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| $25 smartphone to storm the emerging markets |
2/24/2014 |
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A $25 smartphone (at retail) would bring the smartphone experience to developing markets traditionally served by the ultra-low-cost segment. "Think of it as direct competition to the $20 Nokia 105 feature phone."
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| Squeezing environment-mapping technologies into a phone |
2/21/2014 |
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"What if you could capture the dimensions of your home simply by walking around with your phone before you went furniture shopping? What if directions to a new location didn't stop at the street address? What if you never again found yourself lost in a new building?"
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| Vietnam to accommodate technology investments |
2/21/2014 |
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The Techno Park is intended to direct Japanese businesses into Ho Chi Minh. An all-inclusive service will be provided to establish a pleasant environment for the investors.
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| Spanson and announce HyberBus automotive instrument interface |
2/20/2014 |
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Claiming that the new device is "the world's fastest" NOR flash memory, Spansion noted that its read throughput is up to 333MB/s, more than five times faster than an ordinary Quad SPI flash presently available. Spansion has also kept the pin number of HyperFlash NOR memory devices to 12, one-third the number in Parallel NOR flash. The initial read access time is 92ns.
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| New technique to enhance endurance of SSD |
2/20/2014 |
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Compression and deduplication techniques can be employed as well to minimize the number of writes to an SSD, thereby prolonging its life. In this case, inline deduplication and compression are also used to reduce overhead for highly repetitive SQL Server workloads.
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| HTC to launch new HTC one phone |
2/19/2014 |
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HTC will be skipping the upcoming Mobile World Congress 2014 event, scheduled to start in Barcelona from 24 February, and will instead be holding an event on in London and New York on 25 March 2014.
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| Tablet sale decline by 15% IN 2014 |
2/19/2014 |
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About 56% of tablet vendors' sales are expected to come from 7- to 8-inch units in 2014, down from about 70% in 2013, due to increased competition from large-size smartphones and expected sales of larger-size tablets
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| Intel to relaunch Haswell in May 2014 |
2/17/2014 |
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Intel originally planned to launch Haswell Refresh and 9-series chipsets in May but has changed its plans to launch the CPUs in April, according to Taiwan-based DIY motherboard makers.
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| TSMC post 15% revenue growth |
2/17/2014 |
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A rebound in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's (TSMC) 28nm process utilization rate and a ramp-up of 20nm production capacity will allow the foundry to post 15-20% sequential growth in revenues for the second quarter of 2014.
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| Microsoft unveil new 8.5 -inch smartphone |
2/13/2014 |
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Microsoft is expected to unveil an array of new mobile devices with display sizes below 8.5-inch running on an integrated OS derived from Windows RT and Windows Phone in June
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| Intel delays Broadwell processors release |
2/13/2014 |
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Intel's upcoming 14nm Broadwell-based processors were previously scheduled for mass production have recently delayed and will not be available until the fourth quarter of 2014.
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| PC Sales Rises in Q413 |
2/13/2014 |
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PC Sales Rise in Q413 but miss expectations
Despite a slightly better-than-expected holiday shopping season and some renewed interest from business buyers, sales fell short of industry expectations.
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| Sony to sell off VAIO PC unit |
2/11/2014 |
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Sony is reportedly negotiating the terms of a deal to sell its Vaio PC unit to an investment fund called Japan Industrial Partners.
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| A-Data revenue slips 4% |
2/11/2014 |
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Memory module manufacturer A-Data Technology slipped 4.1% sequentially to US$91.6 million in January 2014.
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| TSMC revenue up 8.4% |
2/11/2014 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) have announced increases in January consolidated revenues from a year ago of 8.4% respectively.
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