LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — 2014 CES International

News Highlights:

• Industry’s first 5G WiFi 2×2 MIMO combo chip for digital televisions delivers 3X bandwidth to ensure seamless streaming for high-bandwidth applications
• Powerful 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac chip for routers, gateways and set-top boxes frees up the host CPU for applications such as HD video streaming
• Beamforming and advanced coexistence architecture enable faster, more reliable Wi-Fi and Bluetooth experience in a wider range in the home

Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a global innovation leader in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications, today introduced new 5G WiFi system-on-a-chips (SoCs) for connected home devices. The BCM43569 and BCM43602 enable OEMs to deliver the speed, range and bandwidth requirements for streaming HD-quality content, online gaming and other high-bandwidth applications in the home. Visit Broadcom’s 2014 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) site to learn more at www.connectingeverything.com.

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Consumers are streaming video content to multiple devices in the home using various applications and content delivery services. Legacy technologies limit the ability to support the evolving bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS) needed for the intensive connected home lifestyle. For example, using Bluetooth- and Wi-Fi-enabled devices such as remotes, speakers and game controllers can reduce available Wi-Fi bandwidth and cause interference when playing an online game or streaming a movie from a tablet to a smart TV. The BCM43569 is the industry’s first dual-band 2×2 MIMO combo chip with a USB 3.0 interface and advanced coexistence technology that enables superior performance by allowing smart TVs to receive both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals simultaneously.

Routers, gateways and set-top boxes rely heavily on the platform’s host CPU processing power to deliver HD content over 5G WiFi to multiple devices in the home. Broadcom’s BCM43602, a new 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac SoC solution, enables these platforms to offload Wi-Fi processing from the host processor to deliver the benefits of 5G WiFi to the consumer. Combined, the new chips deliver the speed, power and range requirements needed around the home to support consumer demand for content anywhere and anytime. Beamforming is also supported on both chips to ensure whole-home wireless coverage.

“As the first company to deliver 5G WiFi across all product segments, Broadcom continues to lead innovation and engineer even more powerful next-generation 5G WiFi products that support today’s content-hungry consumer,” said Rahul Patel, Vice President, Marketing, Wireless Connectivity Combos. “Our new advanced solutions bring consumers an elevated video streaming experience across the wirelessly connected home and provide OEMs with the benefits of improved system cost and form factor.”

“By the end of 2014, 802.11ac is expected to be included in more than 50 percent of total Wi-Fi ICs shipped,” said Phil Solis, research director, ABI Research. “By maximizing the wireless connectivity performance in connected home devices, Broadcom continues to help drive the industry adoption of 802.11ac technology across all product segments.”

Key Features and Benefits:

• The BCM43569 is a dual-band 2×2 MIMO combo chip (5G WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1) for media platforms such as digital televisions and over-the-top media boxes. Highlights include:
  • Industry’s first chip to include a common USB port for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and integrated Power Amplifiers (iPA) across both bands, significantly reducing system cost and enabling OEMs to offer connectivity on more platforms
  • Delivers 3X bandwidth for seamless streaming or gaming
  • Separate Bluetooth low-noise amplifier (LNA) coupled with customized Wi-Fi and Bluetooth coexistence algorithms allow Bluetooth gaming, audio and motion peripherals to perform in challenging environments
  • Broadcom Media Stack (BMS) enables innovative connectivity software features like TVSelect, audio over Wi-Fi, seamless gaming and Miracast for a rich DTV experience
  • Interface: USB 3.0 and USB 2.0

• The BCM43602 is a 3×3 MIMO 802.11ac chip designed for access/DSL/Cable/STB platforms. Highlights include:
  • Ability to achieve full 802.11ac (900 Mbps TCP) throughput on CPU constrained systems
  • Simplified WLAN software integration with host
  • Entire WLAN driver runs inside of the BCM43602, freeing up host CPU for applications such as video streaming
  • Pin-compatible, drop in and full feature replacement to Broadcom’s industry leading BCM4360, in production across multiple retail and service provider customers
  • Ability to enable low power standby modes.
  • Interface: PCIe

Availability
The BCM43569 and BCM43602 are now sampling.

For more information on 5G WiFi, visit http://www.broadcom.com/products/features/5gwifi.php.

