Intel slams brakes on plans for new chip factory

From PC World: Intel has put on hold a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona, leaving the new space available for unspecified future technology.

The company said in February 2011 it was investing over $5 billion in the new Fab 42, which was expected to be completed last...

HP Unveils Slate 6 VoiceTab, Slate 7 VoiceTab Phablets

From DailyTech: Back in September 2012, HP CEO Meg Whitman declared, “We have to ultimately offer a smartphone because in many countries of the world that would be your first computing device.” After its highly-publicized webOS failure, HP is making its first foray back into the smartphone market....

ARM and UMC Team Up for Low-Cost 28nm Cortex-A7 Processor

From X-bit Labs: United Microelectronics Corp., once a leading contract maker of chips, these days can hardly compete against its rivals when it comes to innovative process technologies. Nonetheless, the company can produce chips at very competitive price-points, which makes it a unique choice for...

AMD Extends Graphics Lead Over Intel

From EETimes: Advanced Micro Devices announced Tuesday its latest and best PC processor using a combination of x86 and graphics cores, claiming it out-performs mid-range chips from archrival Intel. Analysts praised AMD's Kaveri chips but noted they currently are limited to desktop versions and Intel...

Dying BlackBerry recommits to the physical keyboard

From PC World: BlackBerry will rededicate itself to physical keyboards as the company tries to regain its footing.

Speaking to Bloomberg , BlackBerry CEO John Chen said the company's future phones will “predominantly” have physical keyboards, rather than full touchscreens. “I personally love the...

SimCity Gets an Offline Option

From DailyTech: According to a blog post by Patrick Buechner, general manager of the Maxis Emeryville studio, the next update of SimCity (Update 10) will allow for city-building gameplay minus the internet connection.

"Let’s get right to it. SIMCITY OFFLINE IS COMING!" said Buechner. "I’ve wanted...

Intel May Introduce First Broadwell Chips in Q3 – Report

From X-bit Labs: When Intel Corp. last quarter said that it would delay mass production of the next-generation code-named Broadwell microprocessors, it was expected that the new chips will become available only in late 2014. However, a new piece of information indicates that the world’s largest...

Intel Surfs Millimeter Waves to 5G

From EETimes: After leading a successful charge to bring 60 GHz to wireless LANs, an Intel executive is driving research to define a proposal for using millimeter wave wireless in next-generation cellular systems.

The technology "will play a very serious role as an augmentation of the cellular...

Dropbox works to resolve service hiccups, says files safe

From PC World: Dropbox said Sunday it was making progress in restoring service after the popular file storage service went offline on Friday.

As of Sunday afternoon Pacific time, the service said more than 99 percent of users can access their files. But 5 percent of users were having trouble...

Google+ Invades Gmail, Allows Users to Email Without Email Addresses

From DailyTech: Email usually feels like a private place on the Web (for the most part). It's not like Facebook, where anyone in the world can easily find you by name and try to contact you. In other words, you'd expect to find a message from an old acquaintance on Facebook, but not in your private...

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