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| Mobile DRAM rises above PC memory |
6/10/2014 |
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Mobile DRAMs took up 34 percent of the global market in the first quarter of 2014, more than the 31 percent in the PC sector.
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| Manufacturing driven by investment |
6/10/2014 |
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"There will be growth in the construction supply chain — HVAC, wood, paint, appliances, and furniture—as we anticipate both residential and nonresidential increases. The acceleration driver will be investment.”
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| Fitness wearable catches on |
6/10/2014 |
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At a developer conference in San Francisco this fall Sohn will publish hardware interfaces for Simband, an open specification for a bracelet that can accommodate a wide array of fitness and medical sensors.
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| Cadmium Arsenide 3D beats Graphene |
6/9/2014 |
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Cadmium Arsenide can transmit electricity at tremendous speeds, but will also work in three dimensions, which is far more useful when building transistors and sensors.
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| IoT market to hit $400 billion |
6/9/2014 |
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the annual value of the overall IoT market in 2024 will be $400 billion with $46 billion coming from hardware, $59 billion from cloud infrastructure and $296 billion from data processing services. That data processing will represent 15 per cent of all data processing on the planet.
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| Weekly Jobless Claims Rise to 312,000 |
6/5/2014 |
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, but the underlying trend continued to point to a firming labor market.
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| Micron's 256GB SSD debuts at $110 |
6/3/2014 |
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Micron Technology's Crucial brand is trying to set a new low-price watermark for solid-state drives. The new MX100 SSD delivers 256 gigabytes of storage for $109.99, Crucial said on Monday.
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| Sony Discontinues PSP After 10 Years |
6/3/2014 |
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Sony announced today that the portable gaming device, originally launched ten years ago, will be discontinued worldwide by the end of 2014. The Associated Press reports that PSP shipments ended in North America in January, are scheduled to end in Japan this month, and will come to a close later this year in Europe. Sony is now, of course, pushing the platform's successor, the PlayStation Vita.
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| Toshiba & Sandisk to Scrap 2D NAND Fab for 300mm 3D NAND |
6/2/2014 |
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Toshiba Corp. has announced it will demolish its No. 2 semiconductor fabrication facility (Fab 2) at Yokkaichi Operations, a NAND Flash memory plant in Mie prefecture, Japan, and replace it with a new fab on the same site, dedicated to 3D NAND.
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| Samsung Ramps Up 3D NAND Fab |
6/2/2014 |
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Samsung’s ramp-up follows its announcement in August that it had begun mass production of a 128 Gbit/s NAND flash memory that is integrated in multiple layers. Its 3D V-NAND products have already been produced in its Korea fabs.
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| Alcoa to build jet engine parts |
5/30/2014 |
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Company officials announced Thursday that they will build a $100 million plant in La Porte, Indiana, to make nickel-based engine parts for commercial airliners. Alcoa already makes the same components — in smaller sizes — for engines that go on business jets and planes flown by regional airlines.
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| Intel talks new IoT products |
5/30/2014 |
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Intel might have missed out on smartphones and tablets, but its chief executive is showing off evidence the chip maker is jumping on newer trends–like wearable computing and robotics.
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| DRAM prices to rise |
5/30/2014 |
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Current growth momentum is to continue into the next quarter, driven by strong seasonal demand and slim supply-chain inventory.
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| Image reconition processor enhances automobile sytems |
5/29/2014 |
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Offering fast, accurate image detection, the TMPV7502XBG is capable of performing multiple detections simultaneously, such as a lane departure warning, collision warning, pedestrian detection and traffic sign recognition, detailed Toshiba.
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| LED lighting demand continue to grow |
5/29/2014 |
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LED chip demand is expected to grow from 17 billion in 2012 to 61 billion in 2014. While consumer demand for LED lighting will continue to increase in the coming years, the demand for LED backlight chips for TVs and other display applications will start to decline after 2014.
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| Printable memory on paper media |
5/29/2014 |
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Based on materials and process manufacturing costs, the PhD student figures out that a paper-based RRAM would cost about 0.0003cent/bit, versus 3cent/bit for a fully printed RFID tag (1bit) fabricated on PET substrate, or versus a 96bit credit-card-sized ID paper tag at around 0.021cent/bit.
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