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- ASIC
- Application Specific Integrated Circuit Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. The use...
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- MacBook Pro graphics chips failing prematurely
- It appears that the current crop of MacBook Pros seem to be suffering from a premature failure of their Nvidia graphics processors. According to a piece on The Inquirer "All Nvidia G84 and G86s are bad" and MacBooks Pro's with either the Nvidia 8600GT GPUs are prone to failure: ...
- Tags: graphics chip, nvidia corp., apple macbook, graphics, asic, apple macbook pro, chip, symptom, apple discussion forums, asics, semiconductors, hardware, jason d. o\'grady
- Blog posts 2008-08-08
- Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by Feds
- Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by FedsBackdoors by design or accident?Surely you jest, Mr. Stiennon.In 2000, one year after Check Point's Firewall-1 was certified by the NSA as the only EAL-2 compliant application & traffic firewall product, a group of security researchers ripped the product to shreds in a...
- Tags: Firewalls, ASICs, Network security, SECURITY, Symantec Corp., Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., firewall, Sourcefire Inc., ASIC, acquisition
- Discussion threads 2006-03-05
- ASIC revenues to reach $76.3 bln in 2005
- Revenue from application-specific integrated circuits and application-specific standard products will rise by 7.5% in 2005, to $76.3 bln. This figure will reach $116.5 bln in 2010, according to Gartner.
- Tags: ASICs, ASIC
- Blog posts 2005-11-07
- Study: Supercomputer clusters shortchange security
- Study: Supercomputer clusters shortchange securityLOL, so imagine when MS releases one!Holy Super Worms!Study: Supercomputer clusters shortchange securityMore proof that when you use linsux you are left insecured and with an OS that can't handle the task.This would be money well spent!Spending tax money on something like this is really no...
- Tags: ASICs, Operating systems, UNIX, KGB OTP, supercomputer, ASIC, security, Linux
- Discussion threads 2004-11-12
Additional Resources
- One Router to Connect Them All
- One Router to Connect Them AllWives and out of townI have the same problem. I usually get infuriating phone calls where I have to talk her through the whole device reboot process each time, and she forgets how to do it.God awful from where I liveRead my "Harsh reality of...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, Broadband Internet, router, cable, Vonage Holdings Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-08-26
- Supply-Chain Solution Cuts Costs 15 Percent, Boosts Customer Service for ASIC Maker
- ASIC manufacturer Open-Silicon needed a better way to track yields. So, it turned to an integrated financial and supply-chain management solution from Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Tensoft. The solution, including Microsoft Dynamics GP and Tensoft Fabless Semiconductor Management, reduces costs by up to 15 percent or more, gives customers visibility...
- Tags: Supply Chain, Customer Service, Microsoft Corp., SCM, Supply Chain Management (SCM), ASICs, Enterprise Software, Software, Semiconductors, Hardware
- Case studies 2008-05-19
- Chip bugs can lead to major security disasters
- Adi Shamir, professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and "S" in RSA, sent out a warning about a hypothetical scenario in which bugs in widely used processors could be exploited undetected by "sophisticated" intelligence agencies and lead to major security disasters. These bugs chips,...
- Tags: RSA Security Inc., PC, Chip, Attack, Security, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- National Security and the PC
- The best thing about being an intellectual right-winger is that I am, of course, always right -something that can't generally be said for everyone. In particular it can't be said for a guy named Lewis Page whose report: DARPA looking to verify imported military chips, on the Register...
- Tags: Security, Integrated Circuit, PC, Semiconductors, Hardware, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-11-14
- MacBook battery firmware fix reveals flaws, recall recollected
- [Updated: Oct. 10, 2007 @ 2:00 pm PDT] The battery firmware patch Apple last week provided for users of 15-inch MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks may have uncovered a batch of problem batteries. The company said the problem batteries don't pose a safety risk, however, users...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Battery, Apple Inc., Firmware, Apple MacBook Pro, Flaw, SMC, Readout, Engineering, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2007-10-10
- Statistical Static Timing Analysis Technology
- With CMOS technology scaling down to the nanometer realm, process variations have been increased. In particular, the increase of delay variations has seriously affected the design periods and timing yields. To estimate more accurately these delay variations, Statistical Static Timing Analysis SSTA, which considers delay variations statistically, has been proposed....
