Samsung Begins Mass Producing World’s Fastest DRAM
Samsung Electronics announced today that it has begun mass producing the industry’s first 4-gigabyte (GB) DRAM package based on the second-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2) interface, for use in high performance computing (HPC), advanced graphics and network systems, as well as enterprise servers...
Plessey to build LEDs in cubic GaN to overcome The Green Gap
Plessey, Anvil Semiconductors and the University of Cambridge announced today that they are working together to fabricate high efficiency LEDs in cubic GaN grown on Anvil's 3C-SiC / Si substrates. Cubic GaN has the potential to overcome the problems caused in conventional LEDs by the strong internal electric fields which impair carrier recombination and contribute to efficiency droop...
Worldwide IT Spending is Forecast to Grow 0.6% in 2016, Gartner Says
Worldwide IT spending is forecast to total $3.54 trillion dollars in 2016, just a 0.6 percent increase over 2015 spending of $3.52 trillion dollars, according to Gartner, Inc. 2015 saw the largest U.S. dollar drop in IT spending since Gartner began tracking IT spending...
Exhibitor Registration Soars as COMPUTEX Debuts New Exhibits
TAIPEI, Taiwan - TAITRA, Taiwan External Trade and Development Council, announced today that domestic exhibitor registration for the 2016 COMPUTEX show was completed in December of 2015. Confirmed exhibitors include Acer, Asus, MediaTEK, and Advantech, as well as early overseas registrations like Intel, Microsoft, Haier, Siemens, Hisense, and Supermicro...
TrendForce: Annual Sales of Smartphones in Russia Grow By 22% YoY
More consumers in Russia have shifted to online and mobile platforms due to the rapid expansion of the 4G network and the maturation of mobile payment services in the country. According to the latest research by the global market research firm TrendForce, annual sales of smartphones in Russia grew by 22% year on year from 21...
Commercial Drone Sales to Rise by More Than 80% in 2016
According to Juniper Research, the annual revenues from commercial drones sales are expected to reach $481 million this year, up by 84% on last year’s figure of $261 million. Juniper Research found that a low price point had significantly reduced the barrier to entry in many sectors, with high performance models now available for less than $3,000...