Chip Execs Lower Expectations

From EETimes: Concerned about the sluggish pace of revenue growth, industry leaders see less momentum for a sustained semiconductor recovery in 2014 than they did a year ago, according to this year’s Global Semiconductor Industry Survey from KPMG, a financial services and consulting firm.

"There...

Digital Storm teases its new Steam Machine

From PC World: Small is in, bulky is out, and Steam Machines are all the rage in the PC gaming ecosystem. Digital Storm teases us Wednesday with its Valve approved high-end PC which will be unveiled at CES 2014 next month.

The few details we do have include options for liquid cooling, an Nvidia...

Facebook to Add Auto-Play Video to NewsFeed for All Mobile Users

From DailyTech: If you are a user of Facebook, you have probably posted links to video on sites like Instagram or at least have seen them on your newsfeed. To get those videos to play, you currently have to click on the play buttons.

However, Facebook has announced that it will be rolling out a...

Mozilla Patches Firefox 26 With 14 Security Advisories

From eWeek: Mozilla is out today with its latest milestone Firefox release, this time providing security fixes as well as new functionality in the open-source Web browser.

The Firefox 26 release first entered beta in early November. From a security feature perspective, the big change that Firefox...

Qualcomm Unveils First 64-Bit Snapdragon 410 Mobile Processor

From DailyTech: Just months after an exec called Apple's 64-bit processor for the iPhone a "marketing gimmick," Qualcomm has decided to join the 64-bit club with a new mobile processor.

According to All Things D, Qualcomm has introduced the new Snapdragon 410 mobile processor. It's entry-level...

Transmitter Chip Boosts Optical Fiber Capacity 10X

From EETimes: Increase fiber optic capacity in existing networks by 10-times just by switching to a new kind of transmitter -- that's the claim of a research group at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland). Using sinc-shaped Nyquist pulses, information can be encoded on pulses...

Qualcomm debuts 64-bit Snapdragon; future chips all will have LTE

From PC World: Qualcomm paved the way for a new 64-bit generation of ARM processors Monday, announcing the Snapdragon 410 processor that will hit smartphones in the second half of 2014.

Qualcomm also said that it had decided to make LTE a common technology across all of its Snapdragon platforms...

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