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| NXP works with China on transit and chip payments |
2/25/2015 |
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NXP, along with Sony (NYSE:SNE), invented near field communication technology in 2002. NFC chips can enable secure contactless transactions, so consumers can use smartphones or "smart cards" to pay for items, including EMV — EuroPay, MasterCard, Visa — chip-payment cards.
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| Macronix wants to be your NOR flash supplier |
2/25/2015 |
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Macronix ranked as the second largest NOR flash supplier globally with a 19% share in the second quarter of 2014. However, our market share in the low-density NOR flash has reached 30%, and the ratio for the high-density models is also rising. We aim to reach a 30% share for the entire NOR flash market within three years.
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| Would Walmart pay raise affect our paycheck? |
2/25/2015 |
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Economists, however, largely said the announcement reflects a tightening labor market rather than any widespread recognition that wages in the retail sector should be raised.
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| Oil refineries strike intensified |
2/24/2015 |
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The expanded strike means one-fifth of the nation's overall refining capacity has been impacted by the labor dispute between the USW and a coalition of oil companies. Overall, 30,000 USW members work in 63 refineries, comprising about two-thirds of the nation's capacity.
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| FAA proposed rules for drones |
2/24/2015 |
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The FAA's proposed rules stipulating operational limits, operator certification and aircraft requirements are draft regulations that must still undergo public and federal review before official adoption. They're not expected to take effect until 2017 at the earliest.
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| Smart lighting market to grow |
2/24/2015 |
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The latest generation of smart lighting emphasises colour; some systems allow users to store pre-set colour scenes. Expect to see the incorporation of more effective daylight harvesting into smart lighting systems as well as colour-tuning features designed specifically to improve health, mood and job performance.
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| US allows export of key component for Patriot missile |
2/23/2015 |
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Raytheon had demonstrated the new GaN-based sensors at its test facility in New Hampshire in December for a U.S. government group and a high-level German delegation. The testing showed the sensors could help the Patriot system track ballistic missiles and other targets outside its current range.
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| Strong dollar to inrease trade deficit |
2/23/2015 |
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Dan Meckstroth, vice president and chief economist of the Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, said Thursday the group expects the trade deficit to grow from $754 billion in 2014 to about $840 billion this year, and again to about $880 billion in 2016.
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| Innovative solar cells created out of shrimp shells |
2/23/2015 |
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They used the materials chitin and chitosan found in the shells that are abundant and significantly cheaper to produce than the more costly metals such as ruthenium, which is similar to platinum, that are used in making nanostructured solar-cells.
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| Violin annouced all flash storage system |
2/20/2015 |
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The performance improvements deliver efficiencies that can completely change the competitive dynamics of most industries by removing the latency and bottlenecks created in the data center by legacy disk
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| Apple's EV car rumor not so pleased to some ears |
2/20/2015 |
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As reported earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal states that Apple has hundreds of employees working on an electric car project — codenamed “Titan” — that will reportedly resemble a minivan and would be branded as an Apple product.
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| Solar systems are moving into homes |
2/20/2015 |
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Instead of power produced and distributed solely by large utilities, "open energy systems" allow smaller providers, a single home, neighbourhood or town, to produce power that they then use, often from renewable sources such as wind and solar.
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| Emerging memories will take hold by 2020 |
2/20/2015 |
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Emerging NVM will expand from $65 million in 2014 to $7 billion by 2020, a rise of more than 118 per cent per year. However, this business will represent less than 10 per cent of the total 2020 memory market, so there's still a long way to go before the newcomers replace today's NAND flash and DRAM chips.
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| Intel to provide Win 8.1 PC on a USB size stick |
2/19/2015 |
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Two versions will be offered. The first, priced at US$149, comes with Windows 8.1, 32GB of storage and 2GB of RAM. The second, to sell for US$99, has Linux, 8GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. Both will have WiFi (802.11 b/n/g) and Bluetooth (4.0) connectivity, as well as a microSD slot for additional storage.
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| DRAM bit growth ties to industry landscape |
2/19/2015 |
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Microsoft Windows operating systems do not require more system memory, as was the case in the previous two decades, IC Insights indicated. By 2016, IC Insights forecasts that portable personal computing systems (i.e., tablet PCs) will surpass shipments of desktops and notebooks, which are often sold with 6GB or more of DRAM today.
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| Manufacturing increased in January |
2/19/2015 |
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Analysts had predicted slightly higher growth rates for January, though observers say the numbers show manufacturing growth continues, albeit slowly, due to domestic demand.
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| Qualcomm to drive 2K display handsets |
2/18/2015 |
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“You will see more 2K displays on handsets soon. China as a market tends to be very specs driven so there are tonnes of 2K phones available there already. We think you’re going to see a lot more 2K displays.”
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| Startup dreams big starting from a doorbell concept |
2/18/2015 |
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Co-Founder Andrew Thomas hopes Skybell will morph into a “really intelligent sensor at your front door that can tell your whole smart home hub what to do” – from turning on lights when someone approaches the door, to voice and facial recognition and response.
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| Mobile DRAM shipments up |
2/18/2015 |
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"Although mobile memory's average selling price fell slightly by 5% in the fourth quarter, bit shipment volume rose due to sustained smartphone demand growth driven by iPhone 6/6 Plus. This in turn contributed to the continuing growth of the mobile DRAM revenue worldwide."
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| Nvidia pushing towards game streaming |
2/17/2015 |
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It’s very likely that we’ll actually move into a computing paradigm where most of the actual computing is done on super-powerful servers, with our own personal devices acting much more as individual terminals whereby we merely access the results of the processing done elsewhere. This has long been predicted, but technology is getting to the point now.
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