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| U.S. durable good orders down |
5/27/2015 |
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U.S. factories have been struggling with weak exports, which have been clipped by a big rise in the value of the dollar. A stronger dollar makes U.S. exports more expensive in overseas markets. It also lowers the cost of imported goods, making them more attractive for American consumers.
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| Samsung to ramp 10nm production next year |
5/26/2015 |
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Samsung said the process node will be in full production by the end of 2016, about the same time as its rival TSMC. The Samsung 10nm process offers “significant power, area, and performance advantages”
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| Business concern about rising medical cost |
5/26/2015 |
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Sixty percent of 1,210 business risk managers included in the survey said they worried about medical cost inflation. Twenty-seven percent of respondents indicated they worried about the issue "a great deal," also the highest rate in the poll.
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| iPhone 6 brought up by first time Apple phone users |
5/26/2015 |
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Only 20 percent of the existing iPhone user base has upgraded to iPhone 6 and 6 Plus. About 50 percent of iPhone 6 / 6 Plus customers are first-time iPhone users who switched from other brands, mostly Android.
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| Liquid metal antenna is tunable |
5/26/2015 |
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"Using a liquid metal, such as eutectic gallium and indium, that can change its shape allows us to modify antenna properties more dramatically than is possible with a fixed conductor,"
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| BlackBerry to buyback 2.6% outstanding shares |
5/22/2015 |
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BlackBerry said it would buy the shares, representing about 2.6 percent of its outstanding public float, over the Nasdaq Stock Market or on the Toronto Stock Exchange, subject to approval.
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| IBM to help China build IT infrustructures |
5/22/2015 |
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IBM's effort to incorporate its technology into Chinese products comes at a time when the company is changing course, moving away from low-profit segments of its business such as cash registers, semiconductors and low-end servers in favour of high-value solutions such as security software and cloud services.
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| AMD to use HBM memories on next-gen graphics card |
5/21/2015 |
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HBM is a stacked DRAM approach that promises a major boost in bandwidth (performance), along with a reduction in circuit board area real estate consumption as well as significantly lower power consumption.
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| It is possible to skip cell towers |
5/21/2015 |
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“LTE Direct is a new and innovative device-to-device technology that enables discovering thousands of devices and their services in the proximity of [approximately]500m. LTE Direct uses licensed spectrum, which, in turn, would allow operators to use LTE Direct as a new way to provide apps and services to users.
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| Ferro memory to grow compound 16.4% in coming years |
5/20/2015 |
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FRAM works internally like DRAM, has the high speed of SRAM and the non-volatility of flash memory. When the first successful circuits were built in the 1980s, it was thought their universal function would allow them to replace DRAM, SRAM and EEPROM in many applications.
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| Consumer Report found malfunctions on their Tesla test car |
5/20/2015 |
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After we’d owned the P85 D for a mere 27 days, with just over 2,300 miles on the odometer, the driver-side door handle failed. Consumer Reports also indicated that the car won’t stay in “Drive” either, perhaps misinterpreting that the door is open due to the door handle issue.
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| Fast recovery diode for efficient inverters |
5/19/2015 |
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The devices are designed for use as anti-parallel diodes in combination with Vishay's new Trench insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs). Together, the Ultrafast diodes and IGBTs provide low EMI and plug-and-play reliability for single- and three-phase inverters, as well as full- and half-bridge DC/DC converters.
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| Photorelay has high frequency response for ATE |
5/19/2015 |
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The lineup includes TLP3442, which realises the industry's lowest off-state capacitance (COFF), 0.3pF (typ.) and TLP3431, which is suited for high-frequency signal transmission with a low on-state resistance (RON) of 0.8 ohm.
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| Apple Watch facing some problems |
5/19/2015 |
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The small number of wearables trickling out to end-users can be blamed on trouble with the taptic engine. Apple also didn't notice at least one issue plaguing the Watch before it reached consumers: Incompatibility with ink.
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| Avago out shopping for companies |
5/18/2015 |
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Potential targets including Xilinx Inc, Renesas Electronics Corp and Maxim Integrated Products Inc, according to people familiar with the matter. Avago is working with investment banks and could spend more than $10 billion on a potential takeover.
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