Technology Communities
Technology Communities come to IDF to discuss standards and advance initiatives. They come to show you their latest technology. They come to show you technology the industry is aligning with and to raise awareness of specific, critical technology issues.
The Technology Showcase is also home to Special Interest Groups. Take advantage of this great opportunity to discuss specific technology that enables you to advance your projects.
Visit this page often for a complete list of Technology Communities scheduled to participate at IDF.
Visit the DisplayPort* Technology Community, sponsored by Intel® Corporation and learn how the development of DisplayPort technology continues to accelerate throughout the industry. IDF attendees and developers can view DisplayPort’s progress in the ecosystem, as well as view products across desktop and mobile platforms with this now established display standard.
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc.
Analogix Semiconductor, Inc. designs and manufactures high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductors for the Digital Media market. Analogix is a leader in providing semiconductor solutions for DisplayPort, the next-generation digital interconnect for the Personal Computers and a full suite of HDMI transmitter and receiver solutions for the distribution of high-definition video and audio in consumer electronics.
www.analogix.com
IDT
IDT develops and delivers leading-edge mixed-signal semiconductor solutions that improve the digital media experience. Among its diverse technologies, the company offers PCI Express*-based switching solutions and DisplayPort*-based interface technologies that increase performance for real-world applications.
www.idt.com
NXP Semiconductors
The NXP HSI line provides DisplayPort* Gen1/Gen2 Level Shifters and Muxes used by PC, docking stations, and dongle suppliers. Other HSI devices include serdes, PCI-e transceivers, bus switches/multiplexers, and high-speed UARTS.
www.nxp.com
Parade Technologies Inc.
Parade Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of digital display interface circuits for the PC and consumer electronics industries. The company will demonstrate cutting-edge DisplayPort* interface products at the IDF DisplayPort* Community exhibit.
www.paradetech.com
Tyco Electronics Ltd.
Tyco Electronics Ltd. is a leading global provider of engineered electronic components, network solutions, undersea telecommunication systems, and wireless systems. In 2007, sales totaled USD 13 billion to customers in more than 150 countries. The company designs, manufactures, and markets products for customers in industries from automotive to appliance, to aerospace and defense, to telecommunications, computers, and consumer electronics. With over 7,000 engineers and worldwide manufacturing, sales, and customer service capabilities, Tyco Electronics commitment is our customers’ advantage.
www.tycoelectronics.com
Learn about the industry’s latest sustainability and energy-efficient performance advancements in the Eco-Technology Community. Enjoy the park-like setting of the Eco-Tech Lounge while browsing literature on a broad range of eco-technology initiatives, and see the latest processor and platform technology innovations in action across client and server solutions.
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we’re motivated and inspired every day by how our customers and partners use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what’s most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are the Platform Products and Services Division, Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division.
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge, and to better serve our customers.
www.microsoft.com
Sun Microsystems
A singular vision – “The Network Is The Computer” – guides Sun Microsystems in the development of technologies that power the world’s most important markets. Sun’s philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web.
www.sun.com
Visit the Mobile PC Extended Battery Life Community in the Technology Showcase. Intel and industry leaders will demonstrate solutions to reduce platform power consumption and innovations in Mobile PC power sources.
Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd.
Renowned for its Panasonic brand batteries, Matsushita Battery Industrial Co., Ltd. (MBI) continues to push battery capacity limits through our policy that states: Safety is the base for everything and higher energy can be established based on safety technology.
http://panasonic.co.jp/mbi/en/
mSilica Inc.
mSilica Inc. is a smart, mixed-signal chip company designing drivers for LED backlights in notebooks and LCD TVs. The company combines adaptive power management and precision LED drives to increase efficiency and reduce power consumption.
www.msilica.com
O2Micro International Limited
O2Micro International Limited designs and markets innovative power management and security components for the computer, consumer, industrial, automotive, and communications markets. For additional information, including the location of the sales offices, please visit the company’s Web site.
www.o2micro.com
Texas Instruments Incorporated
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) helps customers solve problems and develop new electronics that make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener, and more fun. A global semiconductor company, TI innovates through manufacturing, design, and sales operations in more than 25 countries.
www.ti.com
ZPower, Inc.
