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Monthly Archives: December 2007

RF/Microwave Design Seminars

Friday, December 21, 2007

Beginning in January 2008, EDA software developer Ansoft (Pittsburgh, PA) hosts a number of technical sessions on EMI Control and Antenna/RF Design. Sessions are Jan. 16 at the Colorado Springs Marriott; Jan. 18 at Omni Interlocken Resort in Broomfield, CO; Feb. 5 at the Tempe Mission Palms in Tempe, AZ; Feb. 22 at The Grand [...]

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Nvidia Launches New Community Site for HPC Developers

Thursday, December 20, 2007

NVIDIA has launched CUDAZone, a community resource dedicated to HPC developers working with GPUs. CUDA is the world’s only C language environment for the GPU and since its launch in February 2007, it has helped engineers, scientists, geophysicists and others discover new ways to process the vast amounts of data required by their work and [...]

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SpinVox service converts voicemails to text messages

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Alltel Wireless and SpinVox launched a new service called Voice2TXT.  It is available on any Alltel Wireless SMS text message capable phone and quickly converts incoming voicemails to text messages in the customer’s inbox.  This service allows the user to discretely respond to voicemails in any setting without having to dial and listen to voicemail messages.  [...]

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Lighting the Way to TV Differentiation

Thursday, December 6, 2007

LCD TV makers are striving to differentiate their products and move the market to ever-larger screen sizes, while rear-projection TV makers are trying to remain competitive against flat-panel TVs. Both groups increasingly are looking to advanced backlighting sources to deal with these challenges, according to discussions held at iSuppli Corp’s Flat Information Displays (FID) 2007 [...]

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Intel and AMD Benefit from Strong Demand

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) in the third quarter both managed to gain share in the global microprocessor market due to robust sales of PCs and servers and the cessation of the companies’ brutal price war, according to iSuppli Corp.’s final ranking. In the third quarter, Intel accounted for 78.7 percent of [...]

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An hour of music at National Semiconductor

Monday, December 3, 2007

Like every normal human being, I enjoy the sound of good music. So when I was invited to National Semiconductor’s sound room, I was anxious to hear how my favorite CD — the Phantom of the Opera — would sound with the company’s $25,000 speakers and state-of-the art audiophile equipment based on the company’s high-performance [...]

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