(Press Release) Combining crystal clear digital sound with a slim, sophisticated look, Sharp Electronics Corporation introduced its expanded line of 1-Bit digital audio amplification products, including three levels of groundbreaking luxury audio products: the new SD-NX10 and SD-SG11, the SM-SX1/DX-SX1, and the SM-SX100. Each of these products features Sharp's revolutionary 1-Bit technology, first introduced in 1999, which offers extraordinary sound quality and design.1-Bit technology is an innovative digital amplification system offering high-fidelity playback combined with highly efficient use of energy in a very compact size. By converting analog signals into digital signals that can be processed, a 1-Bit amplifier virtually eliminates sound deterioration that normally occurs during the transmission and amplification process of conventional analog amplifiers.
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AMD, API NetWorks, Inc., Apple, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA Corporation, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, Inc., and Transmeta have joined together as promoters of HyperTransport technology, and will now manage the development and evolution of the technology's specifications. More than 180 companies throughout the computer and communications industries have been engaged with AMD in working with the HyperTransport technology. HyperTransport technology is an innovative solution that enables the chips inside of high-performance compute devices, and networking and communications devices -- such as those that power the Internet --to communicate with each other up to 24 times faster compared with existing technologies.
The consortium was formed to promote the adoption and deployment of HyperTransport technology, manage and refine its specifications, and proliferate an infrastructure of test and verification tools to speed up market delivery of devices enabled with this technology. Product samples using HyperTransport are currently available, and other components are planned to be in volume production by the end of the year.
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In response to reader demand, we have created a third category of gaming pc buyer's guide, this time with a limit of $4000. Check out the system we ended up when given a limit that is not easily met without spending money just for the sake of spending it. Check out this week's Extreme Gaming PC Buyer's Guide.
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(Press Release) Consistent with its strategy to fuel innovation and broaden the market for Palm Powered devices, Palm, Inc announced that key suppliers of ARM core-based technology have joined its new Palm OS Ready Program. Intel Corporation and Motorola will produce reference designs, and Texas Instruments Incorporated will develop a wireless processing platform, optimized to support the Palm OS platform via a development license with Palm.
The Palm OS Ready Program is intended to strengthen the Palm OS licensing strategy in the multimedia and wireless device markets as well as assist licensees in bringing innovative ARM core-based devices to market more quickly. Intel will provide Intel StrongARM and Intel XScale Palm OS Ready solutions, Motorola will provide DragonBall MX1 Palm OS Ready solutions, and TI will provide OMAP platform Palm OS Ready solutions. ARM will work closely with Palm to ensure that the Palm OS migrates smoothly to the ARM architecture and that ARM development tools are optimized to support the Palm OS platform. By licensing components of the Palm OS platform to silicon solution providers, Palm is enabling them to provide more complete processor solutions to licensees of the Palm OS platform.
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From Hardware Central - Olympus D-510 Zoom Review: With 3-megapixel digital cameras common and 4- and 5-megapixel models appearing, why buy a 2.1MP point-and-shooter? Because the successor to Olympus' D-490Z fits in a jacket pocket (thanks to a built-in lens cover), offers simple controls plus a few creative options, and takes darn nice pictures for $399.
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(Press Release) Sigma Designs, Inc. announced that EPoX Computer Co., Ltd.has selected Sigma's EM8400 MPEG Decoder chip for use in their new EP-1800 Set-Top Box (STB) solution. To support production shipments for their EP-1800 STB, EPoX has placed a volume order for EM8400 chips. The EP-1800 STB enables end-to-end deployment of Video-On-Demand services targeting Asia, United States, Australia and Europe. This new set-top box platform delivers streaming media applications, which are enabled by the Sigma's REALmagic Video Streaming Technology, comprising advanced Video-On-Demand software and MPEG decoder silicon.
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Emulex Corp. announced that Hitachi Data Systems has certified the Emulex LP8000S SBus host bus adapter for use in its Freedom SAN enterprise solutions. Hitachi's Freedom SAN solutions, based on the Hitachi Freedom Storage Lightning 9900 Series, provide an end-to-end storage solution, ensuring continuous data availability, fault tolerance and scalable architecture.
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