World's smallest USB drive

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

The SuperTalent Pico C is claiming the crown for the world's smallest USB drive, weighing less than 6 grams but that doesn’t prevent it from holding up to 32 GB of data. The 4 GB version comes in at £9.45 while the larger 32 GB edition costs £35.45.
This flash drive is speedy too, “the I/O performance results are amazing when it comes to the Super Talent

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USB3 drives fastest in Digital Cameras and Camcorders

7m Set top boxes with USB3 by 2014

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

USB has been extremely successful in the digital still camera and digital camcorder markets because most users want to download images to PCs to store video recordings and still pictures or to print pictures. But, given Intel's reluctant backing of USB3 (shipments of chips not until 2012), other segments are set to take

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Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover

Intel in $7.68bn McAfee takeover
The interesting thing here is how will this fit with Intel's Wind River division, where embedded security is an increasingly important issue.
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NAND targets $1 per Gbyte for solid state drives

Portable Multimedia: NAND targets $1 per Gbyte for solid state drives

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Intel updates Atom processor for storage with DDR3

DDR3 for higher speed transfers marks shift in embedded market

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Two new processors for embedded data storage are marking the shift to DDR3.  
Since launching the D410 and D510 Atom processors into the home networking space in March, Intel has updated the chip to be faster with the 1.8GHz D425 single-core and D525 dual-core devices that now support

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TI's 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 DaVinci chip to replace OMAP3

DM37x combines 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 and 800MHz C64x+ DSP for 720p HD video
Hardware offers 50% boost in ARM performance, 40% in DSP, double the graphics performance with 40% less power consumption over OMAP3530 device
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk
TI is targetting its own OMAP3 processors with a new Da Vinci video processor family, the DM 37x. The DM3730 and DM3725 with their ARM Cortex-A8

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Sundance ships 12 core development system

Customer shipment three months after launch

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology in Chesham, outside London, has started shipping its flagship multiprocessor development system to a customer three months after adding the system to its website. 
The EVP6472-941 (left) is directly targeted at the new breed of high intensity processing applications where

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Portable Multimedia: Just seven smartphone apps drive hardware designs

Portable Multimedia: Just seven smartphone apps drive hardware designsBy Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

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Wireless Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems in Cars May Pose Security Threat

Researchers spoof wireless monitoring systems 
By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Reseachers in the US have 'spoofed' cars with wireless tire pressure monitoring systems, giving a false rading on the dashboard and potentally causing cars to stop. The reseachers at Rutgers University in New Jersey and the University of South Carolina also say that the new wireless

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OIF project to shrink tunable laser modules for 100G networks

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

The Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) is developing a specification for a micro-integrable tunable laser assembly (uITLA). This new form factor for tunable lasers is needed as the industry moves to an XFP form factor with reduced power dissipation.
The new uITLA project will propose changes to the assembly electrical interfaces,

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Intel changes track on healthcare - video comment

Combines units with GE to focus on telehealth 

By Nick Flaherty www.flaherty.co.uk

Intel is merging its Digital Health group with GE Healthcare’s Home Health division to create a new healthcare technology company focused on telehealth and independent living. The new company will be owned equally by GE and Intel, with Louis Burns, currently vice president and general

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