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EDN names winners of 19th Annual Innovation Awards 3/31/2009
EDN has bestowed its 19th Annual Innovation Awards, honoring a diverse group of electronics engineers and the ground-breaking products they have produced. The Altera Stratix IV 40-nm FPGA design team is named Innovator of the Year. Read on for a complete list of the winners.Companion processor supports video editing on the phone 2/19/2009
Semiconductor start-up Movidia has announced the MA1110 multimedia processor for mobile phones. The MA1110 operates as an attached processor to the baseband or to another applications processor in medium- to high-end phone designs to enable high-performance in-phone-video postproduction in real time on low power budgets.ISSCC papers look toward high-definition in your handset 1/2/2009
An early look at papers to be presented at the 2009 ISSCC this February suggest the imminent arrival of high-definition video in your hand. Underlying technology in broadband communications to support the demanding data stream are now in silicon, and a new generation of HD-targeted media SOCs is making its debut. Real HD in handsets—whatever the practicality of the medium in this format may turn out to be—cannot be far behind.Tzero promises demo of 1080p60 wireless HDMI using UWB 12/3/2008
UWB (ultrawideband) silicon provider Tzero Technologies today announced that it plans to demonstrate at a developer's conference in Japan this week a "commercially viable" UWB implementation capable of delivering a 1080-line, 60-frame/sec HDTV signal.Avnet, TI, and Xilinx deliver FPGA/DSP development board for digital video 10/31/2008
Avnet, Texas Instruments, and Xilinx today announced the availability of the Avnet Spartan-3A DSP DaVinci Development Kit, an aptly (albeit cumbersomely) named development board that combines a Xilink Spartan-3A FPGA with a TI media-processor DSP for digital-video applications including automotive systems, machine vision, and surveillance.Slimmer light guide heralds ultrathin-LCD panels 10/16/2008
Philips Research recently displayed a prototype of a 32-in. LCD television that measures only 8 mm thick—about 20% as thick as the slimmest commercially available panels. The key to the skinny design is a 1-mm-thick light-guide plate that uses patented technologies to uniformly distribute light from high-power, energy-efficient LED backlights.Android phone announced, platform expected to gain 4% of US Q4 smartphone share 9/23/2008
The Google branding behind T-Mobile's G1 Android-based smartphone will only take it and the platform so far, analysts say, noting Open Handset Alliance's late entrance into an already crowded market and possible operator subsidies issues for Android-based phones.Innovation-aid software gets infusion of 1.3 million IEEE documents 8/20/2008
Invention Machine has announced the addition of 1.3 million technical documents from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) to its Goldfire Innovator software tool.Intel turbo charges future Core processors 8/20/2008
IDF: Intel showed off its next-generation desktop PC chips -- Intel Core i7 processors -- and energy-efficient, high-performance server products, codenamed “Nehalem-EP,” that will be moved into production in Q4. Intel also said it is planning a second server derivative aimed at the expandable sever market, codenamed “Nehalem-EX”, along with desktop and mobile client versions in the second half of 2009.ITC upholds Broadcom patent-infringement claim against SiRF 8/11/2008
As it did in Round One, Broadcom has prevailed in Round Two of a GPS patent dispute with SiRF Technology, as a US ITC (International Trade Commission) judge Friday ruled that SiRF products infringe six patents belonging to Global Locate, a wholly owned Broadcom subsidiary.Intel details PC graphics-aimed 'Larrabee' 8/4/2008
Santa Clara, Calif-based chip giant Intel Corp will present a paper at the Siggraph 2008 conference being held next week in Los Angeles that details features and capabilities for its forthcoming multi-core “Larrabee” architecture which includes a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a many-core programming model and performance analysis for several applications.WiMedia, Ecma team on UWB standards development 7/22/2008
Long-awaited consolidation among global UWB (ultrawideband) standards took a big step forward today with the announcement that the WiMedia Alliance and Swiss-based standards development consortium Ecma International will collaborate on future UWB standards.CherryPal challenges PC tradition with 2W "ultra-green" offering 7/21/2008
$249 machine leverages low-power Freescale processor, solid-state drive, Linux, and "cloud" storage and processing resources.SMPTE to spearhead standards for 3-D home entertainment 7/21/2008
The group will explore what kinds of standards will be required in order to ensure interoperability of 3-D content across diverse delivery media and consumer storage and playback devices.Low-power audio codec incorporates charge pump for Class G headphone amplifier
6/17/2008
Wolfson recently announced the low-power WM8903 audio codec for handheld consumer electronics.
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