Santa Clara

Si quiere morirse, que se muera: el Gobierno cubano no acepta "chantajes". Esta es, en esencia, la respuesta del diario Granma a la huelga de hambre que mantiene desde hace dos semanas el disidente Guillermo Fariñas en la ciudad de Santa Clara. El opositor, que demanda la liberación de 23 presos políticos enfermos, ha asegurado que si el régimen no realiza un "gesto humanitario", llegará "hasta las últimas consecuencias".

Si quiere morirse, que se muera: el Gobierno cubano no acepta "chantajes". Ésta es, en esencia, la respuesta del diario Granma a la huelga de hambre que mantiene desde hace dos semanas el disidente Guillermo Fariñas en la ciudad de Santa Clara. El opositor, que demanda la liberación de 23 presos políticos enfermos, ha asegurado que si el régimen no realiza un "gesto humanitario", llegará "hasta las últimas consecuencias".

The semiconductor industry has long been a game for titans.

The going rate for a chip factory is about $3 billion. The facilities typically take years to build. And the microscopic size of chip circuitry requires engineering that nearly defies the laws of physics.

Over the decades, legions of companies have found themselves reeling, even wiped out financially, after trying to produce some of the most complex objects made by man for the lowest possible prices.

Consumers will be able to fix their automobiles while the car gives step-by-step advice, attack their ailments by making computer models of various treatments to find the best one, and duck into virtual fitting rooms to try on a store's clothes without leaving home.

Oracle, the world's second-largest software maker, faces an "uphill battle" in persuading European Union antitrust regulators to approve its planned $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc., lawyers said.

The European Commission, the EU's competition authority, has threatened to block the deal because of concerns that Oracle might be able to eliminate Sun's MySQL database product as a competitor, according to an EU document. Oracle will counter the EU's case at a closed-door hearing this week in Brussels.

Intel has delayed plans for an advanced graphics chip based on its Larrabee silicon and software development, and it may be because of a Federal Trade Commission investigation into alleged anticompetitive behavior. Larrabee is a complex, multi-year project focused on a new approach to graphics and high-performance computing, according to Intel.

Rafael Rojas (Santa Clara, Cuba, 1965), brillante historiador y ensayista exiliado en México desde 1991, ha logrado hoy el I Premio de Ensayo Isabel de Polanco con su libro Las republicas de aire. Utopía y desencanto en la revolución Hispanoamericana, en el que traza una semblanza de las primeras ocho figuras de republicanos (de desconocidos a Simón Bolívar) en América Latina.

The University of Wisconsin-Madison's patenting arm has settled its infringement lawsuit against computer chip maker Intel Corp. involving technology used in a popular computer processor.

The case was expected to go to trial Monday in U.S. District Court in Madison, but both sides notified the court Friday they had reached a settlement. Details were not released and Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said he could not comment because the terms were confidential.

TVs that blend video, 3-D animation, graphics and interactivity. That vision of the future of television was described by Intel Thursday during its unveiling of the Atom CE4100 media processor. The announcement was made at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.

The CE4100, also known by the code name Sodaville, is the company's newest system on chip. Intel executive Eric Kim said the chip provides the processing power that is "the center of the TV evolution," featuring high performance and high-resolution graphics capabilities.

Competition will be heating up between Intel and its rival chipmakers, Advanced Micro Devices and Nvidia. Intel has introduced a high-end graphics processor based on its Larrabee architecture that will go head-to-head with Nvidia GeForce and AMD Radeon video cards.

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker demonstrated early silicon based on the Larrabee architecture during Intel's Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, showing the world that it will now integrate graphics into future chip products.