Business, Hardware, Mobile Computing, VR World

Next Gen of ULP Sensor Hubs is on Its Way

QuickLogic

Today’s announcement from the well-known full service semiconductor company, Global Foundries and QuickLogic (NASDAQ:QUIK), will interest those looking for ultra low power (ULP) sensor hubs. The new ArcticLink 3 S2 is optimized for smartphones and the new wearable devices. QuickLogic is known as being an innovator of ultra low power programmable Customer Specific Standard Products — silicon platforms plus software solutions. Its next generation ArcticLink 3 S2 platform is sampling on Global Foundries own lower power 65 nanometer process technology. Global Foundries also prides itself on its 14nm FinFET leading edge technologies fashioned for high-volume, high-performance and power-efficient SoC applications. Sensor hubs like the 3 S2

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AMD, Business, Companies

AMD stockholders fess up the vote

Today was the D Day for the separation of AMD into two… or was it? Believe it or not, but the stockholders failed to bring enough votes on the proposal of splitting into The Foundry Company and AMD. What happened? AMD’s leadership had to receive a Yes vote from more than 50% of all stockholders. Sadly for AMD’s management, the company had a glitch in the system and sent out necessary 400-page documentation only in the dying days of January. We are unsure why this happened, especially with the vote as important as this one. By this morning, AMD received 42% of all stockholders, with

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