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Friday, December 6, 1996
"Web TVs" look to be the technology gift of choice this holiday season, as several recent surveys reveal a strong consumer interest in accessing the Internet through the television set. Many leading electronics firms are gearing up for the demand with a variety of products and announcements.
With billions of dollars to spend, developers of Chinese fabs are eager to buy submicron technology and equipment. But they complain that the U.S. Commerce Department's trade policies for submicron equipment and materials are tantamount to trade sanctions.
Microsoft
Corp. is apparently poised to release CardBus software for Windows 95, industry sources said. The move gives added impetus to the robust, 32-bit answer to PC-card congestion, just as the first CardBus products begin showing up on the market.
A controversial new Internet usage-monitoring product will be released this week, but its benefits to users will outweigh the threat of intrusion on privacy by management and systems administrators, according to the product's developers.
Chip-scale packaging (CSP) is emerging in consumer products, with a recently introduced camcorder using the compact packages to triple I/O density over existing commercial products.
Early test wafers implementing Te
xas Instruments Inc.'s 0.18-micron CMOS process will allow the company's networking groups to determine just how close a deep-submicron process can bring TI to true single-chip switching systems.
Thursday, December 5, 1996
The National Science Foundation has instituted a program called Collaborative Research in Learning Technologies (CRLT). It recently awarded 25 grants, worth $5.6 million, to CRLT recipients to refine research into educational technology.
Materials research at the University of Rochester has turned up a practical approach to integrating porous-silicon LEDs into conventional IC-fabrication lines. The development, which surfaced here at the annual fall meeting of the Materials Research Society, could lead to the full integration of optoelectronic circuitry into mainstream silicon te
chnology.
Lucent Technologies Inc. is leveraging its modulation work in digital TV consumer markets to offer a demodulator capable of supporting Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) constellations of 256, 64, 16 and 4 points.
Fuzzy-logic pioneer Aptronix Inc. has refocused its engineering-software-development environment on what's called Java-based "smart applets" with the introduction of its Java Runtime Controller.
After a 15-month hiatus to redesign its system board from scratch, RadioLAN Inc. has resurfaced, claiming success in developing a 10-Mbit/second narrowband 5.8-GHz wireless LAN that overcomes multipath interference in virtually any office environment.
Wednesday, December 4, 1996
Industry support for the Clinton administration's "key-recovery" crypto proposal appears to be unraveling, as policy makers prepare to implement the plan on Jan. 1.
Engineers sometimes have to search out an in-house graphics workstation when they want to perform an occasional image-processing task. Now the same function can be found at
www.vrl.com/Imaging/index.html
, where Visioneering Research Laboratory Inc's resident image-processing computers will automatically transform images according to users' specifications.
Sharp Electronics Corp. has introduced a line of NOR flat-cell flash-memory chips and flash-memory miniature cards based on emerging Intel architectures.
Materials research at the University of Rochester has turned up a practical approach to integrating porous-silicon LEDs into conventional IC-fabrication lines.
Even as the world is still digesting IP switching, tag switching and IP reservation protocols, a newcomer is about to land with a fresh concept for managing and controlling bandwidth for Internet Protocol-based networks: Pack-eteer Inc.
Tuesday, December 3, 1996
The political compromise hammered out last week on a U.S. digital-TV standard settles the lengthy skirmish between the PC and TV industries over video formats but immediately raised questions among potential players about how the standard will be implemented.
Broadcasters have set a Dec. 31 deadline for regulators to approve a compromise digital-TV transmission standard announced last week (see related story above).
In a pacesetting application that could make Java the star of the small screen, Hongkong Telecom is gearing up to deploy Java as the mission-critical programming language at the heart of its upcoming interactive-television network.
Despite Microsoft Corp.'s decision to pull the plug on Windows NT support for the MIPS processor, NEC Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will move ahead with development of the next generation of the RISC device, executives said.
An international conference on intellectual-property protection opening here today could afford the Clinton administration
an end run around Congress on the digital-copyright issues at the top of the U.S. legislative agenda, say critics of the administration's position on copyright protection.
Looking to bring hardware/software codesign to mainstream designers, Viewlogic Systems Inc. has joined with Eagle Design Automation (Beaverton, Ore.) and Applied Microsystems Corp. (Seattle) in an unusually broad sales, consulting and support alliance. Their pact can support activities ranging from software development and debugging to ASIC test and verification.
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