- Tags: Fujitsu Ltd., Variation, Analysis, Statistical Static Timing Analysis, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E CenterFlex Technology
- Cisco CenterFlex technology, innovations enabled by the centralized Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ASIC complex at the heart of the Cisco Catalyst 4500 Series Supervisor Engine 6-E, addresses the need for improved network performance, investment protection, and innovative new features. Cisco CenterFlex technology provides for system bandwidth of up to 320 Gbps...
- Tags: Cisco Catalyst, Supervisor, Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco CenterFlex Technology
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Dreaming up a new defence contractor
- Dreaming up a new defence contractorPattern recognition fails when the pattern is changed.Streamers can confuse some tracking missiles.Suppose something similar here, a way to "blur" the surface signal. That could be a disguise, could be used to send the hunters in the wrong direction.A surface pattern isn't inherent in...
- Tags: pattern recognition, satellite, submarine, Murph
- Discussion threads 2007-05-22
- Microsoft to launch new Vista-subscription trials in early 2008
- Microsoft is readying a new Windows-Vista based version of its FlexGo hardware-software-services bundle aimed at emerging markets. As part of FlexGo 'Next,' Microsoft plans to shift its emphasis from pay-as-you-go to subscription-based pilots, company officials said at the Windows Hardware Engineering WinHEC conference in Los Angeles this week.Microsoft rolled out...
- Tags: Linux, Vista, Windows client, WinHEC
- Blog posts 2007-05-16
- Who will be the Microsoft of multicore?
- Giving the keynote address at the Multicore Expo in Santa Clara Tuesday (March 27), Anant Agarwal, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT spoke about how multicore computers will reshape computing. Agarwal characterized the growth of multicore computing: "Multicore has really crashed the computing party,"...
- Tags: Intel, General, AMD
- Blog posts 2007-04-03
- Satisfying the Demand for Rapid Feature Enhancement in Consumer Display Products
- Developers of consumer display products (i.e., High-Definition TeleVisions HDTVs, monitors, and projectors) face a daunting design challenge. The Application-Specific Standard Products ASSPs that have been used in these products historically are built with custom ASIC development cycles, typically three to five years. However, the consumer market demands new products and...
- Tags: Developer, Altera Corp., Product, HDTV, ASICs, TVs, Chipsets, Tv & Home Theater, Semiconductors, Hardware, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Components
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Design Alternatives for a High-Performance Self-Securing Ethernet Network Interface
- This paper presents and evaluates a strategy for integrating the Snort network intrusion detection system into a high-performance programmable Ethernet Network Interface Card NIC, considering the impact of several possible hardware and software design choices. While currently proposed ASIC, FPGA, and TCAM systems can match incoming string content in real-time,...
- Tags: Snort, High-performance, Ethernet, Leadership, ASICs, Intrusion Detection, Networking, Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Security
- White papers 2007-01-26
- Understanding QoS Processing in OmniSwitch 9000 and OmniSwitch 6850
- The use of a converged network to support multiple applications including voice and video necessitates the need to define QoS treatment for different classes of traffic. The network infrastructure elements are the key components for enforcing the QoS traffic processing defined by the network infrastructure. This paper describes the key...
- Tags: QoS, Network, OmniSwitch, Network Infrastructure Element, ASICs, Semiconductors, Hardware
- White papers 2006-11-01
- Online education makes giant strides
- Online education makes giant stridesOn Line EducationI am 54 years old, and completed a Bachelor of Science in Information Management from the University of Phoenix in 2002. I finished the degree in the hospital in the weeks following my doctor’s diagnosis of Lung Cancer, which had spread to my brain....
- Tags: education
- Discussion threads 2006-05-17
- An Efficient Design of High Speed Network Security Platform Using Network Processor
- The explosive growth of internet traffic and the increasing complexity of the functions performed by network nodes have given rise to a new breed of programmable micro-processors called network processors. Network processors are emerging a programmable alternative to the traditional ASIC-based solutions in scaling up the data plane processing of...
- Tags: Processor, Network, Network Security, Network Processor, Networking, Security
- White papers 2006-04-20
- Police blotter: Ex-employee faces suit over file deletion
- Police blotter: Ex-employee faces suit over file deletionLOL! I love the targeted ads for deletion programs on this pageI'm going to sue ZDNet for entrapment or accessory or some other horse crap that only a lawyer could dream up."Your Honor, my client was enticed at the end of the article...
- Tags: Deleted Files, deletion, IAC/InterActive Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-03-10
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