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TSMC to Unveil 20nm Chips With FinFET Transistors at IEDM

1. October 2010

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TSMC to Unveil 20nm Chips With FinFET Transistors at IEDM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) may be showing off its vision for the future of chip manufacturing technologies beyond 20 nanometers when it unveils its latest research into FinFET transistors at a chip industry event later this year. Read more on PC World via Yahoo! [...]

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Super Wi-Fi approved by FCC

29. September 2010

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Super Wi-Fi, which provides Wi-Fi networks with multi-kilometer-wide coverage areas has been approved by the FCC. The approval means that it is now open for anyone to set up Super Wi-Fi networks, without being obliged to seek permission for the network in the U.S.. Super Wi-Fi networks are not easy to set up and equipment [...]

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HP Palm Smartphones on the Way

20. September 2010

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Rahul Sood, chief technology officer for HP’s gaming business has talked about HP, Palm and WebOS on his blog. According to Sood, several smartphones and other Internet-enabled devices based on Palm OS WebOS are on the way. It is interesting that Sood describes the products with the brand name “HP Palm”. Whether this will actually [...]

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Starcraft 2 Requirements and other Tech News

17. September 2010

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WarBirds 2010-2011 New Japanese Team, New Events, New Graphics! CARY, N.C.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–WarBirds New Season. New Graphics, New Events, New Office in Japan. New Retail Releases, WarBirds Dogfights, Red Baron, in Europe Read more on Business Wire StarCraft II Revisited: How Much Gaming PC Do You Need? With the full game released, Gigabyte provides a huge [...]

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AMD Overtakes Nvidia as Top Discrete Graphics Vendor

15. September 2010

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AMD Overtakes Nvidia as Top Discrete Graphics Vendor AMD overtook Nvidia during the second quarter to become the top discrete graphics card vendor, according to market research firm Mercury Research. Nvidia – Video card – Advanced Micro Devices – Business – Market research Read more on PC World Nvidia Introduces Sub-0 DirectX 11 Graphics Card [...]

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Samsung QX Laptop and other Laptop News

13. September 2010

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Instructables DIY laptop stand Image by Guillermo Esteves 10′ of 3/4″ PVC tubing, 4 tee and 4 elbow 3/4″ fittings, a hacksaw, some elbow grease and 15 minutes later I got a cool DIY laptop stand, courtesy of Instructables, via Lifehacker. Featured on Unplggd. Samsung QX Laptop debuts at IFA 2010, Watch out MacBook Pro [...]

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Friday Semiconductor Update

10. September 2010

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Semiconductor Way Image by Semiconductor Films Semiconductor Way in Silicon Valley. Taiwan GaAs foundries hit record revenue highs in August Advanced Wireless Semiconductor Company (AWSC) and Win Semiconductor, two major Taiwan-based GaAs wafer foundries, have both reported new record highs in monthly revenues for August 2010. Read more on Digi Times Fairchild Semiconductor’s 2010 Analyst [...]

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Google Instant Predicts Faster Search

8. September 2010

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Google just announced a new feature that they intend to roll out in due time. The feature is called Google Instant, and not only anticipates and auto-completes what it is you want to write before you have completed your search term, Google Instant also gives you search results for the search term that you have [...]

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Nvidia’s laptop graphics cards to boost Web browsing

8. September 2010

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Nvidia’s laptop graphics cards to boost Web browsing Nvidia on Friday announced seven new GeForce 400M series laptop graphics cards, which could help accelerate Web surfing and 3D image rendering. Read more on Macworld AMD, NVIDIA to intro Radeon HD 6700, GeForce GT 430 in fall AMD and NVIDIA may focus their attention on mid-range [...]

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Epic Citadel shows off the Unreal Engine 3

7. September 2010

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Epic Citadel shows off the Unreal Engine 3 TASTY: Gorgeous graphics and top-notch sound. BUMMER: Not a real game, yet. COOL: Smooth, responsive controls. Read more on appolicious Mentor Graphics Details Toshiba’s Expanded Deployment of Catapult C for Complex ASIC Designs WILSONVILLE, OR–(Marketwire – September 1, 2010) – Mentor Graphics Corp. ( NASDAQ : MENT [...]

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