Will China Become A Center For Chip Design? |
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
There is no innovation going on in China in the electronic industry, but there will be, Harry Rowen, former assistant Secretary of Defense in the United States government, chairman of the U.S. National Intelligence Council and president of the RAND Corporation told an audience at the Globalpress Summit Conference in Monterey. "There are a thousand U.S. companies with R&D centers in China, there’s no research, and not a lot of development, but there is a lot of design work,” said Rowen, “Chinese venture capitalists ask: ‘Why should we innovate when there’s so much low-hanging fruit out there?’” The China government thinks differently. “The Chinese government finds this situation deeply unsatisfactory,” said Rowen. He said that the government planned to increase China’s annual spending on R&D from $30 billion in 2005 to $113 billion in 2020....more  (0) Comments |
Microsoft Ordered To Pay $1.52B To Alcatel-Lucent In MP3 Case |
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Monday, 26 February 2007 |
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A jury ruled against Microsoft , ordering the software giant to pay a $1.52 billion damages award to Paris-based Alcatel-Lucent as part of a patent infringement case regarding digital music technology. Lucent, now part of Alcatel-Lucent, originally filed the infringement suit against Microsoft customers in 2003. Not surprisingly, Microsoft is less than pleased with the ruling. "We think this verdict is completely unsupported by the law or the facts. We will seek relief from the trial court, and if necessary appeal," Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate VP and deputy general counsel, said in a statement. Burt added that the company believes it properly licensed the MP3 technology from Fraunhofer. "The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we paid Fraunhofer only $16 million to license this technology," Burt said....more (0) Comments |
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Videos Have Net Bursting At The Seams |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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Those amusing YouTube video clips that Internet users send to friends gobble up large chunks of bandwidth and may cause the Net to crash, some elements of the telecom industry warn. It's an admonition many dismiss as political posturing intended to dissuade lawmakers from restricting the freedom of phone companies to manage Internet traffic as they wish. But no one disagrees that the Web's capacity is being pushed to its limits. "We don't see anything catastrophic near term, but over the next few years there's this fundamental wall we're heading towards," said Pieter Poll, chief technology officer at Qwest Communications International, one of the operators of the Internet backbones, which are the big pipes at the network's center....more (0) Comments |
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Microsoft Loses Big In MP3 Patent Suit |
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Friday, 23 February 2007 |
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A federal jury in San Diego yesterday ordered Microsoft to pay $1.52 billion to Alcatel-Lucent for violating two patents for a technology used by hundreds of companies that allows users to play digital music on computers, cellphones and other portable devices. The judgment, which lawyers from both sides called the largest patent award ever, raised the prospect that scores of other companies could now be financially liable for using the popular MP3 format....more (0) Comments |
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NFC To Become Standard For Mobile Phones, NXP Says |
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Thursday, 22 February 2007 |
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NFC (near field communications) wireless is destined to become a standard technology included in every mobile phone thanks to an agreement that simplifies the security, according to NXP Semiconductors. Wireless chip suppliers are getting very excited about NFC, which can provide very short range data links for ticketing and sales transactions from a mobile. “At the moment you have to put an NFC chip and a smartcard chip in the phone which is quite an investment,” said Ton van Kampen, VP business development for mobile and personal at NXP. “However an agreement has now been made where you only have to put an NFC chip in and the Sim card doubles as security,” said van Kampen....more (0) Comments |
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Obscure Metal At Forefront Of Chip Advance |
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Wednesday, 21 February 2007 |
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Hafnium was known to hardly anyone outside a handful of scientists and engineers until late last month, when Intel and IBM announced a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors that will use the silvery metal. The stable and benign substance, listed No. 72 on the periodic table of elements, has made a breakthrough to the next generation of semiconductors possible, the companies said....more (0) Comments |
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