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Archive of Hardware : December,2005
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2005-12-31 - Firm cuts forecast in video game industry
By: iMark
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citing lackluster sales in the game-machine market, investment banking firm SG Cowe ...
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2005-12-31 - XM To Deliver Voice-Enabled Digital Car Radio
By: inet
XM Satellite Radio and VoiceBox Technologies Inc. said Thursday that they are jointly developing a voice-con ...
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2005-12-31 - UMass to open nano-imprint litho lab
By: iTech
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The University of Massachusetts Amherst is establishing a nano-imprint lithography ...
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2005-12-29 - Lenovo Said To Be Developing Windows Mobile Smartphone
By: iMark
Several Web blogs and Web sites Tuesday reported that Lenovo, known for its ThinkPad laptops, will be releas ...
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2005-12-29 - Report: Philips boosts stake in China TV maker
By: iTech
MANHASSET, N.Y. — A Chinese business unit of Royal Philips Electronics NV will buy an additional 5 per ...
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2005-12-29 - Pioneer To Release Blu-ray Disc Computer Drive
By: iNext
Pioneer Electronics (USA) Inc. plans to ship in the first quarter of next year a Blu-ray Disc computer drive ...
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2005-12-28 - Camera phones to remain hot
By: iNext
The camera-enabled cellular phone market is booming, as shipments are expected to reach nearly 1 billion uni ...
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2005-12-27 - NEC seeks IC, cell phone partnerships
By: inet
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In an effort to reverse its misfortunes, Japan’s NEC Corp. is seeking busines ...
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2005-12-25 - Stacked SRAM cells support programmable startup
By: iMark
LONDON — Viciciv Technologies Inc. is a startup company that appears to be preparing to enter the FPGA ...
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2005-12-24 - Nortel, Option demo HSDPA at 3.6 Mbps
By: iNext
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Belgium-based wireless technology company Option and Toronto-based Nortel Networks C ...
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2005-12-23 - TI set to buy Norwegian chip firm for $200 million
By: iMark
LONDON — Leading chip maker Texas Instruments Inc. has said it plans to acquire Chipcon, a Norwegian d ...
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2005-12-23 - Maxim chips worth $565,000 hijacked
By: iNext
SAN FRANCISCO — For the second time this year, a truck carrying chips made by Maxim Integrated Product ...
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2005-12-23 - Japanese fabless firm launches graphics chip
By: inet
LONDON — A Japanese fabless semiconductor company, Digital Media Professionals Inc., has launched a gr ...
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2005-12-22 - Seagate set to acquire Maxtor for $1.9 billion
By: iNext
LONDON — Seagate Technology LLC has agreed to acquire rival disk drive maker Maxtor Corp. in an all-st ...
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2005-12-21 - Elpida sampling 80-nm DRAMs, vague on volume
By: iTech
LONDON — As expected Elpida Memory Inc. has begun sampling 2-Gbit DDR2 synchronous DRAMs made using an ...
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2005-12-21 - Report: Inexpensive, Portable PCs To Drive PC Market
By: iNext
Low-cost and portable PCs should continue to drive unit growth of the personal computer market in 2006, acco ...
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2005-12-21 - HDTV-compatible PC display interface emerges
By: iTech
Leading PC and consumer electronics companies have announced they are developing a specification for a PC di ...
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2005-12-19 - Flat-panel TVs enter the mainstream
By: iMark
MANHASSET, N.Y. — Flat-panel TVs took major strides in becoming a mainstream product in 2005, thanks t ...
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2005-12-19 - Battery firm powers meter readers
By: iNext
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tadiran Batteries Ltd. has been awarded a four-year, $30 million contract for the s ...
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2005-12-19 - Lenovo Plans More Twists To Update An Old Favorite
By: inet
Lenovo is planning more shakeups to the traditional design of the ThinkPad, including integration of phone c ...
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2005-12-17 - Infineon, Samsung vie in graphics memories
By: inet
Infineon Technologies AG and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are separately moving to raise the bar for graphic ...
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2005-12-17 - Intel vs. AMD becomes an epic
By: iNext
SAN JOSE, Calif. — For years, Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have battled each other in t ...
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2005-12-16 - AMD claims victory in dual-core challenge
By: iTech
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. claimed victory in its dual-core microprocessor challenge issued in August.
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2005-12-16 - Quanta Computer to build $100 laptop
By: iNext
Taiwan-based original design manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc. has been chosen as the ODM for the $100 lapto ...
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2005-12-16 - PolyFuel claims fuel cell power boost
By: iMark
Fuel cell membrane specialist PolyFuel, Inc., has developed an especially thin membrane for passive direct m ...
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2005-12-14 - Memory Bulletin: DRAM, NAND falls
By: iTech
Prices for DRAMs and NAND-based flash memories fell last week amid lackluster demand and other factors in th ...
