Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, NEC, NextWave Wireless, Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks and Sony Ericsson have today announced a mutual commitment to a framework for establishing predictable and more transparent maximum aggregate costs for licensing intellectual property rights (IPR) that relate to 3GPP Long Term Evolution and Service Architecture Evolution standards (LTE/SAE). The companies invite all interested parties to join this initiative which is intended to stimulate early adoption of mobile broadband technology across the communications and consumer electronic industries.
The framework is based on the prevalent industry principle of fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory …

DDR-3 is the next-generation evolution of DDR and newer DDR-2 memory technology that will break the Gigahertz speed barrier for memory speed.
DDR-3 memory comes with a promise of a power consumption reduction of 30% compared to current DDR-2 modules, due to DDR-3’s 1.5 V supply voltage, compared to DDR-2’s 1.8 V or DDR-1’s 2.5 V. This supply voltage works well with the latest fabrication technology used for most DDR-3 chips. Some manufacturers further propose to use “dual-gate” transistors to reduce leakage of current.
DDR-3 is an industry standard technology defined by …