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| AMD to layoff 700 |
10/17/2014 |
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The layoffs are part of the company's $70 million restructuring effort to save about $94 million in the next 15 months.
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| Single LED generates 1400 lumens |
10/16/2014 |
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single LED can be used to provide a complete low beam, several LED chips have always been needed in the past depending on the design and the type of LEDs used.
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| Samsung insist on no chip price war next year |
10/15/2014 |
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Samsung's plan to invest 15.6 trillion won ($14.67 billion) in a new South Korea chip plant stoked concerns about the industry's profit outlook. Some investors worry that the firm could ramp up supply and undercut prices to squeeze rivals like SK Hynix Inc and Micron Technology Inc.
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| Wearable chip market will be $9 billion by 2019 |
10/15/2014 |
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The market will exhibit a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 30 per cent between 2015 and 2019, which would see chip market values of about $3.2 billion in 2015, followed by $4.1 billion, $5.3 billion and $6.9 billion in 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively.
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| Superfast charging battery unvailed |
10/15/2014 |
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In the NTU's battery, the traditional graphite used for the anode in lithium-ion batteries is replaced with a new gel made from titanium dioxide. Titanium dioxide is an abundant, cheap and safe material found in soil.
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| New HyperRAM to use Spansion's HyperBus interface |
10/14/2014 |
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By combining HyperFlash and HyperRAM components on a single bus, chipset providers can reduce controller pincount, accommodate smaller packages, simplify PCB designs, and potentially replace or reduce DRAM.
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| Plessey gets into LED home lighting race |
10/14/2014 |
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Plessey Semiconductors, a British manufacturer, is vying to be the first company to make energy-efficient LEDs for home lighting at a price that consumers will pay, and they're using a technology developed by Cambridge researchers.
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| Allwinner announced octa-core for highend gamers |
10/14/2014 |
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Multimedia-wise, the SoC offers support for multi-format 1080p@60fps video processing, as well as H.265/HEVC format. Additionally, it has an integrated 8M image signal processor, and boasts Allwinner's latest SmartColor technology to deliver higher image quality and better visual effects.
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| GE formed major alliance on IoT development |
10/13/2014 |
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Intel is aiming to embed GE integration on its processors and Cisco is including Predix compatibility on its rugged networking gear like industrial routers. Predix's architecture ties together cloud and data center computing resources with Hadoop. GE also counts EMC's Pivotal unit as a partner.
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| Norton Antivirus splits into two companies |
10/13/2014 |
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The security business provides services including data encryption, user authentication, and mail, web and data center security. The information management company's services will include backup and recovery, archiving and storage management.
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| Infineon found its niche in power IC |
10/13/2014 |
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The company turned an old 200mm fab in Dresden into the world's most highly automated. Infineon also made its 300mm fab in Dresden the first high-volume fab for power semiconductors worldwide.
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| Start-up answered to the Apple iTV |
10/13/2014 |
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Francois-Xavier Gardes, owner of Piixl, wanted an Apple iTV, but he suspected the iPhone giant will never ship one so he designed his own. It's a PC, but a high-quality one.
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| Samsung mass produce 3-bit vertical NAND |
10/10/2014 |
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The world's largest chipmaker in August unveiled the chip, called triple level cell (TLC), which stores three bits of data in each cell. Until recently, the three-bit technology has been applied only to planar NAND flash products.
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| AMD's Read passes helm to Lisa Su |
10/10/2014 |
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AMD had hired Su, trained her, and apparently groomed her for the position. She's the "right leader" for AMD, he said, and is uniquely positioned for the job
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| Teledyne DALSA offers low cost machine vision scanner |
10/10/2014 |
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These compact, affordable cameras are ideal for general machine vision applications, including postal and parcel inspection, materials grading, food and web inspection, rail and road inspection, and pharmaceutical inspection.
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| Toshiba to use Phison SSD controller |
10/9/2014 |
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Toshiba's first SSD controller chip orders to Phison total about one million units, with all ICs to be shipped in the fourth quarter of 2014, said the sources.
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| Strong Asia Pacific chip sales |
10/9/2014 |
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On a year-to-date basis, semiconductor sales increased by 10.1 per cent versus the same period in 2013. On a worldwide basis, semiconductor sales in August 2014 were $28.435 billion, up 1.3 per cent versus the previous month and up 9.4 per cent versus the same month in 2013.
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| TDK show fast SST-MRAM |
10/9/2014 |
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Spin-transfer torque MRAM has the advantage of being as fast at reading and writing data as short-term storage technologies like SRAM and DRAM, but as a non-volatile type of memory it can hold on to its contents for many years like flash memory.
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