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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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| Upjill bids $22 on ISSI in the latest round |
6/23/2015 |
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ISSI announced that its special meeting of stockholders to consider approval of the Uphill acquisition and related matters will be adjourned to be held on June 25, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. local time,
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| TI is out shopping for companies |
6/23/2015 |
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Driving TI's appetite for M&A, according to the sources, is a desire to improve on its profitability and increase its share in the fragmented market for analog chips, which process signals such as sound, light and temperature and convert them into digital signals, and are central to smart phones and devices connected to the Internet
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| Google Sidewalk Labs to make better urban living |
6/22/2015 |
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"Sidewalk [Labs] will focus on improving city life for everyone by developing and incubating urban technologies to address issues like cost of living, efficient transportation, and energy usage," said Google CEO Larry Page.
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| JEDEC updates SSD standard to include 3D NAND |
6/22/2015 |
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In March, Micron and Intel said they would be second to Samsung with ultra-dense 3-D NAND flash chips that will sell as chips and in SSDs; Micron will pack 256 Gbits into vertical NAND chips using two-bit per MLC technology and 384 Gbits in TLC versions.
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| Cypress tops bid again on battle for ISSI |
6/22/2015 |
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Cypress increased its bid to $21.25 a share from $20.25, saying it was superior to an offer from Uphill Investment, according to a Cypress statement issued Thursday. The San Jose-based company's $707 million offer also includes a "ticking" fee that would add 10 cents a share for each additional quarter required to obtain regulatory approval for the deal.
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| Planar NAND will be scaled down to 10nm |
6/19/2015 |
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There is a consensus that planar NAND will end near the 10 nm node, that is, one or two generations into the future from the 15/16 nm NAND flash that we are now.
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| AMD put HBM memory on new Radeon card |
6/19/2015 |
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Radeon Fury X uses 4GB of HBM memory, delivering up to 512Gb/s of memory bandwidth, an increase of around 63 per cent over the previous generation Radeon R9 290X, principal analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights & Strategy wrote, to reach a 1.5x improvement in performance per watt.
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| Airbus ahead of Boeing on orders from Paris Show |
6/19/2015 |
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Airbus racked up $57 billion worth of business for 421 aircraft. The announcement of a provisional deal by European low-cost carrier Wizz Air for 110 A321neos — worth more than $12.5 billion at list prices — put the Toulouse, France-based plane maker over the top Thursday against Boeing in financial terms.
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| Amazon asked for fair and speedy Drone regulations |
6/19/2015 |
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FAA Deputy Administrator Michael Whitaker told the House panel that although more research is needed before the agency authorizes the widespread use of commercial drones, its regulations should be finalized within a year.
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| China to invest $96 billion in semiconductors |
6/18/2015 |
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China aims to have 50% of its domestic demand for semiconductors produced locally, the sources noted. The target percentage does not take into account chips made at the plants of foreign companies such as Samsung' NAND flash wafer plant in Xian and SK Hynix' DRAM fab in Wuxi.
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| Spectacular LED light show at Taylor Swift concert |
6/18/2015 |
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Each audiance was given a spiffy PixMob LED wristband with integrated RFID chip that makes everyone feel a part of the show. It's a technology that rouses all to wave their wrists in the air, as if they really care. And to literally get a glow on.
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| Airbus race to build satelite internet system |
6/18/2015 |
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Airbus will construct about 900 satellites for OneWeb, a privately owned project funded by billionaire Richard Branson and housed in the U.K.'s Channel Islands. About 700 will be launched into space beginning in 2018 to beam high-speed Internet access back to underserved populations.
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| Researcher talks about semiconductors in healthcare industry |
6/17/2015 |
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Toumazou has developed an approach to healthcare technology called U+ Life which he says can provide personalised healthcare for early detection, point of care diagnostics and therapeutics to help tackle chronic disease in a consumer-oriented way.
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