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| IBM to re-focus on hardware R&D |
5/16/2014 |
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"Quite frankly, we are seeing very good growth out of software, good growth out of services, but challenges in hardware," said Schroeter. "We will stabilize that hardware base and I am comfortable we will make that happen in 2014," he said.
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| Modern manufacturing requires skill labors |
5/16/2014 |
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39 percent of the 300 U.S. manufacturing executives surveyed described the shortage of qualified, skilled applicants as “severe,” and 60 percent said it has been difficult to hire the skilled people they need. In addition, more than 50 percent of respondents said they plan to increase their production by at least five percent in the next five years.
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| NVMe Emerges as Memory Independent |
5/15/2014 |
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NVMe is the standardized high-performance host controller interface for PCI Express-based SSDs with an architecture designed for non-volatile memory scaling from the enterprise to the client. While ready to offer performance gains with the present generation of NV memory SSDs based on NAND, it has also been designed with the next-generation NV memory in mind. Its architecture focuses on latency, parallelism, and performance, and the details have been well documented. (See Expansion of NVMe Support Signals Growth and PCIe Storage Spec Group Incorporates for Added Clout .)
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| Rambus Rejoins Jedec |
5/15/2014 |
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Rambus has been invited to rejoin the Jedec memory standards group after a nearly 20-year absence marked by now-resolved lawsuits between it and as many as 15 top chip makers that were members. The company is expected to push for a DRAM interface beyond today's DDR4.
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| Chinese and Taiwanese Companies Were Five of the Eight fastest Growing Fabless Chip Companies |
5/13/2014 |
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Chinese and Taiwanese companies were five of the eight fastest growing fabless chip companies in a top 25 ranking compiled by IC Insights.China's Spreadtrum led the way with a 48 percent surge in sales year-over-year, followed by Taiwan's MediaTek, Qualcomm of the US, and Europe's Dialog Semiconductor. All four companies are heavily committed to the mobile consumer equipment market.NA
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| Nvidia Posts Solid Q1 |
5/12/2014 |
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Robust business conditions in the PC gaming market led to high-double-digit profit growth in Nvidia Corp.'s first quarter of fiscal 2015.
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| IBM Demonstrated PCM for Storage |
5/12/2014 |
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IBM recently demonstrated how to integrate phase change memory (PCM) into a solid-state memory hierarchy, and it has shown its first PCIe-based prototype board for storage systems. It's looking like speed and the ancient Greek heroes are on PCM's side.
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| Apple's iPhone 6 might be unveiled in August |
5/9/2014 |
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Apple's iPhone 6 might be unveiled sooner than expected, a new report claims. Apple will show off its new iPhone 6 at an event in August and release the device that same month, Taiwan-based Economic Daily News reported on Friday, citing people who claim to have knowledge of Apple's plans. At the same event, Apple will also show off a larger iPhone with a 5.5- or 5.6-inch display that will launch in September, the report said.
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| Intel Should Not Enter Mobile, Analyst Says |
5/9/2014 |
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Analysts at JP Morgan are calling for Intel to shut down its mobile and communications group to improve corporate profitability in the wake of poor earnings per share in the first quarter of 2014. But the x86 giant and at least one other analyst said the company should stay the course in the hotly competitive smartphone and tablet market.
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| US jobless claims drop sharply, raise expectations for recovery |
5/8/2014 |
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The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week, indicating the labor market was strengthening despite a run-up in applications in prior weeks. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits declined 26,000 to a seasonally adjusted 319,000 for the week ended May 3, the Labor Department said on Thursday. The decline snapped three straight weeks of increases.
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| Chip Market's Bullish Run Continues |
5/8/2014 |
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The three-month average of worldwide chip sales was $26.16 billion in March, up 11.4% over the equivalent figure in March 2013, according to the United States Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), referencing data compiled by the World Semiconductor Trade Statistics (WSTS) organization.
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| Chromebooks are key to beating ARM in the mobile market, Intel decides. |
5/7/2014 |
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At an event yesterday, Intel revealed the rather surprising next stage of its strategy for squeezing into the mobile market: Chromebooks! Following the failure of its smartphone efforts, and a slow start in the Windows 8 and Android tablet spaces, Intel now appears to targeting netbooks of all things. Furthermore, not only was Google on hand at the event to trumpet its new allegiance with Intel and x86, but it also took the opportunity to stick a knife in the back of Chrome OS’s support for ARM. As part of this renewed partnership with Intel, Chrome OS slowly shifts to an x86-only OS.
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| Qualcomm adds new 'Toq Talk' feature to its Toq smartwatch |
5/6/2014 |
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Qualcomm has rolled out a new update for its Toq smartwatch on Monday, with the notable addition of a 'Toq Talk' feature. The new 'Toq Talk' feature gives the users of the Toq smartwatch the ability to create as well as respond to text messages using their voices.
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| Office Depot to close at least 400 stores |
5/6/2014 |
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Office Depot said it plans to close at least 400 stores by the end of 2016 that will result in $75 million annual savings.The company's merger with OfficeMax resulted in an overlap of retail locations that needed to be consolidated.
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| Sony tape smashes storage record |
5/5/2014 |
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Sony has developed a new storage tape that is able to hold up to 185 terabytes (TB) of data per cartridge.Created with the help of IBM, Sony's technology allows for tapes that can store the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs.
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| Windows XP stays strong despite end of support |
5/1/2014 |
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Microsoft cut off support for Windows XP on April 8, but users of the aged OS aren't exactly jumping ship in droves. For April, Windows XP scored a 26.3 percent share of all desktop OS Web traffic monitored by Net Applications. That number was down from the 27.7 percent share seen in March. Though XP's grip of the market continues to drop, it's still by far the second most popular desktop OS, at least based on Net Applications' stats.
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| AMD Unleashes Puma in Mobile |
5/1/2014 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has announced two new mobile SoCs -- a low-power chip code named Mullins and a mainstream chip, Beema. They are part of a new family of SoCs that aim to bolster security and performance while lowering power consumption.
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| Mobile Growth Shifts to Low End |
5/1/2014 |
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Smartphone and tablet markets are maturing, driving opportunities at the low end, especially for system and chip suppliers in China, Smartphones will see 22% growth this year, down 13% from 2013 and a 30% decrease from 2012, said Gwennap. While there will be approximately 1.85 billion smartphones by 2018, Chinese tier one companies such as Huawei, Lenovo, and ZTE will far surpass Apple and Samsung for market share by that time.
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| AT&T Plans to Provide Wireless Internet for Airplanes |
4/29/2014 |
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AT&T is looking to expand the reach of its wireless network to devices in the sky. On Monday, the company announced plans to provide in-flight Internet connections for some airlines. The company said that by late 2015, it would build a new air-to-ground network based on 4G LTE, the same type of cellular technology that many of the latest smartphones use to connect to the Internet.
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| Toyota's U.S. HQ heads to Plano, Texas |
4/29/2014 |
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Toyota Motor Co. confirmed it plans to establish its $300 million North American headquarters in Plano to "better serve customers and position Toyota for sustainable, long-term growth."
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