For ongoing news, visit Broadcom’s Newsroom, read the B-Connected Blog, or visit Facebook or Twitter. And to stay connected, subscribe to Broadcom’s RSS Feed.

About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. For more information, go to www.broadcom.com.

Broadcom^®, the pulse logo, Connecting everything® and the Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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Police called to ‘axe attack’ find youngsters making zombie movie

11:02am Saturday 4th January 2014 in News

A zombie

POLICE armed response units called after an elderly resident reported an axe attack, found it was young people making a zombie film.

A full emergency response unit was sent to Tudor Court in Harrogate at 3.22pm yesterday, after the elderly woman dialled 999 reporting what she thought was a bloody axe attack by a group of youths.

She reported there was one male lying on the ground covered in blood with three others standing around, one of whom appeared to be holding an axe outside the Prince of Wales Mansions apartments.

Ambulance, police and armed response units were dispatched to the luxury apartment block – where North Yorkshire’s most expensive ever apartment was recently sold for more than £1m.

A spokesman for North Yorkshire Police said on arrival they could find no sign of the injured man or other members of the group and so began to conduct door-to-door enquiries and search nearby garages.

The young men, in their late teens, had been filming around the back of the flat, near some garages.

Eventually police knocked on the door of one house and were met by a teenager covered in fake blood, who said they had been trying to make a horror film.

He said: “At 4.05pm they found one of the youths and he confirmed they had been making a zombie film with what appeared to be fake blood.”

The armed response team was stood down.

A tweet from North Yorkshire Police Control Room, @NYPControl, about the incident has since been retweeted more than 150 times.

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Director of Gravity movie sees Barnes youngsters’ film debut

5:00am Monday 9th December 2013 in News

By Clare Buchanan, Chief Reporter

Barnes film academy at Olympic cinema in Barnes. Picture: Jamie Lucas

The director of new film Gravity was among viewers who watched the debut screening of a film made entirely by children at the Olympic Cinema in Barnes.

The newly opened cinema, a former recording studios, was the setting for the premiere of Barnes Film Academy’s The Naughty Step on Sunday, December 1.

The film academy, headed by the Harrodian School’s head of media Sam Cullis, runs weekly film camps for kids, to script shoot and edit their own movie.

The short horror film made by, and starring, students of the academy follows their previous cinematic success Big Trouble in Little Barnes, which made its debut at Hampton Court Palace in the summer.

Mr Cullis said: “The youngsters had a great time making this film and I am happy that we obtained yet again such a great venue to showcase their efforts.”

Thyra Goldsmith, 11, said: “It was educational, fun and experimental. “I learnt how to use all sorts of professional equipment and what makes a film really scary.”

For future courses, visit: barnesfilmacademy.com
 

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Village stars in Christmas film

2:00pm Saturday 21st December 2013 in News

STAGE TO SCREEN: Singing sensation Susan Boyl makes her movie debut in A Christmas Candle.

BROADWAY is set to burst on to the big screen in a new film starring singing sensation Susan Boyle.

As we exclusively revealed, the former Britain’s Got Talent contestant turned heads in the village when she rolled into town alongside an all-star cast earlier this year to shoot scenes at Tudor House, in High Street.

Filming also took place at nearby Stanway House and the area is now set to be seen in a whole new light as the film, called The Christmas Candle, is seen on cinema screens in time for the festive season.

Set in the fictional Cotswolds village of Gladbury, the film’s story takes place in 1890.

Gladbury is a seemingly unremarkable place, except for at Christmas – with local legend telling that every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle.

Whoever lights that candle will then see their request granted on Christmas Eve.

With the original novel penned while author Max Lucado was staying in the Cotswolds, screenwriters Candace Lee and Eric Newman knew they had to come to the area to bring the original vision to life.

“We really had to shoot here. It was literally like going back in time,” said Mr Newman. “On our first location scout we went to four or five locations and each time I said this is perfect. It was like walking on to a movie set right from the start.”

The period drama features a host of star names including John Hannah and Sylvester McCoy.

It also marks a first acting role for Ms Boyle, who has previously been more accustomed to warm music studios than bracing winter days in the Cotswolds.

Producers also had to make it look as though Ms Boyle could knit, with Broadway seamstress Barbara Jones roped in by producers at short notice to produce “half a red mitten” that the star can be seen holding in the film.

The film was released nationwide last Friday and Ms Boyle said local film fans will find plenty to enjoy besides trying to spot a few familiar local scenes.

