The Chairman of Samsung Electronics has been sentenced to one and a half years in jail for anti-union activities. Lee Sang-hoon, the chairman (pictured), and 25 other defendants were found guilty of sabotaging the union operations of sub-contract workers in 2013. Seoul Central District Court found that Lee and other executives unearthed sensitive information about ...

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The Arm architectural challenge to Intel’s virtual monopoly of data centre processors is joined by Nuvia – headed by Apple’s former chief processor architect Gerard Williams (pictured). Nuvia has raised a $53 million Series A and received the compliment of a writ from Apple which suggest they’re sore about the defection of Williams and his ...

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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have partnered up with engineers from Corning and T8, Russia, and developed a system for high-throughput data transfer over great distances without the need for signal repeating along the way. Systems of this kind could be used to provide internet connection and other communication services in ...

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“During 2020 we’ll be watching three key trends: modularisation, miniaturisation and AI,” says Rob Rospedzihowski, Farnell’s President of Sales for EMEA. “We expect to see a continuation of the trend for modular hardware solutions,” adds Rospedzihowski. “modular solutions provide design engineers with instantly available and affordable off-the-shelf hardware to speed up their product development time.” “This ...

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DRAM spot prices are rising and contract prices are expected to rise in Q1, says DRAMeXchange. There has been an influx of downgraded 1Xnm chips in the spot market at rock-bottom prices due to product returns.  However, although they are still being returned, memory module makers and channel brokers have become willing to raise their ...

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Intel has bought Habana Labs, the Israel programmable deep learning accelerator specialist,  for approximately $2 billion. “Habana turbo-charges our AI offerings for the data center with a high-performance training processor family and a standards-based programming environment to address evolving AI workloads,” says Intel’s Navin Shevoy, “we know that customers are looking for ease of programmability with ...

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