Marvell Announces World's First Quadruple Core Processor for ARM Instruction
Marvell today announced another breakthrough in advanced chip design: the world's first "quadruple" core processor for applications utilizing the ARM instruction set.
View ArticleWi-Fi to come in a much faster, short-range flavor
The industry group that supports Wi-Fi is adopting a new technology that should boost data speeds more than 10 times at short distances, which could replace video cables in the home entertainment center.
View ArticleMotorola to officially split into 2 companies
(AP) -- Motorola Inc.'s formal split into two companies on Tuesday will mark the final step in the years-long breakup of a consumer electronics industry pioneer.
View ArticleAmazon shares slip on revenue miss, profit outlook
(AP) -- Amazon.com's results for the holiday shopping season highlight the inherent tension between retailers and consumers: What's good for one isn't necessarily good for the other.
View ArticleLess is more: Researchers pinpoint graphene's varying conductivity levels
(PhysOrg.com) -- Did you know that pencil lead may just end up changing the world? Graphene is the material from which graphite, the core of your No. 2 pencil, is made. It is also the latest "wonder...
View ArticleNew AMBA 4 specification optimizes coherency for heterogeneous multicore SoCs
ARM today announced the latest AMBA 4 interface and protocol specification featuring the AMBA 4 AXI Coherency Extensions (ACE). Cache coherency is essential in multicore computing applications to...
View ArticlePanasonic turns on OLED lighting roadmap, announces record efficiency
(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan-based Panasonic Electric Works (PEW) has announced an aggressive roadmap to make organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) lighting a part of the not so distant future. The company...
View ArticleApple design chief faces new world without Jobs
Printed on the back of every iPod, iPhone and iPad is "Designed by Apple in California."
View ArticlePhysicists identify room temperature quantum bits in silicon carbide - widely...
A discovery by physicists at UC Santa Barbara may earn silicon carbide -- a semiconductor commonly used by the electronics industry -- a role at the center of a new generation of information...
View ArticleToshiba to shut three Japan semiconductor plants
Electronics and manufacturing giant Toshiba said Wednesday it is to shut three semiconductor factories in Japan as part of a reorganisation of its business, as it grapples with falling profits.
View ArticleNPD: US holiday electronics sales drop 5.9 percent
(AP) -- U.S. sales of consumer electronics fell 5.9 percent this past holiday season, as smartphones cannibalize sales of standalone gadgets like cameras, camcorders and GPS navigation devices.
View ArticlePanasonic to present 'Photosynthesis' concept at the Milano Salone del Mobile...
Panasonic Corporation will showcase its total solutions for creating, storing, saving and managing energy at the Milano Salone del Mobile 2012 exhibition, which will be held in Milan this April.
View ArticleScientists produce graphene using microorganisms
The Graphene Research Group at Toyohashi University of Technology (Japan) reports on the synthesis of graphene by reducing graphene oxide using microorganisms extracted from a local river.
View ArticleMultiple groups claim to create first atom-thick silicon sheets
(PhysOrg.com) -- Since its discovery in 2004, graphene -- sheets of carbon an atom thick -- has sparked a flurry of research into the nanomaterial's potential applications for blazing fast, tiny...
View ArticleNokia town faces dim future as jobs shift to Asia
(AP) -- Tomi Marjuaho repaired mobile phones for 10 years in the town of Salo in southern Finland, where Nokia, the world's top cell phone-maker, set up its wireless operations in the 1980s.
View ArticleSmartphones fuel Samsung profit to record
(AP) -- A surge in Galaxy smartphone sales fueled earnings at Samsung Electronics to a record high in the first quarter, usually a tough season for the global consumer electronics industry, outshining...
View ArticleGraphExeter: New graphene-based material could revolutionise electronics...
(Phys.org) -- The most transparent, lightweight and flexible material ever for conducting electricity has been invented by a team from the University of Exeter.
View ArticleResearchers prove new circuit pattern-design process, see promise for 14...
(Phys.org) -- Researchers sponsored by Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC) announced that they have successfully created contact hole patterns for a wide variety of practical logic and memory...
View ArticlePlasma startup creates high-energy light to make smaller microchips
A University of Washington lab has been working for more than a decade on fusion energy, harnessing the energy-generating mechanism of the sun. But in one of the twists of scientific discovery, on the...
View ArticleTandemLaunch licenses new 3-D technology
Max Planck Innovation, the technology transfer organization of the Max Planck Society has licensed a new method for processing digital stereo image content to TandemLaunch Technologies, a Canada based...
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