Nike's elder board members step down
Portland: The three oldest members of Nike Inc.'s board of directors have stepped down. John Jaqua, 84, has been on the board since Nike's founding in 1968. In addition to Jaqua, 77-year-old Richard Donohue is stepping down after serving since 1977 as well as Chuck Robinson, 85, a director since 1978.

Together, the three have spent 86 years on the board. Nike announced the departures Friday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The decision to leave the board was taken collectively, said Jaqua and was not forced upon them.
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Elpida's mobile RAM devices: Low power consumption
Tokyo, Japan: Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), has announced the availability of its high-performance 512 Megabit Mobile RAM devices designed to provide high-density and low-power consumption to cellular applications. The 512 Megabit density is achieved by utilizing two 256 Megabit Mobile RAM devices in a Multi-Chip Package (MCP). Elpida's new 512 Megabit single data rate (SDR) Mobile RAM devices are organized as 4M words x 32-bits x 4 banks and transfer data at a rate of 400 Megabytes per second. The devices are available in small 9 millimeter (mm) x 13 mm, 90-ball FBGA packages allowing for reduced board space. The 512 Megabit devices feature1.8 volt operation, thus providing low-power consumption in cellular applications.

Elpida's Mobile RAM devices also offer advanced features such as Auto Temperature Compensated Self-Refresh (TCSR), which utilizes a temperature sensor built on the die to automatically change the refresh period eliminating the need for external operation. The devices also support deep power-down mode to further reduce power consumption and extend battery life. Elpida Memory, Inc. is a manufacturer of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) with headquarters based in Tokyo, Japan, and sales and marketing operations located in Japan, North America, Europe and Asia. Elpida is a joint venture company formed by NEC and Hitachi on December 20, 1999 and has been in operation since April 2000.
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Unisys ES7000 servers selected for security solution
San Francisco, USA: InteliTrac, a provider of high-speed database and security solutions, has announced that it has selected Unisys ES7000 servers running Linux to power the data centers of its IdentiPort product — one of the world's leading high-speed, real-time, portable, biometrics security systems. Together, InteliTrac and Unisys are providing real-time document authentication, fingerprint verification, and face recognition to the Policia Investigaciones de Chile, the Chilean equivalent of the FBI, at the Santiago Airport in Chile. Using the kiosk-based solution, officials in Chile can now conduct one-to-many face identification and background checks for potential criminals to verify documents and fingerprints - all in less than 45 seconds. The system performs searches using the computer's resident memory instead of the hard drive, which results in data processing at speeds once reserved for supercomputers.

In tests involving database and memory response and retrieval times, the Itanium2-based ES7000s out-performed expectations by performing biometric searches in less than 1.5 seconds — which was 250 per cent faster than the initial estimate. The security solution in production at the Santiago airport consists of two ES7000s equipped with Intel Itanium2 processors, each running SUSE Linux. Two additional ES7000s are deployed in InteliTrac's Rockville, Maryland, facility for development and business continuity. Founded in 2002, InteliTrac is the creator of an integrated system of hardware and software solutions that enable standard computer networks to process data in most applications 10 to 1,000 times faster than previously possible on the same computer networks. InteliTrac's technology has countless applications across a diverse range of markets, including security, finance, medical, and business intelligence, among others.
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