chips
Photos: Qualcomm's Snapdragon-powered Android smartbook on show
Photo Snapdragon chips are already powering a range of smartphones - including the HTC HD2, pictured above. This week saw chipmaker Qualcomm taking the wraps off a range of hardware powered by its Snapdragon platform. [20 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 20.11.09
Round-Up And before you ask, no, chips (of any variety) are not a vegetable. Wheezing. Coughing and spluttering. Unable to complete basic tasks without falling over. Due for a serious upgrade or a one-way trip to the skip around... [20 Nov 2009]
Contactless Smart Chip Technology: The Business Benefits
White Paper Leveraging many years of smart card security developments, contactless smart chips have the ability to store, protect, manage, and provide access to secure data and to support the security protocols and algorithms... [14 Nov 2009]
Mobile GIS for Homeland Security
White Paper The ability to provide Location-Based Services (LBS) in a mobile environment requires a subsystem of device interfaces, location-enabled hardware such as GPS chips, software applications, and application servers designed... [13 Nov 2009]
Westminster computing put on size-zero diet
News With the government hoping to offset or reduce all the CO2 emissions produced by its fleet of half a million computers by 2012, IT is under more pressure than ever to go green. As a result, the public sector has "stopped eating pies and... [13 Nov 2009]
A Chipset Level Network Backdoor: Bypassing Host-Based Firewall & IDS
White Paper Chipsets refer to a set of specialized chips on a computer's motherboard or an expansion card. This paper presents a proof of concept chipset level rootkit/network backdoor. It interacts directly with network interface... [12 Nov 2009]
UHF Gen 2: Deep and Wide, Near and Far
White Paper The result is a growing suite of application-optimized, nearfield UHF Gen 2 solutions that comprise Impinj's Speedway reader, Monza tag chips, and a host of specialized tag and reader antenna products. [12 Nov 2009]
Getting Up to Speed: RFID Powered by Impinj
White Paper Because of the advances in technology that moved electronics from bulky boxes to highly integrated circuitry, engineers can create tiny, inexpensive, and powerful communications chips that make the deployment of wireless... [12 Nov 2009]
Achieving Return on Investment Using RFID for Jewelry Tracking
White Paper With the rapid development of new UHF chips however, this is just a temporary situation. Most RFID jewelry tracking applications deploy one of two frequencies: UHF (860 - 960 MHz) or HF (13.56 MHz). Each offers specific... [30 Oct 2009]
Acorn co-founder on the BBC Micro and the early days of personal computing
Comment I helped with some of the chip work, some of the CAD work that implemented the chips for the original machine and some of the networking so I have some of things relating to that. I have chips and disk... [07 Oct 2009]
Netbooks, Apple goodies, vintage kit and a futuristic datacentre
Photo CEO Paul Otellini showed off Intel's first wafer of silicon chips made with a new 22-nanometre manufacturing process. Bonhams previewed some vintage tech last month as the London auctioneer prepared to put a selection of... [02 Oct 2009]
Warren East
AS Profile Another panellist pointed to the pervasiveness of ARM's chips - something the company has achieved by licensing its IP to partners, rather than having its own fabs with all the associated cost and risk. [29 Sep 2009]
Photos: Intel's latest technology on show
Photo CEO Paul Otellini showed off Intel's first wafer of silicon chips made with a next-next-generation 22-nanometre manufacturing process. These chips were SRAM memory chips often used to... [28 Sep 2009]
Intel takes aim at clever TVs as the gogglebox gets connected
News By virtue of compatibility with other x86 processors such as Intel's mainstream Core line, its TV-oriented chips can run software written to run on Adobe Systems' Flash Player with relative ease. Intel may not have... [28 Sep 2009]
The PC is past it: Computing power is everywhere, says Intel
News Also in his speech, Otellini showed off the first working chips using 22nm process technology. These 22nm manufacturing techniques will be the basis for future chips from Intel that will begin arriving... [24 Sep 2009]