This has been an active week for big foundry announcements.  On March 2, 2009 Intel/TSMC announced an MOU to collaborate on technology and IP infrastructure for SoCs.  At the same time, AMD announced it had closed their deal with Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) and Mubadala Development Company of Abu Dhabi. [...]

March 2, 2009:  Today Intel and TSMC made a major announcement.  The companies have issued a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to collaborate on addressing technology platform, intellectual property (IP) infrastructure, and System-on-Chip (SoC) solutions.  Essentially, Intel is licensing the Atom core to customers who will be able to customize a design [...]

Pinyon Technologies, a Reno, Nevada company, provides antenna solutions that can increase gain by as much as three or four times, compared to a dipole antenna.  This offers the opportunity to significantly increase range, decrease battery power or trade off range against power requirements in Bluetooth, UWB, Zigbee, DECT, Wi-Fi, WiMAX or other [...]