Archive for August, 2009

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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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 [...]

• The PowerPC debacle

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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 [...]

• OpenRTOS supports ARM Cortex-M3 MCUs

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  “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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Saturday, August 29th, 2009

  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

  Friday, August 28th, 2009

  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 [...]