Before plunking down cold cash for shares in PLD (Programmable Logic Device) makers Xilinx Corp. or Altera Corp. (see feature), be very careful.

FORBES: Not for war orphans

Plastic Logic's device has similar limitations.

FORBES: Breakthroughs

The Adaptive Wireless Engine, as it is called, is a device whose logic cells have been specifically designed to handle signal filtering, speech encoding, wireless communications protocols, and so on in other words, the sorts of things that mobile phones have to do.

ECONOMIST: Hardware goes soft

And the logic works with servers as well as storage, as each device category continues to decrease in size, improve in capacity and performance, and reduce its power consumption per unit of work with each new generation.

FORBES: The Case for the Infinite Data Center

Executives are discussing plans to lease the Plastic Logic e-reader to long-term subscribers, with the money going toward purchase of the device.

WSJ: Publishers Nurture Rivals to Kindle