| PMC samples 6Gbit SAS 2.0 controllers
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2007-06-18 |
| PMC-Sierra is pushing through the transition to 6Gbps Serial Attached-SCSI (SAS) hard disk interface with the sampling of Tachyon SPC 8x6G SAS controller for the SAS 2.0 standard. |
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| $99 wireless USB sets to retail by year's end
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2007-06-11 |
| Chipmakers maintain they will be able to deliver much cheaper wireless USB systems in the market by year's end, with at least one company promising $99 dongle and hub packages on retail shelves. |
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| TI DSPs target telecom, IP-PBX products
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2007-05-01 |
| Texas Instruments Inc. is sampling the TMS320C6424 and TMS320C6421 DSPs for application in telecom enterprise gateway and IP-PBX products. |
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| Stretch slashes IC cost by two-thirds
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2007-05-01 |
| Startup Stretch Inc. has revamped its management and its architecture, slashing the cost of its reconfigurable processor by almost two-thirds while claiming a significant performance boost as it seeks design wins in broadcast, WiMAX and security systems. |
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| PA Semi offers 25W PowerPC
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2007-04-02 |
| Startup PA Semi is shipping chip samples that demonstrate its claim of taking the PowerPC architecture's power consumption to new lows for a range of embedded markets. |
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| PCIe switch line is on the move
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2007-04-02 |
| PLX Technology Inc. has rolled out three new chips that expand its line of PCIe switches to 13 devices |
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| 65nm FPGAs set new DSP performance
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2007-04-02 |
| Spreading its wings into new markets, Xilinx Inc. is shipping a line of high-end FPGAs that are optimized for high-performance DSP applications. |
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| Signal-integrity issues plague multigigahertz era
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2007-03-16 |
| Engineers want a new bag of tricks to manage signal integrity as data rates soar into multigigahertz territory. |
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| Avnet launches promotion on Xilinx products
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2007-03-06 |
| Avnet Electronics Marketing launched a promotion on Xilinx products on the first day of the 12th annual IIC-China Conference and Exhibition in Shenzhen. Discounts up to 73 percent can be availed through April 15. |
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| Components take floor at 12th IIC-China
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2007-03-05 |
| With more than 200 exhibitors spreading an array of leading-edge technologies in over 900 booths, the 12th International IC China Conference and Exhibition (IIC-China) is clearly China's largest IC event. |
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| New PCIe architecture extends 'outside the box
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2007-02-13 |
| PCI-SIG, the Special Interest Group responsible for PCIe industry-standard I/O technology, released the PCIe external cabling 1.0 specification, which extends the PCIe interconnect architecture 'outside the box |
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| 802.11n chip touts extended range
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2007-02-01 |
| Ralink Technology Corp. is jumping into the 802.11n game with a Draft 2.0-compliant chipset it claims handily beats early movers in the market at extended ranges. |
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| High-speed interconnects reshape board
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2007-02-01 |
| A handful of high-speed interconnects are driving changes in how designers handle fast signals. The Scalable System Packet Interface from the Optical Internetworking Forum aims to carry data at 6Gbps and up between chips or boards in a communications system. |
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| PCIe 2.0 spec doubles transfer rate to 5GTps
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2007-01-18 |
| The PCI-SIG released the PCIe base 2.0 specification, which doubles the interconnect bit rate from 2.5GTp to 5GTps to support high-bandwidth applications |
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| SiCortex tips x86 ASIC for HPC clusters
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2007-01-16 |
| Startup SiCortex settled on a custom system chip that integrates six MIPS Technologies 64-bit 5Kf cores running at up to 500MHz as well as a proprietary fabric switch architecture, two DDR memory controllers, a PCIe controller and 1.2MBytes of Level 2 cache |
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