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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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| Intel includes Win 10 on Compute Stick |
8/13/2015 |
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The Intel Compute Stick is practically a Windows pico PC in an even more portable form. Powered by an Intel Atom Z3735F, with 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, it offers to get basic computing jobs done.
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| Semi wafer shipment up 2.5% |
8/13/2015 |
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Total silicon wafer area shipments were 2,702 million square inches during the most recent quarter, a 2.5% increase from the 2,637 million square inches shipped during the previous quarter resulting in a new quarterly volume shipment record.
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| U.S. Wind turbines are increasing |
8/13/2015 |
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Wind energy prices are at an all-time low and remain competitive with conventional power sources in many areas of the country.
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| Toshiba announced 16-die stack with TSV |
8/12/2015 |
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Traditional stacked NAND flash memories are connected together with wire bonding in a package, while TSV technology uses the vertical electrodes and vias to pass through the silicon dies for the connection. This enables high-speed data input and output, and reduces power consumption.
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