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| Cybrcrime is costing companies |
10/7/2015 |
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A sixth-annual study by the Ponemon Institute pegged the average annual cost of cybercrime per large U.S. company at $15.4 million. That's up 19 percent from $12.7 million a year ago.
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| Pacific Rim countries reached trade deal |
10/7/2015 |
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership is designed to encourage trade between the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, the countries account for 40 percent of world economic output.
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| Price of memory has fallen to historic lows |
10/6/2015 |
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Windows-based systems haven’t been selling as well. Smartphone and server shipments are predicted to tumble over the next year too, leading to price cuts between different manufacturers that have made it difficult for anyone to make much money from memory.
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| Daimler tested autonomous driving truck |
10/6/2015 |
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The system utilises a front radar, a stereo camera and several "usual suspects" among the variety of driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control.
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| Integrating HBM stack with ASIC |
10/5/2015 |
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Now ASIC-maker Open-Silicon (Milpitas, Calif.) claims to have solved that problem by integrating high-bandwidth memory (HBM) 3D stacked memory chips into the same system-in-package (SiP) with a 1,024-bit parallel memory interface that beats any off-chip memory architectures.
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| AMD to trim 6% employment |
10/5/2015 |
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The company has been shifting to gaming consoles and low-power servers, but progress has lagged Wall Street expectations due to intense competition from Intel Corp and newer companies.
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| Sign of further weakening in U.S. manufacturing |
10/5/2015 |
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"In the U.S. manufacturing sector, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) index fell from 51.1 percent in August to 50.2 percent in September, its third consecutive decline,”
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| China's Montage makes offer for Pericom |
10/2/2015 |
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Montage's all-cash offer of $18.50 per share is at a premium of 9.5 percent to Pericom's Tuesday close of $16.90. it trumps over an offer from Diodes Inc earlier this month.
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| Plessey to invest in new LED fab |
10/1/2015 |
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The move, which will see Plessey increase its manufacturing capacity to more than 3billion mm2 of GaN material per year.
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| New VW CEO submitted recall plan |
10/1/2015 |
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Company officials told The Wall Street Journal that the plan will require software changes that can be implemented relatively quickly. Some vehicles could also need hardware adjustments that could take "at most a few hours."
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| Apple breaks own record on launch week sales |
9/30/2015 |
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Apple Inc. said Monday it has sold more than 13 million units three days after the launch of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. FBR & Co. and Piper Jaffray This momentum should lead to improving sales.
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| AMS offers 0.35 um analogue foundry |
9/30/2015 |
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Called its H35 process, it makes use of voltage scalable NMOS and PMOS transistors to lower on-resistance and so reduce die area per device.
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| SpaceX ready to launch again |
9/30/2015 |
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Over the weekend, however, SpaceX put a new and improved rocket through a successful test burn, and Musk said that the company should be ready to launch again in six to eight weeks.
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| Cypress to bid for Atmel also |
9/29/2015 |
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Cypress is working with investment bankers and has informed Atmel it believes its offer will be superior to Dialog's cash-and-stock deal, which was worth $4.6 billion when it was announced on Sept. 20.
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| Connected devices to help factory automations |
9/29/2015 |
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With the adoption of IoT and advancement in M2M communication, the implementation of automation technologies in factories has increased tremendously. The industrial control and factory automation market is also driven by the adoption of various policy reforms by governments.
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| Self Parking car can save 10% energy on EV cars |
9/29/2015 |
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Multiple academic studies indicate that autonomous features including self-parking, expected as early as 2016, may boost fuel efficiency by as much as 10 per cent, when compared with human drivers. This translates into $1,800 in battery cost savings in a Tesla.
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