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MEMS sensors manufactured by Murata in Finland are used in applications such as car safety systems and pacemakers.
Company release
$1,199 for Nvidia's fastest GeForce card
The Verge
Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest electronics contract manufacturer, plans to establish semiconductor-related operations in Zhuhai under a pact it signed on Thursday with the southern Chinese coastal city's government.
South China Morning Post
At the end of July, Amazon quietly removed its Kindle Voyage from its storefront, and appears to have discontinued the line of eBook readers, according to TheEbookReader and GoodEReader.
The Verge
An Apple store in Amsterdam's Leidseplein square was briefly evacuated after an explosion believed to be the result of an overheating iPad battery resulted in leaking vapors, Dutch broadcaster AT5 as well as Dutch blog iCulture reported.
Gizmodo
ARM's now-public roadmap represents its first processors that are designed for the PC space. ARM claims its chips will equal and potentially even surpass Intel's in single-threaded performance.
PC World
Sony has announced that it has sold 3 million PlayStation VR (PSVR) headsets as of the end of July, showing that its popularity has declined little since the fall 2016 launch.
engadget
The computer processing giant has acquired Vertex.AI, a startup that had a mission of making it possible to develop "deep learning for every platform," building a deep learning engine called PlaidML to do this.
TechCrunch
Applied Materials shares fell 3.7% in the extended session Thursday after the company beat on the top and bottom line but issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the fiscal fourth quarter.
MarketWatch
Hundreds of Google employees, upset at the company's decision to secretly build a censored version of its search engine for China, have signed a letter demanding more transparency to understand the ethical consequences of their work.
The New York Times
Sales of graphics chips to miners of cryptocurrencies like Ethereum dried up faster than expected, Nvidia has said. For a second quarter in a row, investors ignored Nvidia's growth in its main markets and ditched the stock, which fell about 5% in extended trading.
Bloomberg
The award recognizes Corning for its market-leading innovation of data center cabling infrastructure designed to offer a competitive advantage and minimize costs for data center operators.
Company release
More than 30 years after it served as the setting for the birth of the semiconductor foundry industry with the founding of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) in 1987, Taiwan shows no sign of relinquishing its stranglehold on the US$62 billion global business.
EE Times
Panasonic Corporation of North America, Colorado Department of Transportation, Ford Motor Company and Qualcomm Technologies have unveiled the first real-world application of C-V2X technology connecting the vehicle, the roadways and a regional traffic management center in Denver, demonstrating a new level of data-driven situational awareness that will achieve a dramatic improvement of safety on the road.
MarketWatch
Intel's newly-minted graphics group has set up a new twitter account (Intel Graphics), and in a bit of marketing glory, the first tweet features a video revealing a shadowy new discrete GPU that should arrive in 2020.
Tom's Hardware Guide
The employee Tesla is suing for theft of proprietary information has tweeted photos and other details, perhaps in an attempt to back up some of the claims he made against the automaker.
engadget
On Wednesday, Uber posted a loss of US$891 million for the second quarter, compared with a loss of more than US$1 billion during the same period a year earlier.
The New York Times
Cabot Microelectronics has agreed to buy KMG Chemicals for US$1.2 billion in cash and stock, making its largest acquisition ever in an effort to strengthen its position as a supplier to the semiconductor industry.
Bloomberg
Microsoft and Amazon finally are making available to the public their promised Cortana and Alexa integration across Windows 10 PCs and Echo devices in early preview form.
ZDNet
Intel on Tuesday disclosed three more possible flaws in some of its microprocessors that can be exploited to gain access to certain data from computer memory.
Reuters
Sprint is getting ready for the 5G future, partnering with LG to bring what it says will be the first 5G smartphone to the U.S. capable of tapping into its faster, next-generation cellular network.
USA Today
Apple has a team exploring a custom processor that can make better sense of health information coming off sensors from deep inside its devices, job listings show.
CNBC
Infineon Technologies and JD group have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at creating a smart IoT (Internet of Things) ecosystem.
Company release
Mobile revenues will account for more than 50% of the nearly $138 billion global games market this year, according to global market intelligence group Newzoo.
Variety
Samsung's new SmartThings Wifi router uses artificial intelligence and mesh networking to optimize whole-home Wi-Fi coverage while it also functions as a smart home hub.
Digital Trends
Chinese researchers are claiming an organic solar cell record - 17.3% efficiency under standard sunlight conditions from a solution-processes structure - as opposed to more-complex vacuum processing.
Electronics Weekly
Using the Von Neumann architecture for artificial intelligence applications is inefficient. What will replace it?
Semiconductor Engineering
Skyworks Solutions has agreed to purchase Avnera, a developer of analog SoCs.
Company release
Covestro is pushing ahead with developing and marketing its continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTP) by introducing Maezio as brand name. These materials are set to tap into the growing demand worldwide for strong and light materials that contribute to resource conservation and energy efficiency.
Company release
Japan's economy grew more than expected in the second quarter, helped by strong household and business spending and recovering from an earlier contraction, but global trade tensions loom as major risks to the export and investment outlook.
Reuters
Despite years dodging blue shells and piranha plants, Luigi has finally been claimed by the Grim Reaper. Fans were shocked after Nintendo broadcast footage of the green Mario brother's soul being ripped from his body.
BBC News
Yang Yuanqing, Chairman and CEO of Lenovo, said he was "satisfied" with the company's growth in the PC and tablet segment in the Indian market but admitted that Lenovo had "made some mistakes" with its smartphone portfolio.
The Economic Times
Net profit for January-June was 65.6 billion yuan ($9.62 billion).
Reuters
Showcases significant benefits of machine learning technology inside SSDs and storage accelerators spanning data center
PR Newswire
As PC sales have stagnated, Intel has increasingly been depending on its sales to data centers.
Reuters
The semiconductor cycle is showing signs of overheating,
CNBC
Japan's Toshiba reported a record quarterly net profit on Wednesday, thanks to the $18 billion sale of its flash memory chip business.
Reuters
The compute accelerator is optimized for graphics-intensive applications and machine learning inference.
ZDNet
US President Donald Trump has issued a strong warning to anyone trading with Iran, following his re-imposition of sanctions on the country.
BBC News
Musk said de-listing from the stock exchange meant Tesla would no longer be pressured into making short-term decisions to appease investors.
BBC News
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