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| Semi company to setup R&D in Morocco |
8/21/2015 |
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“After considering several European locations, Morocco delivered both on the quality of the engineering resources and the quality of the facilities and communications infrastructure,”
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| China semi companies are expanding R&D in Taiwan |
8/21/2015 |
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Engineers and high-ranking staff from major Taiwan-based IC design houses are all being targeted by China's IC design companies, which are looking to shorten their learning curve and improve their product competitiveness.
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| Survey show manufacturers profit from using cloud |
8/21/2015 |
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The 2015 Small Business Cloud Barometer, compiled by business software provider Exact and fellow Dutch company Pb7 Research, found that revenue growth increased by 25 percent and profits more than doubled compared to businesses that did not use the Cloud.
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| Smart meter chip market blooms |
8/20/2015 |
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Meters are evolving from those that merely register end-user usage, into machines that can be queried for on-demand data, upgraded remotely, shut off in case of emergency or non-payment and used for variable pricing.
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| 2013 Ethiopian Airlines 787 fire cause found |
8/20/2015 |
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In a report released Wednesday that crossed and trapped wires under the battery compartment created a short circuit on the Ethiopian Airlines-operated plane parked at London's Heathrow Airport on July 12, 2013.
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| Google mapping can help you plan solar installations |
8/20/2015 |
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Once supplied with a user's address, the site provides user-specific data on the amount of usable sunlight that hits the roof per year, which parts of the house receive the most sunlight, the amount of space available on the home for solar panels, and the amount of money that could be saved by switching to solar.
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| Microsoft is working on a comeback high-end mobile |
8/19/2015 |
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Microsoft will launch the device with Windows 10 Mobile, but there were some rumors that the company was also trying to make it possible for the phone to run Win32 apps. This way, the “productivity on the go” concept would be pushed to a completely new level.
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| Mobile DRAM market grew 7.7% |
8/19/2015 |
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The global mobile DRAM market came to US$3.85 billion in the April-June period, up 7.7 percent on-quarter.
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| Rambus to sell its own brand DDR4 accelerator chips |
8/18/2015 |
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The first in a family of R+ chips, the RB26 is an enhanced memory module chipset designed to accelerate data-intensive applications, the company said. Rambus’ plan is to sell the chips to existing memory companies such as Hynix, Micron and Samsung.
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| Frisker electrical vehical due to return |
8/18/2015 |
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The report said that new Fisker plug-in hybrid cars could go on sale as early as mid-2016. Fisker in 2009 received a $529 million loan commitment from the U.S. Department of Energy, and its Karma plug-in hybrid model sold well despite the $100,000 price tag.
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| BitMicro provides 8TB Flash Storage |
8/17/2015 |
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The company’s ASICs reduce the overhead tax on servers for managing SSDs from about 12 percent on average down to one percent. The Talino architecture also does not require any on-board fans.
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| Consumer price index up 0.2% |
8/17/2015 |
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The Federal Reserve has said that it needs to feel "reasonably confident" that inflation will move back to its 2 percent goal before beginning to raise interest rates from a record low near zero,
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| Lenovo caught installing spyware onto PCs |
8/17/2015 |
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The company was in hot water after reportedly shipping laptops with pre-installed software called "Superfish" that could let hackers steal passwords or other sensitive information when users accessed the web to shop, pay bills or check email.
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| Toshiba is developing QLC level NAND |
8/14/2015 |
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Many of today’s solid state drives use Triple Level Cell (TLC). This kind of flash can store 3 bits of data per cell. QLC, as the name implies, Toshiba’s technology boosts that to 4 bits per cell.
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| Qualcomm announce significant upgrade in Snapdragon 820 |
8/14/2015 |
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“We’re significantly enhancing the visual processing capabilities of Snapdragon to support next-generation user experiences related to computational photography, computer vision, virtual reality and photo-realistic graphics on mobile devices, all while maximizing battery life,”
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| New water bottle is made out of paper |
8/14/2015 |
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The manufacturing process saves both energy and water and enables a lower carbon footprint. The bottles can also be recycled into paper products or green building materials.
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