Mark Hachman

Sprint Corp. and Motorola Inc. said Thursday that they would work together to develop the nomadic or mobile version of WiMax, known as 802.16e. Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola will develop and provide wireless radio technology, IP core switching and wireless devices, including handsets, to Sprint. Sprint, which has also signed a deal […]

Intel Corp. will present a paper Friday that will demonstrate its progress toward integrating the current Wi-Fi technologies with the next-generation 802.11n protocol. At the 2005 VLSI Symposium on Circuits in Kyoto, Japan, Intel executives will present two papers, one on integrating a 2.4/5GHz wireless LAN and a second on a 90-nanometer filter chain. Intel […]

Hardware giants Intel and Nokia on Thursday announced a cooperation to accelerate the standardization and development of the wireless broadband technology known as WiMax. The companies will collaborate on several efforts around WiMax: clients, infrastructure and market development. This will include a joint effort to show wireless service providers that there is a place for […]

In a detailed briefing for analysts in New York on Friday, executives at Advanced Micro Devices painted the company as making “irreversible progress” into new architectures, specifically multicore microprocessors and 64-bit processing. Executives confirmed that the company plans to enhance its Opteron enterprise processor line to four cores in 2007, adding focused optimizations to manage […]

Seagate Technology unveiled its 2005 lineup on Wednesday, which takes drives to the half-terabyte level and introduces a product family that encrypts data. Over the course of the year, Seagate will unveil 12 new products, executives said, incorporating the companys shift to perpendicular recording, a technique of aligning the magnetic grains within the drive to […]

Its the end of the PowerPC as we know it. But most everyone feels fine. Just one day after Apple Computer Inc. said it would shift from IBM PowerPC to Intel Corp. Pentium chips, delivering what some might see as a huge blow to IBM, its business as usual in East Fishkill, N.Y., the de […]

Rambus has sued one of its largest proponents, Samsung Electronics, for several counts of patent infringement. The contents of the suits echo those Rambus filed in the late 1990s: in one suit, Rambus named Samsung as allegedly infringing on 11 patents involving SDRAM and DDR memory. A separate suit alleges that Samsung had also infringed […]

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. officially launched its Athlon 64 X2 processor on Monday, backed by four key OEMs. AMDs launch is backed by its old ally, Hewlett-Packard Co., as well as Alienware in the United States. In Euorpe, Acer will supply X2 systems, and Asias Lenovo Group will do the same. A “vast set of […]

Via Technologies Inc. announced its C7 “Esther” processor on Friday, a tiny, low-power chip that was designed for a relatively fast clock speed. Named after a humble woman that became the queen of Persia, Esthers target markets are modest as well. The chip will be designed into thin-and-light notebooks as well as small-form-factor and energy-efficient […]

Advanced Micro Devices has released the AMD Geode LX, a low-power processor that the company hopes will help it achieve its “x86 Everywhere” strategy. The chips selling point is its low power: 900 milliwatts, substantially less than the 7 watts or so that the 1.2-GHz Pentium M 753 from Intel consumes. But AMDs Geode LX […]

Having failed to secure enough votes for standards approval, the debate over which proposal to back for the next-generation 802.11n standard moves back to square one. At an IEEE meeting in Cairns, Australia, the TGn Sync proposal failed to win the 75 percent approval that it required to become the draft 802.11n standard. According to […]

Intel Corp. plans to differentiate its business platforms by integrating the ability to make cell phone calls within the next two years, and is researching VOIP hardware integration, executives said. The move comes as Intel looks to expand its platforms—the combination of processor, chip set, wireless components and other peripherals—into separate road maps for both […]