ZPower, Inc. is launching rechargeable, silver-zinc batteries for mobile electronics. These batteries offer 40 percent more runtime than traditional lithium-ion batteries and key elements can be recycled and reused. Plus, ZPower batteries contain no lithium and are inherently safe.
www.zpowerbattery.com
The Independent Hardware Vendors (IHV) Driver Optimization Labs provide a hands-on environment for developing, testing, and optimizing enterprise products with the latest Intel® platform advancements, including virtualization, multi-core processing, serial I/O bus, and energy-saving technologies.
www.ihvoptimization.com
Broadcom Corporation
Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in semiconductors that enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia for the home, office and mobile environment. Broadcom provides solutions to manufacturers of communications equipment and devices.
www.broadcom.com
Emulex
Emulex (NYSE:ELX) provides enterprise-class solutions and technologies that intelligently connect storage, servers, and networks, to ensure access to data that’s open, secure, and adaptable.
www.emulex.com
Mellanox Technologies
Mellanox Technologies is a leading supplier of semiconductor-based, interconnect products to world-class server, storage, and infrastructure OEMs servicing Fortune 500 data centers, the world’s most powerful supercomputers, and mission-critical embedded applications.
www.mellanox.com
The Pro Zone is Intel’s central demo area for business and mobile computing platforms at IDF. The Intel Pro Zone will feature Intel’s next generation Intel® Centrino® with vPro™ technology and Intel® Core™2 processor with vPro™ technology. This zone will feature the capabilities of Intel® Anti-Theft Technology, Intel® Active Management Technology, and Intel® Core™2 Duo processors in a business computing context. Intel® vPro™ technology significantly advances business client capabilities and, quite simply, offers security and manageability like never before. Great business computing starts with Intel inside.
Absolute Software
Absolute Software Corporation (TSX: ABT) is the leader in computer theft recovery, data protection, and Secure Asset Tracking* solutions. With over 2.9 million subscriptions under contract, Absolute Software provides individuals and organizations with solutions to manage regulatory compliance, data protection, and theft recovery. Computrace* helps combat the security risks and management challenges associated with computing assets.
Computrace* allows IT administrators to centrally manage their computing assets, ensure software license compliance, and detect missing hardware. If a computer is stolen, the Absolute Theft Recovery Team works with local law enforcement to locate and recover it. Computrace* also enables IT professionals to remotely delete data to protect the information from falling into the wrong hands.
The company’s Computrace* software is embedded in the BIOS of computers by global leaders, including Dell, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Motion, Panasonic, and Toshiba. The company has reselling partnerships with the listed manufacturers and others, including Apple.
www.absolute.com
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. Over 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver applications to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security, and lowest cost.
www.citrix.com
CREDANT Technologies
CREDANT Technologies is the trusted advisor to 600+ global customers, encrypting and managing sensitive data across more than 4.5 million laptops, desktops, smart phones, PDAs, and USB sticks. CREDANT Mobile Guardian encrypts and protects sensitive data on all mobile devices from laptops to smartphones, including removable media like iPods and USB drives.
www.credant.com
General Dynamics Trusted Virtual Environment
General Dynamics Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE) High Assurance Platform (HAP)-technology-based product - General Dynamics will show the Trusted Virtual Environment (TVE) desktop, a High Assurance Platform (HAP) technology-based product that leverages the enhanced security and virtualization features of Intel vPro technology. This single desktop solution offers simultaneous access to multiple levels of classified information and can even host cross-domain solutions within its virtual machines.
www.gdc4s.com
Infineon Technologies AG
Infineon is a world leader in trusted platform computing. We offer enterprise-grade hardware and software solutions—Trusted Platform Modules, Infineon Professional Package, and Trusted Computing Management Servers—to customers worldwide.
www.infineon.com/tpm
Lenovo
Lenovo is an innovative, international technology company formed as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division. As a global leader in the PC market, we develop, manufacture, and market cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products, and value-added professional services to provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive. We base our success on our customers achieving their goals: productivity in business and enhancement of personal life.
