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| Engineering outsourcing continue to grow |
12/20/2013 |
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IT and software services giant Infosys will add nearly 16,000 engineers to its employee roster as outsourcing opportunities coming from the U.S. and European markets continue to increase.
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| See the future of smartphone and tablets at CES |
12/19/2013 |
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There are plenty of those brewing for 2014 even beyond the big show, from the smartphone's screen size and shape to the stuff that goes inside and even pairs to a watch on your wrist or glasses on your face.
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| Broadcom to help validate Micron HBM memory |
12/19/2013 |
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"OEMs today continue to tackle the challenge of an ever-increasing volume, velocity and variety of data. We are delighted to be working with Broadcom to validate a solution that helps alleviate the throughput challenge for our mutual customers,”
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| SK Hynix to build new fab for mobile DRAM |
12/19/2013 |
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Construction of the new factory will begin next year, with mass production of dynamic random access memory, or DRAM, chips starting as early as 2015, one of the people said.
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| Toshiba to expand production in Indonesia |
12/19/2013 |
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Industry Minister MS Hidayat said that the electronics giant will set up an additional site at Java to significantly increase output and make Indonesia its largest production base outside Japan, according to the Jakarta Post.
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| LED lighting to glow in 2014 |
12/18/2013 |
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As retail prices for LED light bulbs keep falling, international vendors are expected to release OEM orders to Taiwan-based makers.
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| Toyota licensed wireless charging technology |
12/18/2013 |
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Toyota has cooperated technically with the company for the past several years. Under this intellectual property license agreement, Toyota will offer wireless charging power capture devices on their future rechargeable hybrid electric and battery electric vehicles.
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| Qualcomm found price fixing in China |
12/17/2013 |
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Xu Kunlin, head of the department of price supervision at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told China Daily that his agency had obtained "substantial evidence against" Qualcomm.
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| Huawei's Honor series are loaded |
12/17/2013 |
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The Honor 3X joins the first wave of octa-core 1.7GHz MT6592-powered devices, and it boasts 2GB of RAM, a 13-megapixel f/2.2 main camera, a 5-megapixel 1.4-micron front imager plus a generous 3,000mAh battery.
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| EU tech fund to support Blue Tooth in health care applications |
12/17/2013 |
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These include standardized connectivity for plug-and-play interconnection with other devices, ultra-portability with tiny modules for maximal comfort for the wearer, ultra-low-power consumption for long autonomy and flexibility of integration for the module to be embedded with a heterogeneous set of other components such as sensors, signal processors and energy harvesters.
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| The rise of Mobile DRAM |
12/17/2013 |
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Based on comparisons of the supply bit growth figures, Mobile DRAM will not only replace PC DRAM as the mainstream DRAM product in 2014, but will also show the largest shipment numbers within the industry.
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| Microsoft puts out $1 B bait for Samsung to make Win OS phone |
12/16/2013 |
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Microsoft is now trying to motivate other global manufacturers to develop Windows Phone OS based smartphones. According to a tweet from Eldar Murtazin, Microsoft has offered an annual sum of $1 billion to Samsung if the Koreans start producing Windows Phone devices.
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| Google to design its own ARM server |
12/16/2013 |
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Google is Intel's fifth-largest customer. If the advertising and cloud computing company were to move to Arm Chipzilla would not be pleased.
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| Google will listen to your "OK Google" |
12/16/2013 |
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“Five years from now we will be having that kind of conversation with Google and it will just seem natural. Google will answer you the same way a person would answer.”
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| IC Insight predicts medical electronics to grow |
12/16/2013 |
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In the years ahead, stronger growth in medical electronics will be fueled by sales of less expensive diagnostic and imaging equipment in China and other developing country markets as well as the explosion of wireless mobile healthcare systems that monitor patients remotely and reduce the need for expensive stays in hospitals.
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| Micron announced 45nm NOR Flash device |
12/13/2013 |
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Micron Technology has announced the availability of 45nm serial NOR flash memory samples in 512Mb, 1Gb and 2Gb densities with a standard SPI interface.
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| AMD cuts CPU prices |
12/12/2013 |
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AMD has implemented comprehensive price cuts for its desktop processors, including FM2 socket A4 5300/4000 CPUs, sold in China and North America to counter Intel's reduced-priced Pentium and Celeron models, according to industry sources.
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| Xilinx unveil 20nm chip |
12/12/2013 |
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Xilinx has announced that it began to ship its first 20nm silicon in early November 2013, continuing to execute on an aggressive UltraScale device rollout
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| TSMC revenues slide to US$1.5 billion |
12/11/2013 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated revenues of NT$44.33 billion (US$1.5 billion) for November 2013
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