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WTO talks deadlocked
Geneva:
WTO
talks in Geneva reached a dead end with a second draft
proposed by the WTO rejected by several members including
India. Commerce
Minister Kamal Nath has now been called back to Geneva
from Thailand. The talks between WTO members, which were
to end tonight, are being extended till Saturday. India,
like the other developing countries, wants rich countries
to cut subsidies given to their farmers. And until that
happens, Commerce and Industry minister Kamal Nath has
said that that the country will not sign the draft.
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InterVideo's
multimedia solutions for 3G Phones
Taipei, Taiwan: InterVideo Inc., a pioneer
in advancing DVD and MPEG-related software technologies,
has announced that Cute Mobile Corp. has selected its
MPEG-4 and MPEG audio codec technologies for their upcoming
camera phone and 3G phone designs. By incorporating InterVideo's
multimedia codec technologies, Cute Mobile delivers high
quality images, video and audio on 3 Mega pixel camera
phones. The product will start to appear in the mobile
handset market before the end of this year.
InterVideo's MPEG-4 codec technology provides 30 frames
per second encoding and decoding at VGA resolution, which
provides mobile phone customers smooth, crystal-clear
images without any skipping or jerkiness. Offering compliance
with the MPEG-4 Simple Profile, InterVideo's MPEG-4 technology
provides high-quality video at low bit rates. Users can
choose from different video capture profiles to control
the quality and recording time: from 3GPP/3GPP2 format
up to VGA (640x480) 30fps. Video from MPEG4-enabled digital
cameras can be combined with InterVideo's award-winning
PC multimedia software such as WinDVD for video playback
and WinDVD Creator for transferring, editing and burning
to DVDs.
Cute Mobile is a leading mobile phone design company based
in Taipei, Taiwan. The company offers a wide range of
products including feature phones, camera phones, smart
phones and 3G phones. InterVideo is a leading provider
of DVD software. InterVideo has developed a technology
platform from which it has created a broad suite of integrated
multimedia software products that allow users to capture,
edit, author, burn, distribute, and play digital video.
InterVideo's software is bundled with products sold by
the majority of the top ten PC OEMs ranked in terms of
sales by IDC.
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AMI
International: Increase in naval warship transfers
Bremerton, USA: According to a recent study conducted
by AMI International, the number of used naval ship transfers
are expected to increase some 50 per cent over the next
decade due to smaller defense budgets. The value of these
used ship sales, currently US$2 billion per year, approximately
40 ships, are expected to increase to nearly $3 billion,
or 60 ships per year, over the next decade.
According
to AMI, the technology and operability of naval ships
remain practical for about 30 to 40 years, and as navies
refocus their requirements and missions to new threats,
nations generally will sell older warships that don't
fulfill these new needs. Some 400 used naval vessels have
been transferred since 1990 and AMI says that it expects
to see another 600 ships transferred over the next 10
years. AMI International is a leader in naval analysis
and advisory services. The international company applies
its analysis to answering the needs of governments, navies,
shipbuilders and naval equipment manufacturers.
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TSMC
nanometer design methodology awarded
Tokyo, Japan: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Company (TSMC) has said that it has received the 11th
annual "LSI of the Year Excellent Work Prize"
from Japan's Semiconductor Industry News for its Reference
Flow 4.0, which was released in June 2003. This marks
the first time the prestigious award has been presented
to a semiconductor foundry. TSMC is the world's leading
semiconductor foundry, offering made-to-order IC fabrication
and design services.
The award recognizes TSMC for being the first semiconductor
manufacturing company to devise an integrated flow, which
addresses the challenges of nanometer design. As a leading-edge
developer of process technology, TSMC proactively anticipates
the upcoming design challenges inherent in migrating to
finer process geometries, and addresses them in Reference
Flow. This effectively smoothes the transition as designers
implement their new designs in the next technology node.
The award calls TSMC's Reference Flow a valuable service
and a foundry design service standard.
According to TSMC, Reference Flow 4.0 is the first foundry
industry reference flow to address key design issues including
signal integrity, leakage power reduction, and design
for manufacturing, for leading-edge chip designs. The
introduction of Reference Flow 5.0 this year will, according
to TSMC, further extend benefits of this initiative by
allowing its customers worldwide to achieve their design
requirements and meet their crucial market windows for
products targeting 90-nanometer technology and beyond.
In June, the company launched Reference Flow 5.0, which
addresses critical power consumption and power integrity
issues in deep submicron design. The award sponsor, Semiconductor
Industry News, is a top trade newspaper in Japan. The
award commends LSI and technology that have become indispensable
to graphic processing development and demonstrate excellence
in communications and networking. TSMC is the world's
largest dedicated semiconductor foundry, providing the
industry's leading process technology and the foundry
industry's largest portfolio of process-proven library,
IP, design tools and reference flows.
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