Customers of the new Lenovo benefit from the union’s extraordinary research and development capabilities. Lenovo’s global research and development centers have produced some of the world’s most important advances in technology. Our teams have won hundreds of awards, including more than 2,000 patents.
In 2004, Lenovo became the first Chinese company to join the Olympic Partner Program. As a worldwide sponsor with the International Olympic Committee, the company will be a major supplier of computing equipment, such as servers, desktop and notebook computers, and funding in support of the 2008 Olympics in China.
www.lenovo.com
McAfee Data Protection
The McAfee Data Protection business unit (formally SafeBoot) provides end-to-end solutions that protect data regardless of how it is used, transferred, accessed, or stored via strong encryption and access control. These solutions are centrally managed and integrate seamlessly into existing infrastructure ensuring quick deployment, painless ongoing management, and total cost of ownership.
www.mcafee.com
Phoenix Technologies
Phoenix Technologies, the global leader in firmware for x86-based systems, develops embedded virtualization and PC security solutions that are revolutionizing the user experience by delivering unprecedented performance, security, reliability, continuity, and ease of use.
www.phoenix.com
Symantec Corporation
Symantec Corporation is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information, and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance. Headquartered in Cupertino, California, Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries.
www.symantec.com
VirtualLogix, Inc.
VirtualLogix*, Inc. is the global leader in Real-Time Virtualization* technology for connected devices. VirtualLogix VLX enables multiple operating system environments to run concurrently on shared hardware in a secure and fault-tolerant environment.
www.virtuallogix.com
Wave Systems Corp.
Wave Systems Corp. provides management software for hardware-based security—helping organizations implement strong authentication, data protection, and network access control. The company’s EMBASSY* client and server software manages both the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip found on business-class PCs and Seagate Technology’s* line of full disk encryption (FDE) hard drives.
www.wave.com
The Intel® QuickAssist Technology Community (QATC) is a community of users and ecosystem vendors (hardware and software) committed to simplifying the use of accelerators via industry technologies on Intel® architecture-based platforms.
www.intel.com/go/quickassist
Fonality
Fonality is a leader in business phone systems and contact center solutions for small and medium-sized businesses. Used by over 5,000 companies and 100,000 end users in 100 countries, The company’s award winning IP-PBX VoIP phone systems have connected more than 225,000,000 mission critical phone calls. Fonality’s fully free and open source telephony platform, trixbox CE (www.trixbox.org), is home to one of the world’s largest and fastest growing communities of open source telephony users, with over 200,000 live deployments and 125,000 new downloads each month. The company’s headquarters are in Los Angeles, and company investors include Intel Capital.
www.fonality.com
Hifn, Inc.
Leveraging over a decade of leadership in encryption and compression innovation, Hifn, Inc. designs, develops, and markets Applied Services Processors (ASPs), data security and reduction cards, and iSCSI encrypted IP SAN appliances.
www.hifn.com
Impulse Accelerated Technologies
Impulse CoDeveloper* is a C-language development tool for FPGA-accelerated computing. Use familiar C-language programming methods to accelerate applications targeting Intel® QuickAssist-enabled computing platforms.
www.impulsec.com
Intoto Inc.
Intoto Inc. is the leading provider of high-performance security software (HPSS) for enterprise and carrier networking equipment and multi-service gateways. The company offers complete, integrated HPSS software platforms supporting major hardware architectures (including multi-core processors) and operating systems, ensuring ease-of-use and high performance.
www.intoto.com
LSI Corporation
LSI Corporation is a leading provider of silicon, systems, and software technologies. LSI is trusted by the world’s best known brands in the storage and networking markets.
www.lsi.com
Nallatech
Nallatech is the world’s leading supplier of high-performance COTS FPGA solutions. The company designs and manufactures high-performance FPGA embedded products in form factors such as VME, VXS, PMC, XMC, PCI Express*, and PCI-104.
www.nallatech.com
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc.
