October 20, 2006
The U.S. military is investing heavily in network-centric technologies but must find new ways to expand network capabilities on a global basis while funding network research, industry experts said.
IMEC's coarse-grained VLIW multiprocessor architecture, called ADRES, has been used as the basis for the development of a reconfigurable processor for video decoding that has achieved power efficiencies 6 to 12 times higher than state-of-the-art C-programmed processors, IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) has claimed.
October 19, 2006
Intel plans to preview on Friday an ultra-high-end quad-core server processor code-named Tigerton that's scheduled to ship in the second half of 2007. Meanwhile, its quad-core desktop, Core 2 Extreme, remains on track for November.
Synplicity and Achronix Semiconductor have signed a multi-year development and OEM agreement around providing EDA technology for Achronix multi-gigahertz FPGAs, the companies said.
It's time to put aside UML and think in terms of domain-specific modeling, according to MetaCase, which next month plans to release MetaEdit+ 4.5, a premier tool for designing DSM-based applications.
A new venture offering analog and mixed-signal design and layout services has been launched by Vivek Pawar, an industry veteran who was most recently at Texas Instruments India for 15 years. Christened Sankalp Semiconductor, the firm plans to provide methodology and automation-oriented high-end services and solutions in these areas.
Most electronics companies pay lip service to innovation, but few have any defined process for making sure it happens inside their organizations. That's the view of Curtis Carlson, president and chief executive of SRI International, who wrote a book on the topic.
October 18, 2006
A group of 15 leading European Semiconductor companies, Intellectual Property (IP) vendors, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) companies and academic institutions specializing in advanced silicon chip design today announced that they are working jointly on the SPRINT Project to keep Europe at the forefront of System-on-Chip (SoC) development.
Sensors, electronics, electronic warfare gear along with the IT building blocks for network-centric operations will account for the bulk of Pentagon technology spending this year.
Microsoft is planning to boost its R&D division in China by hiring 500 new engineers.
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