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| Automobiles are going wireless |
7/26/2013 |
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The automotive wireless market is projected to expand by more than 40 percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the market research firm IHS's latest Automotive Infotainment Market tracker Report.
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| SK Hynix result improved |
7/26/2013 |
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Revenue grew 41 percent from the first quarter and 49 percent from the second quarter of last year to 3.93 trillion won (about $3.52 billion).
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| ARM and Oracle to work on multicore solutions together |
7/26/2013 |
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Oracle's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a critical component for high-throughput Java applications used in enterprise servers and embedded systems and helps to increase the performance of ARM-based multi-core systems. Additional areas for cooperation include improving boot-up performance, power savings and library optimization
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| Infineon allowed to keep some Qimonda IP's |
7/26/2013 |
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Infineon argued in a lower court that the suit covers thousands of Qimonda patents and that the question of whether it still has rights to that portfolio is key to Infineon’s business.
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| Samsung announced 3GB LPDDR3 |
7/25/2013 |
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The Samsung 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM uses six of the industry's smallest 20-nanometer (nm) class* four gigabit (Gb) LPDDR3 chips, in a symmetrical structure of two sets of three chips stacked in a single package only 0.8 millimeters high.
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| SanDisk has technology for 3D Nand |
7/25/2013 |
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Stacking chips still consumes the same area so it does nothing to reduce costs, but creating vertical structures (3D NAND or FinFETs) crams more transistors/bits into a given area so the chip can be made smaller and cheaper.
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| Free WiFi at San Francisco parks, thanks to Google |
7/25/2013 |
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Google’s gift could pave the way for wider SF Wi-Fi. It could also improve the company’s image in the city following protests that its shuttle buses from San Francisco to its Mountain View headquarters are contributing to gentrification.
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| Apple promise amazing products in Fall |
7/24/2013 |
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“We are laser-focused and working hard on some amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said in a statement.
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| Cloud gaming has its challenges |
7/24/2013 |
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Widespread cloud gaming has bumped up against technology problems – latency, plus the need to make games available across a plethora of devices.
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| Hi-End smartphones are losing glamor |
7/23/2013 |
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The days of great growth in the high end of the market are gone. It’s the Chinese companies who know how to survive on tiny margins that are ready for the fight that’s about to ensue.
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| TI continue to move into Analog as revenue increase |
7/23/2013 |
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TI's legacy wireless products, which the company has been phasing out for several years, declined to less than 5 percent of TI's total sales in the second quarter. That number should further decline to less than 2 percent in the third quarter.
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| Google to buy interest in micro diplay producer |
7/23/2013 |
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The purpose of the investment is to fund production upgrades, expand capacity and further enhance production capabilities at HDI's facilities that produce liquid crystal on silicon ("LCOS") chips and modules used in applications including head-mounted display (HMD) such as Google Glass, head-up display (HUD) and pico-projector products.
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| MPU companies see better pictures ahead |
7/22/2013 |
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Intel and AMD's revenues are released for 2nd Q 2013. Intel has reported a second-quarter revenue of $12.8 billion, operating income of $2.7 billion, net income of $2.0 billion and EPS of $0.39.
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| Next iPhone can have 1GB RAM |
7/22/2013 |
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Both the Zenvo H5P chip and Zagato/Bertone H6P processor are shown to feature the same DDR part for RAM, giving both CPUs one gigabyte of memory.
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| Dell delays vote on going private |
7/19/2013 |
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In a statement released after the meeting was abruptly adjoined, Dell says the vote has been delayed "to provide additional time to solicit proxies from Dell stockholders."
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| NEC quits smartphone business |
7/19/2013 |
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The Japanese company's withdrawal is a clear defeat for NEC and its place in the global mobile industry where the changing of the guards has been apparent.
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| DRAM ASP jumped in 2013 |
7/19/2013 |
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Market research company predicted that the DRAM ASP will grow to $2.53 in 3Q13, 50 per cent greater than in 3Q12, and then taper slightly to $2.52 in 4Q13, which would represent a 46 per cent increase compared to 4Q12.
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