IBM has made series of chip announcements, including 90nm copper-process 750- and 970-series PowerPC processors targeting storage and communications; a new, more energy-efficient northbridge for 9xx-series chips; and, several 46x-series cores in synthesizable and 90nm hard versions. All share a common “low-power” theme. (more…)

Acrosser is shipping a rugged embedded PC with high performance graphics capabilities and support for embedded Linux. The AR-ES0891 supports dual independent displays and is aimed at multimedia applications such as gaming, video lottery terminals, and kiosks, according to the company. (more…)

Infrant will soon ship a Linux-based storage device designed specially for serving up digital media files, including videos and music files. The Repertoire has no playback capabilities, but can store up to 3TB of media, and stream or transfer it using most common, standard, open protocols. (more…)

[Updated Oct. 5] — D-Link will market an unlocked, dual-mode WiFi and GSM/GPRS phone, it says. The “V-Click” phone appears to be a rebranded Linux- and Qtopia-based phone design created by Taiwanese ODM (original design manufacturer) Wistron NeWeb Corp. (more…)

Market research firm Venture Development Corp. (VDC) has published its annual re-cap of the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), held in Boston the week of Sept. 18. VDC's report highlights several announcements of potential interest to developers and companies in the embedded Linux market. (more…)

Nokia and several partners are developing an ultra-low-power, short-range wireless technology aimed at extending personal-area networking (PANs) to really low-power devices, including watches, heart-rate monitors, and other “button cell battery” devices. (more…)

Infrant will soon ship a Linux-based storage device designed specially for serving up digital media files, including videos and music files. The Repertoire has no playback capabilities, but can store up to 3TB of media, and stream or transfer it using most common, standard, open protocols. (more…)

[Updated Oct. 2] — A project to create an ultra-lightweight web browser for use in embedded devices and other resource-constrained hardware has issued a plea for financial help. The Dillo Project says it needs to find a corporate sponsor in order to add anti-aliased text, CSS, Javascript, and… (more…)

Altia is shipping the first version of a user interface design toolkit aimed at helping graphic artists create interactive mockups of device interfaces, without help from programmers. PhotoProto 1.0 works as a PhotoShop plug-in, and targets concept demonstrations, usability testing, requirements capture, and… (more…)

Digi International has used embedded Linux in a family of “all-in-one” console servers that, in addition to serial console access, support a variety of secure, IP-based remote graphical user interface protocols, the company says. (more…)

Aewin Technologies has introduced a high performance network control board supporting dual Xeon processors and 10 gigabit-Ethernet (GbE) ports available with either copper or optical SFP (small form-factor pluggable) transceivers. (more…)

The Consumer Electronics Linux Forum (CELF) is seeking volunteers to help design and steer a vendor-neutral, community-oriented “wiki”-based website, to launch at an undisclosed time. The site will be open to the public, and will offer information aimed at making it easier to use Linux in embedded products. (more…)

Sun says its open source RISC processor design community is gaining momentum. The “OpenSparc” project's early milestones include the addition of an UltraSparc T1 port to the 2.6.17 Linux kernel, OpenSPARC-specific Gentoo and Ubuntu distributions, a new single-core UltraSparc design, and the formation of an OpenSPARC community advisory board (CAB). (more…)