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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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| IBM resumes talk for Globalfoundries to take over fab |
10/8/2014 |
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Bloomberg News reported in June that Globalfoundries was primarily interested in acquiring IBM’s engineers and intellectual property rather than manufacturing facilities, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Globalfoundries would have acted as a supplier for IBM’s microprocessors, the people said at the time.
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| Google and Apple would not share data encryption with government |
10/8/2014 |
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Justice Department is looking into the matter and they’re trying to figure out how the new systems, and encryption put forward by Google and Apple work and how the companies could possibly alter their encryption to make it accessible when its court ordered.
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| Manufacturing Barometer improved |
10/8/2014 |
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“The projected revenue growth rate among industrial manufacturing companies rose during the third quarter, indicating increased levels of confidence in company fundamentals and competitive positioning,”
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| Samsung to invest $14.5B on one single plant |
10/7/2014 |
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"Right now the only part of the company that is bringing in steady profits is the semiconductor division, so it looks like the company will keep investing in the business," said IM Investment analyst Lee Min-hee.
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| Virtium announced VLP DD4 modules |
10/7/2014 |
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Virtium claims to be one of the first to offer DDR4 memory modules, and the company's latest modules give embedded-industrial OEMs increased performance, lower power and higher bandwidth advantages.
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| Toshiba announced smallest embedded eMMC process |
10/7/2014 |
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By using the 15nm process technology, the product's package size is about 26 per cent smaller than comparable Toshiba products and offers faster read/write performance due to improvements in basic chip performance and controller optimisation.
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| HP announced more layoff as it splits into two companies |
10/7/2014 |
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As part of its cost management, HP increased by 5,000 the number of people it plans to lay off, bringing the total to as much as 57,000. In May the company added 16,000 layoffs to the plan the restructuring plan announced in 2012 to lay off 36,000 workers.
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| Is IP cooperation the way ahead? |
10/6/2014 |
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While IP vendors focus on one area of core competency for efficiency and compliance, FPGA designers bear the weight of blending the various IP cores. Algotronix and Adaptive Micro-Ware earlier revealed that they would work together to deliver unique secure video IP cores for FPGAs.
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| TSMC committed to run 10FinFET ARM processor |
10/6/2014 |
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Given the successful adoption of our previous collaborative efforts, it makes sense that we continue this fruitful partnership with ARM in future 64-bit cores and 10FinFET.
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