Quartics opens Shanghai R&D center

March 22, 2010

Quartics Inc. (Irvine, Calif.) has announced the opening in Shanghai of its center of excellence for video algorithm development and systems engineering. The company also introduced its programmable Qvu processor for video enhancement technology to consumers and OEM/ODM customers in China. Read more

GPS-enabled GSM/WCMDA handset shipments jumped 92% in 2009

March 22, 2010

Global shipments of GPS-enabled GSM/WCDMA handsets increased 92 percent in 2009 to 150 million units, according to analysis firm Berg Insight AB (Gothenburg, Sweden). With growth set to continue at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 38.7 percent, shipments are forecasted to reach 770 million units ... Read more

Opnext, Mobius develop CMOS ADC for optical comms

March 22, 2010

Opnext Inc. (Fremont, Calif.), a developer of optical communications, has announced that it has developed a low-power quad CMOS analog-to-digital converter (ADC), designed for use in a 127-Gbps Polarization Multiplexed Quadrature Phase Shift Keying (PM-QPSK) modulation scheme. Read more

Quantum film threatens to replace CMOS image chips

March 22, 2010

Just as photographic film was mostly replaced by silicon image chips, now quantum film threatens to replace the conventional CMOS image sensors in digital cameras. Made from materials similar to conventional film, a polymer with embedded particles, instead of silver grains like photographic film the ... Read more

Researchers give update on road to parallelism

March 22, 2010

Researchers have taken several small steps on a long and complex journey toward creating new parallel programming models to harness tomorrow's many-core processors. The work entails crafting an entirely new set of architectures ranging from parallel applications and data structures to the processors ... Read more