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<title><![CDATA[Report: MacBook Airs with Thunderbolt in June]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 07:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Thunderbolt logo(Credit:Apple)Apple's smallest notebook could soon be getting the company's fastest input/output technology, along with a notable processing boost. Digitimes reports that Apple is ramping up for a manufacturing run of 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch MacBook Airs that sport Intel's &quot;Sandy Bridge&quot; processors, as well as Thunderbolt, the I/O technology that's now available on the MacBook Pro and the iMac. The new Air models are said to be shipping in June or July, according to the report.CNET reported a similar timeframe for an update to Sandy Bridge and Thunderbolt back in February.Thunderbolt is the I/O technology resulting from a collaboration between Intel and Apple. It boasts considerable speed advantages over USB 3.0, which is available on a number of PCs but not onMac computers. Thunderbolt remains a nascent technology in terms of adoption across the computing industry, with only Apple's computers currently sporting a Thunderbolt port. Other manufacturers are slated to gain access to Thunderbolt next year.The size of Intel&amp;39's Thunderbolt chip.(Credit:Intel)As for Sandy Bridge, the extra processing boost could make a big impact on the Air's computing prowess. Apple's two Air models currently top out with a Core 2 Duo chip, which is Intel's previous generation chipset. Sandy Bridge represents the second iteration of Intel's &quot;i&quot; line of processors and brings with it both a boost in processing power and graphics capabilities. PC ultra-portables, including Samsung's 9 series laptops, have sported the chips since March.Questions still remain about whether there's room inside the Air's jam-packed enclosure for the Thunderbolt's controller. Considering the graphics boost that Sandy Bridge's chips bring, Apple could be trading out the NVIDIA GeForce 320M GPU for Intel's integrated graphics to free up space. Apple's MacBook Air was completely relaunched back in October as part of Apple's &quot;Back to the Mac&quot; event. That was also where Apple took the wraps off OS X 10.7 &quot;Lion,&quot; which is due this summer.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Inside Sony's next-generation PSP]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 08:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sony's disclosure of the internals of the Next Generation Portable (NGP)PlayStation at an event in Tokyo today reveals a game engine that might be best described as anApple iPad on steroids. Lots of steroids. Like the iPad (andiPhone), Sony will use an ARM processor design. Of course, Sony and Apple aren't the only high-profile device makers using ARM chips. Motorola is using an advanced ARM chip from Nvidia in its Xoom tablet, and RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet will tap a powerful ARM chip from Texas Instruments. Both of those are dual-core ARM designs.  But Sony's NGP PlayStation--due this holiday season--makes the engines in those devices--even the rumored iPad 2--seem slow by comparison.  Sony&amp;39's next-generation PlayStation Portable has a processor with a whopping four cores. (Credit:Sony) Here's Sony's &quot;Next Generation Portable Entertainment System&quot; spec sheet in all of its tersely worded alphanumeric glory: &quot;CPU: ARM Cortex-A9 core (4 core)...GPU: SGX543MP4+&quot;  Translation: an advanced ARM central processing unit (CPU) with four processing cores and an equally advanced graphics processing unit (GPU) from Imagination Technologies, also with four cores.  &quot;That's pretty leading edge,&quot; said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst at the Linley Group, a chip consulting firm. &quot;We're starting to see some other quad-core, and [Nvidia's] Tegra 3 is supposed to be quad-core,&quot; he said. Nvidia's Tegra 3 is expected to be announced at Mobile World Congress next month. And how fast might that be &quot;Sony is providing consumers with a mobile device with about four times the CPU and GPU performance of an iPhone 4,&quot; said Joe Byrne, a senior analyst at the Linley Group.  All this horsepower present challenges, however, as ARM has traditionally been an extremely power-frugal architecture based on a single processing core. But now, that design is being bulked up with four cores. &quot;There are a couple of issues. One is the heat coming out of it. And the other is battery life,&quot; Gwennap said. &quot;Putting it in a tablet or smartphone, you might dial up a Web page, fire up the four cores, get the thing rendered, then shut them (the four cores) down again.&quot;  Gwennap continued. &quot;In a game environment, it's going to be interesting to see how they manage that. When you're playing a game you just don't start and stop. So, they need to figure out a way to keep those four cores running without generating too much heat and without draining the battery. But you can always turn something on, turn something off. It depends on the needs of that particular game.