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| Google acquired land in Los Angeles |
12/5/2014 |
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City Councilman Mike Bonin, who represents the area, said the purchase "brands Playa Vista as the tech and innovation capital of Los Angeles."
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| The FPGA race is on |
12/5/2014 |
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The battle for FPGA market share continues unabated. 2015 promises to see initial product releases and (no doubt) a deluge of marketing claims and counter-claims. One thing is certain, 2015 will not be boring.
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| Boeing 787 battery fire cause concluded |
12/4/2014 |
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The most likely culprits, according to the report, were contamination or a battery manufacturing process that allowed such defects coupled with a failure on Boeing's part to understand how the batteries could fail.
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| New memory architectures emerge as DDR hits limit |
12/4/2014 |
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Emerging DRAM technologies such as wide IO, HMC and HBM are being optimised for different applications and present different approaches to address bandwidth, power and area challenges. Wide I/O typically uses TSVs, interposers and 3D stacking technologies.
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| Semiconductor growth doubled in 2014 |
12/4/2014 |
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Sales in the Americas increased 12.2 per cent year-over-year in October, leading all regions. A new WSTS industry forecast projects substantial growth for 2014 and moderate growth for 2015 and 2016.
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| Intel's latest acquisition is for network security |
12/3/2014 |
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PasswordBox will become part of the Safe Identity organization within Intel Security Group that is focused on simplifying and strengthening security by delivering ideas that reduce the pain of having to memorize dozens of passwords.
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| Cavium introduced ThunderX ARM server chip |
12/3/2014 |
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Businesses increasingly are looking for systems that offer both performance and power efficiency. Chip makers like Cavium, Applied Micro and Advanced Micro Devices are leveraging the company's 64-bit ARMv8-A architecture to create SoCs for servers
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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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