U.S. Angles to Retake Supercomputer Lead

IBM, Intel, and AMD supercomputing platforms aim to beat China to exabyte computing, obsoleting the Top500's distributed-memory version of the Linpack benchmarks in the process.

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RISC-V Spins into Drives, AI

Western Digital and startup Esperanto tipped plans for storage and machine-learning chips using the open-source RISC-V architecture.

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CEA-Leti Moves Fast on New CEO

CEA-Leti, one of the largest micro- and nanotechnologies research institutes in Europe, lost its head recently, but recovered by naming Emmanuel Sabonnadiere as CEO, succeeding Marie-Noelle Semeria. CEA-Leti has provided no explanation of Semeria's contract non-renewal.

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IoT Skill Shortage Ahead

The growing Internet of Things is opening up a new range of jobs that require specific IoT skills--and we're already seeing a shortage of qualified candidates.

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Semiconductor Equipment Market Cools Further

Billings among North American semiconductor tool makers declined sequentially in October for a fourth straight month.

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South Korea Takes Bigger Slice of Mobile DRAM Market

Memory chip giants Samsung and SK Hynix increased their cumulative share of the mobile DRAM market to more than 85 percent in the third quarter while Micron Technology slipped.

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Infineon and Osram's Intelligent Matrix-lighting System for Vehicles

Video from ELIV 2017 illustrates how LED vehicle headlight systems can change the game in energy consumption and safety.

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Qualcomm Sheds Light on Licensing Policy With 5G Rates

5G technology licensing rates, the same as the firm charged for 4G, offer perspective on Qualcomm's dispute with Apple and wireless industry grumbling.

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ThinkRF, VIAVI Combine Products for 5G

The two test companies have integrated an RF downconverter into a cellular analyzer, giving it analysis capability for 5G mmWave frequencies.

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Startup Demonstrates ReRAM Retention, Endurance

Weebit Nano has been able to achieve 10 years' data retention achieved across 300nm 4Kb memory array cells at above room temperature.

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HPE Names Engineer to Succeed CEO Whitman

HPE, the server and comms half of the former Hewlett Packard, named computer engineer Antonio Neri to succeed Meg Whitman as CEO.

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Analyst Warns on Semiconductor Stock Valuations

Chip stocks have surged in value over the past three years, but it might be time to sell before a downturn hits, according to Handel Jones of IBS.

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What AlphaGo Zero Means for the Future of AI

Intel's Bob Rogers explains the possibilities that emerge as AI progresses beyond standard machine learning. DeepMind's self-taught Go champion is just the beginning.

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Inside 5 AR/VR Headsets

Augmented and virtual reality headsets will see use in companies faster than in our living rooms, but that's not stopping developers from pushing the limits to woo consumers.

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Time to Look For Low-Cost DRAM Alternatives

DRAM is turning into a seller's market, and it's time to look at low-cost alternatives.

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MEMS Design Shrinks Speakers to Chip Scale

USound has developed microelectromechanical system (MEMS) chip-scale audio speakers, targeting in- and over-ear high-fidelity earbuds, smartphones, multidriver headphones, and other IoT wearables.

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Soitec Tunes Wafers for RF, Imagers, Photonics

In recent months, Soitec is talking up not just RF-SOI and FD-SOI, but Photonics-SOI, Imager-SOI and others. What are they, how are they engineered, and what are they for?

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A Look At Over-the-air Software Updates for Vehicles

Microchip Technology demonstrates its infotainment connectivity solution at the 2017 ELIV electric vehicle conference in Bonn, Germany

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Startup Breathes Life into Bio IoT

Startup Nano Global partnered with ARM to design SoCs than can detect and scrub pathogens in a wide range of medical and IoT products

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Analysts Applaud Marvell-Cavium Deal

Analysts generally praised the merger of Marvell and Cavium as diversifying into broader comms and networking markets but were wary of revenue and profit growth.

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