Hardware
Wintegra signs partnership deal with Asidua
Wintegra, headquartered in Austin (Texas), and Belfast (Northern Ireland)-based Asidua have announced their collaboration in the development of Carrier-Class Ethernet Control Plane Stacks for Wintegra Processors. Marketed exclusively by Wintegra to its customers world wide, the Control Plane Stacks are expected to enable Wintegra’s customers to accelerate the development of Carrier-Class Ethernet Solutions for Next-Generation [...]
Toshiba unveils USIM card for mobile phones
Toshiba has announced the development of a new USIM card for use in mobile phones supporting the NFC (Near Field Communication) function, in anticipation of the worldwide rollout of mobile contactless services forecast for 2010 and 2011. Toshiba plans to release samples of the new card in the third quarter of 2009, and will exhibit [...]
Trigcom, RIM introduce BlackBerry Curve 8900 in Norway
Trigcom and Research In Motion (RIM) have launched the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone in Norway. In addition to its phone, e-mail, messaging, organiser, web browser and multimedia applications, the BlackBerry Curve 8900 smartphone features global connectivity support, built-in Wi-fi and GPS, a next generation 512Mhz processor and a hi-resolution display. The phone incorporates a full-QWERTY [...]
Cypress solution selected for SoftBank 931SH mobile phone
Cypress Semiconductor has announced that the Truetouch touchscreen solution from Cypress has been selected to implement the touchscreen for the new Softbank Mobile 931SH mobile phone. The new phone, manufactured by Sharp Communication Systems offers a touchscreen that delivers ‘half-XGA’ (1024 x 480) resolution. It also offers multi-touch capability, allowing gestures such as tap, double-tap, [...]
Worldwide mobile phone market declines: IDC
IDC, a provider of market intelligence, advisory services, has informed that according to its Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 289.0m units, 12.6 per cent lower than the 330.8m units shipped during 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped a total of 1.18bn units worldwide, 3.5 per cent greater than the [...]
NEC unveils application-specific standard product
NEC Electronics has introduced a new application-specific standard product (ASSP) ‘to address the dramatic divergence between yesterday’s image resolution and the high resolution of today’s audio-visual (AV) display systems’. Based on the company’s single-frame super-resolution technology, the low-power ASSP (part number uPD9245GJ) reduces the blurring that occurs when low-resolution images are expanded and displayed in [...]
Hitachi delivers CinemaStar C5K500 for digital video, surveillance apps
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced the CinemaStar C5K500, a 2.5-inch hard drive with up to 500GB of audio video storage capacity designed for digital video applications that require compact design and low power usage. This fourth-generation small form factor CinemaStar drive claims to deliver a balance of capacity, cool operation and ruggedness [...]
Austriamicrosystems unveils AS3932 wake-up receiver
Austriamicrosystems, a designer and manufacturer of analog ICs, expanded its RF product portfolio with the AS3932, a 3-channel low power low frequency wakeup receiver. The AS3932 supports the 125 kHz band and, through the optimisation of power consumption, sensitivity and programmability, claims to enable a variety of applications. The receiver has three independent receiving channels [...]
Sony Pictures Animation, Platinum Studios to develop animated feature
Sony Pictures Animation has set a deal with Platinum Studios, an entertainment company that controls an international library of comic book characters which it adapts, produces and licenses for all forms of media, to develop an animated feature. Platinum Studios, which controls an international library of comics and graphic novel content with over 5,600 characters, [...]
Jupiter Systems launches PixelNet line in Europe
Jupiter Systems, a player in display wall processors, has launched its new PixelNet product line in Europe. PixelNet distributes the process of capturing inputs, routing signals, and displaying content, among intelligent nodes, with the aim of making it easier and less expensive to design, build, and manage complex control rooms. This new technology can display [...]
