EW Daily News 31/03/2004 10:34:54 – Small firms drive in-home multimedia market-placeSmall firms drive in-home multimedia market-place Harry Yeates Small firms offering high-specification media boxes are driving the convergence of the home PC with TV, personal video recorder (PVR), hi-fi and DVD in the long-running fight over who will provide the living room multimedia centre. Although computing giants such as ...

EW Daily News 31/03/2004 10:30:20 – Wafer company expects growth from qualification productsWafer company expects growth from qualification products Alex Mayhew-Smith Epitaxial wafer firm IQE claims a number of qualification stage products will lead to growth in the first half of the year. One qualification is now an evaluation and we will be ramping up volumes, Chris Meadows, head of ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – Small firms with single boxes drive in-home multimedia market-placeSmall firms with single boxes drive in-home multimedia market-place Harry Yeates Small firms offering high-specification media boxes are driving the convergence of the home PC with TV, personal video recorder (PVR), hi-fi and DVD in the long-running fight over who will provide the living room multimedia centre. Although ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – Scottish start-up to market its UWB wireless technologyScottish start-up to market its UWB wireless technology Harry Yeates A Scottish start-up expects to have a prototype ultra wideband (UWB) wireless replacement for high-speed data transfer protocols such as USB 2.0 and FireWire by the end of the year. Edinburgh-based Dukosi said full-production should follow in Q3 2005. ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – Mobile chip standardisation group completes specification for EDGEMobile chip standardisation group completes specification for EDGE Richard Ball DigRF, the group aiming to standardise connections between baseband and RF chips in mobile phones, has completed its work on the 2.5G mobile phone standards. The specific news today is that version 1.12 of the specification is in full ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – Tektronix shows its hand in race for fastest oscilloscope as speeds increase to 8GHzTektronix shows its hand in race for fastest oscilloscope as speeds increase to 8GHz Richard Wilson The contest for the fastest oscilloscope on the market was rekindled with this week’s introduction of an 8GHz digital storage oscilloscope by Tektronix. The company has used ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – University liquid crystal material performs signal processing task with novel techniqueUniversity liquid crystal material performs signal processing task with novel technique Steve Bush Researchers at the University of York have persuaded liquid crystal material to perform a signal processing task without the direct intervention of conventional electronics. It can discriminate between two sets of pulses at ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – BAE opens centre to develop lasers centre, writes Richard Ball BAE Systems has opened its ‘Laser Centre of Excellence’ in Edinburgh, which is tasked with developing the targeting laser for the Joint Strike Fighter. With £4m of funding, the centre will develop the range finding laser during 2004, with production of up to 3,000 lasers due to ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – First electronic book on sale in JapanFirst electronic book on sale in Japan Richard Ball Next month Sony is to begin sales in Japan of the first electronic book, using a non-volatile display developed by Philips and Massachusetts-based E Ink. Called Librie, the device will be able to store several hundred books, said Sony. The monochrome ...

EW News 31/03/2004 – Wafer company forecasts growth from qualification stage productsWafer company forecasts growth from qualification stage products Alex Mayhew-Smith Epitaxial wafer firm IQE claims a number of qualification stage products will lead to growth in the first half of the year. One qualification is now an evaluation and we will be ramping up volumes, Chris Meadows, head of ...