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Intel Will Acquire Texas Instruments’ Cable Modem Product Line

August 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Intel plans on acquiring Texas Instruments’ cable modem product line, which it plans on providing with system-on-a-chip products based on its Atom processor. Intel is attempting to diversify its offerings in the consumer and mobility space. – Intel plans on acquiring Texas Instruments cable modem
product line, in a bid to increase the chip makers presence in the cable
industry and its electronics. Intel will supply those electronics with
system-on-a-chip products based on its Atom processor. Financial terms of the
deal were not discl…

New CEO Thompson Sets Course for Storage Startup Virtual Instruments

July 30th, 2010 | No Comments

Virtual Instruments, a spinoff of Finisar, makes SAN and virtual infrastructure optimization software called SANInsight and VirtualWisdom. These data storage products provide deep monitoring and analysis of how virtualized IT infrastructures and SANs affect business-critical application performance. – Three months after taking over leadership of storage optimization startup Virtual Instruments, CEO John Thompson for 9 years CEO of Symantec has mapped out the path his company is going to be taking for the next few years.

As virtualization continues to become more prominent in IT production
sy…

May 7, 1952: The Integrated Circuit â€¦ What a Concept!

May 7th, 2010 | No Comments

1952: British radar engineer Geoffrey Dummer introduces the concept of the integrated circuit at a tech conference in the United States. The world is about to change.
At the heart of every electronic device today — from computers to aircraft navigation systems — is a little circuit that has changed computing and ushered in [...]

Symantec Chairman Thompson Named CEO of Virtual Instruments

May 6th, 2010 | No Comments

UPDATED: John Thompson replaces founding CEO Mark Urdahl as the head of Virtual Instruments. Urdahl, a major stockholder, is staying on as a member of the company board of directors.
– Former Symantec CEO and current board Chairman
John Thompson, widely considered by industry watchers to be one of the true
quot;class acts quot; in Silicon Valley, on May 6 was
named CEO of Virtual Instruments.

Thompson replaces Mark Urdahl, who was VI’s founding CEO
in 2008. Urdahl, a major…

Texas Instruments Takes Aim at E-Reader Chip Market

January 7th, 2010 | No Comments

Seeking to claim a generous share of the e-reader chip market, Texas Instruments will try to entice prospective e-reader OEMs with a chip set and software that the company claims will reduce the size and increase the battery life of e-book mobile devices.
– Texas Instruments will unveil custom hardware and software Jan. 7 at the
Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas
that it claims will reduce the footprint of e-readers by 200 square millimeters
and extend their battery life by 50 percent.
TI’s TPS6518x EPD (electronic paper
display) power manag…

Sept. 16, 1736: One Degree of Separation â€” Fahrenheit Dies

September 16th, 2009 | No Comments

1736: German physicist and instrument maker Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit dies in the Netherlands. His pioneering work on thermometers means he will live on, to a degree.
Fahrenheit (Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit in some accounts) was born in the Royal Prussian city of Danzig (now the Polish city of Gdansk) on May 14, 1686. His dad was a [...]

iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2, iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2 released

July 15th, 2009 | No Comments

Following the release of iPhone 3.1 with the accompanying SDK for developers earlier this month, Apple has seeded iPhone developers with iPhone SDK 3.1 beta 2 and iPhone OS 3.1 beta 2. Noticed that the Wi-Fi connection feature offered by the version is “huge for developers”.
Ars Technica wrote:
…beta 2 enables them to connect to their [...]