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2005-12-13 - Philips tunes in U.S. market with mobile TV device
By: iNext
MADISON, Wis. — In hopes of getting U.S. consumers to connect to live digital TV on their mobile phone ...
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2005-12-13 - China Now World's Largest Tech Supplier
By: iTech
China overtook the United States as the world's biggest supplier of information and communications technolog ...
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2005-12-13 - E Ink, Citizen demo flexible clock
By: iNext
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Citizen Watch Co. Ltd. and E Ink Corp. on Monday (Dec. 12) demonstrated what the co ...
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2005-12-11 - NEC Develops Paper-Thin Mobile Battery
By: iNext
NEC said Wednesday it has developed a flexible, paper-thin battery that eventually will be usable by a varie ...
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2005-12-11 - Consortium seeks to ramp nanoelectronics research
By: iNext
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Seeking to accelerate nanoelectronics research in the United States, a consortium o ...
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2005-12-10 - Hitachi develops 42-inch HD plasma display
By: iMark
TOKYO — Hitachi Ltd. and its subsidiary Fujitsu Hitachi Plasma Display Ltd. (FHP) have developed a 42- ...
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2005-12-10 - WiMedia group pushes alternate route for UWB standard
By: iTech
LONDON — The WiMedia Alliance has by-passed the IEEE standardization process for ultrawideband network ...
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2005-12-09 - NEC touts nanobridge, 45-nm feats at IEDM
By: inet
WASHINGTON — NEC Corp., in its latest research results reported at the International Electron Devices ...
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2005-12-08 - Sematech, SEMI to offer chip services
By: iTech
SEMI and ATDF on Wednesday (Dec. 7) said that they will collaborate in extending advanced wafer processing a ...
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2005-12-08 - Japan to lead chip equipment market, says SEMI
By: iNext
LONDON — Japan is set to remain by far the largest buyer of chip making equipment in 2005 and 2006, ro ...
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2005-12-07 - Toshiba Unveils New Business Notebooks, New Channel Purchase Program
By: inet
Toshiba's Digital Products Division Monday unveiled its latest Tecra mobile PCs along with a new program aim ...
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2005-12-07 - SanDisk to appeal flash ruling in ST's favor
By: iNext
LONDON — SanDisk Corp., a supplier of flash storage products, said Tuesday (Dec. 6) it intends to appe ...
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2005-12-06 - Intel, ST set common spec for mobile flash subsystems
By: iMark
LONDON — STMicroelectronics NV and Intel Corp. have collaborated to develop a NOR-flash memory subsyst ...
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2005-12-06 - Hynix claims fastest, highest-density graphics DRAM
By: iNext
Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has introduced what the company claims is the world's fastest and highest-density g ...
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2005-12-05 - Caltech Supercomputer Analyzes Earthquakes
By: inet
The California Institute of Technology said earlier this week that it has created the most powerful computer ...
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2005-12-04 - Fox Exec Gives Edge To Sony's Blue-Ray
By: iNext
The Blue-ray high definition DVD standard has received an endorsement from the co-chairman of Fox Filmed Ent ...
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2005-12-04 - Philips targets new technology toward gaming
By: iTech
Royal Philips Electronics announced Friday (Dec. 2) it is talking with leading game developers and periphera ...
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2005-12-03 - Motorola unveils license plate readers
By: iNext
Motorola Inc. and PIPS Technology are releasing an innovative license plate reader technology to public safe ...
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2005-12-03 - Skype Partners With Logitech, Creative For Webcam Sales
By: iMark
Logitech and Creative, which together own about three-quarters of the Webcam market, joined Skype on Thursda ...
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2005-12-02 - Sharp, Tokyo University pursue flexible circuits
By: iMark
The University of Tokyo and Sharp Corp. have established Todai-Sharp Laboratories, an institute aimed at con ...
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2005-12-02 - Researcher ranks top 25 chip companies in 2005
By: iNext
Market research company iSuppli Corp. has ranked the top 25 semiconductor companies in terms of their projec ...
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2005-12-01 - Small Form Factors To Push Hard Disk Market
By: iMark
The lackluster hard disk drive (HDD) market will receive a shot in the arm from the booming small form facto ...
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2005-12-01 - Samsung to make wireless handsets in India
By: inet
BANGALORE, India — Samsung has become the latest to join the bandwagon of global handset makers that h ...
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2005-12-01 - Intel faces more chipset shortages
By: iMark
HILLSBORO, Ore. — Intel Corp. on Wednesday (Nov. 30) said that it expects to see shortages for its chi ...
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2005-12-01 - Scientists Take Small Leap Toward Quantum Computing
By: inet
By getting atoms to spin simultaneously in opposite directions, scientists at the National Institute of Stan ...
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