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Self-serving “synergy” 8/6/2009

Silicon Image is trying to have it both ways—painting a picture of HDMI as a cozy, cooperative industry standard, when in reality HDMI's predominantly a single-supplier proprietary approach.

802.11n: Complicated and about to become even messier 5/28/2009

Approval work for this next-generation Wi-Fi standard may wrap up by year-end, but the situation is about to become even more muddled.

Voices: Is multimedia abandoning DSPs? Analog Devices disagrees 5/28/2009

Denis Labrecque, marketing-programs manager at Analog Devices, sounds off on DSPs’ past, present, and future in audio, graphics, and imaging.

Canceling Sirius: so frustrating, it made me furious 4/23/2009

Tough economic times understandably encourage subscription-service companies to do their utmost to hold onto customers. Sometimes, unfortunately, they achieve this goal by making the cancellation too difficult to accomplish.

Power line: Does market success require resets? 4/9/2009

The three key technology suppliers for the 200-Mbps PHY (physical) rate are unwilling to bury the hatchet and come up with a standard approach.

OLEDs: better off once the delusion is dead 2/5/2009

The initial hype for OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) is already deflating and will continue to do so.

CES 2009: With Dirk Meyer and Phenom II, AMD keeps on trying 1/12/2009

Will AMD's change in leadership and Phenom II allow it to better compete with Intel as economic crisis continues to grip the globe and PCs increasingly become commodities?

CES 2009: Blu-ray's continued struggles and the ramping ascendancy of online 1/9/2009

Our man in Las Vegas surveys the digital-video scene, including both physical media and online options. Whose fortunes are rising, whose are evaporating, and who's just playing the spin game?

Broadcast content restrictions: A bad idea that just won’t die 1/8/2009

The broadcast flag may be extinct from an ATSC standpoint, but it has re-emerged in the form of selectable output control.

CES 2009: The price of falling prices, and a path to Intel's potential demise 1/8/2009

Atom is a short-term success, but does the netbook trend represent a long-term threat to Intel's beefy revenue and profit margins—as well as a potential salvation for graphic-processor makers?
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