|
 |
|
| Dall offer $67B to buy EMC |
10/13/2015 |
|
The deal will combine EMC’s dominance in devices that store data with closely held Dell’s No. 2 position in servers, the powerful machines that help companies handle big computing challenges.
|
|
|
| New discovery can lead to more secure magnetic memories |
10/12/2015 |
|
Under extreme conditions, certain magnetic materials can develop spots where the moments curve and twist, forming a ring-like configuration. These unusual objects possess an elasticity that protects them from outside influence, meaning the data they store would not be corrupted easily, even by stray magnetic fields or physical defects within the material.
|
|
|
| BlackBerry's John Chen has a lot of faith on upcoming "Priv" |
10/9/2015 |
|
BlackBerry hopes to change that with the Priv, which will be launched on the market by the end of the year. John Chen has confirmed that his company is working directly with carriers in the US and the rest of the world to make the Priv available through their official retail channels.
|
|
|
| Micron disclosed more details on XPoint Memory |
10/9/2015 |
|
It isn't meant to fully replace either DRAM or NAND flash. But it does promise to combine many of their best features. The primary target for 3D XPoint is "massive in-memory databases," but it could be used in any application that requires a large pool of high-performance memory.
|
|
|
| Volkswagen AG goes into belt-tightening stage |
10/8/2015 |
|
Workers at Volkswagen's German factories at the very least face a possible reduction in their profit-sharing checks. They received 5,900 euro bonuses for 2014, when the company made net profit of 10.8 billion euros.
|
|
|
| Boeing forms new lab to study analytics |
10/8/2015 |
|
Boeing Co. hopes that a new lab hosted by Carnegie Mellon University will enable analytics and artificial intelligence to dramatically improve aircraft maintenance and safety.
|
|
|
| Atom-thin transistor operates down to 0.1V |
10/7/2015 |
|
The new device, which is made from a 2D semiconducting crystal and a bulk germanium substrate, can be switched on at just 0.1 V. It could be used in ultradense and lower-power integrated circuits and to make ultrasensitive bio- and gas sensors.
|
|
|
| Skyworks to acquire PMC-Sierra |
10/7/2015 |
|
“With our acquisition of PMC, Skyworks will be uniquely positioned to capitalize on the explosive demand for high performance solutions that seamlessly connect, transport and store Big Data,”
|
|
|
| Cybrcrime is costing companies |
10/7/2015 |
|
A sixth-annual study by the Ponemon Institute pegged the average annual cost of cybercrime per large U.S. company at $15.4 million. That's up 19 percent from $12.7 million a year ago.
|
|
|
| Pacific Rim countries reached trade deal |
10/7/2015 |
|
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is designed to encourage trade between the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, the countries account for 40 percent of world economic output.
|
|
|
| Price of memory has fallen to historic lows |
10/6/2015 |
|
Windows-based systems haven’t been selling as well. Smartphone and server shipments are predicted to tumble over the next year too, leading to price cuts between different manufacturers that have made it difficult for anyone to make much money from memory.
|
|
|
| Daimler tested autonomous driving truck |
10/6/2015 |
|
The system utilises a front radar, a stereo camera and several "usual suspects" among the variety of driver assistance systems such as adaptive cruise control.
|
|
|
| Integrating HBM stack with ASIC |
10/5/2015 |
|
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.
|
|
|
|
