Texas Instruments (TI) has unveiled several new battery management ICs, including its next-generation Impedance Track "gas gauge" chipset, to improve battery performance and protect multi-cell, lithium-based battery packs used in notebooks and other systems. TI"s bq20z90 next-generation Impedance Track battery gas gauge chipset, which integrates new battery authentication technology, is designed to work with TI"s newest analog front-end (AFE) protection IC.
With its DDR2 in all densities already being fabricated at the 80-nanometer node, Samsung Electronics today announced the mass production of 1 Gbit DDR2 DRAM.