CURRENTLY THERE IS NO shortage of digital media players that you attach to your shiny new HD TV. For those that want a little bit more than a streaming player with a USB port, the new WD TV Live Hub from Western Digital might just be what you’ve been waiting for. It’s far from the most compact player on the market, but considering it comes with 1TB of internal storage, this might be forgiven.
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INTEL’S UPCOMING LGA-1155Sandy Bridge processors have already been criticized for being bad overclockers, but judging by some screenshots (over at a Taiwanese forum) the K-series of unlocked processors does hold some promise. The bad news is that in this early attempt, the bus speed hasn’t been pushed a single MHz.
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MICRON IS A COMPANY best known for its memory products, but now the company has started to produce FLCOS micro projectors intended for various solutions such as handheld products, digital cameras, DVD players and toys.
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WE’RE STILL WAITING for the USB 3.0 host controller “war” to start, but after speaking with Renesas at TFE 2010 it looks like the company is already preparing for what will come. We also confirmed that Renesas is indeed working with AMD to help implement USB 3.0 support in its future chipsets.
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This week in Taipei AMD showed a short demo of Brazos.  We will note that the cameraman needs training and better equipment.  However, we do feel the need to bring you this for your viewing pleasure or pain.
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This week in Taipei AMD showed a short demo of Fusion.  We will note that the cameraman needs training and better equipment.  However, we do feel the need to bring you this for your viewing pleasure or pain.
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THE ORIGINAL ANNOUNCEMENT back in June seems to have been generally missed, possibly because most of us aren’t familiar with the Common Platform Alliance, an organization striving for a common, open design ecosystem and fab synchronization, amongst other things. Global Foundries, IBM, and Samsung are the key foundries that make up the Common Platform Alliance and they’re all currently working on a joint 28nm process technology platform which will make life easier for their customers.
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IF YOU LIVE somewhere you can’t get Google TV, yet want an Android device attached to your brand new flat panel TV, then maybe Webia’s Android TV is what you’ve been waiting for. We spotted the Android powered box at the Broadband Taiwan show and it piqued our interest as there aren’t too many devices of its kind that run Android as yet.
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EARLIER TODAY WE attended Global Foundries Technology Conference Asia 2010 (GTC) and judging by the presentations, the company is without a doubt getting ready to give it its best to beat TSMC at its own game. Global Foundries is readying its 28nm production ramp and some early products are already being made, although this is only risk production with actual full on production taking place later next year.
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WE’RE SURE THAT this isn’t coming as a surprise to anyone, but Intel will be offering embedded processors based on its Sandy Bridge core and the first models should appear around the same time as Intel’s mobile and desktop counterparts. However, the company is also readying a set of low power processors based on the mobile Sandy Bridge processors which will be slightly different from their mobile counterparts.
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WITHOUT A DOUBT one of the biggest flaws of the USB standard is the childishly low amounts of power that can be provided and it’s been a major bugbear of the USB protocol. USB 3.0 upped it slightly, but 900mA is hardly what we’d call generous, but it seems like Intel has finally caught on and is considering some serious changes.
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