Mark Hachman

Two camps in the ultrawideband debate found something to cheer about in an FCC waiver that redefines how UWB signals will be monitored for interference. Although the text of the waiver will not be released for about a week, MBOA (MultiBand OFDM Alliance) officials said that the new definition would allow their products to be […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Federal Communications Commission chairman Michael Powell delivered his swan song at the Voice over Net trade show here on Tuesday by encouraging industry to continue to make its collective voice heard. Powells eight-year tenure at the FCC will end later this month, and the speech here represented his last public talk in an […]

SAN JOSE, Calif.—Members of the Federal Communications Commission claim market forces, not regulation, will likely prevent a repeat of an ISP blocking voice-over-IP traffic. In a “town hall” meeting Monday night at the VON Conference & Expo here, Jeffrey Carlisle, chief of the FCCs Wireline Competition Bureau, and Robert Pepper, chief of policy development at […]

Well, that was refreshing. The most convincing indication that a company has its act together is the information its willing to put out to the press. A company with nothing to hide typically feels confident that its competition will be unable to catch up, no matter what information theyre provided with. Thats the impression Intel […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Who knew that semiconductor manufacturing fabs could turn on a dime? Intel Corp., long known for its grinding manufacturing strategy, revealed that it has facilities dedicated to quickly making changes in its manufacturing output to meet sudden changes in supply and demand. The three “flex fabs”—Fab 11 in Rio Rancho, N.M., and Fabs 10 […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The WiMedia Alliance and the Multiband OFDM Alliance ultrawideband group joined forces on Wednesday, simplifying the debate surrounding the wireless technology. Analysts said the alliance, now known as the WiMedia Alliance Inc., formalized an already tight working relationship between the two organizations, which shared common members and goals. Executives in the MBOA camp, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO—By 2015, Intel may deliver processors with tens or even hundreds of individual cores, Intel researchers said Thursday at the Intel Developer Forum here. This “many core” strategy may support hundreds or thousands of instruction threads, which may create their own problems of managing them with the appropriate compiler software, executives said. Intel Corp.s […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel executives on Tuesday said they hope to bring the PC and consumer-electronics markets closer together through PCs equipped with dual-core processors, which will begin to replace separate devices within the home. Intel described two of its digital-home platforms at the Intel Developer Forum here, while offering additional demonstrations of its virtualization technology, which […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The bandwidth supplied by next-generation wireless networks is fueling a demand for performance on mobile phones and PDAs, Intel executives said Wednesday. Intel Corp. announced several enhancements in flash memory during the second day of its Intel Developer Forum here, where the company is competing heavily with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. for leadership […]

SAN FRANCISCO—Intel executives presented a detailed roadmap of the companys dual-core future at the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday, including plans for a processor that will now be called the “Pentium D.” According to Stephen Smith, vice president of the digital enterprise group at Intel Corp., the company has no less than 15 dual-core […]