    |
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|
  Headlines and summaries from the pages of Electronic Engineering Times. Previous editions are available from the 1994, 1995, 1996, and 1997 News Archives.
 Friday May 30, 1997Motorola reorganizes semiconductor divisionsMotorola Inc. will announce sweeping changes to its semiconductor business that mark an attempt to regain ground lost during last year's market slump.
HP broadens its support for Iomega's Zip driveHewlett-Packard Co. has broadened its usage of Iomega Corp.'s Zip drive, bolstering Iomega's claim that the 100-Mbyte drive will become the replacement for floppy drives.
Japan gaining inside track to China's chip marketChina's decision to form a semiconductor-fabrication venture with NEC Corp. has revived concerns within the chip industry that Japanese companies may be gaining the inside track in China's potentially huge market.
ParaGraph added to SGI Web storySilicon Graphics Inc.'s play to take its 3-D software reputation to the Web has gotten a serious boost with its acquisition of ParaGraph International, a seller of 3-D virtual-reality (VR) software for PCs.
Quick-moving Spyglass still growing upA tenfold increase in employment in three years is stressful for any company, but five-year-old Spyglass Inc. grew swiftly during a major strategic shift. Though the combination sometimes put management behind the proverbial eight ball, the firm has continued to rack up solid sales growth and major contracts.
Amiga lands with Gateway 2000PC maker Gateway 2000 Inc. has completed its acquisition of Amiga Technologies GmbH. Gateway 2000 made the announcement just before the opening of the World of Amiga conference in London.
Thursday May 29, 1997Real-depth imaging rivals 3-D viewingA simple 3-D imaging method, based on low-cost, off-the-shelf components, offers another option for a floating 3-D, off-the-screen experience without requiring glasses or seat restrictions.
Reversible logic saves powerReversible logic has been studied at a theoretical level for decades as an interesting counterpoint to conventional digital logic. But lately, circuit designers have been finding powerful energy-saving designs by adhering to the principle that information should not be discarded when it is processed.
Tyan rolls Pentium II boardsAiming at OEMs designing systems around Intel's latest MMX-capable microprocessor, Tyan Computing has unveiled a family of single-and dual-processor AT/ATX-footprint motherboards incorporating Intel's new Pentium II CPU.
Surge in smart cards sets stage for reader marketManufacturers of smart-card readers and terminals turned out in large numbers at the Cardtech/Securetech conference in Orlando, Florida recently, predicting that smart cards have finally achieved critical mass and are ready to surge forward.
Vina puts voice, data on T1Vina Technologies Inc., a newcomer founded by StrataCom Inc. executives, will show off at next week's Supercomm show a system that puts all voice and data traffic on traditional T1 leased lines.
Wednesday May 28, 1997Hundt exits FCC with no firm plansFCC Chairman Reed Hundt said today he will step down as head of the Federal Communications Commission as soon as a successor is found.
Toshiba preps logic-DRAM IC for NeoMagicThe heat of competition is about to enliven the market for chips with logic and DRAM, which have been dogged thus far by a reputation for high cost. Koichi Suzuki, who heads Toshiba Corp.'s semiconductor division, said Toshiba is about two months away from first silicon on a notebook-graphics controller, with embedded DRAM, that will be manufactured for NeoMagic Corp.
Ascend handles WANs with 'NetClarity'Ascend Communications Inc. is using technology acquired from its purchase last year of StonyBrook Services Inc. to create a new breed of network-management tool for viewing aggregated analog and digital traffic on the wide-area network. NetClarity will be shown for the first time next week at the Supercomm show in New Orleans.
Moto extends PowerQuicc lineMotorola's Networking and Communications Semiconductor Group has split its MPC860 PowerPC line of processors into three parts, grafting two new branches onto the PowerQICC family tree. The original MPC860 device is now joined by the cost-reduced MPC850, which carries high-volume price tags of less than $30 each; and, for asynchronous-transfer-mode (ATM) switching applications, the MPC860SAR, which integrates a segmentation and reassembly (SAR) processor.
GSM tester handles both analog and digital testsMarconi's 2967 Radio Test Set for the global system for mobile communications (GSM), which covers an 800-MHz-to-1.9-GHz range, is claimed to be among the first of its kind to combine analog and digital test capability in one box.
Temic cuts size of its IrDA-compatible devices in halfTemic Semiconductors has brought to market two new versions of its IrDA (Infrared Data Association)-compatible IR data-transceiver module, which has been repackaged using surface-mount technology and injection molding. This shrinks the size of the original transceiver module to 9.7 x 4.7 x 4.0 mm.
Monday May 26, 1997Breakthrough brings touch to 3-DA breakthrough product called Phantom is spawning a firestorm of activity in the next frontier of the 3-D virtual space: haptics--or "touch"--technology. Research in a slew of applications, from electronic design to automotive and medical systems, could one day yield such futuristic scenarios as virtual circuit boards that designers can manipulate by hand and surgical simulations that let doctors "feel" an organ without making a cut.
Copy-protect logjam stalls DVD-PC debutThe seemingly endless stalemate over DVD copy-protection issues has pushed back plans by U.S. computer makers to launch DVD-enabled PCs by at least six more months--from June to Christmas, maybe longer.
Java dialect lures developers to try smart-card brewA new blend of Java promises the ability to use a single smart card for multiple applications--such as electronic cash, credit, debit and buying-profile data. Smart-card developers are being attracted in droves to this Java dialect, which has been stripped down to permit execution of applets in the tiny hardware environment of a smart card.
Quality concerns dog H.323 videocon specPC-subsystems vendors are hailing H.323, the International Telecommunications Union standard for videoconferencing over LANs, as the long-sought grail that will enable rapid deployment of desktop videoconferencing within corporations. But while H.323 ensures interoperability among videoconferencing systems over a network, it can make no similar guarantees for quality of service.
High-frequency amplifier seen as speeding optical dataTRW Inc. is claiming a performance record for an indium-phosphide IC that it believes could eventually speed delivery of data and video as the Internet goes optical. The low-noise amplifier chip that TRW announced last week produces 12.5 dB of gain at 155 GHz, an 18-times increase in signal amplification. That, company executives said, is the highest operating frequency reported for a solid-state amplifier.
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
RSS
 |
Home | About | Editorial Calendar | Feedback | Subscriptions | Newsletter | Media Kit | Contact | Reprints|  RSS| 
Digital|  Mobile |
|
| Network Websites |
|
|
International |
|
|
Network Features |
|
|
|
All materials on this site Copyright © 2009 TechInsights, a Division of United Business Media LLC All rights reserved. Privacy Statement | Terms of Service | About |
