Infineon Technologies AG and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are separately moving to raise the bar for graphics memories in PC applications.

Samsung claims that it is mass producing the fastest graphics memory device in the world — a 900-MHz Graphics Double Data Rate 3 (GDDR3) chip.

The 512-Mbit 900MHz GDDR3,

Watching TV on a mobile phone is not expected to be a major pastime for U.S. consumers for at least another five years, a research firm said Thursday.

EMarketer forecasts that the number of U.S. consumers watching TV programming on cellular phones will rise to 15 million in 2009 from 1.2 million

The first worm that successfully attacks an October vulnerability in Microsoft Windows was spotted in the wild Thursday, a pair of security organizations said.

Both F-Secure and the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center (ISC) said that the worm, dubbed Dasher.b, had been nabbed by the Honeypot Project, a German group that deploys

SAN JOSE, Calif. — RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a provider of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications applications, has approved the expansion of its assembly operations in China.

The expansion, which is projected to be on line during the June quarter of 2006, is expected to increase RFMD's internal assembly

Fuel cell membrane specialist PolyFuel, Inc., has developed an especially thin membrane for passive direct methanol fuel cells (DMFCs) that it says delivers 33 percent more power density than the previous industry benchmark.

Just 45 micron thick, the membrane is already being utilized or studied worldwide by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of

Google Inc. is introducing a music search feature that details the work of certain featured artists, the company said late on Wednesday.
 
"In analyzing our traffic, we found that a huge number of users conduct music-related searches," Google said in a statement.

The music search feature is prominently placed

Taiwan-based original design manufacturer Quanta Computer Inc. has been chosen as the ODM for the $100 laptop project sponsored by non-profit organization One Laptop Per Child.

Quanta has agreed to devote significant engineering resources from the Quanta Research Institute (QRI) the first half of 2006, with a target of bringing the product to

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. claimed victory in its dual-core microprocessor challenge issued in August.
AMD won the challenge by default, as Intel Corp. failed to compete in the dual-core processor competition, it was noted.

AMD’s dual-core Opteron claims to hold a significant lead in overall performance-per-watt versus its competitor's products.

The video-game industry saw software sales decline from 2004 levels for a third straight month in November as the launch of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 console helped erode demand for existing titles.
 
U.S. video-game sales plunged 18 percent from last year to about $700 million in November, market research firm

3M has agreed to acquire the Siemens Ultrasound Division's flexible circuit manufacturing line in Canoga Park, Calif.

Terms of the transaction, expected to close by the year’s end, were not disclosed. The facility employs 56 people and will remain in Canoga Park as part of 3M.

The transaction is expected to expand