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| 6 Million PS4 Worldwide |
3/4/2014 |
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Sony reports that the next-gen video game console has topped 6 million units sold globally.
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| NAND Up, NOR Down in Flash |
3/3/2014 |
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The worldwide market for memory appeared to present a great divide between NAND Flash, which is doing very well, and NOR Flash, which continues to struggle.
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| IBM layoffs 2014, 13000 expected |
3/3/2014 |
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IBM has confirmed that it's laying off a portion of its workforce in order to focus on new priority areas, like the cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing.
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| Tesla soliciting site to build large battery plant |
2/28/2014 |
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Tesla and partners including battery maker Panasonic will invest between $4 billion and $5 billion to build the factory, which would supply battery packs to Tesla's Fremont, California, assembly plant.
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| TD-LTE will catch on in China |
2/28/2014 |
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Qualcomm and Marvell appear to have led rival vendors in the race to win more orders since the two companies have already deepened their deployments in the segment.
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| Ford maps out 70m surroundings for self-driven car |
2/28/2014 |
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The trial vehicle uses a rotating Light Detection and Ranging (Lidar) sensor located on the roof to scan the surroundings with a range of some 70m. The data generated are transformed in real-time into a virtual 3D map that contains all the objects detected in proximity to the vehicle.
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| Lenovo CEO Yang maps out turn-around for Motorola |
2/27/2014 |
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Yang said then the integration of Motorola and Lenovo's handset business would provide economies of scale and significantly slash material procurement cost as well as other expenses. However, this would take time to produce notable results, he said.
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| Tesla Model S elected Top Car of the Year |
2/27/2014 |
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Consumer Report praised the Tesla's (TSLA) "blistering acceleration, razor-sharp handling, compliant ride" as well as its roomy, flexible interior which can seat up to seven people, provided two are small children.
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| Qualcomm expands into 64bit and 8 core |
2/26/2014 |
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The eight-core Snapdragon 615 gives Qualcomm a leg up in an industry where most mobile chips are 32-bit capable and sport fewer cores. Increasing the number of cores in a chip is a way to increase performance without significantly increasing power consumption.
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| Samsung smart watch outshines competition at MWC |
2/26/2014 |
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The hardware features a 1.63in touch screen with 320x320 pixels, 1GHz dual-core processor with 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy, and a 300mAh battery that's good for several days of use.
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| Nokia Android phone is now official |
2/26/2014 |
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Taglined "connecting the next billion to the Internet." The Nokia X, Nokia X+, and Nokia XL devices are priced between $122 and $150.
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| Mobile DRAM demand to grow |
2/25/2014 |
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Output value for the global mobile DRAM industry will start rising in the second quarter, . Upcoming rollouts of smartphones and tablets will stimulate demand for the memory
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| New TI micro-mirror increased brightness at lower power |
2/25/2014 |
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The 0.3in HD TRP chipset leverages TI's proprietary TRP DLP architecture and adaptive IntelliBright suite of algorithms to deliver higher brightness and lower power consumption than previous DLP Pico chipset architectures.
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| The rush to 64bit mobile processors is on |
2/25/2014 |
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The lack of a native 64bit operating system has certainly not slowed chip manufacturers from announcing 64bit mobile processors. Prior to MWC, Apple, Nvidia, and Qualcomm had announced 64bit mobile ARM processors.
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