Home » 2011 » March

Monthly Archives: March 2011

Le Ble D’Or, Taipei

Le Ble D’Or Brewery 5F, No.20,Jingyeh 3rd Road (Miramar Store);Taipei, Taiwan (02) 2175-3739 http://www.lebledor.com.tw/4.html This is another great find by Alan Hutton. Alan writes: “The Le Ble D’Or Brewery can be found inside the Miramar shopping mall in downtown Taipei. Due to strict laws in Taiwan, however, alcohol cannot be consumed in the same place as it is brewed so ...

Freescale lowers entry cost for ARM micro design

Freescale Semiconductor hopes to widen the use of its Kinetis range of ARM Cortex-M4-based microcontrollers with a development tool for small form factor designs. As a lower cost alternative to the company’s existing Kinetis development platform, the KwikStik development tool combines a J-Link debug probe, low-power touch sensing, a segment LCD user interface and a suite of development and run-time ...

AMD lines up x86 ecosystem against ARM

AMD is positioning its x86 processors in the embedded board market, with an design ecosystem similar to that of ARM. AMD’s main interest in the embedded processor market centres a round its Fusion devices and the low power Geode LX800 processor. The LX800 is used in Kontron’s latest Pico-ITX single board computer, the KTLX800/pITX. The Geode LX800 is a sub-1W ...

Third Time Lucky?

Cambridge’s optical plastics start-ups have not met with unqualified success, so the progress of Eight19 will be watched with interest.