Chips for embedded systems added to roadmap
By Stewart Meagher: Monday, 07 April 2008
AMD TODAY announced the addition of three new low-power AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core processors to its embedded product roadmap. These will allow AMD technology to be added to embedded systems like networked storage systems and other high-performance designs including telecommunications solutions, digital signage, and point of sale, gaming, and kiosk systems. The new AMD Athlon X2 Dual-Core processor Models 3400e, 3600+ and 4200+ deliver greater levels of performance in the same low-power envelopes of 22, 35, and 35W maximum thermal design power, respectively.
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Seagate unveils self-encrypting disk drive
Self-encrypting functionality will be added to the Seagate Cheetah 15K drives by this summer
By Ellen Messmer, April 07, 2008
Seagate Technology says it's adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by the Trusted Computing Group. The TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification 1.0 defines a way that storage system drives will recognize encryption and decryption security commands and authorization requests, says Gianna DaGiau, senior product marketing manager. The self-encrypting functionality will be added to the Seagate Cheetah 15K drives by this summer, she says.
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By Ellen Messmer, April 07, 2008
Seagate Technology says it's adding a self-encrypting capability to its Cheetah 15K disk drive based on a specification promulgated by the Trusted Computing Group. The TCG Storage Architecture Core Specification 1.0 defines a way that storage system drives will recognize encryption and decryption security commands and authorization requests, says Gianna DaGiau, senior product marketing manager. The self-encrypting functionality will be added to the Seagate Cheetah 15K drives by this summer, she says.
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Intel's Skulltrail: $2,800 for the CPUs Alone?!
By Mark Hachman April 7, 2008
Based upon the price of the new QX9775 processor, the bones littering Intel's "Skulltrail" platform will be the dessicated corpses of enthusiasts' wallets. As predicted six months ago by Taiwan's DigiTimes, the QX9775 processor (a 45-nm processor running at 3.2 GHz with 12 Mbytes of cache and a 1.6-GHz front-side bus) is priced at $1,499, according to Intel's official price list. Yes, just for the processor alone. The QX9775 is a Socket 771 processor; the QX9770 is essentially identical, but designed in the common Socket 775 pinout, The QX9770 is priced at $1,399.
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Based upon the price of the new QX9775 processor, the bones littering Intel's "Skulltrail" platform will be the dessicated corpses of enthusiasts' wallets. As predicted six months ago by Taiwan's DigiTimes, the QX9775 processor (a 45-nm processor running at 3.2 GHz with 12 Mbytes of cache and a 1.6-GHz front-side bus) is priced at $1,499, according to Intel's official price list. Yes, just for the processor alone. The QX9775 is a Socket 771 processor; the QX9770 is essentially identical, but designed in the common Socket 775 pinout, The QX9770 is priced at $1,399.
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Ex-Microsoft executive predicts death of consoles
by Thomas De Maesschalck April 07 2008
Sandy Duncan, a former Microsoft executive, said in an interview that consoles will likely die in a decade. He believes consoles will be replaced by virtualization and the Internet: “I think dedicated games devices i.e. consoles (and handhelds) will die [out] in the next 5 to 10 years. The business model is very risky and the costs associated with creating new hardware are incredibly high. There is a definite ‘convergence’ of other devices such as set top boxes. There’s hardly any technology difference between some hard disc video recorders and an Xbox 360 for example. In fact in 5 to 10 years I don’t think you’ll have any box at all under your TV, most of this stuff will be ‘virtualized’ as web services by your content provider,” said Sandy Duncan, chief executive of Yoyo games, who used to be regional vice president of Microsoft’s home and entertainment business unit in Europe five years ago, in an interview with Thatvideogameblog web-site.
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Sandy Duncan, a former Microsoft executive, said in an interview that consoles will likely die in a decade. He believes consoles will be replaced by virtualization and the Internet: “I think dedicated games devices i.e. consoles (and handhelds) will die [out] in the next 5 to 10 years. The business model is very risky and the costs associated with creating new hardware are incredibly high. There is a definite ‘convergence’ of other devices such as set top boxes. There’s hardly any technology difference between some hard disc video recorders and an Xbox 360 for example. In fact in 5 to 10 years I don’t think you’ll have any box at all under your TV, most of this stuff will be ‘virtualized’ as web services by your content provider,” said Sandy Duncan, chief executive of Yoyo games, who used to be regional vice president of Microsoft’s home and entertainment business unit in Europe five years ago, in an interview with Thatvideogameblog web-site.
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Can Sony get 50% market share for Blu-ray this year?
by David Carnoy April 7, 2008
Maybe that price cut in Blu-ray players is coming sooner than we think because Digitimes is reporting that Sony has set some very ambitious goals for Blu-ray in 2008. And by ambitious I'm talking a 50-50 split with DVD. The short article, which carries the headline, "Sony looks to 50% global market share for its Blu-ray products in 2008," says that "Sony will offer Blu-ray Disc (BD) devices in a wide range of product lines and prices and aims to increase the global market share of its BD products from 20 percent currently to 50 percent by the end of 2008."
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Maybe that price cut in Blu-ray players is coming sooner than we think because Digitimes is reporting that Sony has set some very ambitious goals for Blu-ray in 2008. And by ambitious I'm talking a 50-50 split with DVD. The short article, which carries the headline, "Sony looks to 50% global market share for its Blu-ray products in 2008," says that "Sony will offer Blu-ray Disc (BD) devices in a wide range of product lines and prices and aims to increase the global market share of its BD products from 20 percent currently to 50 percent by the end of 2008."
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Microsoft Told to Pay Alcatel-Lucent $368 Million Over Patent
By William McQuillen and Bill Callahan
Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, was told to pay $368 million after a jury found it infringed two patents owned by Alcatel-Lucent SA for touch- screen form entry and use of a stylus on computers. Alcatel-Lucent had asked for about $1.75 billion from Microsoft and Dell Inc. after claiming four of its patents were violated. The jury in federal court in San Diego yesterday also said Dell infringed the stylus patent and owed Alcatel-Lucent $51,000. It rejected claims of infringement on two other patents related to video controls. "Its kind of a mixed verdict -- everybody wins,'' U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff joked with the lawyers after the jury was dismissed. "There's something for everybody.''
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Microsoft Corp., the world's biggest software maker, was told to pay $368 million after a jury found it infringed two patents owned by Alcatel-Lucent SA for touch- screen form entry and use of a stylus on computers. Alcatel-Lucent had asked for about $1.75 billion from Microsoft and Dell Inc. after claiming four of its patents were violated. The jury in federal court in San Diego yesterday also said Dell infringed the stylus patent and owed Alcatel-Lucent $51,000. It rejected claims of infringement on two other patents related to video controls. "Its kind of a mixed verdict -- everybody wins,'' U.S. District Judge Marilyn L. Huff joked with the lawyers after the jury was dismissed. "There's something for everybody.''
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