Michael Singer

To compete with an 800-pound gorilla like Intel , you have to be a 800-pound gorilla – or at least join forces with one. That’s the thinking at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) , which Wednesday said it is teaming up with IBM to jointly develop chip-making technologies for use in future high-performance products. New processes, […]

SAN FRANCISCO — Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs says his company is marking 2003 as the official “Year of the Notebook.” “Many users are going to wonder why they even need a desktop computer anymore,” Jobs said at this year’s winter classic Macworld Conference and Expo here. Always a crowd pleaser, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer […]

Computer memory maker Rambus Monday said it has entered a licensing deal to put two of its new technologies in products made by Sony , its Computer Entertainment division (SCEI) and PC maker Toshiba. The Los Altos maker of RDRAM said it’s agreement covers two new high-speed interfaces, codenamed “Yellowstone” and “Redwood.” The technologies are […]

Royal Philips Electronics and General Atomics (GA) Monday said they will work together to jointly develop Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless communication chipsets and support the standardization process. UWB, a high-speed, short-range wireless technology – nearly 10 times faster than 802.11b – is used for transferring digital content between devices in different entertainment and computing clusters in […]

Chipmaker Transmeta Monday released sample and quantity versions of a new version of its low-power Crusoe processor that can be embedded in some pretty harsh environments. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said its new Crusoe Special Embedded (SE) microprocessors were designed and tested for long-term use in places where a chip’s temperature can reach as […]

In the race to bring faster, cheaper Internet to the masses, broadband circuit designer Marvell Monday released a new integrated crossbar switch fabric that its claims puts seventy-two 3.125 Gbps serializer/deserializers (SERDES) on a single chip. Part of its developing Prestera lineup, the Sunnyvale-based company said its Marvell Prestera-FX crossbar switch fabric is perfect for […]

Handheld computer maker Palm Monday said its software division has licensed its latest operating system to a Korean wireless device maker. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based PalmSource spin-off said it has struck a deal with HuneTec, which will use the Palm OS 5 platform for business-class 2-way messaging devices. The handhelds will include the old Motorola wireless […]

IBM this week said its scientists are creating a modular system that allows for more storage and server devices to be attached closer together in a smaller space. Scientists at the company’s Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif. are configuring a dense array of storage and switches built up as a 3D cubic array […]

When it comes to an Apple Computer love-fest, a Macworld Conference and Expo can’t be beat. Thousands of attendees are expected to descend on San Francisco next week to hear the latest news from the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer maker. By the time CEO Steve Jobs takes the stage on Tuesday, the company is expected to […]

In its quest for smaller and better sounding audio equipment, Dolby Laboratories said it is bringing its Dolby Virtual Speaker technology down to the chip level. The San Francisco-based sound specialists Thursday said they’ve licensed the first silicon implementation of two of its audio technologies to Norwood, Mass.-based Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) for use in […]

Credence Systems Thursday said it has acquired all of the assets of German-owned SZ Testsysteme AG and SZ Testsysteme GmbH from the Klaus Christian Penner family for about $4.7 million. Founded in 1978, SZ Testsysteme makes and distributes automatic test equipment (ATE) for semi-conductors for the entertainment, automobile, telecommunications and multi-media industries. The equipment is […]

The GSM Association, a wireless technology governance board, Thursday began making preparations for a major governance change next month. The collection of some 550 second and third generation wireless network operators said it has established a CEO Board (initially an Interim Board), comprising CEO level representatives of some of the world’s largest operator companies. As […]