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Judy Estrin, a serial technology entrepreneur, says in a new book that Silicon Valley - and the country - are facing a crisis of innovation.

Despite their appeal, Solid State Drives (SSD) won't make real sense for laptops for several more years, according to Computerworld. The curent technology is still too expensive, slower on I/O and has a more limited lifespan

The upstart Mac cloner claims in an antitrust suit that Steve Jobs and company employ a mix of hype, dubious licensing schemes and technology to dominate the Mac computing environment.

 A U.S. federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction issued last year preventing the chip maker from selling certain products that rely on patented Broadcom technology.

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Designed for mobile phones, music players, and other portable devices, Model µPD809400 integrates 8 megabits of embedded DRAM memory with graphics processing logic and high-speed graphics data interface, displaying 24-bit full color image data on VGA panels. Fabricated with 90 nm process technology, it integrates large memory, timing control circuits, as well as regulators and other analog circuits. Chip is also capable of expanding QVGA data for display on VGA screens.This story is related to the following:Computer Hardware and PeripheralsElectronic Components and Devices Sponsored by: Lumera Corporation - Search for suppliers of: Memory Chips | Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC)

alphadogg writes to tell us that IBM is claiming a victory on the flash storage front. Their new research project 'Quicksilver' is claiming data transfer speeds of more than 1 million input/output operations per second (IOPS). 'IBM said Quicksilver is two and a half times faster than its own SAN Volume Controller coupled with IBM's DS4700 storage. It would also be two and a half times faster than technology from Texas Memory Systems, which says it has the world's fastest storage with an IOPS rate of 400,000. ' of this story at Slashdot.

Teaching and learning have always had a collaborative element, but wiki technology has in recent years made collaboration central to the method of many educators. Since they can be edited by anyone with access to them, education wikis are ever-changing and evolving documents that ideally represent the wisdom of the student crowd.

Linux.com has an interesting look at the inner workings of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). 'The purpose of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is probably obvious from its name -- but what does promoting free software mean in terms of everyday activity? Examining the roles of the organization shows how complex the FSF's advocacy role has become. It also reveals the range of services available to the free software community, and helps to explain how such a small group has had such a major influence on computer technology. As a 501(c)3 charity in the United States, the FSF is run by a board of directors. The current board includes FSF founder and president Richard M. Stallman and long-term member Henry Poole, but, in the last few years, new faces have appeared on the board.' of this story at Slashdot.

One of the things that fans of Intel mainboards using Intel chipsets have been missing is support for NVIDIA's SLI. If dual GPU support was important to you on an Intel chipset, your option was ATI's Crossfire. NVIDIA announced has agreed to authorize support for its SLI technology specifically ...