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| DRAM bit growth ties to industry landscape |
2/19/2015 |
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Microsoft Windows operating systems do not require more system memory, as was the case in the previous two decades, IC Insights indicated. By 2016, IC Insights forecasts that portable personal computing systems (i.e., tablet PCs) will surpass shipments of desktops and notebooks, which are often sold with 6GB or more of DRAM today.
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| Manufacturing increased in January |
2/19/2015 |
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Analysts had predicted slightly higher growth rates for January, though observers say the numbers show manufacturing growth continues, albeit slowly, due to domestic demand.
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| Qualcomm to drive 2K display handsets |
2/18/2015 |
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“You will see more 2K displays on handsets soon. China as a market tends to be very specs driven so there are tonnes of 2K phones available there already. We think you’re going to see a lot more 2K displays.”
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| Startup dreams big starting from a doorbell concept |
2/18/2015 |
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Co-Founder Andrew Thomas hopes Skybell will morph into a “really intelligent sensor at your front door that can tell your whole smart home hub what to do” – from turning on lights when someone approaches the door, to voice and facial recognition and response.
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| Mobile DRAM shipments up |
2/18/2015 |
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"Although mobile memory's average selling price fell slightly by 5% in the fourth quarter, bit shipment volume rose due to sustained smartphone demand growth driven by iPhone 6/6 Plus. This in turn contributed to the continuing growth of the mobile DRAM revenue worldwide."
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| Nvidia pushing towards game streaming |
2/17/2015 |
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It’s very likely that we’ll actually move into a computing paradigm where most of the actual computing is done on super-powerful servers, with our own personal devices acting much more as individual terminals whereby we merely access the results of the processing done elsewhere. This has long been predicted, but technology is getting to the point now.
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| Koreans have 3/4 of DRAM market |
2/16/2015 |
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The combined share of Samsung and SK moved down 4.2 percentage points to 74.1 percent in the fourth quarter. In contrast, Micron saw its share jump 4.3 percentage points to 23.3 percent over the cited period, narrowing its gap with the No. 2 player.
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| Solar to electricfy the U.S. in next 15 years |
2/16/2015 |
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Due to dramatic declines in the price of solar modules, along with market and regulatory factors, the economics of solar energy have already reached "grid parity" — or matching the costs of conventional sources — in some regions of the U.S.
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| Innovation on CMOS image sensor advances |
2/16/2015 |
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The technology breakthroughs seem to be growing exponentially, doubling with each new innovation, thus surpassing the traditional interpretation of Moore's Law, argues Yole Développement (Lyon, France) in a new paper. Yole calls this effect "More than Moore."
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| Atmel introduced rad-hard mix signal ASIC platform |
2/16/2015 |
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According to the company, this flexible and highly integrated ASIC delivers an overall lower bill of materials for space applications. The ATMX150RHA ASIC platform is supported by a combination of modern third-party and proprietary design tools.
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| U.S. to take unfair trade complaint to WTO |
2/13/2015 |
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China offers free and discounted services, as well as cash grants and other incentives, to industrial clusters across seven sectors, including textiles, metals, light industry, specialty chemicals, medical products, building materials and agriculture.
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| Synopsys offers DDR memory subsystem optimizer |
2/13/2015 |
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Using DDR Explorer, designers can analyse their DDR memory sub-system and optimise their architecture to increase efficiency by up to 20 per cent, while achieving 10 times faster turnaround time compared to RTL analysis.
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| 2% sequencial growth on NAND in Q4 |
2/12/2015 |
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In addition, with seasonal factors dragging down demand, the global supply of NAND flash memory will exceed demand in the first quarter of 2015, DRAMeXchange predicted.
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| UK to start tesing driverless cars |
2/12/2015 |
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Transport Minister Claire Perry says the project was "still in the early days" but said the new technology can be "a real game-changer."
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| IBM works with SoftBank to bring Watson to Japan |
2/12/2015 |
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Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing capability. The system, delivered through the cloud, analyses volumes of data, understands complex questions posed in natural language, and proposes evidenced-based answers.
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| Samsung bets $3.6 billion on OLED |
2/12/2015 |
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The new production line will begin by producing curved panels like those on the Galaxy Note Edge but will aim to help win Samsung Electronics external customers to drive future earnings growth as sales of the smartphone business decline.
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| SK Hynix jumps ahead to supply LPDDR4 chips |
2/11/2015 |
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The low-power double data rate 4, an 8-gigabit dynamic random access memory mainly produced for mobile phones and digital cameras, has been installed in LG's G Flex 2, the curved-style handset that hit local shelves in late January.
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| 12 way MEMS switch for LTE-A |
2/11/2015 |
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Performance, of capped switches made in industrial foundries, is -0.2dB insertion loss and -45dB isolation at 2GHz. Typical linearity of high throw-count switches is claimed to be >90dBm
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