Electronic Business articles from July 2006

Electronic Business archives from July 2006

Technology's secret star: Porn.(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... By John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief It's not lost on anyone that electronics and pornography are linked at the hip. Why else would the Adult Entertainment Expo (AEE) piggyback on the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) every January in Las Vegas?...

Letters.(Letter to the editor)
July 1, 2006... By Staff Anti-Microsoft Does Xbox 360 stand a chance against PlayStation 3? Simply put, No. At least not in our house. We are moving away from anything Microsoft. With all of the costs, problems, upgrades, hassles and what we...

Compute platforms.(computer industry)(Industry overview)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... Edited by Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor Market Overview Overall, 2005 was a good year for compute platforms, according to market research firm iSuppli. PCs proved the market was far from dead, with notebooks clearly emerging as a...

Tide turns for Rambus.
July 1, 2006... By Tam Harbert, Contributing Writer Legal victory against Hynix could affect entire DRAM market A legal victory by Rambus in spring 2006 may be a turning point in the company's six-year battle to force DRAM makers to license its...

Incriminating e-mails cast long shadows.(Rambus Inc.)
July 1, 2006... By Staff Rambus won a battle in June in its long campaign to use evidence from the Department of Justice's DRAM price-fixing probe in its war against memory manufacturers. Although the legal ramifications are unclear, the win may at...

China sees U.S. as next great leap.(electronics)
July 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor Haier , TTE and SMIC may not have a familiar ring alongside the more recognizable Lenovo Group and RCA, but if these companies have their way, they will soon. All of these firms are based in...

There oughta be a (single) law.(Restriction on Hazardous Substances)
July 1, 2006... By Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor Barring a natural disaster or a last-minute pardon, Europe's Restriction on Hazardous Substances (RoHS) is now in effect. But there's still a lot to be worked out in terms of how to enforce the edict...

Benefits of wireless don't come cheap.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... By Barbara Jorgensen, Senior Editor The wireless revolution has affected businesses in a big way. While cell phones, PDAs and wireless-enabled laptops have liberated employees from the office, they've also become a cost center that...

No slowdown for chip spin-offs.
July 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman, Contributing Writer The sensors-and-controls business of Texas Instruments (TI) had little in common with the company's core semiconductor business, but it provided solid, steady profits. That's why TI kept the $1.2...

Austin on the rebound.(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... By John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief Austin, Texas, one of the nation's premier electronics centers, suffered mightily during the so-called tech wreck. At its low point, in 2003, high-tech employment in the greater Austin area totaled 138,000,...

Can Intel solve its chip set shortage?
July 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman, Contributing Writer There's little doubt that Intel hasn't manufactured as many PC chip sets--the supporting chips that connect the company's flagship microprocessors to PC graphics and memory systems--as expected...

Which way will VoIP go?
July 1, 2006... By Tam Harbert, Contributing Writer The market for voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephony infrastructure equipment is growing rapidly, but it's also in flux--with whole new categories of equipment likely to enter the market over...

Going the distance.
July 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts, Contributing Writer Sierra Monolithics is one of the hardy pioneers on the WiMAX frontier. The fabless chip company makes radio frequency semiconductors for this wireless wide-area broadband technology. Sierra...

SOI sales surge.(silicon on insulator)
July 1, 2006... By Russ Arensman, Contributing Writer What do Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 have in common with the latest multiprocessor servers from IBM , Sun and Dell , and with networking systems used in Mercedes, BMW and other...

AMD strikes back at Intel.(Advanced Micro Devices Inc.)(Brief article)
July 1, 2006... By Jessica Davis, Contributing Writer Intel's announcement in March of its new microarchitecture, Core, elicited a collective sigh of relief from fans of the microprocessor giant. After all, Intel had seemed to be losing ground lately,...

Export rules hurt U.S. firms.
July 1, 2006... By Michael Santarini, Senior Editor, EDN The notion of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) has turned into a quagmire for U.S. firms wanting to produce leading-edge ICs at fabs in mainland China. In an "export 101" panel session at...

Hey, big capital spenders!(money spent on capital outlays in 2006)
July 1, 2006... By Sally Cole Johnson, Contributing Writer Big money is being spent on capital outlays in 2006. In fact, this year's "billion dollar club" of capital spenders boasts 16 members, according to market research firm IC Insights. Intel (...

Dirty little secret.(impact of pornography on technology)
July 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts, Contributing Writer An old friend of technology helps pioneer a new frontier: the mobile Internet Three self-financed entrepreneurs in Barcelona launched Safira Solutions in 2003 to develop customer relationship...

Screen refresh.
July 1, 2006... By Geoffrey James, Contributing Writer Why TVs are the industry's new growth segment Televisions used to be a big snooze, at least as far as the electronics business was concerned. The basic technology, the cathode ray tube (CRT), was...

Home beep home.(Editorial)
July 1, 2006... By John Dodge, Editor-in-Chief Home Automation searches for the mainstream market Smarthome Forum's message boards buzz with technicalquestions, observations and helpful hints about home automation. Gabbing away are hobbyists and...

Big delay? No big deal!
July 1, 2006... By Robert L. Scheier, Contributing Writer After years--or decades--of hiccups in the supply chain, component vendors and distributors have coping down to a science. Sony's delay of the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft's delay of Windows...

Life after DFM.(design for manufacturing)
July 1, 2006... By Geoffrey James, Contributing Writer Could DFM mean the death of custom "in-silicon" chip design? For the past couple of years, the Design Automation Conference (DAC) has been awash in vendors touting their software as design for...

WiMAX? Why not?
July 1, 2006... By Bill Roberts If you haven't already, it is time to jump onto the WiMAX bandwagon. Conventional wisdom among market analysts goes like this: WiMAX (which stands for Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) will eventually...

Start early, end strong.(impact of John Croteau on marketing strategies of Analog Devices Inc.)
July 1, 2006... By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor John Croteau has a knack for spotting infinite possibilities. A 20-year veteran of Analog Devices, Inc. , he is credited with, among other things, redefining ADI's Blackfin processor business, and...