Delta Electronics and BASF Develop Energy-Saving Refrigeration with Magnetic Technology

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:44:08 +0000

BASF and Delta Electronics, Inc. want to use environmentally friendly magnetocaloric technology to develop new cooling systems and explore the opportunities of magnetocaloric power generation.

NXP Ships One Millionth FlexRay Transceiver for Automotive Networking

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:42:53 +0000

NXP Semiconductors today announced that it has shipped its one millionth FlexRayTM transceiver to the automotive industry.

Apple’s OS Snow Leopard Will Be Arriving Soon

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:41:04 +0000

Apple has come out with their new operating system for Mac users. Called the Snow Leopard, this is found to have a more responsive finder, and will free up to 7GB in your hard drive once you install it in your Apple laptops.

Here are the salient features of this OS:

- Mail that loads messages up to twice as fast

- Time Machine with an up to 80 percent faster initial backup

- a Dock with Exposé integration

- QuickTime X with a redesigned player that allows users to easily view, record, trim and share video

- a 64-bit version of Safari 4 that is up to 50 percent faster and resistant to crashes caused…

The PowerPC debacle

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:39:20 +0000

EAST FISHKILL, N.Y.–When the PowerPC was introduced in 1993, many people saw it as a sure-fire winner. For one thing, it was the product of a strategic alliance of three of the best and biggest names in the electronics industry: IBM, Motorola and Apple Computer. Analysts saw it looming as a formidable competitor to Intel’s 486 family of microprocessors for PCs.

OpenRTOS supports ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:37:08 +0000

“The ability to migrate from FreeRTOS and gain additional components or support when needed is a real benefit for designers, particularly in these lean times,” said FreeRTOS creator and High Integrity Systems’ head of innovation, Richard Barry

Review: Yoostar is a movie-studio-in-a-box

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:32:37 +0000

If you’ve ever wanted to battle “The Terminator,” talk smack as “The Godfather” or get in the shower with a “Psycho,” now you can – without having to move to Hollywood.

Apple denies battery problem with exploding iPhones

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:30:32 +0000

US technology giant Apple on Friday rejected reports that overheating batteries had caused some of its iPhone devices to explode in users’ hands, blaming incidents in France on “external pressure”.

Researchers Hope to Mass-Produce Robots on a Chip

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:28:39 +0000

Tiny robots the size of a flea could one day be mass-produced, churned out in swarms and programmed for a variety of applications, such as surveillance, micromanufacturing, medicine, cleaning, and more. In an effort to reach this goal, a recent study has demonstrated the initial tests for fabricating microrobots on a large scale.

Intel ups Q3 revenue expectations on stronger than expected demand for MPUs, chipsets

admin — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:26:47 +0000

Intel adds to the recent string of good news, improving its Q3 revenue and gross margin expectations. The new guidance calls for $9 billion in revenue, a $1 billion improvement over Q2, and Q3 gross margin percentage in the upper half of the previous range of 53%.

Dialog develops a power management IC for the Intel Atom

admin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:51:30 +0000

Dialog Semiconductor, with Harman Becker, has developed a power management IC for the Intel Atom.

Dubbed DA6001, it will be used Harman’s in-vehicle infotainment command centres.

It is the only available integrated power management and clock supply IC for the Intel Atom, claims Dialog, and allows a substantial reduction in the number of active and passive system components required in a design.