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| HP splitted into two companies |
11/3/2015 |
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HP Inc. will sell personal computers and printers; Hewlett Packard Enterprise will sell commercial computer systems, software and tech services. Starting Monday, each will trade separately on the New York Stock Exchange.
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| Manufacturers see display market slumps |
11/2/2015 |
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The global economic growth slowdown, in addition to smartphones, the demand for all categories of LCD panels have obviously declined where the tablet PCs is going to face a largest downward of about 25%.
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| Foundries in China are going for FD-SOI process |
11/2/2015 |
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FD-SOI is characterized by lower forward voltage and operating voltage requirements and also more power saving. Meanwhile, the operating cost of FD-SOI per circuit is lower than that of FinFET. However, the FD-SOI process has not been scaling down as well as FinFET.
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| What is to keep semi growing after the smartphone? |
11/2/2015 |
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The next phase isn’t about shrinking features every couple years or adding more functionality onto a chip. It’s about customizing chips for specific markets quickly, packaging them in new ways, and building all of this for a reasonable cost with low power and an overriding security architecture.
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| IBM researchers found formula for advance ReRAM |
10/30/2015 |
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IBM researchers said they overcame stubborn challenges in building computer memory out of carbon instead of silicon, which could allow for systems that are faster and sturdier than conventional flash memory or RAM.
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| Texas Instrument in negotiation to acquire Maxium |
10/30/2015 |
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The talks are continuing and may not result in a transaction. Maxim, based in San Jose, California, jumped 9.3 percent to $42.01 at the close in New York, giving the company a market value of about $11.9 billion.
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| $15 Smartphone aimed for India market |
10/29/2015 |
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DataWind, a Canadian manufacturer, and Indian service provider Reliance Communications (RCom) are collaborating on a smartphone for India that will cost 999 rupees (the equivalent of $15.
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| ST Micro to make offer for Fairchild Semiconductor |
10/29/2015 |
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The Geneva-based company has conducted analysis as it explores an offer for the U.S. chipmaker Fairchild Semiconductor, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing internal deliberations.
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| Qualcomm to put LTE with cameras |
10/28/2015 |
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Qualcomm has created a reference design for new home monitoring cameras, and at the core of them is its Snapdragon 618 processor.
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| Oracle rolls out new M7 Sparc processor |
10/28/2015 |
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A query accelerator engine performs specific lookup functions that are part of the data query process, which the company said can improve performance by up to 10 times.
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| Dell set up engineering team to help IoT customers |
10/27/2015 |
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Michael Dell said during a keynote speech. “[Machine-to-machine] communications, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, drones, [and] enormous amounts of sensors are the next trillion dollar opportunity for growth in connectivity. The ability of business to compete will be its ability to process and analyze that application.”
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| Insight - IC market dropped 1% |
10/27/2015 |
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The rare occurrence of significant strengthening of the US dollar versus most of the major currencies this year is expected to deflate the 2015 worldwide IC market growth rate by at least three full percentage points, IC Insights said.
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| Sony to acquire sensor business from Toshiba |
10/27/2015 |
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The Sony-Toshiba talks are at an advanced stage and the decision is likely to be announced soon, people familiar with the matter said. The deal amount is expected to be several tens of billions of yen, or several hundred million dollars.
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| What is WD getting by acquiring SanDisk? |
10/26/2015 |
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Share of the SSD application in the total NAND Flash demand worldwide is projected to expand from 30% in 2015 to 35% in 2016, becoming the most rapidly growing and highly contested end market for this memory technology
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