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Phew. For a moment year or so there we reckoned that amazing FeRAM discovery had been pushed aside and forgotten entirely. Thankfully, Toshiba has picked up the ball and refined the original chainFeRAM architecture by creating a new architecture that prevents cell signal degradation — which, as you may or may not know, is the usual tradeoff from chip scaling. In essence, this has allowed the company to design the world’s highest bandwidth, highest density (128-megabit) non-volatile RAM. Unfortunately, this amazing device — which should realize read / write speeds of 1.6 gigabytes a second and combine the fast operating characteristics of DRAM with flash memory’s ability to retain data while powered off — is still in prototype form, which probably means we’re months (if not years) away from actually seeing a tangible end product hit store shelves.

[Via AkihabaraNews]

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Toshiba makes progress on FeRAM, still no tangible product in sight originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We can’t get enough of these cute, fuzzy little add-on displays, and Samsung’s chipping in with the new U70 SyncMaster unit which just hit Korea, and is already available in Europe. The 7-inch display runs at a fairly standard 800 x 480 resolution, and plugs into a single USB port for power and image. It’s got 200 nits of brightness, a 400:1 contrast ratio and a 140 degree viewing angle, but like most of these displays is unfortunately Windows-only at the moment. You can pick one up for 99 Euro (about $127 US), but no word on whether or when this will make it Stateside.

Filed under: Displays, Peripherals

Samsung’s SyncMaster U70 is 7-inches of extra real estate originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 05 Feb 2009 10:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The world at large still has aways to go before it catches up with Sweden’s Sigbritt Löthberg, but South Korea’s hoping to take a baby step in that direction by 2012. According to a new proposal by the Korea Communications Commission, it’s aiming to make broadband ten times faster in its nation in under three years, and according to the plan, it’ll take some $24.6 billion in order to make it happen. The central government is looking to cough up around a third of that, with the rest having to come from private telecommunications companies. We’re told that the initiative could create upwards of 120,000 jobs, and citizens will be able to kiss their 100Mbps connections goodbye as they replace ’em with 1Gbps alternatives. The KCC hopes the move will enable more interactive TV services to be delivered along with additional e-commerce and home schooling; South Korean residents, however, are probably just stoked about lowering their ping times.

[Via GigaOM]

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South Koreans could see 1Gbps web connections by 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Don’t bet the farm on it just yet, but given the FCC filing that outed these sets at the tail end of December, we’d say it’s safe to assume that the panel you see above (and after the break) will be headed to America in short order. Made official today in South Korea, LG’s Xcanvas 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D plasmas sport a sleeker, more fully integrated design that conceals the speakers within the border. The TV itself also detects ambient light and automatically adjusts brightness in order to conserve energy, and the built-in USB port enables portable media to be loaded on for all to see. Few other details about the pair are being released, but you can expect ’em on sale halfway across the world in around three weeks for $1,460 / $1,022, respectively.

[Via Slashgear]

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LG gets official with 50PQ60D and 42PQ60D Xcanvas plasmas in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:33:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Pantech’s SKY division has just released the quite handsome, Korea-only IM-S400L. The CDMA slider boasts a 2.6-inch LCD, and a keypad using the company’s new “Glide Sensor” technology which it says operates like a laptop trackpad. We don’t have much else in the way of specs for this puppy, but we do know that it’s available in white, pink, blue and green for ₩500,000 — about $395. Crème brulée is, sadly, not included.

[Via Akihabara News]

Filed under: Cellphones

Pantech’s Sky IM-S400L slider with “Glide Sensor” keypad debuted in Korea originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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