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| Holiday drivers beware! |
7/1/2015 |
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NSC estimates 409 deaths and 49,500 injuries requiring medical attention will occur on our nation's roadways this Fourth of July holiday weekend. This is the highest predicted number the Council has released for a three-day Independence Day holiday since 2008.
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| IoT manufacturer should capture after service revenue |
7/1/2015 |
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"We expect to see a considerable rise in connected service offerings in the coming years, moving from remote monitoring to predictive and eventually prescriptive services that keep products up and running with minimal interruption,"
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| Graphene coating doubles storage on Lithium batteries |
6/30/2015 |
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Silicon carbide-free graphene coating allows the full cell to reach volumetric energy densities of 972 and 700 Wh l-1 at first and 200th cycle, respectively, 1.8 and 1.5 times higher than those of current commercial lithium-ion batteries
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| Hyundai agrees with Toyota on hydrogen car future |
6/30/2015 |
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Fuel cell cars represent a bigger opportunity than electric cars because competition is less fierce. Hydrogen-powered cars also give more flexibility to designers. They can be scaled to big vehicles such as buses as well as small cars.
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| UK firm to provide graphene production chamber |
6/29/2015 |
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This so-called nanoCVD system can grow graphene 100 times faster than conventional CVD systems, cuts costs by 99 percent, and produces graphene boasting enhanced electronic qualities.
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| Cypress: "Our final bid for ISSI is $22.60" |
6/26/2015 |
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the latest bid fell short of Chinese consortium Uphill Investment Co's increased offer of $23 per share. Cypress said late on Wednesday its fresh offer will be its "best and final" for Integrated Silicon.
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| Cree to restructure LED business unit |
6/26/2015 |
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The Durham, North Carolina-based company recalled about 700,000 lamps this month due to potential burn hazards after it received four reports of lamps overheating and melting.
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| U.S. learning to embrace rather than confront with China |
6/26/2015 |
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Secretary Kerry said there are acceptable international norms of behavior. "We need to work together in order to define those, and then live by them. I think that message was clearly delivered and received and hopefully that work will begin in earnest very, very quickly," he told reporters.
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| Rumor Qualcomm to buy AMD |
6/25/2015 |
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Buying AMD would give Qualcomm not only access to an impressive portfolio of customers and some of the best engineers in the world, but also the foothold it wants in servers.
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| Flight attendants sue Boeing for toxic fumes on board |
6/25/2015 |
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The women were working for Alaska Airlines when they say that all four became sick and two passed out during a Boston-to-San Diego flight. The one-year-old Boeing 737 jet made an emergency landing in Chicago, and all four were taken to hospitals, according to the lawsuit.
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| DOD to invest in "Hoverbike" |
6/25/2015 |
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The DoD announced a deal with Malloy to develop and build the Hoverbike in the States for the U.S. military. The DoD is interested in the vehicle due to its ability to carry out many of the jobs a helicopter can, but without the problems associated with helicopter design.
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| Nvidia to show chip with 2.5D stack |
6/24/2015 |
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At GTC this year and the co-located IBM Open Power Summit, Nvidia said Volta is now a 2017 chip and another entry to the road map, Pascal, would be the first of its chips to use a 2.5-D approach in 2016.
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| Semi product Book-To-Build retreats to 0.99 |
6/24/2015 |
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The book-to-bill ratio in the North American semiconductor industry last month fell to 0.99 from April’s 1.04, dropping for the second consecutive month and shrinking below 1 for the first time this year.
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| Researcher found way to reduce current on PRAM |
6/23/2015 |
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BCP is the mixture of two different polymer materials, which can easily create self-ordered arrays of sub-20nm features through simple spin-coating and plasma treatments. BCP silica nanostructures successfully lowered the contact area by localising the volume change of phase-change materials and thus resulted in significant power reduction.
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| Teardown on AMD game machine found Intel i7 processor |
6/23/2015 |
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A teardown of the Project Quantum system reveals that the AMD-endorsed machine is built around Intel's Z97 Express platform, an ASRock Z97E-ITX/ac motherboard, to be precise, and the Intel Core i7-4790K 'Devil's Canyon' part.
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