By Olga Kharif November 5, 2008
While the country was picking its next President on Nov. 4, the Federal Communications Commission federal communications commission was making its own momentous decision. The country's top communications regulator unanimously voted to free up the biggest ever swath of airwaves to be used by the public for cheap high-speed wireless Internet access. The vote came after more than six years of public scrutiny and decides the fate of airwaves that will be made available when television broadcasts switch over to digital signals from analog in February. A broad coalition of opponents, including lawmakers, musicians, and broadcasters, argued that free public use of the airwaves would interfere with TV broadcasts and wireless microphones. "I don't think I've ever seen anything like this [amount of pressure] from broadcasters before," says Steve Sharkey, senior director of regulatory and spectrum policy at Motorola (MOT), one of the companies that welcomed the FCC's decision.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
VIA and Nvidia nix netbook pact
By Tony Smith 5th November 2008
Nvidia and VIA have reportedly canned their plan to jointly develop a reference design for Small, Cheap Computers based on their chippery. The scheme - agreement for which was reached back in April - has now been suspended, VIA moles told DigiTimes. The deal was to have paved the way for a reference design centring on VIA's C7-M and Nano processors, and Nvidia's GeForce 9400M integrated chipset, then known only by its codename 'MCP79'. In July, industry insiders alleged that Nvidia had only entered into the deal to gain a bargaining chip to be used in negotiations with Intel to gain the right to build chipset products for Intel's Atom. Heaven knows netbooks could use an Nvidia chipset. Just as Apple recently selected the 9400M over Intel's own integrated GPU for its latest MacBook and MacBook Air products, so we'd like to see SCCs that drop Intel's old, slow, power-hungry system chippery for a sleek, modern Nvidia alternative.
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Nvidia and VIA have reportedly canned their plan to jointly develop a reference design for Small, Cheap Computers based on their chippery. The scheme - agreement for which was reached back in April - has now been suspended, VIA moles told DigiTimes. The deal was to have paved the way for a reference design centring on VIA's C7-M and Nano processors, and Nvidia's GeForce 9400M integrated chipset, then known only by its codename 'MCP79'. In July, industry insiders alleged that Nvidia had only entered into the deal to gain a bargaining chip to be used in negotiations with Intel to gain the right to build chipset products for Intel's Atom. Heaven knows netbooks could use an Nvidia chipset. Just as Apple recently selected the 9400M over Intel's own integrated GPU for its latest MacBook and MacBook Air products, so we'd like to see SCCs that drop Intel's old, slow, power-hungry system chippery for a sleek, modern Nvidia alternative.
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