September 1. 2010, Global Technology Conference, San Jose, CA, Chekib Akrout, senior vp technology group at AMD described the changes in the industry leading to their efforts at integrating CPU and GPU’s. The industry has come to a point where the dynamics and the technology are now available to integrate two major function blocks into [...]
September 1, 2010, Global Technology Conference San Jose, CA—Jean-Marc Chery, Executive Vice President and CTO of ST microelectronics described collaborative R&D model and global multi-fab manufacturing. The trends and challenges driving this model are increases in the logical components within designs and increases in speed of those designs. Today, companies need to understand where they [...]
September 1, 2010, GTC San Jose, Gregg Bartlett, senior vp of technology and R&D at Global Foundries presented his talk “28nm and Beyond: Raising the Bar for Foundry” by justifying the common platform for process development. By sharing objectives and investments, the partners get accelerated access to advanced technologies and manufacturing experience. Technology enablers include [...]
At the recent Diskcon event, Toshiba researcher Dr. Akira Kikitsu had a chance to discuss the developments in high density HDD medium technology. New patterns and patterning technology are needed to get to the future generation goal og 5Tb/in sq. Dr. Kikitsu presented their results on next generation technology that is achieving 2.5Tb/in sq in [...]
At IBC in Amsterdam, there was a discussion on video compress for digital data broadcast for consumer use of television. This discussion was based on the further conversion of channels from SD to HD and eventually HD3D. There are several compression methods an each has an associated standard and or codec. The discussions indicated that [...]
The DVB Project will publish its first digital 3DTV standards before the end of the year, and demonstrated 3D transmissions over all of its second generation terrestrial (DVB-T2), satellite (DVB-S2) and cable (DVB-C2) formats at IBC. However, the consortium acknowledges that its DVD-3D standard is only the beginning and that there is little current broadcaster [...]
August 31, 2010—San Jose, CA—Samsung hosted an application developer day for their connected television systems entitled “Free the TV Developer Day”. The event started with Samantha Harris of Entertainment Tonight as the hostess for the event, to give the feeling that the programmers in attendance were part of a high profile entertainment event. Eric Anderson, [...]
August 24, 2010, Hot Chips Conference, Stanford, CA hosted a keynote from Burkhard Huhnke, Volkswagen of America, Electronics Research Lab, Palo Alto, CA on “Looking at Transportation in New Ways: What does mobility look like in the future?” Volkswagen is in Silicon Valley rather than some other automotive center because of the ability for people [...]
August 23, 2010 — Hot Chips conference, Stanford California, the first keynote address at the conference was from David Petrou from Google. His talk entitled “search originating inside and outside your head” described their efforts at developing Google Goggles, an application for mobile visual search. Goggles is attempting to develop the capability of searching by [...]
August 20, 2010—Hot Chips Conference—Stanford, CA. Olav Lindtjorn from Schlumberger talked about “surviving the end of scaling of traditional computers in high-performance computing”. Current computer configurations have run into memory and power walls. An alternative to larger server farms for high-performance computing is to develop a data flow configuration within an FPGA as is outlined [...]
