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08.08.05
IBM Juicing Up SiGe Technology
 By John Stith
IBM announced on Friday the launch of their fourth generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) foundry technology named 8HP. The new chip has more than twice the performance of the previous products.
The very tiny 130 nm semiconductor was created to reduce the cost of mobile consumer products, advance high-bandwidth wireless communications and help enable innovative new applications such as collision-avoidance automobile radar.
IBM is also offering a lower cost variant specifically targeted at wireless applications for longer batter life and increase functionality in cellular handsets in order to promote the growth of wireless local area networking and global position technology.
"Silicon germanium technology is increasingly influencing next generation consumer devices and applications," said Bernie Meyerson, Chief Technologist for Systems & Technology Group, IBM. "IBM introduced the technology in 1989 to allow chip designers to increase computer performance. Over the years, SiGe revolutionized the wireless industry by providing a high volume Silicon-based technology. The fourth generation of SiGe will continue to enable wireless connectivity on an increasingly global scale."
The technology should be useful as more complicated handheld devices enter
the marketplace in the form of cell phones, PDAs and even notebooks. The technology
for automobiles should also greatly increase the safety of vehicles as well as
the functionality while traveling with the GPS technology improvements.
About the Author:
John Stith is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
AOL Ties Up Wireless Deal
 By
David Utter
Another acquisition by AOL, this time of phone-personalization software company Wildseed, will help it get onto more mobile phones.
Phone services has heated up as a focal point for Internet players. AOL will try to compete with Yahoo in getting its services onto mobile phones, and has acquired software company Wildseed to help it do that.
 According to a USA Today report, Wildseed will be incorporated into AOL's new Wireless Unit. Deals with providers of wireless handsets will get AOL software preloaded onto phones. That should help the company keep its users from straying to competitors on mobile phones.
AOL recently acquired online storage firm Xdrive, which allows users to store information on a secure, centralized platform that undergoes regular backups. That service could be the base for AOL users to place content like images or music, and retrieve them remotely from a cellphone as well as a typical desktop machine.
Wildseed CEO Eric Engstrom was the co-inventor of the DirectX game platform; he was program manager at Microsoft for DirectX. Terms of the purchase of the privately-held company were not disclosed.
About the Author:
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