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The article features HyperTransport Consortium's latest product, HTX. The product is an expansion connector specification that will benefit peripheral cards and systems manufacturers to overcome cost and performance barriers for the development of low-latency boards for applications that needs supercomputer performance.

Discusses the personal computer industry's search for bandwidth as discussed in the second annual Silicon Valley PC Design Conference, 1993. Equality among designers in concerns and level of sophistication; Shift to notebook and palmtop design; Achievement of the latest microprocessor's full performance potential; Limited affordability of CPU designer in terms increases in L1 cache size; i486 and Pentium; More.

Discusses the importance of reusable intellectual property (IP) for the computer industry of the United States. Estimated growth of commercial IP from 1998 to 2001; Benefits of reusable IP to application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) business; Licensing strategy developed by Motorola Corp. for its IP.

Discusses how display vendors faced difficulties in commercializing field emission displays (FED) that will replace liquid crystal display (LCD) in next generation. View of Gary Jones, founder and president of FED Corporation, on the flashover problem; Comparison of FED with CRT; How Motorola Incorporated prepares for the FED technology.

Focuses on Windows Hardware Engineering Conference that has displayed the significance of three-dimentional (3-D) graphics. Remarks of conference Speaker Bill Gates on the game demonstrated in the conference; Most important factor on the mixed-signal devices; How the developed mixed-signal devices are designed; Significance of the moving picture expert group (MPEG)-2.

The article highlights the changes at Hewlett-Packard (HP) Labs following the appointment of Prith Banerjee as director. Since joining HP Labs in August 2007, Banerjee has reorganized the company's research and development organization into 23 labs. Banerjee has also set up programs to connect HP Labs to universities and the venture capital community.

The article reports on developments in the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax) technology. Analysts infer the industry's focus in developing equipment for the licensed bands of WiMax would prevent design activity of small groups of developers because of increase in cost. Moreover, Michail Bletsas, of One Laptop per Child relates that the industry should also try to develop equipment for the unlicensed bands in most developing countries. INSET: China fields a WiMax rival, by Mike Clendenin.

The article presents an interview with Dave Orton, head of the graphics division of U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), about the company's Fusion processors and chips. Orton says that end-users can expect power, quality and area advantages from Fusion notebook computers. AMD is also looking for other applications of Fusion chips including mobile phones and digital television.

The article reports that the number of students pursuing computer science in the U.S. is on the decline just as researchers are being pressed to solve the problems in parallel programming for future multicore processors. A computer company executive admits that the progress in parallel computing may be slow and the challenge of attracting more good people to computer science may be an equally big hurdle.

The article presents information on how computer users can cascade external storage with the help of Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA). SATA has become the important interface for internal storage in desktops. External storage upgrade boxes are the most viable solution for expanding storage capacity.

The article focuses on the current practice and the history of engineering at Dell Inc. Dell has been, and continues to be, a champion of innovative design, though the company practices it in a highly minimalist manner and believes that the field for electronic innovation in personal computers has drastically narrowed. More important, Dell has helped define a new role for the Original Equipment Manufacturer system maker in a mature, disaggregated industry. Dell sets the pace for how little a top computer maker can spend on design.

The article informs that in the heart of Silicon Valley, the man who led the design teams for the low-power StrongARM (acquired by Intel Corp.) and SiByte (picked up by Broadcom Corp.) today will join an increasingly crowded caravan of multicore-microprocessor developers. Dan Dobberpuhl's Santa Clara-based P.A. Semi Inc. will announce its plans for a family of two- to eight-core central processing units at the Fall Processor Forum, whose theme this year is "The Road to Multicore." By prospecting in multicore territory, veteran Dobberpuhl is jockeying with major players that have already planted stakes in the ground, as well as with other startups.

This article focuses in the software industry in Taiwan. In a black-walled, cave-like office cluttered with gaming paraphernalia and lit by a harsh arc of fluorescent light, a handful of Taiwanese software engineers are crafting a line-by-line labor of love that will be part of a new future for the island. Software is less of a commodity, and therefore higher margin, than most of the hardware products Taiwan pumps out year after year. According to government figures, Taiwan-influenced system products, which include those made by Taiwanese companies in China, accounted for $70 billion last year.

This article presents views of Ken Martin, a businessperson on a survey related to job security of engineers in the U.S. Martin ticks off statistics that inform the bleaker moods rising up from Silicon Valley's cubicles. Employment rates are stuck at 1995 levels commercial realtors report vacancy rates from 33 to 53 percent. And Bay Area icons Hewlett-Packard Co. and Oracle Corp. announced layoffs totaling 20,000 souls. Indeed, job security crumbled in the dot-com bust of 2001. Now the balance between work and personal life is swinging in the breeze for cell phone- and laptop-wielding engineers tied to colleagues and customers spread across the United States, Asia and Europe.

Focuses on the move to venture capital of Alain Fanet, founder of Paris-based Arteris SA after its technology collapse in the year 2002 in France. Raise of venture capitalist in the 3rd quarter of 2004; Effectiveness of horizontal approach in electronic business; Trouble of a classic digital fabless model; Cost associated in building a new enterprise software company based on the survey by Northwest Venture Partners II LP; Involvement of Viola Networks into several startups.

