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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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| New A9 processor on iPhone 6s outperforms |
9/28/2015 |
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Changes in the A9, including “possibly” a six-core GPU, or graphics processing unit, which handles image and multimedia tasks, among other things. The CPU, or central processing unit, on the A9 is still two cores — albeit faster cores based on the “new transistor architecture,” as indicated by Apple
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| IC market growth will be less than 2% |
9/28/2015 |
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“growth could even be down at 1% if Q3 is low, said Penn.” As the year unfolded, the 8.5% January forecast was quickly quashed. “Q1 was almost down 5% with most of the hit taken in March,”
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| EPA to fix rules that led to VW cheating |
9/28/2015 |
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The agency would add on-road testing to its regimen. VW's sophisticated software allowed its cars to pass tests in the lab and then spew pollution into the atmosphere while on the highway.
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| Caterpillar to cut 10,000 jobs |
9/28/2015 |
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The company has been hurt, in particular, by a slowdown in China's construction boom. That contributed to a 21 percent drop in Caterpillar's Asia-Pacific region sales during the second quarter. Caterpillar has been cutting costs to counter those problems.
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| TCL to employ Exynos processor |
9/25/2015 |
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TCL has a 3 to 4 percent share in the global smartphone market, and it is the eighth-largest smartphone maker as of the second quarter in terms of the overall mobile phone business.
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