Qualcomm abandons Guizhou venture
Walks away from $570 million joint investment
A joint venture between US smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm Inc and China’s Guizhou province will shut down by the end of the month.
ASML says Samsung not involved in IP theft.
Media made the wrong assumption
ASML denied any involvement by its top client Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in an intellectual property theft case between the Dutch chip equipment maker and a rival.
The $9,000 Surface Hub 2S is out now
50-inch needs Steelcase’s Roam stand
Software King of the World Microsoft has released its Microsoft Surface Hub 2S which, for nine grand, seems to be a rather expensive whiteboard.
Student faces ten years for killer USB drive
Destroyed computers worth $58,471
A student of the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York, has admitted destroying $58,471 worth of PCs using a USB device designed to instantly overwhelm and fry their circuitry.
Samsung develops EUV-based 5nm process nodes
Chips are 25 percent smaller and 20 percent more power efficient
Samsung has announced that it has completed development of a 5nm semiconductor process using its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) technology.