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| AMD makes move to 7nm migration |
9/5/2016 |
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The 14-nm and 7-nm processes "are the important nodes" for AMD, said a company spokesman in an email. AMD is planning CPUs, GPUs, and custom chip manufacturing.
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| U.S. export on the rise |
9/2/2016 |
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The U.S. trade deficit fell in July as imports declined slightly and exports rose to the highest level in 10 months, a possible sign that global demand for American products is starting to rebound.
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| Ireland to fight EU on Apple tax decision |
9/2/2016 |
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Dublin would fight any adverse ruling ever since the European Union began investigating the U.S. tech giant's Irish tax affairs in 2014, arguing that it had to protect a tax regime that has attracted large numbers of multinational employers.
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| Plastic crystal has non-volatile memory characteristics |
9/2/2016 |
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Advantage of this crystal is its transition to a plastic state when heat is applied. This plasticity – as opposed to fracturing that occurs in regular organic and inorganic crystals when a mechanical stress is applied – makes it attractive for use as a non-volatile ferroelectric RAM.
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| AMD renews contract with GlobalFoundries |
9/2/2016 |
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AMD's new Zen processor, produced at GlobalFoundries, outperformed rival Intel Corp.'s most powerful chip. News of the event boosted AMD shares by 10 percent.
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| New chip connects EV owners to his charging car |
9/1/2016 |
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EV owners will be able to remotely monitor and control the charging of their vehicles from just about anywhere with Wi-Fi, presenting dozens of potential use cases from home automation to checking the availability of nearby public charge points.
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| Shareholders approved sales of ARM |
9/1/2016 |
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SoftBank swooped on the Apple supplier in July, agreeing to pay $32 billion in cash for ARM. ARM said that more than 95 percent of the votes cast on Tuesday approved the takeover.
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| Debate on message encryption continue |
9/1/2016 |
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The American people, have a reasonable expectation of privacy in private spaces — including houses, cars and electronic devices. But that right is not absolute when law enforcement has probable cause to believe that there's evidence of a crime in one of those places.
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| Samsung starts mass production on 14nm Exynos 7570 |
8/31/2016 |
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The Exynos 7570 is a quad-core processor, featuring four energy efficient Cortex-A53 cores. This certainly isn’t the most powerful CPU configuration around, but Samsung is building the chip on its cutting edge 14nm manufacturing process.
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| Iris and face-recognition smartphones are forth coming |
8/31/2016 |
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Fujitsu and Samsung Electronics have both introduced their flagship smartphones with embedded iris scanners for 2016, while smartphone and other mobile-device vendors are looking to bring facial recognition technology to their devices.
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| Littlefuse move to divest ON Semiconductors |
8/30/2016 |
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The FTC ruling states: “The proposed consent order, preserves competition by requiring ON to divest its Ignition IGBT business to Chicago-based manufacturer Littelfuse, Inc. within 10 days of the close of the transaction. The divestiture will include design files and intellectual property that Littelfuse needs to manufacture ON’s Ignition IGBTs.”
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| Intel wants to be Apple's foundry |
8/30/2016 |
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"We can do design, and we can do assembly and test. We have remarkable sources and we will bring these capabilities to our customers as well."
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| Samsung smartphone outsells Apple in Taiwan |
8/29/2016 |
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Samsung made up 25 percent of the total smartphone sales volume in Taiwan last month, ahead of PC brand Asustek Computer Inc. (‰Ø×) with 15.8 percent, Taiwan-based vendor HTC Corp. (G’B“d) with 15 percent, Apple Inc. of the United States with 14.2 percent, and Japan's Sony Corp. with 8.9 percent.
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| Self-driving taxi start to roam in Singapore |
8/29/2016 |
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nuTonomy, a software start-up and MIT spinoff, that has launched the first-ever public trial of a robo-taxi service in Singapore's one-north business district, where the company has also been conducting a daily autonomous vehicle testing since April.
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| FPGA prototyping allows early software verification |
8/29/2016 |
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The main use for FPGA-based prototyping is software development, and that’s how design teams bring up their operating systems. They’ll bring up bare-metal software running on the design well before the silicon is available.
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| Field programmable analog array is finding markets |
8/26/2016 |
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What is it that has enabled Silego Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) to ship more than 1 billion units of its configurable mixed-signal ICs (CMICs) in the last two years? The answer would seem to be: by taking account of application knowledge and specific functionality.
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| New GDDR6 with GPU by 2018 |
8/26/2016 |
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GDDR6 will be a faster and more power-efficient form of graphics memory. GDDR6 will provide throughput of around 14Gbps (bits per second), an improvement of 10Gbps with GDDR5
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| Samsung looking onto low cost HNM3 |
8/26/2016 |
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Samsung is proposing a low-cost HBM that would reduce costs in multiple ways. The number of connects per-die would shrink, reducing the number of vias required for each chip. The company wants to replace the large silicon interposer with an organic layer, and believes it can cut costs by removing the on-die buffer as well.
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