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) is the leading provider of knowledge-based processors and high-speed integrated circuits that perform deep-packet inspection at wire-speed, and accelerate the delivery of voice, video, and data for advanced enterprise, data center, communications, and mobile wireless networks.
www.netlogicmicro.com
Netronome Systems
Netronome Systems provides programmable, high-performance semiconductor solutions designed for intelligent packet processing in carrier-grade and enterprise-class communications products, virtualized servers, and other networking and security applications.
www.netronome.com
SafeNet
SafeNet’s industry-proven portfolio of embedded security toolkits, software, and IP enable networking and telecom device and equipment manufacturers, integrators, and semiconductor vendors to implement complete, future-proof IPsec, MACsec, and DRM products while reducing development costs and shortening time to market.
www.safenet-inc.com/oem
Sensory Networks Inc.
Sensory Networks Inc. is the leading provider of software pattern matching and acceleration technology that enable network and security vendors to significantly improve their content inspection intelligence and price/performance of their platforms.
http://sensorynetworks.com
XtremeData
XtremeData, inventor of the In-Socket Accelerator, is demoing a push button FPGA design flow leveraging their new QuickAssist to Matlab Simulink framework for Xeon based servers.
www.xtremedatainc.com
A community of customers and ecosystem vendors will showcase the new Intel® architecture-based System-on-a-Chip (SoC), which delivers excellent performance per watt for small form factor designs for security, communications, storage, and embedded applications.
ADI Engineering
ADI is a leading provider of reference platforms, complex engineering solutions, and design-through-production services. In addition, ADI is a supplier of semicustom OEM equipment for multiple verticals with a focus upon wireless communications.
www.adiengineering.com
Advantech Co., Ltd.
Innovator in the development and manufacturing of high-quality, high-performance computing platforms offering hardware, software, customer-centric design services, and global logistics support for system integration.
www.advantech.com
Buffalo
A leading global provider of networking, memory, storage and multimedia solutions for home and small business environments, as well as for system builders and integrators.
www.buffalo-asia.com
Dot Hill
Delivering innovative technology and global support, Dot Hill empowers the OEM community to bring unique storage solutions to market, quickly, easily and cost-effectively. Dot Hill’s RAID technology is the foundation for best-in-class storage solutions offering enterprise-class security, availability and data protection.
www.dothill.com
IBASE
IBASE specializes in OEM/ODM services tailoring products to customers’ requirements. Current product offerings from IBASE include various single board computers, Mini-ITX motherboards, industrial motherboards, ETX CPU modules, Compact PCI processor boards, network security appliance and digital surveillance systems. IBASE is an Affiliate Member of Intel® Communications Alliance, a community of communications and embedded developers and solution providers.
www.ibase-usa.com
Portwell, Inc.
Portwell, Inc., a world-leading innovator in the industrial PC (IPC) market, develops cutting-edge IPC technology and a wide-range of platforms to meet the many needs of mission critical high-performance and low-power interactive client applications. The company has 16-years of IPC experience and provides board-level solutions, along with high quality and real-time industrial-level system integration service in order to deliver performance, reliability, and scalability to our partners and customers.
www.portwell.com.tw
QNAP Systems, Inc.
QNAP Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of Linux*-embedded Internet appliance products. The company has released more than 30 models for the network storage and network surveillance series, providing high-performance storage and surveillance solutions.
www.qnap.com
Is virtualization part of your current or future development plans? If so, visit the Intel® Virtualization Community to learn how virtualization has become a mainstream technology for dynamic and predictive enterprise. Virtualization expands IT capabilities with increased product offerings, new usage models, and flexible infrastructure solutions that meet customer’s ever-changing business requirements. Industry leaders in the Virtualization Community will showcase their software and server platform enhancements that add value to virtualization solutions and predictive data management. Join these leaders to discuss the next generation of virtualization technologies in IT.
Citrix Systems, Inc.
Citrix Systems, Inc. is the global leader and most trusted name in application delivery infrastructure. Over 200,000 organizations worldwide rely on Citrix to deliver applications to users anywhere with the best performance, highest security, and lowest cost.
www.citrix.com
Hitachi America, Ltd.
