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| Apple to hit market with multiple wearable devices |
6/24/2014 |
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Cook indicated the second half of the year will be packed with new products and new product categories. The products almost certainly include revised iPhones and iPads, and the new product category will be Apple's first wearables.
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| Wafer thinning enhances 3D semiconductors |
6/24/2014 |
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The length of the wiring between upper- and lower-layer chips is reduced to below 1/10 compared to conventional TSVs, with wiring resistance, capacitance, and volume being reduced drastically. It is expected to realise applications in ultra-small, Terabit-generation large-scale memory.
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| Rice University scientist has production efficent PV cell |
6/23/2014 |
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Black silicon is simply silicon with a highly textured surface of nanoscale spikes or pores that are smaller than the wavelength of light. The texture allows the efficient collection of light from any angle, from sunrise to sunset.
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| Munich consortium prototypes efficent EV car |
6/23/2014 |
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Design goal of Visio.M project is two-fold: The research consortium wants to devise an electric vehicle that offers a maximum of energy efficiency and at the same time features a sporty driving behaviour.
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| How about an electric Harley? |
6/20/2014 |
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The company will take several dozen riders on a 30-city tour to test drive the bikes and provide feedback. Harley will use the information it gathers to continue refining the bike, which might not hit the market for several more years.
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| New bench mark program rates Exynos over Snapdragon |
6/20/2014 |
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AndEBench-Pro is a suite of tests measuring the performance of CPU, GPU, memory and storage subsystems, as well as a platform test that gauges GUI rendering, XML parsing, image manipulation, data compression and cryptography tasks embedded in actual workloads.
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| Asia Pacific Telecom to merge into Hon Hai |
6/19/2014 |
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The merger will proceed via a swap of shares between Ambit and APT at a 1:0.4975 ratio. Following the deal, Ambit will be rendered the merged entity and APT the surviving company, with Hon Hai holding a 23.14-percent stake in APT at the cost of NT$43 billion. The merger is expected to take effect on June 30, 2015.
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| China is a huge mobile memory market |
6/19/2014 |
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SK hynix is shifting its focus to mobile DRAMs and flash-type chips amid the rising demand for smart devices which use those chip solutions as primary backbones.
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| DRAM prices storm has calmed |
6/19/2014 |
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With increased demand from non-traditional markets, such as smartphones, tablets, networking and automotive, DRAM sales growth isn't dependent on the health of only the PC market anymore, resulting in greater stability, growth and innovation.
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| 4K TV - new growth opportunity to manufacturers |
6/18/2014 |
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Analysts expect potential beneficiaries in the panel, wafer foundry, TV chipset and DRAM sectors, including flat-panel maker AU Optronics Corp (AUO, ÓÑß_) and memorychip maker Winbond Electronics Corp (ÈA°î).
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| SanDisk to acquire Fusion-io |
6/18/2014 |
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“SanDisk has been trying to get into enterprise big time. With the acquisition of Fusion, they get there faster,” said Srini Nandury, an analyst at Summit Research Partners LLC. “It helps them get to the market quickly, gives them a brand name.”
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| Optimism runs among CEO's |
6/18/2014 |
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CEO outlook index rose to 95.4 in the second quarter, up from 92.1 in the first quarter. That is the highest level since the second quarter of 2012.
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| Violin memory looks to channel market for growth |
6/17/2014 |
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This week Violin Memory also announced the launch of a new global channel program that will be led by newly appointed vice president of Global Channel Sales Andrew Perry. At the same time, the company tapped Christian Putz as vice president of EMEA Channel Sales.
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| New DRAM demand drives SK hynix stock |
6/17/2014 |
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SK hynix rallied this year based on strong demands for dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips. Its stock jumped about 30 percent this year, becoming the third-largest listed company in the country by value after Samsung Electronics and Hyundai Motor Co.
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| Panasonic attended 25.6% solar conversion efficiency |
6/17/2014 |
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The HIT solar cells build on Panasonic's proprietary heterojunction technology, which involves covering the silicon base surface with an amorphous silicon layer. It facilitates superior passivation to compensate for the many flaws around the silicon base surface area.
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| Auto tuned antenna enhances 4G performance |
6/17/2014 |
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It boasts improved impedance matching for a single antenna across a wide frequency range, therefore reducing power stress on the transmitter side and increasing sensitivity on the receiver side.
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| Smartphone market continue to grow in India |
6/16/2014 |
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The India smartphone market grew by a whopping 186 per cent YoY in 1Q14. According to IDC Asia Pacific Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker (excluding Japan), vendors shipped a total of 17.59 million smartphones in 1Q14 compared to 6.14 million units in the same period of 2013.
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| AMD restructured into two groups |
6/16/2014 |
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As part of that restructuring, Lisa Su is being promoted to chief operating officer. She will head up the Enterprise, Embedded and Semi-Custom Business Group. John Byrne was named senior vice president and general manager of the new Computing and Graphics Business Group, which includes PC and tablet chips and graphics products.
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| Intel forcast higher business demand for PC |
6/16/2014 |
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Demand from companies for PCs likely received a boost recently due to Microsoft's (MSFT.O) winding down of support in April for its Windows XP operating system, analysts say.
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