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| More companies plan to hire |
12/3/2014 |
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Still, hiring has been healthy this year, giving more Americans paychecks to spend. Employers have added an average of 229,000 jobs a month this year, up from 194,000 in 2013.
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| Samsung chip sales grown 15.6% |
12/2/2014 |
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IHS Technologies said Samsung's performance comes as worldwide demand for mobile devices have surged this year, which has fueled demand for mobile DRAMs, NAND flash memory and image sensors.
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| Weeled robots give Amazon workers a break |
12/2/2014 |
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Amazon says it processed orders for 36.8 million items on the Monday after Thanksgiving last year, and it's expecting "Cyber Monday" to be even busier this year.
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| Smart phone controlled smart planting system |
12/2/2014 |
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The plants will grow in small containers called ROOT Pods that hold your plants' roots in place. The app will sync with your ROOT so you receive notifications and alerts when your ROOT needs water or nutrients.
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| Cypress moving to acquire Spansion for $4 Billion |
12/2/2014 |
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Once completed, the deal would create an expanded embedded chip vendor with $2 billion in annual revenues, half in mainly NOR flash and SRAM memory with the rest split between microcontrollers and analogue parts.
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| Micron: IoT needs more Multi-Package-Memory chips |
12/1/2014 |
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The form factor challenges of M2M designs are supporting a trend in multi-chip memory packages, where non-volatile memory (such as NAND or parallel NOR flash) is combined with a RAM (such as low-power DRAM or pseudo-SRAM/PSRAM) in a single package.
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| Smart machines to replace human workers |
12/1/2014 |
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“Around 47 percent of total U.S. employment is in the high-risk category... jobs we expect could be automated relatively soon, perhaps over the next decade or two.”
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| $1.7 capital fund to invest in China semiconductors |
11/28/2014 |
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The fund enables SummitView to acquire global semiconductor design companies and help them expand their market share in China by increasing sales, marketing activities, support and engineering, while nurturing an atmosphere of international cooperation.
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| Cruise ships use new technology to enhance WiFi |
11/26/2014 |
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Cruise company, Carnival Corporation & plc, recently announced a "hybrid" approach using multiple access technologies and algorithms to switch among in-port Wi-Fi, long-range Wi-Fi and satellites.
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| Samsung recieved license to expand in Vietnam |
11/26/2014 |
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has secured a license to invest $3 billion to expand its production in northern Vietnam, the Vietnamese government said.
The license was awarded on Nov. 17 in Thai Nguyen province, where Samsung Electronics has been operating a $2 billion smartphone plant, the government said in a statement issued late on Monday, without giving further details of the project.
Samsung Electronics has said it plans to invest up to $3 billion for its handset business in Vietnam as part of its strategy to cut costs and better compete with Chinese rivals.
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| 3D printed molecular LED opens up possiblities |
11/25/2014 |
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The researchers believe that the current technology could be used to make smart contact lenses with built-in displays, or bionic implants that use lights to stimulate nerves.
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| Automobile manufacturers concern about hackers |
11/25/2014 |
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Hackers worked on behalf of the U.S. military, which along with the auto industry is scrambling to fortify the cyber defenses of commercially available cars before criminals and even terrorists penetrate them.
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| Users are demanding HD display on small devices |
11/25/2014 |
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Bitmap displays are no longer able to meet the evolving challenges. For example, connected devices must deal with a wider range of unpredictable text and more font sizes, which makes it much harder to pre-configure a sufficient range of bitmaps to deal with all situations.
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| Defining a Smart Home |
11/24/2014 |
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The dream of the smart home is still being shaped. Ironically, though many of us have chosen to live apart from our extended families and communities, we have begun to desire products and features that are always connected to each other and to us.
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| South Korea lags on networking R & D |
11/24/2014 |
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The government must then encourage and lead local hardware-based software development and assist small firms in accumulating technologies.
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