Hitachi America, Ltd. markets the BladeSymphony* line of powerful, scalable, reliable blade servers in North America. A subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., the company also manufactures electronics and computer products.
www.hitachi.us
Lenovo
Lenovo is an innovative, international technology company formed as a result of the acquisition by the Lenovo Group of the IBM Personal Computing Division. As a global leader in the PC market, we develop, manufacture, and market cutting-edge, reliable, high-quality PC products, and value-added professional services to provide customers around the world with smarter ways to be productive and competitive. We base our success on our customers achieving their goals: productivity in business and enhancement of personal life.
Customers of the new Lenovo benefit from the union’s extraordinary research and development capabilities. Lenovo’s global research and development centers have produced some of the world’s most important advances in technology. Our teams have won hundreds of awards, including more than 2,000 patents.
In 2004, Lenovo became the first Chinese company to join the Olympic Partner Program. As a worldwide sponsor with the International Olympic Committee, the company will be a major supplier of computing equipment, such as servers, desktop and notebook computers, and funding in support of the 2008 Olympics in China.
www.lenovo.com
Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDQ: MSFT) is the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we’re motivated and inspired every day by how our customers and partners use our software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what’s most important to them. We run our business in much the same way, and believe our three core business divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers. They are the Platform Products and Services Division, Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division.
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate new technologies as they emerge, and to better serve our customers.
www.microsoft.com
Parallels
Parallels is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating system, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.
www.parallels.com
Stratus Technologies
Stratus Technologies focuses exclusively on helping customers keep critical business operations online without interruption. Stratus delivers solutions that include software-based high availability, fault-tolerant servers, availability consulting and assessment, and remote systems management services.
www.stratus.com
Sun Microsystems
A singular vision – “The Network Is The Computer” – guides Sun Microsystems in the development of technologies that power the world’s most important markets. Sun’s philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web.
www.sun.com
VMware
VMware is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security, and go green. With 2007 revenues of USD 1.3 billion, more than 100,000 customers, and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies. The VMware ESX hypervisor is the core VMware virtualization technology, production-proven by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, including all of the Fortune 100 and 92 percent of the Fortune 1000; it delivers the highest scalability, reliability and performance for running the most demanding applications. In addition, 10 years after pioneering virtualization of x86 systems, VMware is the leader in virtual desktop, business continuity, automation and management, virtual security, and software applications as virtual appliances.
www.vmware.com
You’ve read about it, you’ve heard about it, but have you experienced it? Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) powered by the new Intel® Centrino® Atom™ processor technology are here, and with them, the next trend in how you access the Internet. The MID Community will feature Mobile Internet Devices and showcase how Intel and several industry leaders are working together to enable the best Internet experience in your pocket. Invent the new reality with MIDs.
California Micro Devices Corporation
California Micro Devices Corporation is a leading supplier of application-specific analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for the mobile handset, digital consumer electronics, and personal computer markets.
www.cmd.com
GyPSii
GyPSii* is a mobile digital lifestyle application and geo-mobility social networking platform connecting people, places, and communities across networks and devices. The company’s headquarters are in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and it operates offices in Asia, Europe and the U.S.
www.gypsii.com
MediaCast, Inc.
MediaCast’s media distribution middleware platform enables highly scalable, ultra low-cost distribution of high-quality media such as movies, TV, electronic games, and personal media while enabling service providers a mechanism to monetize surplus broadband network capacity.
www.mediacast.com
Move Networks
Move Networks delivers Internet television with unmatched quality. Our technology engages viewers for the longest and most frequent viewing sessions, building opportunities for monetization through higher ad revenues and increased subscriptions.
www.movenetworks.com
Myvu Corporation
Myvu Corporation is the leader in designing and manufacturing innovative video eyewear for mobile entertainment. The company’s line of personal media viewers has received widespread industry recognition for its breakthroughs in ergonomics, features, and functionality.
www.myvu.com
NEC Electronics Corporation America, Inc.
