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| Silicon Motion moving forward with SSD and eMMC |
4/29/2015 |
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Silicon Motion posted net sales of US$80.6 million in the first quarter, up slightly from US$80.5 million in the fourth quarter, bucking seasonal trends. Gross margin for the quarter stayed high at 52%, while net profits came to US$16.6 million.
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| Amazon creates new B2B services |
4/29/2015 |
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Amazon Business has been designed to provide easy access to hundreds of millions of products – everything from IT and lab equipment to education and food service supplies – as well as business-only selection and pricing.
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| Microsoft to end Windows Server 2003 support this summer |
4/29/2015 |
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CNNMoney reported that 21 percent of all servers are still running Windows Server 2003, while 97 percent of data centers still use the software on a computer somewhere in the building. That means there is the potential for millions of computer servers to be hacking targets.
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| Aircraft orders up |
4/28/2015 |
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Orders to factories for durable goods rebounded 4 percent in March after a 1.4 percent decline in February, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The result was led by a big jump in demand for commercial aircraft.
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| Rumor that Nokia is getting back into phone business |
4/28/2015 |
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The Finnish company is prohibited from selling Nokia phones through the end of this year under the terms of its 2014 deal with Microsoft, which absorbed its phone business to the tune of more than $7 billion.
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| Microwave relay endures 10 million cycles |
4/24/2015 |
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The electromechanical relay switches cover ultra-broadband and millimeter-wave frequencies up to 40GHz. The RF switches perform up to two to 10 million life cycles, making them suitable for applications in defence and commercial aviation, radar, wireless communications, satellite communications, test and measurement.
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| SK Hynix profit rides on Apple's success |
4/24/2015 |
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SK Hynix—which is Apple's second largest chip supplier—is one of the world's largest makers of memory chips used for personal computers, servers and mobile devices.
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| Pentagon lays out cyberwarfare as a weapon |
4/24/2015 |
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The military must have cyber capabilities that can "achieve key security objectives with precision, and to minimize loss of life and destruction of property.
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| New discovery can triple battery energy storage |
4/23/2015 |
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"Iron fluoride has the potential to triple the amount of energy a conventional lithium-ion battery can store," explained Song Jin, a UW–Madison professor of chemistry and Wisconsin Energy Institute affiliate. "However, we have yet to tap its true potential."
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| Analyst predicts Intel to use quantum well technology with 10nm process |
4/23/2015 |
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The new transistor structures will use two new materials – indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) for n-type transistors and strained germanium for p-type devices. If correct, Intel could gain a capability as early as 2016 to produce 10nm transistors as much as 200 millivolts lower in power consumption than the rest of the industry.
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| American Chamber of Commerce warn of automobile copying in China |
4/23/2015 |
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The American Chamber of Commerce in China said in its annual white paper that its members wanted to see the government apply the rule of law and more fairly enforce business regulations. The report also called for better enforcement of intellectual property rights.
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| Energy Department report favors grid upgrade |
4/23/2015 |
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The report called for more than $15 billion in spending over the next decade to modernize the electrical grid, improve aging pipelines and other structures and update the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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| 4K display market to grow in 2015 |
4/22/2015 |
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In 2015, 4K displays are coming to all major applications and will boost 4K revenue 94 per cent YoY, reaching almost $18 billion in 2015.
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| American business feeling road blocks in China |
4/22/2015 |
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Over the past year, foreign companies operating in China have faced challenges ranging from anti-monopoly investigations to proposed rules requiring foreign tech companies to hand over proprietary software source codes.
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| ARM offers porfolio powered by energy harvesting |
4/21/2015 |
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ARM is keen to make the Cordio solutions efficient enough to be powered using energy harvesting and sees SMD's sub-one volt Bluetooth radio IP as a vital ingredient in the design armoury.
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