Stories about: Infineon

Verizon Wireless is throwing its support behind mobile Linux, becoming the first US operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology.

IBM will work with the German chemical company BASF Group to produce a new generation of chips with feature sizes of 32 nanometers, the companies said Friday.

Sun Microsystems is promising to file a new lawsuit after a federal judge threw out a complaint that Hynix Semiconductor and other manufacturers of dynamic RAM (DRAM) illegally inflated their prices.

Embedded OS and tools vendor Wind River Systems announced Tuesday that it is acquiring the RTLinux patents, copyrights, and trademarks of pioneering embedded Linux firm FSMLabs. Wind River will also assume FSMLabs' RTLinux customer relationships in the embedded systems market.

IBM has built a prototype storage device with two partners that they claim is 500 times faster than Flash.

Siemens researchers have designed an integrated single-chip fiber-optic receiver which could enable cheap 100Gbit/s Ethernet.

Claiming it had showed off a dual-core x86 90nm Opteron at its facilities in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday, AMD tried to steal the thunder of Intel, which claims to have laid the multi-threaded foundation needed for operating systems and applications to make the leap to multi-core with its HyperThreading widgetry and has been saying it will trot out a dual-core Xeon at the upcoming Intel Developer Forum.

Magellan Technologies has developed what it claims to be a world-first in RFID technology that allows many closely bunched tags to be uniquely identified without interference. The developer has taken the open source route using Linux-based readers and an open source application interface.

Researchers at Germany's Infineon Technologies have demonstrated how a self-organising network of chips woven into large textile surfaces, such as carpets, could someday be used to monitor buildings, provide emergency direction services and more.

Linux-based APIs are on the roadmap of various vendors in support of the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance's (TCPA'S) security initiative, an Infineon Technologies AG official said at the Platform Conference in San Jose on Tuesday.

Agere Systems and Infineon Technologies AG announced Tuesday a broad alliance to jointly develop chips for multimode WLAN (wireless LAN) products based on the 802.11a, b and g standards.