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| American business feeling road blocks in China |
4/22/2015 |
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Over the past year, foreign companies operating in China have faced challenges ranging from anti-monopoly investigations to proposed rules requiring foreign tech companies to hand over proprietary software source codes.
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| ARM offers porfolio powered by energy harvesting |
4/21/2015 |
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ARM is keen to make the Cordio solutions efficient enough to be powered using energy harvesting and sees SMD's sub-one volt Bluetooth radio IP as a vital ingredient in the design armoury.
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| Samsung has 34% of the SSD market |
4/21/2015 |
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Samsung will widen its gap with Intel in 2015 by garnering a 35 percent share, while the U.S. firm will maintain its 17 percent presence.
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| TSMC to have 10nm ready for 2016 |
4/21/2015 |
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The node technology will target production for mobile application processors, baseband chips, server chips, graphics processors (GPU), network processors and chips for gaming systems.
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| Tesla upgraded Model S with 17" monitor |
4/20/2015 |
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Instead of relying on traditional tier-1 suppliers to design and make the Model S' infotainment system, Tesla did much of the design work itself, like Apple does for its iPhone, while outsourcing the production to contract manufacturing firms.
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| GE to write off $13.6 Billion selling financial unit |
4/20/2015 |
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GE announced last week it would sell most of the assets in its GE Capital subsidiary, the latest and most dramatic move by the company to transform itself into a more focused industrial conglomerate that makes large, complicated equipment for other businesses.
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| Some union members do not like doubling of minimum wages |
4/20/2015 |
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Members of the Service Employees International Union voiced concerns about the union's $15 million effort to organize rallies calling for wage increases. The report said some SEIU members don't believe those dollars will translate into benefits for its current members.
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| Verizon calls for more vigilant on cybersecurity |
4/17/2015 |
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The 2015 analysis found that 70 percent of cyberattacks used decades-old techniques such as phishing or hacking. In addition, many of the vulnerabilities identified in the report stem from long-available security patches that businesses never implemented.
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| DOE research project to regain supercomputer leadership from China |
4/17/2015 |
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The fastest supercomputer in the world is currently the Chinese Tianhe-2 running at a peak of 55petaflops on Intel Xeon and Xeon Phi processors. The Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) project financed by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) aims to one-up the Chinese with up to 200petaflops systems by 2018.
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| Latest RFID circuit meets latest EPC standard |
4/17/2015 |
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The EM4423 simplifies adoption of EPC inventory control procedures by smaller retailers who are not willing or able to make the substantial investment required for specialised RFID equipment and software.
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| TSMC hangs in to supply A9 to Apple |
4/16/2015 |
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KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, says that he expects Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to supply 30% of the chip orders for the next-generation iPhone. This is the latest turn in what has become a back-and-forth affair in determining the companies that will supply A9 chips for next-generation iPhones.
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| EU files antitrust against Google |
4/16/2015 |
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The European Commission charges the Internet-search giant with skewing results to favor its comparison-shopping service. But the formal complaint may only be the opening salvo in a broader assault that prompts big changes at Google.
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| India to designate medical technology parks |
4/16/2015 |
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Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership, the government aims to change this scenario over the next five years. This is in line with the Make in India campaign.
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| Movidius supplies vision processor to Google |
4/16/2015 |
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The new funding to push its R&D efforts forward, hire more engineers and to improve the software tools that help developers make the most out of its accelerated computer vision processor.
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| Qualcomm management responded to "breakup call" |
4/15/2015 |
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Qualcomm’s response emphasized the company’s past and continuing strengths and contributions to the tech economy. It also expressed the company’s commitment to returning shareholder value and an open-minded attitude toward investor input.
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| NVAult replaces NVDIMM and requires no battery |
4/15/2015 |
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The product line is a natural extension of its NVDIMM technology providing an alternative to flash-only options or ULLtraDIMM technology. It's not dependent on the memory bus technology, and can be integrated with both DDR3 and DDR4 hardware.
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| Nokia wants to merge Alcatel-Lucent |
4/15/2015 |
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In a brief statement, Nokia Corp. said the two companies are in negotiations "with respect to a potential full combination which would take the form of a public exchange offer by Nokia for Alcatel-Lucent."
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| Amazon to offer data analytic services |
4/15/2015 |
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The service would be available on a pay-as-you-go basis for companies, governments or other entities to quickly analyze huge amounts of data and make predictions using models.
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| Semi companies preparing to ship in water |
4/14/2015 |
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TSMC, a supplier to major electronics companies including Apple, Qualcomm, Nvidia and MediaTek, said it will use as many as 180 trucks, each with a capacity of about three metric tons, for water delivery to maintain operations at fab sites in Hsinchu,
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| GM is confident in ignition switch recall |
4/14/2015 |
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GM has fixed 1.6 million of the roughly 2.3 million recalled cars worldwide that are registered and still in use, spokesman Alan Adler said Friday. In the U.S., the completion rate is almost 71 percent.
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