At the first USB 3.0 Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., Agilent demonstrated its new USB 3.0 transmitter and USB 3.0 receiver compliance test solutions. This demonstration included the industry's first USB 3.0 signal quality test fixture. The complete solution enables engineers to quickly and accurately test their USB 3.0 designs. SuperSpeed USB 3.0 will deliver 10 times the data transfer rate of USB 2.0 and make power usage more efficient. SuperSpeed USB will be necessary for data-storage devices transferring more than 25 Gbps. The Agilent USB 3.0 transmitter compliance test application and the USB 3.0 signal quality test fixture will be released once the official silicon is available for certification, which is expected in February 2009...
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The tiny 34nm, 32 Gb chip enables increase NAND storage capacity for a number of consumer and computing products. The 34nm, 32 Gb chips are manufactured on 300 mm wafers. Measuring just 172mm², less than the size of a thumbnail, the 34nm, 32 Gb chip will cost-effectively enable high-density solid-state storage in small form factor applications including digital cameras, personal music players and digital camcorders. Additionally, the chip will enable more cost-effective solid-state drives, dramatically increasing their current storage capacity...
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Opera Mini 4.2 gives more than 30% speed improvements for users in the US, due to the addition of a new Opera Mini server park in the United States. Opera Mini 4.2 also marks Opera Mini's official availability on the latest version of the Android mobile platform. Opera Mini is now the first Web browser alternative on Android. Opera Mini 4.2 adds more language versions and offers added skin selections to personalize the look and feel of the browser. Opera Mini is renowned for its speed, as data is compressed before it is sent to the phone. This helps to keep end-user costs low, since the data delivered is kept to a minimum...
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The Tap Touch technology solution is a technological innovation that lowers the cost of capacitive touch implementation in high button count applications. The TapTouch technology supports up to 56 independent touch zones with a single 15-channel integrated circuit, enabling the integration of large numbers of capacitive touch buttons while keeping system cost and power consumption to a minimum. TapTouch extends the capabilities of Leadis' LDS60xx family of button ICs to allow product manufacturers to efficiently implement touch technology into high button count applications such as remote control and telephony applications, where a large number of buttons are inherently required for device operation. TapTouch[tm] may also be used in screen applications such as mobile handsets and handheld games where functions such as icon selection and gesture recognition are desired...
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