To maximize battery life and reduce board space, NEC Electronics has teamed with Intel to develop a power management IC for Mobile Internet Devices. The highly integrated solution combines power management, logic, audio, and communications functions.
www.am.necel.com
Neusoft Corporation
Founded in 1991, Neusoft Corporation is a leading IT solutions and services provider based in China. The company offers a rich portfolio of businesses, including software products, platform industry solutions, and product engineering solutions and services. The company has eight regional headquarters; 16 software development and technical support centers; and a comprehensive marketing and service network in over 40 cities across China. Neusoft has overseas subsidiaries in the U.S., Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, and employs more than 13,000 people.
www.neusoft.com
One Voice Technologies, Inc.
One Voice Technologies, Inc. is the world’s first developer of 4th generation voice solutions for the telecom and interactive multimedia markets. Our intelligent voice solutions employ revolutionary, patented technology that allows people to send messages, purchase products, get information, and control devices – all by using their voice.
www.OneVoiceTech.com
Panasonic Toughbook*
The Panasonic Toughbook is the leading name in rugged and reliable mobile computers. Over the past two decades, Toughbook mobile computers have integrated new communication technologies and performed beyond the limitations of conventional notebooks.
www.panasonic.net/toughbook
Total Immersion
Total Immersion is the global leader in augmented reality. Through its technology, the company blurs the line between the virtual and real world by integrating real-time interactive 3D graphics into a live video stream.
www.t-immersion.com
Wi2Wi, Inc.
Wi2Wi specializes in ultra-small, highly-integrated, multi-function wireless solutions for mobile applications, like UMPCs, Media Players, Smartphones/PDAs and Navigation Devices. Its current products include GPS, WiFi and Bluetooth technologies with UWB and WiMax to be launched soon.
www.wi2wi.com
ZeroVirtual
ZeroVirtual markets embedded media applications and appliances for mobile devices allowing Facebook.com and YouTube.com users to capture, store, view, and share user generated SD/HD flash video from their profiles and view the portable content off-line.
www.zerovirtual.com
Experience the Internet and media on Internet-centric portable devices based on Intel® Atom™ processors. Moblin is the open source, optimized Linux* software platform that enables a great Internet and rich media experience on Intel Atom processor-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs), netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment systems, and more. Intel and our software partners will showcase the cool new solutions based on Moblin, soon to be available on these new devices.
www.moblin.org
Canonical Ltd.
Canonical Ltd., the commercial sponsor of Ubuntu, is committed to the development, distribution, and support of open source software products and communities. World-class commercial support for Ubuntu is available through Canonical’s global support team and partners. Canonical works with the world’s leading IT companies to deliver Ubuntu to the world.
www.canonical.com
Comverse
Comverse is the world’s leading provider of software and systems enabling network-based messaging and content value-added services, prepaid, postpaid and converged billing and IP communications that generate revenues, strengthen customer loyalty and improve operational efficiency.
www.comverse.com
Linpus
Linpus is a pioneer and innovator in bringing consumer-friendly Linux products to the UMPC and netbook markets. Among them is Linpus Linux Lite, a super-intuitive dual-mode interface operating system tailored specifically for this space - and chosen as the operating system of the Acer Aspire One.
www.linpus.com
Wind River
Wind River helps you develop, run, and manage device software faster, better, at lower cost, and more reliably to accelerate your time-to-market for highly differentiated devices. Only Wind River can deliver on all of your requirements across the Device Software Optimization (DSO) life cycle, from development, test, deployment, and management to hardware optimization through middleware and application integration.
www.windriver.com
Xandros, Inc.
