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| HGST gets Skyera as Christmas present |
12/17/2014 |
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HGST is getting itself a NAND array design powerhouse to add to its existing NAND technology assets. We would guesstimate there was with SanDisk and Seagate in the frame too and so would estimate WD's buying price at maybe $400m or more.
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| Is Manufacturer reshoring really happening? |
12/17/2014 |
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It took 60 years for offshoring to happen, so it’s safe to say that it’s going to take decades for it to reverse. Ten years ago offshoring was taking about 150,000 jobs a year from the U.S. Last year, the numbers of jobs lost to foreign countries and gained back through reshoring were roughly even.
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| What does Cypress get with Spansion? |
12/17/2014 |
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If we lay out our combined portfolio, we now truly have a one-stop shop for our customers. We eliminate multiple sources, and this makes it easier for them, too. As one company, we have doubled our number of customers.
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| ROHM to build modern factory in Thailand |
12/16/2014 |
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The ROHM Group has been working to strengthen production capability by updating its manufacturing equipment and increasing the total floor space at RIST by investing around $126 million to build a new 28,800m2 manufacturing facility to meet future growth.
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| Qualcomm try to restore China relationship by investing China |
12/16/2014 |
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Qualcomm Inc. has revealed that it and its subsidiaries have committed to invest nearly $40M into four Chinese companies and the China Walden Venture Investments, L.P. fund, which is primarily focused on investing in semiconductor or semiconductor-related companies with business in China.
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| Semi backend company doing good |
12/15/2014 |
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ChipMOS reported sales of NT$1.95 billion (US$62.9 million) for November 2014, up 0.3% on month and 20.2% from a year earlier.
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| Producer price index down |
12/15/2014 |
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Producer price index fell 0.2 percent in November, after rising by the same amount in October. In the past 12 months, producer prices have risen just 1.4 percent, the smallest yearly increase since February.
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| Spray-on solar cell is easy to install |
12/15/2014 |
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SprayLD can be use in roll-to-roll manufacturing to create films that can be applied to nearly any surface from patio furniture to airplane wings to the surface of your car.
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| Renesas has low-error low power SRAM |
12/15/2014 |
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The devices are high-reliability products that achieve the same soft error rate as Renesas' earlier products that were fabricated in a 150nm process. They also achieve low-power operation with a standby current of maximum of 2uA at 25°C.
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| Chinese mobile manufacturer hits legal wall in India |
12/12/2014 |
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The High Court of Delhi issued a temporary injunction this week on the sale and import of Xiaomi handsets in India while it waited to hear a patent complaint against Xiaomi by Swedish telecom equipment maker Ericsson.
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| German startup to build electric sports car |
12/12/2014 |
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In contrast to battery electric vehicles as the world knows them, the Quant E's batteries are not recharged on some kind of electric charging station. Instead, the liquid electrolyte within the car's two tanks is exchanged against a fresh electrolyte. Despite the relatively large volume of the tanks (2 x 200L), this can be achieved much faster than charging a battery.
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| Tests show most consumer SSD has acceptable endurance |
12/11/2014 |
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Tech Report took up the challenge of SSD durability and made an impressive finding. As part of its durability test, it forced six drives from Intel, Kingston, Samsun and Corsair to continuously write and rewrite 10GB of static data consisting of files of various sizes with almost a year of constant writing to the disks.
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| Lawyers scramble to find new plaintiffs in Apple class-action suit |
12/11/2014 |
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Attorneys suing Apple have alleged that its use of restrictive software, which kept iPods from playing music purchased from competitors of Apple's iTunes store, effectively blocked rivals from the market and allowed the Cupertino, California, company to sell iPods at inflated prices. Apple says the software was necessary to prevent unauthorized copying.
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| Plenty of oil for America |
12/11/2014 |
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This is a result of advances in drilling technology that have made it possible for engineers to reach oil and gas in unconventional rock and extreme locations and quieted talk that the world was quickly running out of oil.
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| India PC market grew |
12/11/2014 |
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The overall consumer PC market recorded 1.37 million units, a QoQ growth of 18.1 per cent over 2Q14. "Uptake of affordable PC segment (sub-$400 portable PCs) along with seasonal demand owing to festive season resulted in a sharp improvement in Q3,"
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| Nanya Reports drop in DRAM revenue |
12/10/2014 |
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Revenue contracted 1.48 percent to NT$4.09 billion (US$131 million) last month, compared with NT$4.15 billion in October, according to a company statement. Last month’s figure is the lowest since June after declining for a third month.
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| Lensless image sensor from Rambus |
12/10/2014 |
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The idea is that it will provide a low-cost and non-bulky form of imaging that can be added to many things as a means of improving their contextual awareness, which could not justify the bulk and cost of lensed image sensors.
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| Tubular LED replaces fluorecents |
12/10/2014 |
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Intellitube technology claims to offer both direct fit and direct wire functions for the retrofit of existing linear fluorescent fixtures.
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| China forces Qualcomm to lower license fee |
12/10/2014 |
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According to the source, the Chinese regulator will order Qualcomm to scrap its so-called "reverse patent licence," an agreement that the U.S. tech giant imposed on its client that allowed them to drop patent fees to each other.
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| U.S. - Big exporter of carbon footprint |
12/9/2014 |
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It's a dangerous trajectory the U.S. is stoking with record exports of dirty fuels, even as it reduces the pollution responsible for global warming at home.
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