IBM unveils wire-speed processor

IBM has rolled out a chip, dubbed the Wire-Speed Power Processor, that sits between a network processor and server processor, states The Register.

IBM says this is one of the most complex chips it has ever designed. The chip is built using 45-nanometre technology, contains 1.43 billion transistors, and has 16 cores running at 2.3GHz.

IBM's chief wire-speed architect, Charlie Johnson, describes the chip as a blurring of two worlds: “IBM's wire-speed processor is neither a network processor nor a server processor, but has attributes of both.”

Ericsson has won an LTE deal with AT&T that will help the European device manufacturer bring 4G services like video to its next-generation smartphones, reports TMCnet.

Ericsson says LTE is part of the two telcos' ongoing efforts to innovate and invest in mobile broadband.

AT&T plans field trials of LTE technology later this year, and commercial deployment is scheduled to begin in 2011.

Five African firms are among nine international companies advocating for the development of mobile television-ready handsets, says Africa News.

The five African firms are DSTV Mobile from Nigeria, Ghana, Namibia, and Kenya, as well as Safaricom Kenya. The initiative began during the Broadcast Mobile Convergence Forum held in Berlin, Germany.

The objective is to have digital video broadcasting handheld devices available by the second quarter of 2010.