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Tuesday, 6 May 2008 3:47 PM
Take from the
Toshiba Website
TOKYO--Toshiba Corporation today announced the start of sample shipping
of the SpursEngine™ SE1000 (SpursEngine), a high-performance stream
processor integrating four Synergistic Processing Element (SPE) cores
derived from the "Cell Broadband Engine™" (Cell/B.E.™). Sample shipping
started from today, and Toshiba expects sales of 6 million units within
the first three years of the SpursEngine's release.
SpursEngine is a co-processor that integrates a hardware codec for Full
HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs
derived from Cell/B.E. These advanced processing elements offer high
performance media streaming capabilities, with a clock frequency of
1.5GHz, while achieving low power consumption range of 10W to 20W.
"We are very pleased to have started sample shipping of SpursEngine"
said Yoshio Masubuchi, Director of Toshiba's System LSI Division,
Advanced SoC Development Center. "The design of this powerful
co-processor is dedicated to bringing the advanced capabilities of the
Cell/B.E.™ to consumer electronics, particularly video processing in
digital consumer products. We are sure that SpursEngine will accelerate
the market for full-HD applications."
Toshiba will support developers working on SpursEngine applications
with a comprehensive reference kit that includes a reference board and
essential middleware APIs. The reference board has a PCI-Express edge
connector that can connect to an x1 layer slot in a PC. Toshiba will
also provide an integrated development environment (SPE compiler, SPE
debugger, and performance monitor) and sample applications that
demonstrate how to use the provided middleware. With the reference kit,
customers can quickly and easily construct an evaluation and
development environment and accelerate product development.
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008 3:34 PM
Taken from the Intel Website
May 5, 2008 - Intel Corporation,
Samsung Electronics and TSMC today announced they have reached
agreement on the need for industry-wide collaboration to target a
transition to larger, 450mm-sized wafers starting in 2012. The
transition to larger wafers will enable continued growth of the
semiconductor industry and helps maintain a reasonable cost structure
for future integrated circuit manufacturing and applications.
The companies will cooperate with the semiconductor industry to help
ensure that all of the required components, infrastructure and
capability are developed and tested for a pilot line by this target
date.
Historically, manufacturing with larger wafers helps increase the
ability to produce semiconductors at a lower cost. The total silicon
surface area of a 450mm wafer and the number of printed die (individual
computer chips, for example) is more than twice that of a 300mm wafer.
The bigger wafers help lower the production cost per chip.
Additionally, through more efficient use of energy, water and other
resources, bigger wafers can help diminish overall use of resources per
chip. For example, the conversion from 200mm wafers to 300mm wafers
helped reduce aggregate emissions per chip of air pollution, global
warming gasses and water, and further reduction is expected with a
transition to 450mm wafers.
Intel, Samsung and TSMC indicate that the semiconductor industry can
improve its return on investment and substantially reduce 450mm
research and development costs by applying aligned standards,
rationalizing changes from 300mm infrastructure and automation, and
working toward a common timeline. The companies also agree that a
cooperative approach will help minimize risk and transition costs.
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Tuesday, 6 May 2008 8:45 AM
Original article taken from PCMAG.com
The ProCurve family has been
around for a long time, so it's both robust and mature. The new 1700
class of switches adds a new attribute: low cost (as little as $200).
That's what you pay for the HP ProCurve 1700-24, a decent starter switch for a small business looking
to expand its network port count. A managed 24-port switch for that
little cheddar won't have the bells and whistles of, say, a D-Link xStack DGS-3627, of course. You'll immediately notice that only two ports support Gigabit Ethernet, and there's no support for Power over Ethernet
(PoE). With a rapidly increasing number of networking products,
especially wireless APs and VoIP hardware, that make use of PoE, its
absence limits this ProCurve's ability to act as the center of an SMB
network. The rest of the switch, however, competes well enough with
other 24-port switches I've tested.
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