Xandros, Inc. is a leading provider of mixed-environment BridgeWays management tools and intuitive Linux solutions including SMB and enterprise servers, consumer and business desktops, custom OEM solutions, and content delivery from digital warehouses. Xandros subsidiary Scalix provides the premier e-mail, calendaring and messaging solutions based on open standards and open source.
www.xandros.com
Sponsored by the Intel® Developer Network for PCI Express* Architecture, attendees are encouraged to visit the PCI Express* Technology Community to learn how the development of PCI Express* technology is continuing to accelerate throughout the industry. See from the demos and by talking to the exhibitors how this established IO standard is enabling new innovation in desktop, mobile, enterprise, and communication platforms.
www.intel.com/technology/pciexpress/devnet
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications and electronics. Agilent provides leading-edge test solutions for PCI Express* Gen 1 and 2 to ensure comprehensive testing and compliance of PCIe* designs.
www.agilent.com
Altera Corporation
Altera Corporation will be featuring the industry’s fastest FPGA/Intel® Xeon® processor-based FSB module. XtremeData’s XD2000i ISA module highlights multiple Stratix III FPGAs for 1066MHz co-processing and features substantial application acceleration via parallelization/pipelining, 10x+ algorithm acceleration, and reduced system power consumption/latency.
www.altera.com
Denali Software, Inc.
Denali Software, Inc. is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry’s most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express*, NAND Flash, and DDR DRAM subsystems.
www.denali.com
Gennum Corporation
Gennum Corporation designs innovative semiconductor solutions and intellectual property (IP) cores for the world’s most advanced consumer connectivity, video broadcast, and data communications products.
www.gennum.com
IDT
IDT develops and delivers leading-edge mixed signal semiconductor solutions that improve the digital media experience. Among its diverse technologies, the company offers PCI Express*-based switching solutions and DisplayPort*-based interface technologies that increase performance for real-world applications.
www.idt.com
LeCroy Corporation
LeCroy Corporation, a worldwide leader in serial data test solutions, creates advanced protocol analyzers that drive product innovation by quickly decoding, analyzing, and verifying protocol compliance for serial bit streams over a variety of different protocols.
www.lecroy.com
Maxim Integrated Products
Maxim Integrated Products is a leading supplier of quality analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Visit our booth to learn more about our innovative PCIe* switches, PCIe signal extender and equalization products, and digital video solutions.
www.maxim-ic.com
One Stop Systems, Inc.
One Stop Systems, Inc. designs and manufactures custom and semi-custom industrial-grade computing systems and components for communications, industrial control, and defense/security applications. One Stop Systems offers responsive service, the highest-quality design and manufacturing, and on-time delivery.
www.onestopsystems.com
PLX Technology, Inc.
PLX Technology, Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of PCI Express* I/O interconnect semiconductors to the communications, server, storage, embedded-control, and consumer markets. The company provides a competitive advantage through an integrated combination of experience, high-performance silicon, hardware and software design tools, and global partnerships.
www.plxtech.com
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation
Realtek Semiconductor Corporation is one of the world’s leading IC providers. The company designs and develops a wide range of IC products for communications network, Ultra-Wideband, computer peripherals, and multimedia applications.
www.realtek.com.tw
Synopsys, Inc.
As the leading provider of connectivity IP (Gartner Dataquest 2007), Synopsys, Inc. delivers the industry’s most complete digital, mixed-signal, and verification IP solutions for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express*, SATA, Ethernet, and DDR. When combined with a robust IP development methodology, extensive investment in quality, and comprehensive technical support, DesignWare* IP enables designers to accelerate time to market and reduce integration risk.
www.synopsys.com
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation
Tundra Semiconductor Corporation supplies the world’s leading communications, computing, and storage companies with System Interconnect products, intellectual property, as well as design services backed by world-class customer service and technical support.
www.tundra.com
Xilinx, Inc.
Xilinx, Inc. enables rapid development of PCI Express* applications with solutions that include ready-to-use development kits and protocol packs. The development kit for PCI Express* applications includes hardware platform, reference designs, characterization, interoperability, and compliance reports, intellectual property (IP) cores, and technical documentation.
www.xilinx.com/pciexpress
The USB Community, presented by the USB Implementers Forum, features industry-leading companies developing USB and Wireless USB solutions. As the most prolific interconnect in the world, USB has redefined the way devices interact and how users utilize technology. Visit the USB Community to see the latest USB and Wireless USB technology and product advancements.
