD DVD players and their upcoming competition. If you can find one of the new Toshiba HD DVD players they sell for as ...

48. Toshiba and Lenovo increase presence in retail stores

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 11 April 2006

    Toshiba today announced a new tablet PC that will be sold through retail outlets in the US. The Portege M405-S8003 will be available in only one configuration, but carries a substantially lower price ...

49. Next-gen HDTVs may hide first-gen HD DVD limits, says Microsoft

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Friday, 24 March 2006

    ... says AACS spokesperson Richard Doherty, a Microsoft employee. So you shouldn't see a difference...provided, from a CE retailer's perspective, you bet the farm. Redmond (WA) - As Toshiba continues its ...

50. Toshiba may delay HD DVD players rollout to coincide with movie releases

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 20 March 2006

    Toshiba indicated in a recent statement that it intends to release its upcoming HD DVD players in tandem with studios' release of movies for the HD DVD format those players support. There should have ...