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| Challenges mounted on scaling cache memories |
6/24/2013 |
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To address the SRAM scaling problem, chipmakers face some tough process and design choices. On the process front, there are various tradeoffs between planar transistors and finFETs. It gets more complicated when choosing between the two technology platforms—bulk CMOS and fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI).
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| Intel to discontinue some SSD drives |
6/24/2013 |
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Intel intends to discontinue 313, 320, 520, 525 and 710-series solid-state drives of all capacities. Customers should place last orders on the SSDs in late September – mid-October, 2013.
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| SMIC has a new director |
6/21/2013 |
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Maloney spent over 30 years at Intel and rose up through the ranks to become general manager of the Intel Architecture Group and be tipped as a likely successor to Paul Ottelini as CEO.
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| NAND prices to continue its climb |
6/21/2013 |
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In the report, DRAMeXchange, a memory chip research division of Taipei-based TrendForce Corp., pointed out that NAND flash prices showed signs of rising in the first half of June due to limited supply during the inventory restocking period.
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| Rumour: Huawei wants to swallow Nokia |
6/20/2013 |
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Folding Nokia into Huawei, which has quickly become the world's fourth-largest maker of smartphones, has some logic. Combining Nokia's know-how in hardware design and its relationships with wireless operators with a low-cost player like Huawei could be powerful.
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| Freescale's muiltcore processor pushes into avionics |
6/20/2013 |
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Freescale collaborates closely with avionics manufacturers to facilitate certification of systems using multicore processors. “We have formed a working group with top commercial avionics manufacturers to define their requirements for advanced multicore processors being used in commercial avionics applications,”
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| Nanya predicts memory short supply for 3 years |
6/19/2013 |
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This year, demand would exceed supply by 3 percent. The supply constraint is expected to worsen next year and in 2015, when demand exceeded supply by 5 percent and 7 percent respectively, Kau said, adding that the shortage is likely to extend into 2016.
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| Nvidia to license out GPU technology |
6/19/2013 |
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Huang’s formal announcement indicates that their licensing efforts will be ratcheted up, and could eventually become the corporation’s primary source of revenue.
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| China takes crown for supercomputer speed |
6/19/2013 |
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The new supercomputer is capable of sustained computing of 33.86 petaflops per second. The Tianhe-2, which means Milky Way-2, knocks the U.S. Energy Department's Titan machine off the No. 1 spot. It achieved 17.59 petaflops per second.
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| Micron stock rebounded on DRAM prices |
6/19/2013 |
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The shares advanced 3.8 percent to $13.24 in New York, the highest closing price since July 2007. The stock has jumped 109 percent this year, compared with a 23 percent gain for the Philadephia Semiconductor Index.
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| Alliance with SeaMicro microserver strategy can boost AMD |
6/18/2013 |
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Microservers are vastly weaker than Xeon processors, but can be grouped to accomplish specific tasks, such as serving up Web pages or databases. "What I was able to show Intel is that we would sell four times as many Atom chips as Xeon chips, and that Intel would make 1.7 times the revenue as they would have with Xeon," says Feldman.
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| Samsung wins slot to provide PCIe SSD for MacBooks |
6/18/2013 |
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"We have become the first to provide the highest performance PCIe SSD to global PC makers so that they can launch leading-edge ultra-slim notebook PCs this year. Samsung plans to continue timely delivery of the most advanced PCIe SSD solutions with higher density and performance, and support global IT companies."
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| Dragon voice Recognition enhanced |
6/18/2013 |
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Dragon voice recognition is everywhere people look today – from PCs to mobile devices to cars and even living rooms – changing the way that people work, communicate, create and live.
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| New multi-bit ROM technology unveiled |
6/17/2013 |
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MROM's main role is to store the boot loader or firmware that can then load other software from non-volatille memory when equipment is switched on.
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| Intel integrates DRAM speeding for graphics |
6/17/2013 |
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Intel used the backend dielectric stack in its 22nm process to design capacitors that store charge while preserving logic performance characteristics. The resulting cells have GHz class performance, leapfrogging the today’s MHz DRAMs.
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| Google tests baloon base Internet |
6/17/2013 |
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In April, Google’s executive chairman tweeted “For every person online, there are two who are not. By the end of the decade, everyone on Earth will be connected,”
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| New Galaxy S4 will have twice speed LTE |
6/17/2013 |
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Samsung's integrated LTE-Advanced 4G technology that will offer data transmission at up to twice the normal 4G speed, as well as a nippy Qualcomm processor.
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| IBM cut 1600 Jobs |
6/14/2013 |
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IBM 's $1 billion global restructuring has resulted in more than 1,600 confirmed layoff.
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