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| "Manufacturing Universities" funded |
3/20/2015 |
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U.S. Commerce Department to select 25 "Manufacturing Universities." Qualifying campuses would receive $20 million over four years to meet goals related to engineering, job training, manufacturing entrepreneurship and partnering with manufacturing companies.
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| Micro electronic backpack turn beetles into flying drones |
3/19/2015 |
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Today, real progress is being made towards controlling flying insects in particular, because of the tiny microprocessors, sensors and actuators that can be built into millimetre-sized gram-weight wireless "backpacks."
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| Wireless charging to advance |
3/19/2015 |
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With the Samsung Galaxy S6 joining the Qi club, today almost every single smartphone manufacturer (except Apple, Lenovo and Xiaomi) has a flagship device with Qi wireless charging built in. This includes LG, HTC, Google Nexus, Microsoft and Motorola.
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| Apple offers trade-in and data migration guide for Android users |
3/18/2015 |
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Apple has been making efforts in recent months to attract users switching from Android devices. In addition to this new trade-in program, the company has also created a detailed guide that walks Android users through moving data from their Android devices to the iPhone.
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| TSMC to have 70% of Apple A9 order this year |
3/18/2015 |
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The chips is expected to help raise TSMC's revenues by up to 3 or 4 percent in 2015. This will eventually lead to an increase in earnings per share this year and even in 2016 — by up to 12 percent and 7 percent, respectively.
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| Toyota to bring hydrogen car prices down |
3/18/2015 |
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The company expects the 2016 Toyota Mirai to debut in the U.S. later this year with a $57,500 price tag, besting previous forecasts of more than $60,000 and approaching half of the project's initial estimates that neared $100,000.
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| Nanya CEO predicts 4K TV to drive DRAM memories |
3/17/2015 |
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The global DRAM market will register sequential growth in the second quarter of 2015, buoyed by the rising penetration rate for Ultra HD TVs and set-top boxes (STBs), as well as demand created by car electronics applications.
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| 3D printer can build molecules for drug research |
3/17/2015 |
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The technology could enable scientists to print rare, hard-to-find or never-before-studied substances in labs. Burke believes the system could have its greatest impact on the ability to study the medicinal properties of those molecules.
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| Cypress/ Spansion merger closed |
3/17/2015 |
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"The new Cypress will be the No. 3 chip supplier worldwide of memories and MCUs to this business. No. 1 in SRAMs, No. 1 in NOR flash and No. 3 overall."
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| Cypress/Spansion merger will eliminate 1600 jobs |
3/16/2015 |
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CEO TJ Rodgers sent the memo to employees revealing the plan to cut 1,600 workers from across the globe. The affected individuals will have severances over the next three weeks. Around 50 per cent of the job cuts will be immediate, while the remaining ones will be asked to stay for a little longer.
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| Nanya to invest $1.27 billion on DDR4 DRAM |
3/16/2015 |
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¡°Only 20nm technology can be used to [cost-efficiently] make low-power DDR4 and DDR4 chips, which together will account for 80 percent of the world¡¯s DRAM market in 2018,¡±
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| Samsung to supply SSD for MacBook |
3/16/2015 |
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"Samsung Electronics recently agreed with Apple to provide SSDs using its latest three-dimensional (3D) V-NAND tech. The deal is estimated to be worth a "few billion dollars".
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| CEO gets $18.1M bonus after failing to meet target |
3/16/2015 |
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Kent, who is 62 and has been CEO since 2008, said he turned down the bonus because the company is making "difficult but necessary decisions" to improve its performance and that there was "still much work to be done."
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| Urine power technology lights up dark toilets |
3/13/2015 |
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Researchers from UK have created a urinal that converts urine into electricity. The team, in partnership with Oxfam, aims to bring this technology to refugee camps without electricity supply.
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| Intel trims forecast by a billion |
3/13/2015 |
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When Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) wound down support for its Windows XP operating system last April, Intel had expected a bounce in demand from small- and medium-sized businesses. But this has not happened.
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| Counterfeit Apple watch surfaces |
3/13/2015 |
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The fake watches mirror the design of the Apple Watch–ads on Chinese e-commerce websites appear to use photos of the genuine article–but they largely run on Android software.
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| Micron to expand Singapore Fab |
3/12/2015 |
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The approximate 255,000 square foot expansion will facilitate efficient implementation of 3D NAND production at the Singapore facility and give Micron the flexibility to gradually add incremental capacity in response to market requirements.
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| Emerging countries to latch onto Robotic Welding |
3/12/2015 |
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Frost & Sullivan expects the Asia Pacific region to see the largest growth in robotic welding, but analysts also expect increasing activity in Russia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
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| Shareholders wish Apple to buy Tesla |
3/12/2015 |
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“Quite frankly, I’d like to see you guys buy Tesla,” one shareholder told Cook during a question-and-answer session at the meeting in San Francisco.
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