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| Apple to deliver Watch on April 24 |
3/10/2015 |
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There will be three cases—a custom aluminium alloy for the entry level sport models, stainless steel for a $549 to $1,000 midrange and 18-karat gold for models that start at $10,000.
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| China SMIC to gear up 28nm production |
3/9/2015 |
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SMIC has made massive equipment purchases for installing 28nm production lines, according to sources in the semiconductor industry. The China-based IC foundry is expected to enter mass shipments for 28nm chips in the second half of 2015.
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| Intel declares 3DIC as the way to go |
3/9/2015 |
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Monolithic 3D, is the lowest cost path for future scaling! Samsung’s 3D NAND is an early example of monolithic 3D enabled scaling, being driven primarily by the push to increase bit capacity while reducing the cost per bit.
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| China machinery growth slows |
3/9/2015 |
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"With the latest machinery production numbers showing a major deceleration, everyone now must accept that the Chinese economy is shifting to slower growth."
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| Nidia's Titan X, the most powerful GPU card ever |
3/6/2015 |
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So what’s inside the Titan X? Eight billion transistors, making it the “most advanced GPU the world has ever seen,” Huang said. It will contain a massive 12GB frame buffer. And that’s about it:
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| LG cut dependence on Qualcomm AP |
3/6/2015 |
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"Producing our own mobile application chips is very important. As LG Electronics has been consistent in developing these, we plan to gradually incorporate into our new models," Cho Juno said in a news conference.
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| Senate rejected "union ambush election rule" |
3/6/2015 |
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Officials would have unlimited opportunities to organize workers prior to filing a petition, while management could have just 11 days after a filing. The current median gap between a petition and the start of voting is 38 days.
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| Wireless power receiver cuts battery charging time |
3/6/2015 |
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According to the company, the device features a high-efficiency architecture that enables higher power transfer rates, translating into shorter charge times for portable devices such as smartphones and phablets.
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| Intel/Qualcomm top R&D spending |
3/5/2015 |
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According to market tracker IC Insights Inc., Samsung came in third after Intel Corp. and Qualcomm Inc. of the United States in R&D spending last year.
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| Shareholers sued IBM |
3/4/2015 |
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The lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court arose from IBM's announcement last Oct. 20 that it would sell the unit to GlobalFoundries Inc, and take a related $4.7 billion pre-tax charge.
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| Spansion debutes 333MHz HyperRAM |
3/4/2015 |
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HyperRAM memory promise to offer a scalable solution for extending fast read and write operations externally, allowing fast delivery of high-resolution graphics in the early part of the boot process for automotive, industrial and IoT applications.
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| Freescale/NXP to merge |
3/3/2015 |
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many consider as one of the largest consolidations in the semiconductor industry to date. Upon approval, the companies would create a top 10 chipmaker and embedded processor giant with more than $10 billion in combined revenues.
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| Galaxy 6S has high speed octocore |
3/3/2015 |
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Samsung's foundry group is courting big fabless companies such as Qualcomm as customers, too. In this way, Samsung appears to be giving itself a slight advantage at the 14nm node with a few months lead over its handset and silicon rivals.
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| Apple to put its chip design center in Israel |
3/2/2015 |
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What is Apple looking for in Israel? A possible answer lies in the companies it’s already bought: Anobit Technologies Ltd. and PrimeSense Ltd., two microprocessor chip design firms.
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| Pro and Cons of Labor union |
3/2/2015 |
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Have the labor unions of today changed from the past? In an effort to evaluate the situation, A list of some of the key advantages and disadvantages associated with union membership in today’s society.
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| More efficient lithium batteries discovered |
3/2/2015 |
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Allowing cars to travel hundreds of miles without recharging — have focused on the relationship between lithium and oxygen. They believe such "lithium-air" batteries would resolve size and cost constrains faced by current lithium ion batteries.
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| UFS storage is ready for high end phones |
2/27/2015 |
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It won't be at all shocking if this (UFS)storage ends up in high-end Samsung phones, and it wouldn't be a stretch to see interest from other top-tier companies that use Samsung's flash, like Apple.
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| Apple has to recruit battery experts |
2/27/2015 |
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Unnamed Samsung official suggested Apple needs "patents and experts in battery technology" to move forward with the project. He also said that top human resources firms have been approaching Samsung’s battery experts.
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