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| Government placed ventilator contract up to $1.4 billion |
4/15/2020 |
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>In total, combined with contracts with General Motors and Philips rated under the DPA earlier this week, HHS has finalized contracts to supply 6,190 ventilators for the Strategic National Stockpile by May 8 and 29,510 by June 1. The seven new ventilator contracts announced by HHS this month will provide a total of 137,431 ventilators by the end of 2020.
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| JEDEC is close to publish DDR5 memory standard |
4/14/2020 |
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Suddenly, 3200 Mhz memory isn't enough. And with data sets for AI and machine learning grower ever larger, memory was becoming a real bottleneck. DDR5 will address that. DDR5 will start at 3200 MHz and scale all the way up to 8400 MHz as time goes on.
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| Taiwan-based IC design houses are caution about their sales in the third quarter, |
4/13/2020 |
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Most Taiwan-based IC design houses have posted impressive revenue results for March, and are expected to see the momentum carry on through the first half of the second quarter, said the sources. However, the visibility of customer orders remains weak for the second half of the second quarter, which may drag down the fabless chipmakers' revenues during the period, the sources indicated.
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| U.S. unemployment rate in April could hit 15% |
4/13/2020 |
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A staggering 16.8 million Americans have been thrown onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the coronavirus outbreak has brought world economies to their knees.
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| Global pack to atabilize oil prices to take shape |
4/13/2020 |
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More countries, including the United States, were discussing Friday their own cuts in what would be an unprecedented global pact to stabilize the market. The agreement between OPEC and partner countries aims to cut 10 million barrels per day until July, then 8 million barrels per day through the end of the year, and 6 million a day for 16 months beginning in 2021.
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| Automobile showroom traffic quickly returned in Wuhan, China |
4/13/2020 |
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And as some auto showrooms ramped back up in mid March, what many guessed would be a tepid return is turning out to be much more pronounced. According to Automotive News, after sales near zero in February, some Wuhan dealerships say their daily sales are already back up to pre-pandemic levels.
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| Bridgestone Americas to resume production on April 13 |
4/10/2020 |
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Bridgestone Bandag's retread rubber manufacturing plants in North America resumed operations the week of March 29, due to demand by essential service providers. Firestone Industrial Products and Firestone Building Products manufacturing facilities on April 13.
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| European Airbus cut production by one third |
4/10/2020 |
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The company said it delivered 122 planes in the first quarter, but 60 remain undelivered. It delivered only 36 in March, down from 55 in February, as airlines asked to suspend orders while facing huge costs related to a near-total shutdown of air travel.
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| Apple secured supply chain for 20 million masks |
4/9/2020 |
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Apple hopes to quickly expand distribution beyond the U.S. It plans to ship over a million face shields to healthcare workers by the end of the week, and continue to send that many every week going forward, Cook said.
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| Bandwidth Inc benifits fromcounting bandwidth usage on networks |
4/9/2020 |
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Bandwidth Inc. unveiled plans for $103 million in capital investment while the company expands its Raleigh headquarters and operations. It plans to create nearly 1,200 jobs in the state over the next eight years, the state Commerce Department announced on Tuesday.
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| Computer problem at SBA holds up small business emergency loans |
4/9/2020 |
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The SBA’s loan processing system stopped working Monday, making it impossible for loans to be approved and funds distributed, according to a trade group for community bankers and the CEO of an online lending marketplace. And there was confusion about the documents lenders needed from customers to complete loan transactions.
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| Cities lock-down affects carbon output emissions |
4/9/2020 |
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The agency’s Energy Information Administration projects a 7.5% drop in fossil fuel emissions for 2020. That would be the biggest cut in U.S. energy emissions since at least 1990, EIA records show. The year after the start of the 2008 recession saw a 7.3% decline.
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| Small business waits for government aid to come down |
4/8/2020 |
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Business owners began submitting applications to banks, credit unions and other financial institutions late last week, or at least trying to. If successful, owners received notifications that their applications had been received, but for many, there was no further word by Monday afternoon.
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| Intel mobile CPU breaks 5 GHz barrier |
4/8/2020 |
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10th Gen Intel Core laptop processors deliver faster performance with up to 5.3 GHz Turbo, eight cores and 16 threads to enable immersive gaming experiences with amazing responsiveness and consistent in-game performance.
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| 5/3nm transistors might bring reliability issue |
4/8/2020 |
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Ensuring that chips will be reliable at 5nm and 3nm is becoming more difficult due to the introduction of new materials, new transistor structures, and the projected use of these chips in safety- and mission-critical applications.
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| Q2 server shipments up 7-9% |
4/7/2020 |
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The driving force is the top four cloud providers in the US (AWS, MS, Google, IBM) which have switched some server production from China to Taiwan to avoid the US-China trade friction. Most Chinese companies have resumed factory operations. Server suppliers such as Huawei, Inspur, and H3C have ramped up component inventories to meet their 2H20 production plans.
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| U.S high technology shows leverage in fighting coronavirus |
4/7/2020 |
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Tech companies, consortiums and universities are jumping in to help fight COVID-19, deploying everything from massive computing capabilities to developing new technologies that can protect medical workers and first responders. Nearly all of these have ramped up over the past several weeks, as the tech world begins to take on a global challenge to combat the deadly virus.
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| Stock Market rises on hope of virus control |
4/7/2020 |
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New coronavirus infections and deaths are showing signs of slowing in Italy, Spain and France. The center of the U.S. outbreak, New York, also reported a dip in the number of daily deaths, though authorities warned it’s too early to tell whether it’s just a blip or the start of a trend
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