IBM is investing $3bn over the next 5 years in two broad research and early-stage development programs to push the limits of chip technology needed to meet the emerging demands of cloud computing and ‘big data’ systems. The ...
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Google, Apple, or a smart startup could disrupt Intel, which increasingly looks awkwardly poised as the world’s largest maker of microprocessors. That’s the view of Dave Ditzel, a veteran microprocessor designer. I talked to ...
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The global OC market posted revenues of $6.8bn in 2013, up 3% from the 2012 level. The gain was due to strong datacom sales driven by hyperscale data centers, 100G coherent demand, and unexpected growth in sales of transceivers for ...
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For its fiscal fourth-quarter (ended 27 April), fiber-optic communications component and subsystem maker Finisar Corp of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has reported its seventh consecutive quarter of sequential revenue growth, to a record $306m (up ...
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Delta Electronics is expanding its PV business by acquiring a plot of land in Japan to build a solar power-generation station, company chairman Yancey Hai has revealed. The Japan project marks the Taiwan-based firm's diversification from ...
Hewlett-Packard Co. is launching two new supercomputers called Apollo, doubling down on tech hardware as the company looks to take more market share from rival IBM Corp. in the high-end supercomputer realm. The first machine, Apollo 6000, ...
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While there is an opinion that strong demand for data center servers may maintain for three years at the most and subsequently there will be demand for replacement and maintenance services only, Taiwan-based ODMs generally believe that the ...
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Fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a-chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA says that it has joined an alliance of companies supporting the 100G CLR4 CWDM (coarse wavelength-division multiplexing) ...
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Avago Technologies Ltd (a designer and supplier of III-V-based analog components for communications, industrial and consumer applications) says that its latest series of MicroPOD and MiniPOD optical modules support 100 Gigabit Ethernet ...
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STMicroelectronics of Geneva, Switzerland has unveilled a family of high-voltage silicon carbide (SiC) power MOSFET products, enabling power supply designers to drive up energy efficiency in applications such as solar inverters and electric ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communication conference & exposition (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (11-13 March), M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc of Lowell, MA, USA (which makes semiconductors, components and subassemblies for analog, RF, microwave ...
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At the Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC 2014) in San Francisco (9–13 March), the fabless integrated silicon photonics system-on-a chip company Skorpios Technologies Inc of Albuquerque, NM, USA is demonstrating a 100G ...
As demand surges for long-reach, low-power solutions supporting next-generation 28Gbps products and data-center applications, high-speed fiber-optic interconnect firm Molex Inc of Lisle, IL, USA plans to unveil a line of QuatroScale active ...
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Furukawa Electric Co Ltd of Tokyo, Japan has developed a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) that operates at 25Gbps and has realized transmission of up to 500m over prototype multimode fibers developed by optical fiber product ...
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