Alereon
Alereon is a fabless semiconductor company using Ultrawideband (UWB) radio technology to develop high-bandwidth, low-power, low-cost Wireless USB chipsets that are ideal for personal computer and portable products such as digital cameras, mp3 players and cell phones.
www.aleron.com
Ellisys
Ellisys is committed to the development of USB and WiMedia* protocol analyzers that streamline the research and development process. The company’s products are proven to accelerate time to market by saving development time, improving reliability, and simplifying integration.
www.ellisys.com
LeCroy Corporation
LeCroy Corporation will feature its new SuperSpeed USB analyzer, supporting the next generation USB 3.0 standard. Part of the USB community, LeCroy will also showcase the UWBTracer/Trainer analyzer/exerciser for UWB and Certified Wireless USB verification.
www.lecroy.com
LucidPort Technology, Inc.
LucidPort Technology, Inc. is a fabless semiconductor company developing wireless USB controllers powered by Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. The company’s controllers add wireless functionality to a range of peripherals, including printers, scanners, digital cameras, and hard disks.
www.lucidport.com
NEC Electronics Corporation America, Inc.
NEC Electronics America, Inc. will showcase Certified Wireless USB technology with a demonstration of its ExpressCard-type host controller. Based on the company’s Wireless Host Controller Interface (WHCI), the controller delivers throughput levels greater than 100 Mbps.
www.am.necel.com
Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Realtek Semiconductor Corp. is one of the world’s leading IC providers. The company designs and develops a wide range of IC products for communications network, Ultra-Wideband, computer peripherals, and multimedia applications.
www.realtek.com.tw
ServerEngines Corporation
ServerEngines Corporation is a supplier of server management controllers and 10GB unified network and storage solutions for managing virtual and physical servers optimized for next generation enterprise computing.
www.serverengines.com
ST-NXP Wireless
ST-NXP Wireless is a global leader in semiconductors for wireless communications. Created from the wireless businesses of STMicroelectronics and NXP, we offer leading-edge solutions for 2G, 3G, LTE, multimedia, and connectivity.
www.stnwireless.com
Stonestreet One, Inc.
Stonestreet One, Inc. is a leading provider of software and engineering service expertise in short-range wireless communication technologies, including Bluetooth*, 802.11, WiMedia*, and Wireless USB. Stonestreet One is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth* SIG, and a contributing member of the WiMedia Alliance, and the USB Implementers Forum.
www.stonestreetone.com
Synopsys, Inc.
As the leading provider of connectivity IP (Gartner Dataquest 2007), Synopsys, Inc. delivers the industry’s most complete digital, mixed-signal, and verification IP solutions for widely used protocols such as USB, PCI Express*, SATA, Ethernet, and DDR. When combined with a robust IP development methodology, extensive investment in quality, and comprehensive technical support, DesignWare* IP enables designers to accelerate time to market and reduce integration risk.
www.synopsys.com
WiMedia Alliance
The WiMedia* Alliance is a not-for-profit open industry association that promotes and enables the rapid adoption, regulation, standardization, and multi-vendor interoperability of Ultra-Wideband technology (UWB) worldwide. WiMedia UWB is optimized for wireless personal-area networks delivering high-speed (480 Mbps and beyond), low-power multimedia capabilities for the PC, consumer electronics, mobile, and automotive market segments.
www.wimedia.org
WiQuest Communications, Inc.
WiQuest Communications, Inc. is the leading consumer solutions company designing and developing complete WiMedia-based ultra high speed, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) platforms including Wireless USB. WiQuest’s complete solution portfolio includes silicon, software, and manufacturing designs. WiQuest’s world-class technology and technical support enable a new class of off-the-shelf-production wireless connectivity to PC, digital entertainment, consumer electronics, and mobile systems.
www.wiquest.com
USB 3.0 Promoter Group
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group was formed to create a SuperSpeed USB that will deliver 10 times the performance of today’s connection. SuperSpeed USB will target fast sync-and-go transfer applications in the PC, consumer, and mobile segments.
Special Interest Groups
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