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 Friday June 27, 1997SLDRAM on track for spring '98 rolloutDenying reports that the SLDRAM--formerly called the Synclink DRAM--effort was dying on the vine, Farhad Tabrizi, chairman of the SLDRAM Consortium and director of strategic marketing at Hyundai Electronics America, said the effort was on track, on schedule and expanding its efforts.
Supreme Court decision frees the NetThe Internet industry, privacy groups and some lawmakers hailed Thursday's Supreme Court decision striking down the online censorship provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) as overly vague.
Intel chief Barrett prods Japan on PCsIn his first news conference in Japan as Intel Corp. president, Craig Barrett asserted that Japan's home-PC market is lagging that of other nations.
Windows CE gets lackluster reception in JapanThere were few cheers for the initial Japanese release of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system, which lagged the English version by 10 months. The OS supports handwriting recognition but lacks support for VGA color screens, which many see as a serious flaw.
Fault simulation gets liftProvis Corp., a spinoff of Zycad, has produced one of the first memory-model acceleration products for concurrent fault simulation.
Thursday June 26, 1997Compaq acquires Tandem in Windows NT thrustIn a bid to shape itself into a full-line Windows NT powerhouse, Compaq Computer Corp. has announced plans to purchase Tandem Computers Inc. in a stock swap valued at approximately $3 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Tandem will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Compaq.
Holy Grail of embedded DRAM challengedCall it a backlash, or a healthy debate, but many engineers are starting to question whether the benefits of putting large blocks of DRAM together with logic may be oversold. Some are claiming that merged DRAM with logic will be rejected as a mainstream technology, much as BiCMOS and multi-chip modules failed to live up to earlier predictions.
Philips, Sony propose DSD based disc system for the next generation audioSony Corp. and Philips Electronics NV are proposing a next-generation audio system based on the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) encoding system developed by Sony. The companies will push it as a candidate for the DVD-Audio standard now being hammered out, but do not deny the possibility of opposing formats.
Darpa reveals MAFET achievements on microwave design toolsAmid pressure to show progress on RF design tools, the eight primary participants in the Darpa-financed Microwave and Analog Front-End Technology (Mafet) program have issued a White Paper detailing their achievements since the project was announced. The document cites improvements in the user interface for RF EDA tools, a common data-interchange format for microwave ICs, improved modeling capability and breakthroughs in simulation speed and accuracy.
Image agency pushes new military capabilityThe U.S. military is seeking to add a new and revolutionary capability to its growing high-tech arsenal by merging surveillance imagery with other intelligence to create what it calls geospatial information systems.
Wednesday June 25, 1997Face recognition kit for OEMsVisionics Corp. has announced a $4,995 shrink-wrapped version of its facial-recognition software, FaceIt SDK.
Hayes signs DSL distribution pact with AlcatelDealing its way into digital-subscriber-line modem markets, Hayes Microcomputer Products Inc. has agreed to market and develop board-level asymmetric DSL products based on the Alcatel Meitec ADSL chip set.
Scaled down SOI wafers offeredA more refined silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer suitable for 0.25-micron and smaller design rules has been introduced by Ibis Technology Corp.
52 MIPs programmable DSP targets wireless applicationsTargeting wireless, telecommunications and multimedia applications, NEC Electronics Inc. has developed a standard low-power programmable device that's optimized for digital cellular telephones, fax/modems and handheld consumer products.
Tanner plans EDA seminarsTanner Research Inc., a provider of PC-based tools for IC, multichip module (MCM) and micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) design, is offering seminars in 10 cities next month.
Tuesday June 24, 1997Mobile network-computer standard in worksIn an effort to extend the desktop network-computer (NC) to the broader world of mobile systems, a group of 11 companies has announced the Mobile Network Computer Reference Specification. The mobile-NC spec is an extension of the Java-based NC reference platform unveiled in May of last year.
Altera shrinks Flex PLD die in gate-array assaultAltera Corp. today will announce a family of programmable-logic devices that could hammer the market for small to moderately sized gate arrays.
Modem-software startup inks deals with Philips, ARMAltoCom Inc. has signed Philips Semiconductors and Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. as its first licensees for V.34 modem software implemented in standard fixed-point integer processors. Philips will use the AltoCom code in its TwoChipPIC Plus controllers and TriMedia TM 1000 architecture.
Potholes cited in the fast lane to deep submicronThe push to smaller device sizes is happening faster than anticipated, increasing the need to address critical technological challenges in materials, design tools, design methodologies, process technology, processing-equipment development, and other areas before they develop into crippling roadblocks.
ATM fights back on all fronts at Year '97 confabSemiconductor companies and switching OEMs will come to the ATM Year '97 conference this week to assert the health of asynchronous-transfer-mode cell-switching protocols. Developers are ready to defend ATM's ubiquity in the WAN and even champion its appropriateness as a LAN-backbone protocol.
Monday June 23, 1997Questions gnaw at core of design reuseThe issue of design reuse kept pushing its way into the foreground at the Design Automation Conference here recently, insinuating itself into debates as far afield as the architecture of system-level chips, the design of deep-submicron processes and the business relationships among EDA vendors, ASIC houses and systems OEMs.
STM entry into X86s takes a global twistThomson Microelectronics (STM) will crash the rapidly expanding party at the low end of the personal-computer market this summer with a new X86 CPU and a multi-pronged product strategy.
PowerPC parries Merced with multichip thrustProponents of Apple Computer Inc.'s flagging Macintosh platform are preparing their own answer to Intel's ballyhooed "Merced" CPU, in the form of a 64-bit PowerPC microprocessor now in the works at the joint Motorola-IBM Somerset Design Center in Austin, Texas.
Samsung shows 1-Gbit DRAMSamsung Electronics Corp. (Seoul, South Korea) claims to be the first company to make a fully working 1-Gbit DRAM. In making the announcement, at the VLSI Technology Symposium here, the company said its engineers used new materials and a multi-threshold voltage design to reach the gigabit density goal.
Senate panel eyes spectrum auction, slows DTV rolloutThe Senate Commerce Committee approved a budget blueprint last week that slows digital-TV (DTV) deployment and seeks to raise about $25 billion through spectrum auctions over the next five years.
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