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| Nanya to invest $1.27 billion on DDR4 DRAM |
3/16/2015 |
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¡°Only 20nm technology can be used to [cost-efficiently] make low-power DDR4 and DDR4 chips, which together will account for 80 percent of the world¡¯s DRAM market in 2018,¡±
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| Samsung to supply SSD for MacBook |
3/16/2015 |
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"Samsung Electronics recently agreed with Apple to provide SSDs using its latest three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND tech. The deal is estimated to be worth a "few billion dollars".
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| CEO gets $18.1M bonus after failing to meet target |
3/16/2015 |
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Kent, who is 62 and has been CEO since 2008, said he turned down the bonus because the company is making "difficult but necessary decisions" to improve its performance and that there was "still much work to be done."
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| Urine power technology lights up dark toilets |
3/13/2015 |
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Researchers from UK have created a urinal that converts urine into electricity. The team, in partnership with Oxfam, aims to bring this technology to refugee camps without electricity supply.
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| Intel trims forecast by a billion |
3/13/2015 |
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When Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) wound down support for its Windows XP operating system last April, Intel had expected a bounce in demand from small- and medium-sized businesses. But this has not happened.
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| Counterfeit Apple watch surfaces |
3/13/2015 |
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The fake watches mirror the design of the Apple Watch–ads on Chinese e-commerce websites appear to use photos of the genuine article–but they largely run on Android software.
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| Micron to expand Singapore Fab |
3/12/2015 |
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The approximate 255,000 square foot expansion will facilitate efficient implementation of 3D NAND production at the Singapore facility and give Micron the flexibility to gradually add incremental capacity in response to market requirements.
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| Emerging countries to latch onto Robotic Welding |
3/12/2015 |
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Frost & Sullivan expects the Asia Pacific region to see the largest growth in robotic welding, but analysts also expect increasing activity in Russia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
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| Shareholders wish Apple to buy Tesla |
3/12/2015 |
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“Quite frankly, I’d like to see you guys buy Tesla,” one shareholder told Cook during a question-and-answer session at the meeting in San Francisco.
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| EU Commissioner sets vision on 5G |
3/11/2015 |
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It is expected that, by 2020, 5G will manage the massive growth of communication and wireless technologies used by humans and machines.
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| Apple announced upgraded MacBooks |
3/11/2015 |
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Select Mac computers will now feature the latest generation of Intel processors, according to announcements made by Apple at the company's March 9 press event in San Francisco.
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| Intel Broadwell chip can drive robots also |
3/11/2015 |
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The chip has features that could benefit robots, such as on-chip security to protect them from hackers. It also has high-reliability features that are increasingly in demand where failure isn’t an option.
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| General Motors announce $ 5B buy back |
3/10/2015 |
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The share repurchase will begin immediately and finish before the end of 2016. Investors appeared to like the announcement. GM shares rose $1.01, or 2.7 percent, to $37.85 in premarket trading Monday.
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| Six mobile trends observed at Basalona |
3/10/2015 |
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"What is clear to us is that security and interoperability together with software and system portability lie at the heart of bringing these latest visions of a connected world to life."
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| Apple to deliver Watch on April 24 |
3/10/2015 |
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There will be three cases—a custom aluminium alloy for the entry level sport models, stainless steel for a $549 to $1,000 midrange and 18-karat gold for models that start at $10,000.
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| China SMIC to gear up 28nm production |
3/9/2015 |
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SMIC has made massive equipment purchases for installing 28nm production lines, according to sources in the semiconductor industry. The China-based IC foundry is expected to enter mass shipments for 28nm chips in the second half of 2015.
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| Intel declares 3DIC as the way to go |
3/9/2015 |
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Monolithic 3D, is the lowest cost path for future scaling! Samsung’s 3D NAND is an early example of monolithic 3D enabled scaling, being driven primarily by the push to increase bit capacity while reducing the cost per bit.
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| China machinery growth slows |
3/9/2015 |
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"With the latest machinery production numbers showing a major deceleration, everyone now must accept that the Chinese economy is shifting to slower growth."
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| Nidia's Titan X, the most powerful GPU card ever |
3/6/2015 |
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So what’s inside the Titan X? Eight billion transistors, making it the “most advanced GPU the world has ever seen,” Huang said. It will contain a massive 12GB frame buffer. And that’s about it:
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| LG cut dependence on Qualcomm AP |
3/6/2015 |
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"Producing our own mobile application chips is very important. As LG Electronics has been consistent in developing these, we plan to gradually incorporate into our new models," Cho Juno said in a news conference.
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