Items tagged with sampling

by Joel Hruska - Tue, Mar 06, 2012

Research Data Suggests Higher Music Fidelity Little More Than Snake Oil

The audio industry has a tendency to make utterly ridiculous claims surrounding its products, as evidenced by the existence of $550 RCA cables and an $80 iPod cable guaranteed to leave your rig "exploding with sound." Despite this, the idea of using higher-quality sampling to produce better audio files seems like a... Read more...

by Stacy Doss - Fri, Jan 05, 2007

STMicroelectronics Sampling New Set-Top Box Chip

Hot on the heels of Broadcom's announcement STB SoC yesterday, STMicroelectronics has announced the STi5107. Integration of the latest security specifications seem to be the biggest selling point of the new chip, although other performance enhancements have been added. STMicroelectronics, the world's largest supplier of silicon chips for... Read more...

by Marco Chiappetta - Tue, Nov 28, 2006

Intel Sampling 45nm Core Microprocessors

There's some news out of Reutrers today that states Intel is already sampling 45nm Core Microarcitecture-based processors. Although not stated in the article, the 45nm core being sampled, codenamed "Penryn", is likely to incorporate more L2 cache than current Core 2 Duo processors, and will also have support for SSE4. Other details... Read more...

by Stacy Doss - Sun, Oct 08, 2006

Micron Sampling New 1/5-inch, 1.3-Megapixel Image Sensor

With shrinking feature sizes, smaller and smaller form factor devices are coming to market. Imagine this little image processor coupled with bluetooth embedded in such devices as key chains, pens and other small form factor devices. James Bond would have a ball with this type of technology. I wonder what the power requirements will be? The... Read more...