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Microcontroller family with integrated LCD driver

Wednesday 26 November 2008

Freescale Semiconductor (distributed by Farnell in Australia) has introduced a cost-effective family of 16-bit microcontrollers (MCUs) designed for electromechanical instrument clusters used in entry-level vehicles.


32MHz MCUs for automotive control applications

Wednesday 05 November 2008

Renesas (distributed by Hitachi Australia) has introduced 14 new 16-bit CISC-type MCUs in the M16C/5L and M16C/56 groups.


DDR2 memory kits

Thursday 01 May 2008

Kingston Technology Company has released DDR2- 800 fully-buffered dual-inline memory (FB-DIMM) designed and validated for Apple Mac Pro workstations and Xserve server systems.


Video flash cards

Tuesday 22 April 2008

Consumers who own camcorders that use flash memory cards instead of tape will now be able to select the right storage media for their cameras with the debut of a video card line from SanDisk.


Oscilloscope

Tuesday 11 March 2008

AGILENT Technologies has broken the one-billion acquisition samples (1 Gpt) barrier in an oscilloscope with the Infiniium 90000A Series. The series offers deep acquisition memory, a hardware/software integrated triggering system and InfiniiScan Plus and provides data offload, with access to offline


Memory weighs down semiconductor sales

Thursday 06 March 2008

The harsh memory market has once again strongly impacted the overall semiconductor. The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported worldwide sales of semiconductors in January reached US$21.5 billion, a 0.3% increase on January 2007 results of US$21.47 billion and a 3.6% decrease on December


Ready to catch a spider

Wednesday 09 January 2008

Kingston Technology Company, Inc. announced it is shipping 1066MHz ValueRAM designed specifically for the new AMD Phenom Processor. Kingston worked closely with AMD on the launch of the Spider Platform, comprised of the new Phenom Processor, ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics card and the AMD


Microcontroller

Tuesday 27 November 2007

STMicroelectronics announced a new secure microcontroller (MCU) based on embedded Flash memory, which is the first in the world to be produced using 90nm (90 nanometer) process technology.


Solid-state storage: feasible plan or flash in the pan?

Monday 22 October 2007

Flash memory's per-megabyte cost is plummeting, and its per-chip density is climbing. Your customers' demands for system performance, low power consumption, compact form factors, light weight, ruggedness, and reliability are unrelenting. Is it time to consider an uptick in your per-system


Exploring memory architectures: pillars of processing performance

Friday 20 July 2007

Processor-based systems rely on multiple, heterogeneous memory subsystems to deliver better system performance, power, and cost efficiencies.


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