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| New Radeon card is fastest for gamers |
9/4/2014 |
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The Radeon R9 285 GPU is capable of delivering up to 3.29TFLOPS of computing performance, offering extreme gaming detail that outshines any card at 1080p and beyond in its category.
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| Static IP core with dual port static memory to save power |
9/4/2014 |
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The microcontroller targets applications ranging from high-speed automotive and appliance motor control, to low-power remote transmitters/receivers, pointing devices and telecom processors. Built-in power save mode makes this IP core ideal for applications where the power consumption aspect is critical.
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| ARM sold 50th 64bit license |
9/3/2014 |
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ARM unveiled its 64-bit processor architecture back in 2011, followed a year later by the Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 core designs based on it. These provide backwards compatibility with existing 32-bit ARM software, but add a new 64-bit execution state that delivers more capabilities.
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| Semi venture funding to return |
9/3/2014 |
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Semiconductor funding hit bottom in 2013, and it is slowly coming back. Publicly available transaction data from CrunchBase discovered promising insights about recent funding trends.
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| Taiwan firm JV in China on NAND development |
9/3/2014 |
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The Eon-China Sigma joint venture is likely to focus on the development and production of single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips, a move which is set to compete directly with Taiwan-based flash memory suppliers Macronix International and Winbond Electronics.
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| Consumers still pressimistic on economy |
9/2/2014 |
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About 42 percent of those surveyed say they have less pay and savings than before the recession began in late 2007. Just 7 percent say they're significantly better off.
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| Rural India to get free Internet Access |
9/2/2014 |
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Internet.org wants to make internet access available to the two-thirds of the world that is not yet connected. It is a partnership of non-profit organisations, local communities, experts, and technology leaders.
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| UMC Board approved JV with Fujitsu |
8/29/2014 |
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Under the joint venture, a 12-inch wafer plant in Mie Prefecture in Japan will manufacture 28,000 wafers per month for use in image sensors and automobile electronics, according to UMC.
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| Volve - a Chinese automotive company |
8/29/2014 |
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Back in 2010, Ford sold Swedish carmaker, Volvo, to a Chinese company known as Geely, and only now, is the company hitting the Chinese market with its first vehicle to be rid of Ford tech, the XC90.
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| Apple failed to halt Samsung in court |
8/29/2014 |
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Apple hadn't adequately proven Samsung's intellectual theft had hurt its sales or diminished its reputation for innovation. Judge Koh noted that Apple had previously licensed some of the features that Samsung infringed upon to the makers of other smartphones that competed against the iPhone, too.
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| Nokia to desert China for Vietnam |
8/29/2014 |
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The transfer is a big leap Microsoft is making following its acquisition of the smartphone company. Nokia will shut down all Komarom facilities in Hungary as well as part of the Beijing and Dongguan plants in China, and repurpose the Reynosa factory in Mexico as a service centre.
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| Samsung starts production on 3D DDR4 memory module |
8/28/2014 |
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3D TSV is an innovative packaging technology that vertically interconnects stacked dies. With its introduction of the new TSV modules, Samsung has further strengthened its technological leadership in the “3D memory” era.
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| Fairchild to shut down older fabs |
8/28/2014 |
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While the industry is moving toward larger wafers, these actions are expected to increase eight-inch wafer production from the current total wafer output of 30 per cent to approximately 75 per cent.
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| Durable good orders up |
8/27/2014 |
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Orders for durable goods rose 22.6 percent in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the largest one-month gain on record. The strength came from a 318 percent increase in orders for civilian aircraft.
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| China to develope its own OS |
8/27/2014 |
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In the Chinese government's point of view, the U.S. surveillance program and Microsoft's PC OS monopoly, compounded by a mobile market dominated by Google's Android OS and Apple's iPhones, all combine as perfect justification for the Chinese government to pitch its own OS.
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| Lenovo turns to Taiwan for server help |
8/27/2014 |
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China Internet service players Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba are planning to develop an open structure that mainly focuses on satisfying China players' demand and Taiwan-based server players will have a chance to join the project and expand their cooperation with China Internet service players.
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| iPhone 6 to affect DRAM prices |
8/27/2014 |
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Supply chain work in Asia suggests PC DRAM pricing is tracking to a ~3-5% M/M increase in Sept, owing to some pre-iPhone 6 launch supply constraints. While it is too early to see actual supply impact from Samsung ramping DRAM in S3.
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| SpaceX test rocket down |
8/26/2014 |
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SpaceX spokesman John Taylor says the test flight involved a three-engine version of its reusable Falcon 9 rocket. He said an "anomaly" was detected in the rocket and it automatically self-destructed.
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