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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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| Finger print sensor prices to approach $3 |
9/25/2015 |
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With competition becoming fierce, fingerprint sensor prices will likely approach US$3 in 2016, the sources indicated. The manufacturing cost for fingerprint sensors built using 8-inch, 0.18-micron process is less than US$2
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| Scientist to develope optical memories |
9/25/2015 |
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This will allow large quantities of data to be stored directly on an integrated optical chip, rather than being processed and stored electronically, as happens today.
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| China president Xi declares China Means Business |
9/25/2015 |
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"China will open up still wider to the outside world," Xi said through an interpreter. "Without reform, there will be no driving force; without opening up, there will be no progress. ... There will be more good news in the future."
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| iPhone component suppliers braced for a slow down |
9/24/2015 |
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But, Wall Street warns, the saturated iPhone market, recently devaluated yuan and unsteady China stock market don't bode well for chip companies that build for Apple, not to mention other chipmakers with heavy Chinese revenue exposure.
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| Apple to ship revolutionary car by 2019 |
9/24/2015 |
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Reports of the electric car initiative — codenamed "Titan" — surfaced early this year. Hundreds of Apple employees were initially working on the project; they were later joined by two top auto industry veterans.
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| Analyst said that Tesla can drive battery cost down to $38 per KWH |
9/23/2015 |
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The analyst in question is basing this prediction around an estimation that current Model S battery-pack costs hover somewhere around $250/kWh (kilowatt-hour) — and that the company “can bring the cost of the battery cells down to ~$88/kWh and the pack-level cost to ~$38/kWh.”
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| Manufacturers are less optimistic on state of economy |
9/23/2015 |
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The numbers aren't particularly surprising after six years of economic recovery. Softer demand is affecting survey participants, along with the strength of the dollar combined with weaker conditions abroad.
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| Server DRAM prices dropped |
9/22/2015 |
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enterprise servers have decelerated and even dropped due to a weak global economy and currency rate fluctuations, DRAMeXchange indicated. These factors, together with lackluster demand for all types of DRAM, are driving down server DRAM prices.
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| VW president apologize for flaking EPA test on diesel cars |
9/22/2015 |
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The EPA said Friday that VW used software that allowed its diesel cars to release fewer smog-causing pollutants during tests than in real-world driving conditions. The agency ordered VW to fix the cars at its own expense. VW also faces fines that could add up to billions of dollars.
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| China in talk to acquire Atmel |
9/21/2015 |
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Atmel closed at US$8.18 in New York trading on Wednesday, down from a high of US$10.44 in June, giving the San Jose, California-based company a market value of about US$3.4 billion.
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| UK's free BBC Micro bit computer hits delay |
9/21/2015 |
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Micro:Bit is an ARM-based embedded system designed by the BBC for use in computer education in the UK. The device will be given away free to every year 7 pupil in the UK.
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| Johnson Controls to part 3000 jobs |
9/21/2015 |
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The plans disclosed Friday would affect more than 2 percent of the Milwaukee company's workforce of 130,000. The company is trying to trim about $250 million in costs annually.
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