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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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| Samsung Electronics Co. is expected to post solid earnings in the first quarter |
4/6/2020 |
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Samsung, the world's largest memory chip and smartphone vendor, was expected to log 55.31 trillion won (US$44.9 billion) in sales in the first three months of 2020, up 5.5 percent from a year earlier, while operating profit was estimated to drop only 0.09 percent on-year to 6.22 trillion won over the period, according to the data by 21 local brokerage houses compiled by Yonhap Infomax, the financial news arm of Yonhap News Agency.
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| SK Hynix to mass produce DDR5 memory modules this year |
4/6/2020 |
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It's about that time again in the desktop market to switch to a new memory standard. DDR5 will ultimately offer twice the bandwidth currently available with DDR4 modules. With processor core counts increasingly skyrocketing on modern processors (consumer desktop processors can hit 16 cores and 32 threads, with prosumer platforms hitting the 64-core/128-thread), SK Hynix says that the next-generation DDR5 is poised to help satisfy these bandwidth needs.
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| A space company gone bankrupt |
4/6/2020 |
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OneWeb has spent billions of dollars working to bring high speed, reliable internet via its low orbit satellites. A joint venture with Airbus, called OneWeb Satellite, was responsible for manufacturing the satellites from a plant in Florida. The $300 million plant was just completed in July of last year.
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| Tool maker Stanley Black & Decker reduces production |
4/3/2020 |
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Stanley Black & Decker on Wednesday outlined actions it’s taking to manage business operations amid the expanding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with those actions include major cuts in spending, as well as trimming staff.
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| Intel CEO Bob Swan airms at instituting new culture to the company |
4/2/2020 |
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"Our cultural evolution will be a significant focus for me and the Intel leadership team in 2020," Swan said in his annual letter to customers, partners, stockholders and employees. "Our success evolving our culture will determine how we perform over the next decade and how we fulfill our purpose to create world-changing technology that enriches lives."
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| Crisis time exposed the millions without connections |
4/2/2020 |
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Although efforts to extend broadband service have made progress in recent years, tens of millions of people are still left out, largely because phone and cable companies hesitate to invest in far-flung rural areas. Government subsidies in the billions haven’t fully fixed the problem.
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| Xerox given up bidding for HP |
4/2/2020 |
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The final offer reached $35 billion in cash and stock before Xerox announced it would abandon the takeover attempt.
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