From X-bit Labs: Tizen Association, an industry consortium that supports the development of an open source Tizen software platform and operating system, has announced that it had been joined by fifteen additional members. The new members will contribute to Tizen’s eco-system, but the question is...
From EETimes: A math professor's observation mushroomed into a startup with two demo chips and three standards efforts. Kandou Bus aims to drive a broad range of chip-to-chip and backplane interconnects down to picojoules/bit rates measured in single digits.
The idea for the company came when a...
From PC World: The GPU arms race is usually about frames per second: Which video card can churn out triple-A games such as Battlefield 4 at the fastest clip? So when AMD and Nvidia announce a new GPU architecture, they often lead with their top gun and fill in the lower-priced slots down the road...
From DailyTech: Sony has offered up some new statistics on how well the PlayStation 4 game console is selling. Sony says that since the PS4 launched last year, over 5.3 million units have been sold. The sales stats are accurate as of February 8, 2014, and best Sony’s “5 million in 5 months” figure...
From X-bit Labs: SanDisk Corp., one of the world’s largest producers of NAND flash-based devices, this week introduced special Secure Digital (SD) memory cards designed specifically for the latest cameras that can record video in 4K resolution (3840*2160 and similar). The new SanDisk Extreme PRO...
From EETimes: The Silicon Valley venture capitalists who once nurtured the semiconductor industry have almost all moved on to greener pastures in web startups, so it's not entirely clear what will be the source of tomorrow's chip innovations.
That was the conclusion of a panel of veteran...
From PC World: LG Electronics has introduced the third generation of its low-end L series, with three new smartphones that all run Android 4.4 or KitKat.
The South Korean company has a history of launching its products ahead of Mobile World Congress, and this year is no different. Last week, the G...
From DailyTech: Google has been rolling out its ultra-quick Google Fiber service in certain U.S. cities over the last couple of years, but the tech giant is already working on much faster internet offerings.
According to USA Today, Google already has internet speeds of 10 gigabits per second in...
From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. has revealed details about its upcoming microprocessor for enterprise servers at the International Solid State Circuit Technology Conference. The chip will feature up to fifteen cores, all-new topology as well as enhanced RAS [reliability, availability, scalability]...
What exactly is computer security? From an engineering perspective, encrypting your data with a strong key and a complicated algorithm ought to keep anyone away from your sensitive information. After all, if it takes a supercomputer a billion years to crack a 128-bit AES key, imagine what it takes to defeat something done with 256-bit AES encryption. In reality, as much as this sounds great on paper, this is certainly not the case. Regardless of...
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