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| New strain of ransomware appear |
4/14/2016 |
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Unusual strain of virus-like hacker software exploits computer server vulnerabilities — without requiring human interaction — is a leading example of a new generation of "ransomware".
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| AMD to set manufacturing footprint in India |
4/13/2016 |
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AMD CEO and president Lisa Su met telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Tuesday and apprised the minister about the company’s plans to set up a chip manufacturing plant.
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| Renesas appoints new CEO from the automotive supplier sector |
4/13/2016 |
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Kure started his professional life a banker, but cut his teeth in the automotive industry by running Calsonic Kansai (Nissan owns 40.7 per cent of it) and turning it into a global automotive parts and components supplier serving customers beyond Nissan.
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| SIA endorse JEDEC counterfeit semiconductor standards |
4/13/2016 |
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Thanks in large part to this effective collaboration between industry and law enforcement, there has been a marked increase in the prosecution of semiconductor counterfeiters and a record number of seizures of counterfeit products in recent years.
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| Nanya quarterly improved |
4/13/2016 |
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¡°The average (DRAM)selling price decline is much milder than we thought in the first quarter. Overall the [industry] environment is not as bad as we expected,¡± Nanya spokesman Joseph Wu (…ÇÖ¾Ïé) said.
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| Winbond stacks Nand with Nor flash |
4/12/2016 |
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The mixing and stacking capabilities provide designers with added flexibility to meet needs for a variety of small machine-to-machine (M2M) and IoT devices, said Mike Chen, Winbond’s director of technical marketing.
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| NXP to sell off standard chip business |
4/12/2016 |
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NXP’s standard products unit, which accounted for one-fifth of its sales last year, mass produces chips used in phones, television sets and cars.
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| Arastu provides 3200MTps LPDDR4 controller design |
4/11/2016 |
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The controller is designed as per the JEDEC standard JESD209-4A and works seamlessly with partner's DFI PHY or DFI 4.0 compatible PHY from other vendors. The IP is developed using verilog and supports speeds up to 3200MTps.
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| IBM Cloud to use Xilinx accelerator |
4/11/2016 |
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This is an open access cloud service, called SuperVessel, which can be used by application developers, system designers, and academic researchers to create, test and pilot their FPGA designs for big data analytic processors and even data gathering IoT node devices.
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| MediaTek forecast increase profit |
4/11/2016 |
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Gains generated from the sale of a unit specializing in car electronics chips and Goodix' IPO listing on the Shanghai stock market will boost MediaTek's profitability in the second quarter of 2016.
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| Motherboard maker forecast slow quarter |
4/8/2016 |
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The company expects the combined shipments of its motherboards and graphic cards to fall by between 5 and 10 percent this quarter from the first quarter.
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| Google to develope Power Chip base server |
4/8/2016 |
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Google's data centers have long relied on servers based on Intel x86 processors, but the search giant has lately been exploring systems based on Power as well as ARM-based processors.
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| Microchip closed Atmel acquisition at reduced prices |
4/8/2016 |
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“The performance of Atmel since we engaged in discussions in August 2015 has been disappointing. We took some of this weakness into consideration in dropping the final acquisition price from our original offer.”
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| Obama broke up Pfizer's inversion attempt |
4/7/2016 |
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"When companies exploit loopholes like this, it makes it harder to invest in the things that are going to keep America’s economy going strong for future generations," President Obama said Tuesday.
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| Kingston promotes micro SD for Drones |
4/6/2016 |
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The new card supports 4K video at 30 frames per second or HD video at 240 frames per second And because of the targeted use cases, it's designed to handle harsh environments.
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| Key Intel executives to exit |
4/6/2016 |
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Skaugen, who was in charge of the company’s main personal-computer chip unit, is leaving “for his next career opportunity,” Intel said Monday; Davis, head of Intel’s Internet of Things group, is retiring at the end of the year, the company said.
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| Nvidia joins the rank into VR processor |
4/6/2016 |
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The company has revealed a new powerful GPU for workstations that will bring support for virtual reality headsets to professional laptops. Nvidia also talks about its VR Ready program revealing the OEMs that have jumped on its VR Ready bandwagon.
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| Samsung makes move to 10nm DRAM |
4/6/2016 |
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The new 8-gigabit double-data-rate-4 (DDR4) DRAM chip -- based on 1x nanometer chip design and manufacturing technology -- will place the Seoul-headquartered chipmaker in an unrivaled position.
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