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Thursday, 05 April 2007 |
After years of speculation, details emerged last week of Intel's plans to build a 12-inch wafer fab in China. It's a coup for that country--Intel's second-largest market--but another blow to the US chip-manufacturing industry, which has seen a steady exodus of fabs to overseas locations. China's top planning commission has reportedly given Intel the green light to spend $2.5 billion on a 12-inch wafer plant, likely to be situated in the northern city of Dalian, that would use 90-nanometer technology to produce CPU chip sets. Intel has not confirmed the deal. "We have announced no plans and will not comment on speculation of this nature," an Intel spokesman said last week....more  (0) Comments |
Kaleidescape Prevails Over The DVD Copy Control Association |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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Kaleidescape is pleased to announce that, after a seven-day trial, Judge Leslie C. Nichols of the Santa Clara Superior Court ruled that Kaleidescape is in full compliance with the DVD Copy Control Association's license to the Content Scramble System, the method used to encrypt video and audio data on DVDs. As part of his statement of decision, Judge Nichols noted Kaleidescape’s good faith in its efforts to ensure that its products were fully compliant. "Kaleidescape has been operating in the shadow of the DVD CCA's allegations for over three years. We are gratified that after hearing all of the evidence, the Judge has completely vindicated our position," said Michael Malcolm, founder, chairman and CEO of Kaleidescape....more (0) Comments |
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Spam Costs US Businesses $712 Per Employee Each Year |
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Tuesday, 03 April 2007 |
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Nucleus Research announced that the spam epidemic is costing US businesses $712 per employee each year in lost worker productivity. According to a survey of 849 e-mail users conducted during March 2007, Nucleus Research and KnowledgeStorm found that two out of every three e-mail messages received by today’s business users are spam. As a result, users are spending 16 seconds identifying and deleting each spam e-mail, which translates into an annual cost of $70 billion to all US businesses....more (0) Comments |
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Costs Cast IC Makers Into Darwinian Struggle |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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The IC business is fast becoming unaffordable for all but the wealthiest chip makers. Rising fab and chip-design costs are creating a new elitism, with the well-heeled few able to shoulder the burden and the mass of suppliers squeezed out, according to data from one design tool vendor. The trend will become even more pronounced starting at 45-nanometer manufacturing, Synopsys Inc. predicted at last week's International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). In the new IC world order, fewer integrated device manufacturers (IDMs) can afford to build fabs, while only an elite group may be able to develop leading-edge IC designs over time. At the 45-nm node, a new 300-mm fab costs about $3 billion, process technology R&D runs $2.4 billion and a "mask set" is up to $9 million, Synopsys said. Test costs, meanwhile, continue to be flat....more (0) Comments |
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Apple Unveils Higher Quality DRM-Free Music On The iTunes Store |
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Monday, 02 April 2007 |
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Apple announced that EMI Music’s entire digital catalog of music will be available for purchase DRM-free (without digital rights management) from the iTunes Store (www.itunes.com) worldwide in May. DRM-free tracks from EMI will be offered at higher quality 256 kbps AAC encoding, resulting in audio quality indistinguishable from the original recording, for $1.29 per song. In addition, iTunes customers will be able to easily upgrade their entire library of all previously purchased EMI content to the higher quality DRM-free versions for just 30 cents a song. iTunes will continue to offer its entire catalog, currently over five million songs, in the same versions as today—128 kbps AAC encoding with DRM—at the same price of 99 cents per song, alongside DRM-free higher quality versions when available....more (0) Comments |
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Intel-Powered Classmate PCs First To Ship In Volume To Emerging Markets |
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Friday, 30 March 2007 |
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Intel announced that Intel-powered Classmate PCs are shipping in volume to emerging markets. These affordable yet fully functional PC based on the Intel Celeron M processor is the first education-oriented mobile computer to ship in volume to Brazil and Mexico. The Intel-powered Classmate PC supports collaborative learning environments primarily for K-12 schools and is part of Intel's on-going commitment and dedication to equip children around the world with technology that will help advance learning and development....more (0) Comments |
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