(iTers News) – Augmented reality, or AR is where real, physical world and virtual world meet.Using a built-in camera of mobile devices like smartphones and tablet PCs, the AR technology allows smartphone users to scan real objects in the physical world to search information about them on the Interne
(iTers News) – What makes Samsung Electronics’ memory chip business less vulnerable to the industry’s longest and darkest slump is its hefty bet on ‘Green Memory’ solutions.Booming sales of more lucrative, energy-efficient ‘Green Memory’ solution to corporate datacenter server market help to take up
(iTers News) – As Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer put it, Windows 8 OS and its variant Windows RT for tablets and Windows Phone 8 are spreading faster than expected across a wide spectrum of applications markets.Following its earlier announcements that it will ship Samsung’s Windows 8-running ATIV Smart
(iTers News) - Altera Corporation unveiled a software development kit, or SDK for 3D graphics language OpenCL in what it said is the FPGA industry's first ever of its kindCombining massively parallel architecture of an FPGA with OpenCL parallel programming model, the SDK allows system developers and
(iTers News) - Imagination Technologies plc has inked an agreement to acquire the operating business and certain patent properties, as well as license rights to all of the remaining patent properties, of MIPS Technologies, Inc. for US$60 million in cash.In addition to the operating business of MIPS,
(iTers News) – AT&T said it will ship Samsung ATIV smart PC and Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1, a 4G LTE Android tablet, beginning Nov. 9 for US$799.99 and for US$499.99, respectively.Running on Windows 8 OS, initial shipments of Samsung ATIV smart PC will likely be a straw in the wind to gauge how well
(iTers News) – Computers of tomorrow will come awash in a wealth of computer vision and biometric sensors to presume what uses are about to do, soon and then understand what they have in mind using natural user-interfaces, or UIs like facial-and biometric-recognition, camera-on-the glass technologie
(iTers News) – University of British Columbia research team added one more wireless charging technology to a growing list of competing wireless charger technologies that are vying for a next generation of de facto standard for electric vehicles and mobile phones.Using two remote magnetic gears, the
(iTers News) - Robot industry is one of hot growth markets for the future, as its ecosystem is rapidly expanding across a wide range of applications from education to healthcare to housemaid to industrial applications such as unmanned factory and disaster rescue operations.To rev up the growth engin
(iTers News) - Apple TV, an Internet-enabled media set-top-box, has become a top-seller in the TV and Video category on Amazon, luring price-sensitive and penny-pinching consumers with its small footprint and low-cost.The full-HD-capable and below US$100 media box is still experiencing a surge in sa
(iTers News) - Global semiconductor silicon wafer market would grow at a CAGR of 5.23% over the 2011-2015 period, according to market research firm TechNavio.One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the capacity expansion by the semiconductor manufacturers to keep up with increas
(iTers News) - ARM unveils a new energy-efficient, high-performance scalable processor 64-bit ARM Cortex A50 processor, a new generation of cross-market platform to allow ARM partners to create SOCs that address a wide range of applications market from smartphones to high-performance servers.Based o
(iTers News) - Cavium Inc. was awarded a big deign win of its CNW6611L media SOC for LG Electronics’ new DWD Series Wireless Display adapter that features media sharing and wireless display capabilities on a Wi-Fi-based Miracast wireless connectivity platform.Built with PureVu CCNW6611L H.264 media
(iTers News) - Korean SOC chipmakers have come a long way since they started out from scratch in late 1990s.Led by booming exports of APs, or applications processors, DDIs, or display driver ICs, and CMOS image sensors, exports of SOCs would make up more than 45% of the country’s total semiconductor
(iTers News) - Let’s dance and sing global phenomenon Korean singer Psy’s Gangnam style horse-hopping song with an army of Psy face-masked miniature robots.ROBOBUILDER Co., Ltd. of Korea showcased an army of miniature Psy robots that are built with a 32 bit ARM processor core, smart servo motors and
(iTers News) - Center for Intelligent Robotics, a business arm of state-funded KIST, or Korea Institute of Science and Technology, showed off kitchen maid robot CIROS 2 at Robot World 2012 exhibition opened on Oct. 26 in the Goyang City of Korea.Built with an array of vision-and voice-recognition se
(iTers News) – Robot industry is one of what Korea is staking out as a next generation of export growth powerhouses with its focus on education, healthcare, housemaid, and industrial applications such as unmanned factory and disaster rescue operations.To rev up the growth engine, the Korean governme
(iTers News) – The year 2013 would mark a milestone year for Korean chip industry.Yoon, Sang Jik, vice-minister of the Ministry of Knowledge Economy said that exports of system-on-chips, or SOCs would surpass those of memory chips for the first time in history since that country started to export ch
(iTers News) – Much-awaited Windows 8 OS launched into the sales pitch worldwide on Oct. 26 with great fanfare. In Seoul, Korea, about 650 early-adopters started to gather together one hour before midnight on Oct 25 in a digital plaza of Chamsil Lotte World Department Store in an upscale and fashion
(iTers News) - Sluggish PC demand is bedeviling global memory chip market, throwing a dark cloud on long-term viability of chip markets. Yet, Kwon Oh Chul, CEO with SK Hynix, Inc.still remains relatively optimistic about the long-haul prospects of memory chip market, pinning his hopes for recovery o