• ELECTRONICS
    Samsung Electronics’ Q2 profit likely halved as Huawei woes worsen chip glut

    SEOUL: Samsung Electronics is likely to say second-quarter profit more than halved when it reports preliminary earnings on Friday, data showed, as a drop in memory chip shipments to China’s embattled Huaweiexacerbated a price-squeezing supply glut. The quarterly result would be the South Korean firm’s lowest in nearly three years, with the prospect of an earnings recovery still […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm’s Latest Chip for Always-On, Always-Connected Windows 10 Machines

    Qualcomm, the biggest supplier of chips for mobile phones, on Thursday pushed further into the PC market with a line of chips designed to power business machines. Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon” processor chips historically have been at the heart of mobile phones like Alphabet’s Google Pixel phone and many Samsung Electronics Co devices. Over the past year, though, Qualcomm […]

  • NEWS
    Spectre-Next Generation: Germany Calls on Chip and Hardware Makers to Tackle Processor Flaws

    Germany’s federal cyber agency called on chip and hardware-makers to address new vulnerabilities discovered in computer central processing units, but said no complete fix was possible at the moment. The BSI agency said its analysis showed the new flaws, dubbed Spectre-Next Generation, resembled the Meltdown and Spectre bugs discovered in January and could allow attackers […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Toshiba Awaits Regulator Approval for Key Chip Unit Sale

    HIGHLIGHTS The firm had agreed to sell its memory chip business to Bain Capital Toshiba had expected to meet all the sale conditions by March 23 It’s China’s anti-trust law” that is holding up the sale: Toshiba Embattled Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Monday it was still waiting for regulators to approve the key sale of its chip […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    AMD to Release Patches to Fix Some Chip Flaws Uncovered by CTS Labs

    Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said patches are on the way for recently revealed flaws in some of its chips that could allow hackers to take over computers. AMD expressed confidence that chip vulnerabilities made public last week by Israeli-based security firm CTS Labs could be fixed with firmware patches and updated software that would not slow computers […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Meltdown, Spectre Chip Flaws: Who’s Affected

    HIGHLIGHTS Meltdown only affects Intel-based machines Spectre affects Intel, AMD, ARM-based machines Most software makers and OEMs have issued fixes already Technology companies are scrambling to fix serious security flaws affecting computer processors built by Intel and other chipmakers and found in many of the world’s personal computers and smartphones. The two hardware bugs discovered can be […]

  • COMPUTERS
    Apple: All Macs and iOS devices affected by chip flaws

    Apple has confirmed all its Mac systems and iOS devices are affected by two recently disclosed processor flaws called Spectre and Meltdown. In an announcement on Thursday, Apple (AAPL) said it has released mitigations to defend against Meltdown in iOS 11.2, macOS 10.13.2, and tvOS 11.2. It will release mitigations in Safari to defend against the Spectre bug “in the […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Samsung Electronics considers adding capacity at China chip plant

    Samsung, the world’s No.1 memory chip maker, has already invested billion in the Xi’an facility to make 3D NAND memory chips. (Reuters) Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Monday it is considering adding memory chip production capacity at its manufacturing base in China amid an industry-wide boom that will likely fuel record sales […]