The DVD6C Licensing Group (DVD6C) consisting of nine leading developers of DVD technology and formats — Hitachi, Ltd., Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Panasonic Corporation, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd., Sharp Corporation, Toshiba Corporation, Victor Company of Japan, Ltd. (JVC) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. —  today announced [...]

The Embassy of Japan in Brazil and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry welcomed back to Brazil twenty Brazilian engineers who participated in an intensive semiconductor design engineering program in Japan from January to June this year. The welcome home reception was held on September 2 at the Blue Tree [...]

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced details of the world’s fastest computer chip — the microprocessor in a new version of the IBM mainframe that begins shipping to customers on Sept. 10.
This world record-breaking speed is necessary for businesses managing huge workloads, such as banks and retailers, especially as the world [...]

At IFA 2010 IBM (NYSE: IBM) will showcase how it can help Consumer Electronics (CE) manufacturers shift to a services-based business model to provide better device management, enable the quick development and launch of new value-added service capabilities and find new revenue streams. (IBM is in the IFA TecWatch area, [...]

Microsoft Corp. and Temenos Group AG, the global provider of banking software, today announced the successful completion of a high-performance benchmark that measured the high-end scalability of TEMENOS T24 (T24) on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter.
The testing environment, created to reflect real-world retail banking [...]

AMD (NYSE: AMD) and Pixelux Entertainment announced a joint development agreement that is part of the AMD effort to greatly expand the use of real-time physics with graphics through the open source Bullet Physics engine.  By encouraging development of physics middleware built around OpenCL™ and Bullet Physics, AMD and Pixelux offer a [...]

PARC, a Xerox company, today announced it is one of four project teams chosen by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to pursue ways to build a more trustworthy and robust Internet. The new “Future Internet Architecture” (FIA) program is focused on collaborative, long-range, transformative thinking about new comprehensive network architectures [...]

Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) has named Mark Richey Woodworking, a high-end architectural woodworking firm, as the Autodesk Inventor of the Month for August for expert use of Autodesk Inventor software in developing and installing the precision millwork required for a new performing arts center.
Helzberg Hall is a 1,600-seat music hall that is [...]

Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (NASDAQ: CRAY) today announced that Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH: Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan) has signed a contract to upgrade its recently acquired Cray XT6m system to a new Cray XE6 supercomputer. KTH’s PDC Center for High Performance Computing will use the more than 300-teraflops Cray XE6 supercomputer, equipped with [...]

Marine Innovation & Technology, a naval architecture and offshore engineering firm, is using Digital Prototyping software from Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), to develop the WindFloat: a small, floating platform capable of supporting large offshore wind turbines.
Autodesk Inventor Professional, Autodesk Vault Professional, and Autodesk Showcase Professional software helped enable the company to design [...]