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Super Talent Announces Volume Shipment of Highly Anticipated USB 3.0 RAIDDriveTM

San Jose, California – January 6, 2010 – Super Talent Technology, an inventor of USB 3.0 flash drives, today announced volume shipment of its newly announced USB 3.0 RAIDDrive. The new drive, available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities, is fully backward compatible with USB 2.0 standard and operates at 10x speeds when used in conjunction with a USB 3.0 port.

“This product underscores Super Talent’s continued leadership in USB drives.” said Super Talent COO, C.H. Lee. “We’ve developed the world’s first and fastest USB 3.0 flash drive, by integrating two SSD into a RAID array for maximum throughput.” It delivers phenomenal … Read More → "Super Talent Announces Volume Shipment of Highly Anticipated USB 3.0 RAIDDriveTM"

Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces its First 32nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture-Based Multiprocessing DSP Engine

LEESBURG, VA – January 7, 2010 — Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, a leading designer and manufacturer of rugged deployed commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) VME, VPX, OpenVPX™, VXS and CompactPCI products for the Aerospace and Defense (A&D) market, has introduced its first high performance VME64x DSP (Digital Signal Processing) engine utilizing the new dual-core Intel® Core™ i7-610E processor. The new CHAMP-AV5 is Curtiss-Wright Controls’ first DSP engine with the new Intel® Core™ i7 processor, representing an industry milestone in bringing the low-power/high-performance advantages … Read More → "Curtiss-Wright Controls Introduces its First 32nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture-Based Multiprocessing DSP Engine"

Atmel Receives ZigBee RF4CE Platform Certification Using ATmega128RFA1

CES, Las Vegas, NV, January 7, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in touch- and microcontroller-based solutions, today announced that Atmel’s RF4Control platform has received ZigBee® RF4CE certification using the new ATmega128RFA1 wireless AVR® microcontroller. Atmel can now offer its customers an immediate, low-cost, easy-to-implement solution for various remote control applications using the ATmega128RFA1.

The ZigBee RF4CE specification is a standardized specification for radio frequency (RF) remote controls promoted by the ZigBee Alliance. The specification enables flexible control from nearby rooms, enables unique two-way communications between the remote and … Read More → "Atmel Receives ZigBee RF4CE Platform Certification Using ATmega128RFA1"

World’s Leading DTV IC Vendor MStar Licenses MIPS® Processor IP

INTERNATIONAL CES, Las Vegas – January 7, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that the world’s leading provider of integrated circuits (ICs) for digital television, MStar Semiconductor, licensed its multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kf™ Pro synthesizable processor core for next-generation devices. The 34Kf core includes a floating point unit that provides enhanced performance for graphics-intensive functionality, … Read More → "World’s Leading DTV IC Vendor MStar Licenses MIPS® Processor IP"

World’s Leading DTV IC Vendor MStar Licenses MIPS® Processor IP

INTERNATIONAL CES, Las Vegas – January 7, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced that the world’s leading provider of integrated circuits (ICs) for digital television, MStar Semiconductor, licensed its multi-threaded MIPS32® 34Kf™ Pro synthesizable processor core for next-generation devices. The 34Kf core includes a floating point unit that provides enhanced performance for graphics-intensive functionality, … Read More → "World’s Leading DTV IC Vendor MStar Licenses MIPS® Processor IP"

Qualcomm and TSMC Collaborating on 28nm Process Technology

SAN DIEGO and HSINCHU, TAIWAN, R.O.C., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that the Company is working closely with foundry partner Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) on 28 nanometer (nm) process technology. The advanced process node enables more features to be integrated into smaller chips with a high level of cost efficiency, accelerating the expansion of wireless into new market segments.

Small form factor and low power consumption are important features of Qualcomm’s next generation of system-on-a-chip (SoC) … Read More → "Qualcomm and TSMC Collaborating on 28nm Process Technology"

Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Virtex-6 FPGA Based XMC Card

San Jose, CA – January 7, 2010 – Alpha Data, a leading supplier of COTS board solutions, today announced the release of its first Virtex-6TM FPGA based platform, the ADM-XRC-6TL XMC card.

The card is fully compliant with the VITA 42.3 industry standard (PCI-Express® backplane) and delivers unprecedented levels of digital signal processing capability making it an ideal platform for the development of the most demanding ELINT and Image Processing applications.

The flexible board architecture … Read More → "Alpha Data Releases New High-Performance Virtex-6 FPGA Based XMC Card"

MIPS Technologies and Partners Accelerate SoC Design for Android™-Based Devices

INTERNATIONAL CES, LAS VEGAS, Nev. – January 5, 2010 – MIPS Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital consumer, home networking, wireless, communications and business applications, today announced it is working with leading providers of key IP for the connected digital home—including audio, video, graphics and security functionality—to help SoC developers get to market quickly with … Read More → "MIPS Technologies and Partners Accelerate SoC Design for Android™-Based Devices"

Xilinx Expands Programmable Advantage for Consumer Digital TV Displays

LAS VEGAS, Nev., January 7, 2010 – At the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) today, Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) introduced the first market-specific Targeted Design Platform optimized for creating state-of the-art digital television (DTV) solutions with the low-cost, low- power Xilinx® Spartan®-6 field programmable gate array (FPGA) family. The Xilinx Consumer DTV Targeted Design Platform streamlines development of advanced video
algorithms with the latest video interface standards, including DisplayPort, V-by-One®HS, HDMI, and LVDS.

DTV OEMs can now bring consumer digital displays to market quickly with high definition picture quality and greater feature differentiation. The … Read More → "Xilinx Expands Programmable Advantage for Consumer Digital TV Displays"

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