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| Samsung to produce 3D NAND in Xian |
5/22/2014 |
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3D NAND market is likely to take off in 2H15 or later, which is in line with most predictions. In the meantime, vendors are still working on improving 2D NAND production.
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| Qualcomm to ramp 8 core Snapdragon production |
5/21/2014 |
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Qualcomm has incorporated its 8-core Snapdragon 810-series chips with 64-bit and 4G technologies, apparently setting new hardware specifications for high-end smartphones.
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| Mobile trend drives employee productivity |
5/21/2014 |
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¡°Providing data to a worker in the field or on the factory floor can enable smarter and faster decisions. Additionally, allowing a field worker to acquire data on a connected mobile device can lead to improved accuracy and higher efficiency.¡±
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| Cadence offers DDR4 PHY IP for 16nm design |
5/21/2014 |
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This technology enables server, network switching, storage fabric and other SoCs requiring high-memory bandwidth to design-in Cadence DDR4 PHY IP now and to exploit higher speed DRAMs when they become available.
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| Verizon continue to deploy XLTE |
5/20/2014 |
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More than half of Verizon¡¯s 4G LTE 500-plus markets ¨C including Atlanta, Athens and Columbus ¨C have been enhanced with XLTE, with more scheduled to be completed by the end of the year.
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| China bans Windows 8 on government systems |
5/20/2014 |
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All desktops, laptops, and tablets used by central state agencies must run on an OS other than Windows 8, according to China's Central Government Procurement Center.
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| UL announced global certification for LED luminaires |
5/20/2014 |
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For the first time, a certified testing laboratory has developed a single set of samples and tests that combine the requirements of both North American and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.
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| NVMe workgroup to set controller interface standard for future memory |
5/19/2014 |
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The driving force for NVMe acceptance is its ability to move NV memory from the legacy of the rotating disc and serial operation to parallel operation. Standardisation of the register, feature and command sets is a means of moving from proprietary to product interoperability.
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| AT&T to buy DirectTV |
5/19/2014 |
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"This is a unique opportunity that will redefine the video entertainment industry and create a company able to offer new bundles and deliver content to consumers across multiple screens," said Randall Stephenson, AT&T's chairman and CEO.
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| Finally, asynchronous SRAM with ECC |
5/19/2014 |
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Soft errors caused by background radiation can corrupt memory content, resulting in a loss of critical data. A hardware ECC block in Cypress's asynchronous SRAMs performs all error correction functions inline, without user intervention, delivering best-in-class Soft Error Rate (SER) performance.
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| Flash engineer reported in shortage |
5/19/2014 |
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The job candidates most in demand are engineers at all levels who have deep embedded experience in firmware and hardware, along with a working knowledge of flash and non-volatile memory techniques.
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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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