AMD India design centre to work on Next-Gen microprocessors
Bangalore, India: AMD has announced that it is opening an engineering design centre in Bangalore, which is expected to open in July. The AMD India Engineering Centre Private Ltd. will contribute to the design of future generations of AMD microprocessors. The standalone facility will occupy approximately 38,000 square-feet and will be located in the central business district of Bangalore.

AMD is expected to hire 40 employees at the site this year, and by the end of 2005 expects the design centre will house up to 120 experienced chip design and development engineers. Engineers at the design centre will work closely with AMD's engineering teams in the U.S. and will help define future microprocessor designs focused on meeting the evolving user needs in India and other high-growth markets. AMD plans to invest approximately US$5 million over the next three years to establish the center and ramp up operations. The AMD India Engineering Centre Private Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
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World's highest capacity 100GB 2.5-inch HDD
Tokyo: Toshiba Corporation has announced the world's highest capacity MK1031GAS 2.5-inch hard-disk drives (HDD). The new HDD delivers a 100GB storage capacity, and does so in a drive only 9.5mm high. The MK1031GAS is ideally suited for integration into portable PCs, especially those with advanced audio-visual capabilities that need the capacity to handle large video sources. Toshiba arrived at this achievement by establishing a new benchmark for areal density: 80-gigabits of data per square inch.

The key to achieving this was replacing the Pico Sliders attached to the drive's heads, and which maintain the appropriate distance from the disk during read and write operations, with Femto Sliders that are 35 per cent smaller and much lighter. Advances were also achieved in the thin-film technology for both the head and the platter. Power consumption of the "MK1031GAS" is approximately 20 per cent lower on average than the company's current drive due to pulse width modulation that controls disk rotation speed by switching the power supply to the spindle motor on and off at a certain frequency. A DC-DC converter is also used in the power unit. Samples of the MK1031GAS will be available in May.
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PCTEL to showcase Segue wireless products
San Francisco, USA: PCTEL, Inc. a leading provider of wireless solutions, has announced that it will showcase its Segue wireless mobility products at the 2004 EyeForWireless conference and networking event in San Francisco, April 22 - 23. PCTEL will demonstrate the Segue Roaming Client, the Segue CCS (Central Configuration Server) and SPI (Service Provider Interface), the Segue Soft Access Point (AP), and the Segue Analyzer. The Segue Roaming Client software, when downloaded onto a laptop or PDA, enables carriers to manage millions of connected devices over Wi-Fi, or cellular networks.

Also featured at the show is the Segue SoftAP, which, when bundled with a supported Wi-Fi Network Interface Card, will convert any PC into a fully functional access point and router, thereby eliminating the costly need for external devices such as routers and access points. The Segue Analyzer, an all-in-one handheld device, enables Wi-Fi network engineers and IT managers to measure signal propagation, monitor traffic and detect unwanted interference and intruders in Wi-Fi (802.11) networks.
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