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ELECTRONICS 
April 24, 2019 Samsung Electronics to invest $9.6 billion annually in logic chips until 2030
Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday that it would invest 11 trillion won ($9.57 billion) annually through 2030 in logic chip businesses, including its foundry business. The investment until 2030, worth 133 trillion won in total, comes as the world’s top memory chip maker strengthens non-memory semiconductor businesses such as contract chip manufacturing, known as foundry, […]
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COMPUTERS 
October 24, 2017 Windows 10 PCs Running on Snapdragon ARM Chips in Final Stages of Testing: Report
HIGHLIGHTS Microsoft and Qualcomm are working on mobile PCs These mobile PCs will have eSIM and will stay connected at all times These mobile PCs might have ‘multi-day’ battery life, report claims Windows devices running on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon ARM-based processors are inching closer to a retail store near you. Microsoft this week said that it was in […]
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COMPUTERS 
February 8, 2017 This Photo Shows How Computer Chips Were Made in 1975
Re-Exposure is an occasional Motherboard feature where we look back on delightful old tech photos from wire service archives. ADVERTISEMENT “It looks like a three-dimensional skyline. You can get totally lost in it.” Last year, photographer Christoph Morlinghaus gained notice in Wired for a project of his that involved taking very high-resolution shots of microprocessors […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 4, 2017 Feds Sue Qualcomm for Forcing Chips on Apple
EARLIER Apple iOS 10 Battery-Drain Fiasco Still Infuriating Users THIS STORY Feds Sue Qualcomm for Forcing Chips on Apple LATER Samsung Brings Android Nougat to Galaxy Phones YOU ARE HERE: HOME MOBILE TECH THIS STORY Support every customer. Anytime. Anywhere. NEWS OPS By Shirley Siluk. Updated January 18, 2017 10:21AM SHARE ALSO SEE Federal […]
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NEWS 
January 5, 2017 CES 2017: Intel Launches 5 NUC Mini PCs Sporting Fresh Kaby Lake Chips
HIGHLIGHTS NUCs with Core i5 and Core i7 chips sport Thunderbolt 3 ports Intel NUC with Core i3 chip comes with USB Type-C 3.1 ports The Intel NUC with Core i3 chip will be available soon Soon after the Kaby Lake processors went official, Intel has announced its new line of NUC compact PCs powered […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 16, 2016 Magnetic Chips Can Boost Computer Energy Efficiency: Study
In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, engineers at the University of California-Berkeley have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate with the lowest fundamental level of energy dissipation possible under the laws of thermodynamics. The findings mean that dramatic reductions in power consumption are possible as much as one-millionth the amount of […]
