October 27, 2010 Digital media Conference, San Francisco—The second panel of the day addressed “Video Anywhere, Anytime, On any Device” to look at the changing environment for video. Colin Dixon, senior analyst for The Diffusion Group moderated the panel. Other panel members were: Gregg Spiridellis, CEO of JibJab Media, Margaret Kim, vice president of Alloy…
November 3–4, 2010, Scottsdale, AZ — This year’s annual MEMS Executive Congress broke new records for attendance as the MEMS industry strongly rebounded from two years of slight declines. This first-rate event was organized by the MEMS Industry Group — which aims to strengthen the MEMS industry and market by cultivating a neutral forum for…
September 2010, Universal City, CA – The 3rd Annual 3D Entertainment Summit was held at Universal City in September. This years event was attended by a increased audience over the prior years event, and the attendees were covering the full ecosystem of 3D. Past shows were highly attended by movie studio producers and directors. The…
San Jose, CA – Over the past few months (July-Oct 2010) Samsung has been enhancing their storage product line of hard disks (HDD) and optical drives (ODD). The HDD products are split between the consumer products and the enterprise products, while the ODD products are for the consumer side. At Diskcon in San Jose, they…
San Francisco, CA – At the Intel Developer Forum in September 2010, a lot of discussion was on the systems around the processor. There were update announcements from Samsung, Rambus, Inphi, Renasas, and the SATA consortium. Samsung, Inphi and Rambus had memory announcements while Renasas and the SATA consortium Samsung was showing their Green DDR2…
September, 13, 2010, Intel Developer Forum San Francisco—the Serial ATA International Organization released the Serial ATA Revision 3.1 Specification. SATA 3.1 enables new capabilities and functions within the interface. This latest revision enables 6Gb/s link speeds between storage units, disk drives, optical and tape drives and protocol host bus adaptors (HBAs). At the same time,…
September 13, 2010, Intel developer forum, San Francisco—The PCI-SIG, the controlling organization for the PCI interface specifications, announced the upcoming release of PCIe (PCI express) version 3.0. This latest revision is scheduled for final publication and distribution in November of this year. It’s currently in the membership final review phase at member companies. The PCI…
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…
July 25, 2010 – San Diego, CA – At this years Comic-Con several new MMO games were introduced using new networking and streaming technology. Two of the major annoucements were from Nexon who released the Vindictus on-line game and from Sony On-Line Entertainment who released new streaming and graphics technology for their DC Universe On-Line…
July 27, 2010—Santa Clara, CA—The Santa Clara section of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society hosted a presentation on a new memory structure, serial port memory technology. Jim Venable, president of the SPMT Consortium described the basic technology and the impending ecosystem. As system requirements for mobile devices demand greater bandwidth, equipment makers are faced with…