Focuses on the determination of China's major computer company Legend Group Ltd. to hold onto its share of the market while also expanding overseas. Attempt of improving its staff by having many of its employees take Master of Business Administration courses; Goal behind the reorganization; Effect of the competition on the company's business.

Interviews Larry Boucher, founder of Alacritech Inc. on the computer industry. Outlook of Boucher on the prospects of computing; Views on problems with the existing crop of dense server blades; Description on Boucher's proposed architecture for server blades; Genesis of the hardware-accelerated Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol idea.

Provides information on integrated circuits and other computer products introduced by various manufacturers in the U.S. as of April 2002. Release of Pentium 4 processors by Intel Corp.; Launch of FES-4202 extended-ATX server platform by Force Computers Inc.; Development of Shasta Embedded ATX computer board by Kontron Embedded Computers AG.

Analyzes the presence of Microsoft Corp. at the Comdex 2001 trade show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Introduction of a prototype TabletPC by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates; Remarks of industry experts on the TabletPC initiative of Microsoft; Plans for the eHome initiative of Microsoft.

Discusses the outlook for single-board computers (SBC) in 2001. Business strategy of vendors; Challenges faced by vendors of SBC; Release of EnCore Platform from Ampro.

Offers a look at the suppliers that will display products at the Society of Information Display Conference on May 17, 1999. Number of companies that will display their products; Photopolymer holographic reflectors from DuPont Chemical Co.; Plasma display from Plasmaco Inc.; XGA LCD monitor from CTX Opto; Active-matrix LCD from Philips Flat Display Systems; Display-related materials.

Argues that there is still a room for design diversity in digital signal processing boards. Issue on packaging density; Information on some products released in connection with the issue; Features of the products; Prices.

Reports the possibility of an integrated hardware/software environment in the embedded systems industry. Concept of an integrated development environment; Set of challenges faced by embedded-systems developers.

Previews the European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC) in Bordeaux, France. Argument to be made by researchers from IBM Microelectronics regarding the silicon-germanium technology in a BiCMOS process; Technology applications to be announced by SiGe company; Implication of IBM's ESSDERC paper.

Presents a list of the top 100 employers in the electronics and computer industry in United States. Criteria used in ranking the companies; Number of employees; Number of engineers; Revenues for the fiscal year 1993; Main electronic products; Economic condition of the electronics industry. INSETS: Some of Top 100 among `100 Best', by Bob Bellinger.;How `Top 100 Employers' were picked..

Reports on the ongoing debacle between Sun Microsystems Incorporated and Intel Corporation over controllership of the engineering station market as of June 22, 1998. Events that contribute to the battle; Micropressor to be launched by Intel; Comments from several market analysts; Reasons for the debacle.

Presents information the 1998 Networld+Interop show held in Las Vegas, Nevada. Voice capabilities of routers, gateways and servers that will be featured in the show; Approaches used in equipment from Mitel Corporation, Motorola Incorporated, and StarNet Technologies Incorporated to voice services into data network; Segments competing in the integrated/voice data market.

Part II. Discusses the trend and technological development in the manufacture of submicron integrated circuit (IC). Various tests conducted to assess the possibilities of better submicron technology; Companies that are conducting pioneering research on submicron technology; Comments from experts.

Reports that microchip (chip) and systems startups have ruined the DSLcon conference as they joined the flow of digital-subscriber-line (DSL) technologies. Several chip companies overwhelmed by original equipment manufacturers (OEM); Information on the acquisition of NetSpeed by Cisco; Several DSL specialists who have revised their designs. INSET: Startup is first to try sub-rate DMT for ADSL.

Reports that Intel Corp.'s is planning to make venture investments in 1998. Importance of venture investments to Intel's survival; Strategy of the company in investing on technology that designs and builds more central processing units (CPU); Focus of the company on lithography.

Focuses on the importance of a higher standard of testing software for embedded systems. Various applications of embedded systems; Embedded systems software-reliability problems; Typical sort of the problems.

Focuses on the increasing consumer demands for reliable computers. Factors affecting the reliability of a system from a system designer point of view; Advantages of personal computer hardware and software technology in embedded market segment; Problems experienced by desktop computer users.

Reports the reaction of silicon and tool vendors to some of the challenges faced by high-end emulators. Integration of high-end emulators capabilities into the processor itself in terms of control portion; Trends in high-end emulators; Emergence of N-wire technology that transfer some emulation technology into silicon.

Reports about MPEG-4 standard which is building up steam in Europe through a European Union project called Emphasis experiment. How Philips and SGS-Thomson demonstrate applications, hardware-reference designs and multiple codecs for MPEG-4 standard; Companies that supported and involved in Emphasis project; MPEG-4 as a key weapon to expand European electronics companies' technology arsenal. INSET: Compression standard sets no limits..

