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Microfluidics: DARPA is betting embedded water droplets could cool next-gen chips

2016-03-10 20:54:31| Extremetech

DARPA and Lockheed Martin have a plan to build microfluidic cooling into modern microprocessors. This could dramatically improve CPU cooling and break the bottleneck on clock speed scaling -- at least, for a little while.

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Apple Inc. Can't Hide It Anymore: It's Working on Wireless Chips

2016-03-09 18:51:09| Wireless - Topix.net

This is interesting because Apple building its own, say, Wi-Fi or cellular chips, would mean losses for major wireless chipmakers like Broadcom Although the specifics of what Apple is working on are not yet clear, a job listing on Apple's website makes it plain that the company is working on an in-house wireless chip . The listing in question The following is from a job listing on Apple's site looking for a Wireless Hardware Design Engineer: The listing clearly indicates that the candidate would be part of a chip team "responsible for designing state-of-the-art wireless [system-on-chip]" products.

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Samsung now producing 256GB ultra-fast memory chips for smartphones

2016-02-26 19:37:42| Extremetech

Samsung has announced new 256GB NAND flash chips for smartphones. They aren't just bigger -- they also use the new UFS standard and offer substantially better performance than current eMMC NAND.

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