AMD Rolls Out Low-Cost Net Access Device in India
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U.S. chip maker Advanced Micro Devices  AMD.N has unveiled a low-cost Internet access device that  could cost just a few hundred dollars, aimed at first-time  technology users in the developing world.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has teamed with Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL), a leading Indian telecommunications and internet services company, to market its Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) to consumers in India.
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Prepares to enter broadband era with Wi-Fi adaptor
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AMD said it will support DivXNetworks' DivX Connected Certification Program.
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Personal computer manufacturers and broadband companies are keen on expand Internet penetration in the by providing cheaper PCs that offer Net connectivity at prices as low at Rs 14,000.
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Chipmaker AMD has developed a low-cost Web access appliance called the &quot;Personal Information Communicator&quot; (PIC) that it plans to sell in developing countries.
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Via Technologies announces new product that brings PCI Express input-output to computers running AMD chips.
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Via Technologies Friday announced the introduction of its K8T890 PCI Express chipset for Advanced Micro Devices&#39; (AMD) 64-bit processors.
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AMD today unveiled a business strategy with initial participants in India, Mexico and the Caribbean to enable 50 percent of the world&#39;s population with Internet connectivity and computing capabilities by 2015 (called 50x15).
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The chipmaker unveiled on Wednesday its Intel Express 910GL, a chipset that offers PC makers the ability to add more-advanced features, such as Intel High Definition Audio, to their low-end PCs.
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BenQ has unveiled the user interface for an upcoming Linux-based 'mobile Internet device.'
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(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro Devices has released further details of its Torrenza project, which will one day allow server manufacturers to optimize servers for specific tasks by placing accelerator chips right on the motherboard. SinceÂ unveiling TorrenzaÂ in June, AMD has been working on the specifications of a new physical interface that chip manufacturers can use to develop custom accelerator chips that will plug into a server motherboard, alongside or in place of an AMD processor, said Doug O'Flaherty, AMD's divisional manager for acceleration strategy. That interface, the Torrenza Innovation Socket, will use the same 1207-pin Revision F socket that AMD is using for its latest generation of Opteron chips, and will communicate with the main processor using a HyperTransport connection, O'Flaherty said. HyperTransport is a specification for high-speed communications between chips or circuit boards, proposed by AMD and now managed by the HyperTransport Consortium. AMD also announced that the project had won the support of six server manufacturers: Cray, Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Sun Microsystems. "We have exposed our road map in great detail to [equipment manufacturers]," O'Flaherty said. "We are expecting some of the first pieces of the platform in the latter half of 2007." Server manufacturers could use the interface to add chips to speed up the processing of XML (Extensible Markup Language) or floating-point calculations, or even to improve gaming performance with a physics accelerator, said Giuseppe Amato, AMD's technical director sales and marketing for Europe. Such accelerators are already available for some applications as add-in PCI Express cards, he said. Manufacturers of accelerator chips will be able to improve their performance further by moving them closer to the main processor and connecting them via the Torrenza Innovation Socket. "It's close to PCI Express. The physical layer changes, but the protocol is PCI Express," he said.
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Enhanced midrange storage array, network hardware released.
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Company aims to make it easier for Linux to be incorporated into low-cost consumer handsets.
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International data services, dual network support are built into $300 device.
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October unveiling alongside AMD dualie Athlon 64 FX
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(InfoWorld) - Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, and Mauritius will be the initial countries for the Indian government's $1 billion Pan Africa E-network project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union (AU). The project aims to develop Africa's information and communication technologies by eventually connecting all of the 53 African countries to a satellite and fiber-optic network. To launch first in Ethiopia, the project is seen by some as Africa's biggest ICT project ever, with online education and telemedicine programs expected to extend ICT infrastructure to rural areas and other underserved communities. India hopes the investment will help it to sell more telecoms gear to Africa, including VSATs (very small aperture terminals), as well as IT services for telemedicine and other social applications. It has said it wants to make inroads into Africa's ICT markets before China steps up its investments there. The telemedicine network will be used to share knowledge from Indian doctors with their African counterparts through online training programs, River Wallang, the Indian High commissioner to Zambia, said in an interview last month in Lusaka. The education network will allow similar information sharing, he said. Africa faces several challenges to building out its ITC infrastructure, including nonexistent or low capacity national and international communications backbones, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa said recently. âAfrica needs nothing less than the development of broadband infrastructure if the continent is to move together with the rest of the world,â he said, at an event to launch the cellZ network (mobile phone service provider) in Zambia's western province last month. The Africa Development Bank has also announced plans to invest $1 billion in the continent's telecommunication and energy infrastructures. The E-network project was first announced by Indian president Abdul Kalam in South Africa in 2004. In October 2005, the Indian government and the Africa Union signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize the project. The AU, in Addis Ababa, is an organization chartered to accelerate economic development and peace in Africa. The Indian government has already established tele-education and telemedicine hubs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. It will establish a hub in Africa to act as the main contact point between Africa and India and oversee the delivery of services. ICT has been identified as the main growth area in India-Africa trade relations, Erastus Mwencha, secretary general for The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), said recently.