“It’s all about the magic of Christmas and the Christmas message. The story is inspiring as it tells us never to give up on our dreams and to always believe in miracles – look what happened to me,” she said.

Screenings are taking place at the Regal Cinema on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day at 10am and noon.

The film is also being shown at Number 8 Community Arts Centre, in Pershore, at 10.30am and 7.30pm on Monday.

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Thus, researchers have long been craving for a processor that even partially but realistically behaves just like a brain. It would be able to learn new things as time passes, and enjoy the benefits of unparalleled error-correction. In 2014, a much simpler version of the ideal chip will be made available, which could be the start of great things to come.

The benefit of a self-learning chip is that programmers wouldn’t need to write hundreds or even hundreds-of-thousands of lines of code to get a processor to learn and execute certain tasks. This processor could be connected to a robot or something else mechanical.

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The possibilities that a self-learning processor bring about can both be amazing and scary. The basic premise can bring forth a surge of science-fiction movie memories, but the way things are going, it could just become “science” in the near-future.

A self-learning processor could power a robot, for example, that acts as company to an elderly person. This robot would interact with the person and learn about them, and be able to hold a normal conversation. This robot could learn and inherit various emotions, just like we all did as we grew up. Another scenario could be assembly lines. Envision robots there that can quickly learn from their mistakes, or learn how to correct an issue that arises.

That all sounds genuinely crazy, but it’s scenarios like these that some think about being possible way down the road.

It might take a hundred years or more to produce realistic processors fast enough to mimic even a little part of the brain. Last year, IBM made headlines when it used a supercomputer to mimic 10% of a human brain. That sounds impressive, but it becomes less so when you realize the computations were being done at 1/1500th the speed of a real brain. Oh – there’s also the little fact that this supercomputer consumed power in the megawatts, versus a human brain which is said to be about 20W.

It’s clear that we have quite a ways to go if we want truly capable self-learning processors, but, we’ve got to start somewhere.

Burnley mill gets Grade I listed status

10:30pm Saturday 28th December 2013 in News

THE former Queen Street Mill has become only the fourth building in Burnley to be given the highest-possible heritage rating.

English Heritage has confirmed that the complex, home to the last working steam-powered mill engine in the world, has been given given Grade One listed status.

Only Towneley Hall, Gawthorpe Hall and Shuttleworth Hall, at Hapton, have earned the distinction since listings began in 1953.

Culture minister Ed Vaizey said: “The Queen Street Mill in Burnley is the epitome of a time when cotton production in Lancashire was Britain’s principal source of industrial wealth.

“It’s wonderful that it has survived all this time in such splendid condition. Listing it at Grade One will help ensure that it continues to tell the story of that era for many generations to come.”

The mill itself has been the backdrop to a number of TV and movie productions, most recently The King’s Speech, in a scene where King George VI struggles to address assembled workers.

Later Colin Firth would describe the mill engine, dubbed Peace in tribute to fallen soldiers in the Great War, as ‘a thing of beauty’.

Nick Bridgland, a northern English Heritage expert, added: “Queen Street Mill is a remarkable survival of a working, steam-powered textile mill from the heyday of Lancashire’s cotton production.

“The textile industry was one of the great drivers of Britain’s industrialisation and so has international importance.

“The survival of such a complete mill is unparalleled and merits listing at the highest grade.”

Today the mill, which ceased commercial operations in the early 80s, is run as a museum dedicated to the cotton trade, by Lancashire County Council.

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Festive favourites as college marks festive season

11:00am Thursday 26th December 2013 in News

FEELING FESTIVE: Student Emma Morrison performs a reading at Carmel College’s Christmas liturgy

FESTIVE favourites and religious readings celebrated the wonder of Christmas as a North-East academy marked the holiday season.

Carmel College, in Darlington, invited friends and family into College for the Yuletide celebration.

The Christmas liturgy featured traditional carols led by the sixth form choir and readings.

There was also a medley of movie music by the college band, orchestral arrangements and performances by the chamber choir, the staff choir and Carmel’s own version of Glee.

Principal Maura Regan said: “This was the perfect way to celebrate an outstanding year. The atmosphere was delightful and reflected the positivity that is a hallmark of life at Carmel College with the theme of ‘wonder’ a sense of belonging, a sense of inspiration.”

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