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TOKYO—Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that the MQ01ABUxxxBW series, a mobile-grade thin 7mm hard disk drive (HDD) with self-encrypting technology, including Toshiba's unique wipe technology, which automatically erases data when an HDD is accessed by an unregistered system, has achieved validation to U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 (FIPS 140-2). This is the first Toshiba self-encrypting drive (SED) validated to the FIPS 140-2 standard. Toshiba's SED models are designed to the Trusted Computing Group's (TCG) industry-standard "Opal" Security Sub-Classification. This globally accepted standard, implements protocols created to help IT managers, security management application providers and client security professionals to better manage data security and to help prevent potentially damaging and costly breaches to sensitive information. The FIPS-validated model also provides tamper-evident labeling for additional security, with a resulting validation to Level 2 of the FIPS 140-2 standard. The 7mm mobile thin SED series underwent rigorous cryptographic module validation testing by a U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-certified testing laboratory in order to be validated by the U.S. Federal Information Processing standard. As a result of this validation, this Toshiba HDD series is now available for use in highly regulated and security-sensitive storage applications, such as government systems.…

ZHUHAI, China and MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, Barcelona, Spain – 24 February, 2014 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) and Actions Semiconductor Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACTS), one of China’s leading fabless semiconductor companies, are extending their collaboration in bringing advanced graphics to a range of Actions’ OWL chipsets which are designed to address each segment of the tablet market. Actions is leveraging Imagination’s PowerVR graphics in multiple generations of its OWL chipsets, including ATM7021, ATM7039 and ATM7029B, and will continue to use PowerVR for future generations.Already reaching significant volume shipments following its release six months ago, Actions’ ATM7021 chipset leverages a PowerVR SGX540 GPU, and brings advanced performance and multimedia capabilities to entry-level tablets. The company’s high-performance ATM7039 chipset, featuring a PowerVR SGX544MP GPU and dual channel 64-bit DDR, offers a high level of performance for high-end Android tablets. Actions’ newest quad-core solution, the ATM7029B, features a PowerVR SGX540 GPU and supports Android 4.4. Built in MIPI, the ATM7029B offers an attractive price-to-performance ratio for the mid-range market. With PowerVR, Actions is using the industry’s leading graphics processors that enable a powerful and flexible solution for all forms of multimedia processing. APIs such as OpenGL ES, OpenCL, RenderScript and FilterScript enable developers to unlock…

HSINCHU, Taiwan – November 13, 2013 –Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 2379.TW), one of the world’s leading network and multimedia IC providers, today announced that its Low Power USB 3.0-to-Gigabit Ethernet Controller (RTL8153) has been awarded the EDN China Innovation Award 2013. Products were evaluated and chosen by EDN China judges, and individual readers of EDN China were also invited to vote for their favorite product.   Realtek’s RTL8153 USB 3.0-to-Gigabit Ethernet controller targets Ultrabook, Tablet, and Motherboard applications, and supports the latest features. Realtek has applied state-of-the-art power saving technology (including IEEE 802.3az Energy Efficient Ethernet) to the RTL8153, and has achieved very low power consumption. The RTL8153’s 5V to 3.3V linear regulator takes USB bus power directly, with no requirement for an external switching regulator. Built-in OTP memory eliminates external EEPROM, and only a single 25MHz clock input is required. Realtek also provides the complete HDK, SDK, and reference component list to customers to help speed their design. The RTL8153 supports the latest power saving scheme ‘LPM/LTM’, which is ideal for the Intel Shark Bay platform and for AOAC for Windows 8 from Microsoft.The RTL8153 also supports driver-free installation for various Operating Systems, including Android (Linux), and MAC OS…

In order to meet the changing market, Giantec launched the first Serial Flash product. This product has the better performance than other competitor product. The 1M cycling endurance is over 5-10 times than the like product. And this erase time is much shorter than the like product. The special page erase function can extend the product life at least 16 times. The smallest write/erase power consumption can save more energy.