Qualcomm Extends Industry-Leading Snapdragon Wear Lineup with New Processor, Platforms and Support for Targeted-Purpose Wearables

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Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced at COMPUTEX 2016 that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is introducing the new Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Wear 1100 processor for the fast growing targeted-purpose wearables... Read More

Advantest Earns 28th Consecutive Ranking as a 10 BEST Supplier of Semiconductor Test Equipment, Excelling as Global Customers Rate System Uptime as Paramount in the Industry

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For the 28th consecutive year, leading semiconductor test equipment supplier, Advantest Corporation (TSE: 6857), has been named a distinguished 10 BEST Supplier of Chip Making Equipment, in the annual VLSIresearch... Read More

Microsoft announces streamlining of smartphone hardware business

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Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday announced plans to streamline the company’s smartphone hardware business, which will impact up to 1,850 jobs. As a result, the company will record an impairment and... Read More

Communications and Computer Systems Drive IC Sales Across All Regions

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Communication and computer systems are forecast to be two of the three largest system applications for IC sales in every global region—Americas, Europe, Japan, and Asia-Pacific—this year, according to data... Read More

New concept turns battery technology upside-down Pump-free design for flow battery could offer advantages in cost and simplicity.

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A new approach to the design of a liquid battery, using a passive, gravity-fed arrangement similar to an old-fashioned hourglass, could offer great advantages due to the system’s low cost... Read More

IBM Scientists Achieve Storage Memory Breakthrough

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Technology can speed up machine learning and access to the Internet of Things, mobile phone apps and cloud storage For the first time, scientists at IBM (NYSE: IBM) Research have... Read More

Imec Expands its Silicon Platform for Quantum Computing Applications

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At the Quantum Europe conference, taking place in Amsterdam, Belgian’s nanoelectronincs research center imec announced today that it is ramping-up its R&D activities focused on quantum computing. Imec will implement... Read More