News Digest 11-Dec-02: Power Warning
Summary
While high-k dielectrics and clever circuit design may help keep the industry on its traditional curve of doubling device densities every two to three years, those solutions are likely to run out of steam by the end of this decade. The new, smaller format is part of a growing trend among makers of removable flash memory cards to shrink their products to better suit the size and voltage requirements of cell phones. Lawmakers charged with overseeing government efficiency said they want to tie agencies’ funding to network security procedures and force them to buy software only from a list of qualified products. The company named Celoxica as a key part of its development tool chain, explaining how users were to translate their content-processing algorithms into configurations on field-programmable gate arrays. Computer hard drive maker Seagate Technology Holdings raised $870 million Tuesday in the year’s biggest high-tech IPO, but had to discount its asking price to overcome investor queasiness.