China Aims To Be Global Leader In Chip Manufacturing
China is propping up its local chip manufacturing industry with new policies and financial support intended to transform the country into a semiconductor-making powerhouse by 2030. In policy guidelines...
View ArticleAmazon Seeks FAA Approval To Test Drones
Amazon.com Inc is asking U.S. regulators for permission to test its delivery drones near Seattle, as part of a rapid expansion of a program that has sparked widespread debate over the safety and...
View ArticleVideo Streaming Company RayV Acquired By Yahoo
Yahoo has purchased online video streaming company RayV with the aim of distributing content to more consumers, mostly through mobile devices. RayV, founded in 2005, is focused on efficiently...
View ArticleTSMC And ARM Announce 64-bit FinFet
This silicon proof point with ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors demonstrates the additional benefits in performance and power efficiency that 16nm FinFET technology delivers to big.LITTLE...
View ArticleFacebook May Be Entering Healthcare Arena
Facebook Inc already can tell who your friends are and the what types of things grabs your attention. Soon, it could also know the state of your health. On the heels of fellow Silicon Valley technology...
View ArticleThe Linux Foundation Develops A Dronecode
But contrary to what we learned from the recent series of Keifer Sutherland asthma-fest 24, the open source aspect won't make drones more hackable.
View ArticleWill TSMC’s FinFet Chips Show Up In Early 2015?
This also means the 20nm node will have a limited shelf life. The first 20nm products are rolling out as we speak, but the transition is slow and if TSMC sticks to its schedule, 20nm will be its top...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Surface Finally Turns A Profit
After two years and nearly $2 billion in losses, Microsoft’s Surface finally became profitable in the September quarter. For the three months ending Sept. 30, Microsoft recorded $908 million in revenue...
View ArticleLuxottica, Intel Pair Up On Hi-tech Glasses
Italy’s Luxottica teaming up with U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp to develop glasses that combine its top fashion brands with technology that could allow wearers to access information about their health or...
View ArticleGoogle To Offer Grants For Internet Of Things Development
As part of a new effort to generate more Internet of Things development, Google is planning to hand out a number of grants to facilitate pioneering research in this esoteric field of computing. “While...
View ArticleAre 100-Core ARM Processors On The Horizon
Tile-Mx will be based around Cortex-A53 cores and will be targeted at white-box networking vendors, servers that run high-performance networking applications and software vendors.
View ArticleBMW Denies Rumors Of Car Building Partnership With Apple
German luxury automobile maker BMW said on Thursday its talks with technology giant Apple did not involve developing or building a car, denying a German magazine report. Auto Motor und Sport said in...
View ArticleIs The ARM Cortex A57 Being Snubbed?
If demand for FinFET parts proves to be much lower than anticipated, it is possible that foundries will have to reduce pricing as more capacity comes online – but this depends on a wide range of...
View ArticleWall Street Appears To Back FinFET
The difference between whether a firm is making FinFETs or not could be the best way of telling if a firm is going to do well.
View ArticleMicrosoft Offering Up To $500k For Hololens Researchers
Microsoft is offering academic researchers in the U.S. a chance to work on its HoloLens augmented reality headgear later this year with a new program that will award funding and hardware to a handful...
View ArticleSamsung Announces Entry Into Auto Industry
Samsung has announced it will begin manufacturing electronics parts for the automotive industry, with a primary focus on autonomous vehicles. The South Korean electronics giant is only the latest tech...
View ArticleFord Bringing Driverless Car Tests To California
Ford will plans to start testing a fully autonomous version of its Fusion Hybrid on California streets in 2016, joining the list of major automaker to put driverless car technology to the test on real...
View ArticleARM Shows Off Cortex-R8
The Cortex-R8 works with existing software which makes it easy for developers to integrate it into single CPU real-time processing products and reduce design cycles.
View ArticleWill ARMs Cortex 32 Bring Any Changes?
ARM claims its Cortex-A32 is highly scalable and can be used in single-core or up to quad-core configurations.
View ArticleGoogle, Fiat Chrysler Turns Focus To Self-driving Minivans
Alphabet Inc’s Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV have agreed to team up and build a fleet of 100 self-driving minivans, marking the first time that a Silicon Valley firm has teamed up with a...
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