Posted in Technology on Dec 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Alereon is an Austin semiconductor firm specializing in high-bandwidth, low-power Wireless USB and WiMedia UWB chipsets for PCs and portable products. Alereon’s AL5000 Worldwide Wireless USB Chipset is currently the only silicon that operates over the full 3.1 to 10.6 GHz spectrum, giving developers all 49 UWB channels across all 14 UWB bands over which to transmit.
Portable Design interviewed Alereon’s CEO Eric Broockman about his views on Ultrawideband, Wireless USB and a wide range of wireless issues that affect portable designs. Watch for the interview in a forthcoming issue of Portable Design.
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Posted in Technology on Dec 31st, 2007 No Comments »
After inventing the planar semiconductor and giving birth to the semiconductor industry in Silicon Valley, Fairchild Semiconductor has gone on to become a premier power semiconductor company–and more, recently, an active advocate of green technology, an area where it’s well positioned to make some significant contributions.
Portable Design sat down with Fairchild’s CEO Mark Thompson to catch up with his views on portable power, green power, and where the semiconductor industry is headed. The podcast is an excellent primer on all three. The interview will appear in the February, 2008 issue of Portable Design.
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Posted in Technology on Dec 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Portable Design interviewed Carl after his 2007 ConfigCon keynote, following up on some of the issues he raised and raising some of our own. Interesting, informative and relatively short (11 min.).
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Posted in Technology on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
On November 6, 2007 at the SDR Forum Tech Conference in Denver, Portable Design interviewed Joe Mitola of Mitre Corp. Mitola is–to understate his role–one of the originators of Software-Defined Radio and cognitive radio (CR). This interview runs 54 minutes, but it’s entertaining, wide ranging and an excellent update on SDR and CRÂ theory and practice.
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Posted in Technology on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
ARC’s CEO talks about “Technologies Enabling the YouTube Generation” in the opening keynote to ARC’s annual ConfigCon in Santa Clara, CA December 4, 2007.
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