Looks back on the history of research and development management developed in the computer industry. How commercial microprocessor were developed; How Bell Labs established the current modulation in the point-contact transistor; Companies who followed Bell Labs.

Discusses the problems in designing complex systems with multiple high-pin-count ASICs. Requirement of physical synthesis by designers; Actions of Qualcomm to board-and-module synthesis tools from Harris EDA; How tools work.

Discusses Virtual Mode Extensions (VME) technological design. Information on Pentium manuals; More on technological innovations.

The article offers information on the Computex Exhibit held at the Nangang Exhibit Hall in Taipei City, Taiwan. The author calls the event as "The Last Computex" based on the history of the exhibit. It adds that the allocation of floor space of the personal computer (PC) market at Computex may reach 25 % of the total market as compared to the gaming industry.

Information on the CeBIT 2012 trade fair is presented. It states that the original-design manufacturers (ODMs) ASRock Inc. attended the event and rolled launched Fatal1ty, a motherboard based on Intel Corp.'s X79 chipset. It also mentions that the trade fair features games and music, mass-gaming competition, and the platforms running World of Tanks.

The article focuses on the optimism of Intel Corp. chief executive officer (CEO) Paul Otellini regarding the market of its tablet computers. Otellini says that they would use all their assets to win the Intel-based tablet market segment. It notes that the Intel's high performance Atom microprocessor is not really a demand factor for tablets as advanced RISC machine (ARM) remains more cost effective than Atom. Otellini projected that the computer market will grow by 12 to 18% in 2011.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the Light Peak optical cable technology of Intel Corp. According to a personal computer (PC) engineer, the technology will open opportunities for optical interconnectivity but PC makers will not generally adopt the technology. The engineer says that PC makers are working on a transition towards universal serial bus (USB) 3.0. Moreover, Tim Rossi's report determines that no original equipment manufacturers (OEM) show their support to the Light Peak.

The article focuses on Intel Corp.'s 1.4 billion-dollar procurement of the wireless business unit of Infineon Technologies AG. It states that the deal gives Intel a place on the communications and personal computing convergence market and makes Intel a wireless transceiver supplier of various cell phone makers such as Apple Inc. Furthermore, it says that the deal will not guarantee a success for Intel, which should learn from the failed Arm Holdings PLC investment venture.

The article offers information on supercomputing world's Top500 list where it shows that Intel Corp. dominates against Advance Micro Devices Inc. It states that China with its most powerful system to date, ranks no. 5 and Cray XT5 supercomputer located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ranks no. 1 with its 1.75 petaflops on the Linpack benchmark. It adds that the list shows that U.S. leads the supercomputing clout with 277 systems, Europe with 153 systems, and Asia with 50 systems.

The article discusses the possible implications of the merger of Business Machines Corp. (IBM) and Sun Microsystems Inc. in the U.S. The merger will possibly make a business sense but it will also have a significant impact on the Java software, as well as to Sparc and Power microprocessors. It is part of the expansion scheme in the computer industry following the decision of Cisco Systems Inc. to enter into the server business which will possibly put pressure on the networking companies.

The article reports on the impact of the stimulus package on the computer and communications industry in the U.S. John Gantz, chief research officer at International Data Corp., forecasted that the government aid would not be enough to promote the industry. Instead, emerging markets and other growth factors could influence a recovery. Gantz added that world gross domestic product (GDP) forecasts would fall to 1% in 2009 and would climb to 3.2% by 2012.

The article focuses on the factors that demonstrate the gap between conventional laptops and smart phones. It notes that netbooks and mobile phones remain world's apart when it comes to a number of system cost and complexity vectors, including hardware bill-of-materials (BOM) cost, integrated component count and integrated circuit (IC) die area. However, netbooks and mobile phones will not truly compete until form factor and power consumption are reduced or eliminated.

The article discusses the papers presented at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) held in February 2009 at the San Francisco Marriott hotel in California. One of the papers considers the introduction of Intel Corp.'s Nehalem-EX server CPU, a 2.3 billion-transistor member of its 45-nm Nehalem family. Meanwhile, another paper shows the technique described by Hideaki Saito, a principal researcher at NEC Corp., for stacking a memory chip using direct aluminum-to-copper links.

The article provides information about electronic system level (ESL) in the semiconductor industry in the U.S. According to the article, the method was introduced in 1999, and that it took about three to four years for the ESL market to establish its name in the market and show financial results. In addition, it affirms that as of today the procedure has been widely used and has produced significant changes in the semiconductor industry.

The article argues that it is easy to dismiss the Internet set-top box. It mentions that history does not support the idea of Internet set-top box acting as a disruptive influence. It emphasizes that one key element of success is access to existing customers and accounts. This has been a source of strength for the market leaders, including Apple and Roku, which have both benefited from the Web-based customer infrastructure of the iTunes Store and Netflix.

The article reports that Nvidia Corp. has launched a processor that may challenge the performance of Intel Corp.'s Atom for design wins in mobile media and Internet devices. Nvidia claims its Tegra entry provides more processing power in less space, and with lower power consumption, than Intel's latest mobile X86 chip.