| Long way to go for Brazil's chip biz?
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2008-03-21 |
| The birth of the Brazilian semiconductor industry has been protracted and difficult, but even as the infant takes its first steps, it is facing an uphill battle. |
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| NI: Path leads to parallel for test and measurement
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2008-03-14 |
| Actions, computing and instructions occurring simultaneously are increasingly common requirements in today's world, as evidenced by the unstoppable migration from single-core to multicore processors in PCs. This new paradigm—the Parallel Shift—brings a huge challenge to test engineers: the marriage of parallelism with computing, and in related applications of measurement and control. |
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| A/V, memory glitz and glam at IIC-China
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2008-02-19 |
| This year's IIC-China will gather over 240 international IC tycoons and local manufacturers to showcase their latest and offerings to satisfy the increasing demand for high-quality and high-definition consumer electronics. |
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| Hitachi eyes healthy future for hard drives
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2008-02-13 |
| Overcoming stiff price wars and competitive upheavals from emerging storage technologies, the hard disk drive sector continues to rebound with renewed optimism. This bodes well for HDD makers such as Hitachi GST. |
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| Digital living room challenge: Make devices talk wirelessly
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2008-01-17 |
| Since a full suite of HDTVs, DVD players and cameras are now being delivered by consumer electronics companies into the digital living room, the question of how best to connect them wirelessly arises. |
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| Managing latency in video encoding, decoding
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2008-01-16 |
| In applications where there is a closed feedback loop, latency is the most crucial aspect of the system, as it determines whether the system will be stable or not. Keeping the latency of a video codec as minimal as possible is the proper approach for such systems. In many such applications, latency measured in sub-10ms is crucial. |
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| Comms, CE markets show great promise
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2008-01-16 |
| Taiwan's display, communications and CE industries delivered many surprises. With global TV digitalization approaching, the future looks bright for the entire display industry. |
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| Content road map remains blurry for HDTVs
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2008-01-15 |
| While the CES presented TV in a new level of maturity as a beautiful piece of hardware, it was less clear what's next in content for the high-end screens. |
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| DisplayPort ready to ramp, may target DTVs
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2008-01-14 |
| Designed by PC makers as a replacement for the aging DVI, VGA and LVDS interconnects in desktops, notebooks and LCD monitors, DisplayPort ultimately may see use as link in DTV as well. |
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| Digital terrestrial TV invades HK
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2008-01-14 |
| Hong Kong's Office of the Telecommunications Authority has launched digital terrestrial TV services on Dec. 31, 2007, according to a ChinaTechNews report. |
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| Strong Q3 revives HDD profit: iSuppli
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2008-01-09 |
| iSuppli Corp. reported that the hard disk drive industry had resurgence in profitability in Q3, signaling that the storage market finally is on firmer ground. |
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| Revealing the true value of China's IC design houses
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2008-01-02 |
| Among Chinese IC design companies, Shanghai Jade Technologies Co. Ltd is unique. While the majority of local IC design companies focus on cost-control advantages and target the middle- and low-end markets, Jade aims for high-end products. |
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| Analysts see DTV chip market consolidation ahead
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2007-12-27 |
| ST's proposed acquisition of Genesis Microchip could be the beginning of a long-expected wave of consolidation among chip companies that supply the booming DTV market, according to analysts. |
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| Consumer confusion hikes HDTV return rate
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2007-12-27 |
| Behind the robust growth, glitzy new high-end displays and marketing frenzy lurks the dirty little secret of HDTV: An unsettling number of sets are returned to the retail outlets where they are purchased |
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| Toshiba licenses Rambus HDTV tech
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2007-12-19 |
| Toshiba Corp. has licensed HDTV chipset memory technology from Rambus Inc |
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