&quot;  But a speedy main processor is only half the story. Imagination's quad-core SGX543 GPU is a radical departure from previous versions, according to Peter McGuinness, director of business environment at Imagination. &quot;The [new] version has a wider data path so, it's got twice the shader throughput,&quot; he said. Shader refers to the software instructions used to calculate rendering effects. &quot;The emphasis now is on the number of shader instructions you can execute per clock&quot;--or number of instructions per each tick of the processor cycle.  McGuinness continued. &quot;Each core has multiple shader pipelines. The 535--which Intel used originally in its Menlow [Atom processor]--that has two shader pipelines. The Samsung Galaxy S...that's an SGX540. That has four shader pipelines. The 543 has the same number of pipelines but each pipeline is twice as powerful. The [quad-core graphics chip] in the Sony machine would be roughly eight times as powerful as [the Samsung Galaxy S],&quot; he said.  And it remains to be seen how all of this new chip technology compares with the silicon inside the current PSP. That Sony chip uses two MIPS32 R4000 CPUs with embedded graphics. But you can bet that Sony will have no qualms about leaving the current PSP in the dust.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spansion aims for a comeback with innovative flash memory]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bankruptcy has a way of making a chief executive focus on what&amp;'s important. John Kispert, CEO of the once-bankrupt and now profitable chip maker Spansion, used the legal process to pare back and double down on innovation.Today, the company is launching a new line of flash memory chips that Kispert says can be used in a wide variety of next-generation consumer electronics devices, automobile electronics, and game devices. If they take off, they can help Spansion thrive in a market with larger competitors and at a time of an overall industry recovery. It&amp;'s also a test as to whether pressing the gas pedal on innovation will help a once-struggling tech company recover.The new chips are for the age of instantly accessible devices.&amp;''What has changed in the last 18 months is that everybody wants a device that turns on instantly,&amp;'' Kispert says. &amp;''That means the memory has to be interactive. That&amp;'s perfect for our business.&amp;''The Spansion GL-S family of NOR flash memory chips allow you to tap a button and instantly begin using a device such as a car navigation system. They&amp;'re not the kind of popular NAND flash chips that are used as substitutes for large hard disk drives in laptops, as the Spansion chips range in density from 128 megabits to 2 gigabits of storage. Kispert (pictured below) says the chips are 45 percent faster than other competing NOR products from rivals such as Micron.The new GL-S is two times faster than Spansion&amp;'s older products and 30 percent faster than rivals, based on third-party benchmark tests. Jim Handy, analyst at Objective Analytics, says the new chip family shows that the company&amp;'s technology has room to grow and that Spansion is executing well.Spansion began working on the new product about 18 months ago, shortly after Kispert became CEO. But the company had high debt just as the big recession hit in 2008. It filed for bankruptcy protection in March 2009, laid off some employees, and transferred many of them to new owners when it sold off overseas manufacturing. The company has 3,500 employees now, compared to 9,000 before the bankruptcy. It exited unprofitable markets and focused on embedded products, or those in gadgets, game devices, medical, networking, cars or smart grid meters. In a car, for instance, the digital displays on the dashboard &amp;8212' which replace the old analog needles on speedometers and other instruments &amp;8212' use a lot of flash memory.Since emerging from bankruptcy in May, 2010, the company has recovered along with the overall economy. It still has manufacturing facilities in Austin, Texas, and has dramatically improved its financial performance and balance sheet. Spansion is hiring again. Revenue has been growing for five quarters and the company has regained market share in the embedded market where it is focused. The company is still reporting breakeven results, but that&amp;'s partly related to a re-valuation of company assets during bankruptcy, and losses are declining. On a non-GAAP basis, the company is making money.It&amp;'s still not completely out of the woods. It has $354 million in cash and is generating more each quarter, but debt is at $450 million. That would seem scary, but Kispert says the company has an advantage with its &amp;''charge trapping&amp;'' nonvolatile memory technology. That technology enables cheaper, more flexible chips with a variety of paths for expansion. The company is partnering with another chip maker to apply the same tricks to NAND memory later this year.The company has 2,000 employees in a factory in Austin that Kispert says is running &amp;''white-hot.&amp;'' Kispert says, &amp;''That&amp;'s a testament to our determination.&amp;''Previous Story: Google&amp;'s One Pass takes on Apple&amp;'s digital subscriptionsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: flash memoryCompanies: SpansionPeople: John Kispert          Tags: flash memoryCompanies: SpansionPeople: John KispertDean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat. Have news to share Launching a startup Email: tips@venturebeat.comVentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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