For those who are excited about the coming era of a “Life Without Wires”™ based upon UWB technology and Wireless USB, this past weeks Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) contained a small event which may be an important harbinger of things to come. Microsoft announced that they had officially joined the WiMedia Alliance (mentioned briefly […]

With the spate of recent announcements by both cell phone companies and cellular operators about plans to offer music for sale on cell phones, a lot has been written recently about the death of the iPod and the ZEN player. Not so fast.

On Monday, Intel introduced their first dual processor core Extreme Edition 840 which executes at 3.2Ghz and is derived from a Pentium processor base. In turn, Dell announced the immediate availability of two consumer desktop PC models using the new chip. Intel’s announcement this week is important in many regards.

On the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law(see the CNET special section) the outlook in the semiconductor industry is that Moore’s Law is likely to hold true for at least another decade of chips. Moore’s Law is not a law of physics. However its prediction that transistor density doubles at a highly predictable rate, has […]

As an example of Intel’s evolving platform oriented strategy, (ushered in not long ago with the highly successful Centrino(tm) marketing campaign for PC laptop WiFi solutions), Intel announced April 18th their new WiMAX 5116 broadband interface chip (internally codenamed “Rosedale”). Included in the announcement were device and equipment manufacturers such as Airspan, Huawei, […]