Enhanced Drivers Licenses
Two states are implementing RFID Enhanced Driver Licenses in 2008. Vermont and Washington have designed these for easier border crossing into Canada and Mexico. Critics charge that the radio frequency identification chips are to be used to monitor shipments of cargo, not people.
The cards transmit a signal with the unique identification number of the license [...]
Wolfdale Benchmarks
Wolfdale Core2 processors are not on the market yet, but the 2.33GHz chip for the next-gen desktops is built on Intel’s new 45nm process, making it a smaller version of the existing Core 2 chips. The engineering sample benchmarked was running at 2.33GHz, 1333MHz FSB and stacked up 6MB of L2 cache.
In tests against [...]
Chip Shortage
Samsung had to shut down production on six of its lines in Seoul because of a power outage caused by a faulty transformer. It stopped production of flash memory, DRAM and logic chips. While power was restored within one day, we are now told to expect shortages of NAND chips, and possibly the ones for [...]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Our Robotic Overlords: Just Another Piece of the Puzzle
With CMOS chips this small (1.4mm, or 1/18 of an inch), the Overlords will now be able to watch us wherever we go. TDC’s OV6920 CameraChip is only 3.2mm in size, all components included, which I think will fit inside my nose (just for comparison purposes, of course). Resolution is low at this point, only [...]
CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Canon Building CMOS Factory
Canon is investing $451 million to build a factory to to double its production of CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductors) components for its cameras.
The CMOS chips will be used in both SLR and in some compact models. Canon is aiming to produce 24 million digital cameras this year.
Code Name Falcon
65-nanometer chips in an X-box makes it the new Falcon. Smaller chips make the overall product cheaper and less prone to heat problems.
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