February 21, 2011, ISSCC, San Francisco–The plenary session ended with a roundtable discussion entitled ” Beyond the Horizon: The Next 10X Reduction I Power- challenges and Solutions”. The panel looked at the challenges and changes needed to achieve a order of magnitude reduction in power consumption. Jan Rabaey from UC Berkeley moderated the discussion, assisted…
January 7, 2011, CES, Las Vegas—Imagination Technologies is trying to become a full solutions company with the acquisitions of Hellosoft and Caustic. HelloSoft has wireless LAN and multi-function radios as well as connection management software in its portfolio which will enable advanced video-VOIP for 4G phones. The hardware will enable low power, small form-factor video…
July 27, 2010, Santa Clara, CA the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Santa Clara Chapter hosted a panel discussion on serial port memory technology (SPMT) at Marvel Semiconductor’s facility. Steve Leibson moderated the panel comprised of the following members. Jim Venable, President, SPMT Consortium John Heinlein, VP Marketing, Physical IP Division, ARM Arun Akamat, VP of…
January 4, 2011, Storage Visions, Las Vegas—an Intel-sponsored panel looked at new storage architectures for mobile devices. Melissa Perenson from PC World was the moderator. The panel consisted of Troy Winslow from Intel, Luke Choi from Hitachi data storage, Kevin silver from NVELO, Conrad Maxwell fro SATA-IO and Silicon Image, and Doreet Oren from SanDisk….
December 8, 2010, 3-D Architectures for Semiconductor Integration and Packaging conference, Burlingame, CA—the first talk on 3-D directions came from IBM. Subramanian Iyer, fellow from IBM who discussed ” 3D Integration for High Performance System Applications”. Despite advances in scaling, materials, and silicon engineering, the IC performance levels are not improving at historical rates. Now,…
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…
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…
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…
July 27, 2010, Santa Clara, CA the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Santa Clara Chapter hosted a panel discussion on serial port memory technology (SPMT) at Marvel Semiconductor’s facility. The Steve Leibson moderated the panel comprised of the following members. Jim Venable, President, SPMT Consortium John Heinlein, VP Marketing, Physical IP Division, ARM Arun Akamat, VP…
Connections: the Digital Living Conference, Santa Clara, CA—in a keynote talk, Scott Birnbaum, vp, Samsung LCD Business Unit, talked about “LCD TV: gazing into a liquid crystal world”. After providing background information on Samsung, Birnbaum talked about the changes in homes and televisions over time. In 1938 black-and-white televisions became available. In 1956, color TV…