Quick Bytes: Motorola in Profit, 2020 Focus on Innovation, Foldables, and 5G
The first guest company to present at Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit this year was Motorola. For readers who haven’t been keeping up, Motorola is now owned by Lenovo, and...
20 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019
Quick Bytes: Qualcomm’s Prediction of 1.4 Billion 5G Smartphones by 2022
I wanted to cover a quick comment that Qualcomm made yesterday at its Snapdragon Tech Summit event. We’re currently in 2019, with the first wave of 5G devices currently...
4 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019
Intel Unveils Specificiations of NUC Element Modular PCs
In preparation to kick off sales of its NUC Element modular computers, Intel has disclosed some additional details about the product family. As expected, Intel will offer NUC Element...
14 by Anton Shilov on 12/4/2019
Quick Bytes: Qualcomm’s Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Demo with 5G and 4G
One of the key elements of any new wireless coverage standard is how to carve up the frequency spectrum. We’ve covered in previous articles that 5G will operate in...
1 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/4/2019
NAND Flash Revenue Peaks in Q3 Amid Production Cuts & Outages
Despite cuts in wafer starts by almost all NAND producers, and even disruptions in Kioxia (former Toshiba Memory) and Western Digital's fab operations, analysts estimate that bit shipments of...
10 by Anton Shilov on 12/4/2019
Qualcomm Goes For The Mid-Range: Snapdragon 765 and 765G
The first day of Qualcomm’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit is often the teaser day: a slow entry into the rest of the event where the technical aspects of the...
12 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2019
GELID Unveils SubZero M.2 XL: A DIY Cooling System for M.2-22110 SSDs
GELID has introduced a rather unusual product: an aftermarket heatsink designed for SSDs that use the server/workstation-oriented M.2-22110 form-factor. The SubZero M.2 XL aluminum heatsink is shipped with two...
16 by Anton Shilov on 12/3/2019
Quick Bytes: Qualcomm on 5G Deployment Status
It has been hard to avoid the concept of 5G, and for this year and last year, Qualcomm has used its Snapdragon Tech Summit to showcase where they are...
2 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 12/3/2019
Honor Announces MagicBook 14 & 15: AMD Ryzen Inside
Right on the heels of the MateBook D announcement, Huawei’s daughter company Honor has introduced its own MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 notebooks. The eye-catching machines look very similar...
20 by Anton Shilov on 12/3/2019
Amazon Announces Graviton2 SoC Along With New AWS Instances: 64-Core Arm With Large Performance Uplifts
We only recently reported on the story that Amazon are designing a custom server SoC based on Arm’s Neoverse N1 CPU platforms, only for Amazon to now officially announce...
43 by Andrei Frumusanu on 12/3/2019
Cherry’s Secure Board 1.0 Encrypts Every Keystroke & Has Smart Card Reader
Security is one of the primary concerns for many organizations these days, so makers of hardware and software have been responding in-kind with new security features baked into their...
24 by Anton Shilov on 12/3/2019
Acer Launches Rugged Chromebook Spin 311: An 11.6-Inch AMD A4-Based 2-in-1
Acer has started sales of its new rugged convertible Chromebook laptop for corporate and educational markets. The Chromebook Spin 311 brings together a low price tag, sturdy design, and...
19 by Anton Shilov on 12/3/2019
Japan Display Develops 1.6-Inch Micro LED Display Module: 265 PPI & 3,000 Nits
Japan Display Inc. (JDI) announced this week that it has completed development of its first Micro LED module. The prototype of the Micro LED module, which is a potential...
29 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2019
Toshiba to Expand HDD Production: 20 TB & 10-Platter Drives Coming
While hard drive sales on a unit basis have continued to decline, the drop hasn't been consistent across all segments of the market. In particular, high capacity drives for...
22 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2019
AWS Designing a 32-Core Arm Neoverse N1 CPU for Cloud Servers
Amazon Web Services’s CPU design unit is working on a new multi-core processor for AWS servers. The new CPU is said to use Arm’s new Neoverse N1 architecture and...
12 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2019
BOE to Triple Production of Smartphone AMOLED Panels
BOE has outlined a new set of aggressive plans to expand production of AMOLED display panels for mobile devices next year. The company has reasons to be optimistic as...
5 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2019
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) is Ramping up Chinese DRAM Using Qimonda IP
ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT), previously known as Innotron, has started production of computer memory using a 19 nm manufacturing technology. The company has a roadmap for at least two...
15 by Anton Shilov on 12/2/2019
Two Phase Immersion Liquid Cooling at Supercomputing 2019
It would now appear we are saturated with two phase immersion liquid cooling (2PILC) – pun intended. One common element from the annual Supercomputing trade show, as well as...
35 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/29/2019
Spotted at Supercomputing 2019: A 256 GB Gen-Z Memory Module
As a millennial, everything in the media that ‘Gen Z’ does often gets lumped into the millennial category. Thankfully there’s another type of Gen-Z in the world: the cache...
11 by Dr. Ian Cutress on 11/29/2019
Panasonic to Sell Semiconductor Business to Nuvoton
Panasonic has announced plans to almost completely withdraw from semiconductor business and sell all of its related assets to Taiwan-based Nuvoton Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary of Winbond Electronics...
6 by Anton Shilov on 11/29/2019
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