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Last updated: July 27th, 2022 at 17:12 UTC+02:00 In another bid to foster domestic growth, Samsung’s chipset foundry division has decided to help a few South Korean fabless chip design houses create prototypes and validate pre-production concepts at reduced costs. After a selection process of a few weeks, Samsung chose to help five fabless chip design houses, including DeepX, GLS, SKAi Chips, Semibrain, and Raontech. (via The Korea Herald) Samsung’s accelerating prototype chip development Samsung will offer…

Infinix has developed an improved vapor chamber cooling system that it calls “3D Vapor Cloud Chamber” (3D VCC). Compared to conventional designs, it reduces the temperature of the chipset by 3°C, according to the company. The way it does this is by improving the contact between the chipset and the vapor chamber itself. Phone VCs are typically flat, which requires the use of thermal paste (or a similar material) to mate the chipset and VC. The 3D VCC design has a “bump” that leaves only the tiniest gap between the…

How to improve customer experience - Zoho SalesIQ  —  Not long ago, “If you build it, they will come” was the status quo for businesses.  Irrespective of what the customer actually needed, businesses mass-produced things and people flocked to buy from them. How to improve customer experience - Zoho SalesIQ  —  Not long ago, “If you build it, they will come” was the status quo for businesses.  Irrespective of what the customer actually needed, businesses mass-produced things and people flocked to buy from them.…

Kalashnikov, the well-known Russian arms manufacturer, has been accused of stealing weapon designs from a video game developer. According to Ward B, the developers of the upcoming first person shooter Oceanic, Kalashnikov took its blueprints and turned them into a commercially accessible shotgun without giving the game makers any credit. Ward B has issued a cease-and-desist order against Kalashnikov. The weapon under question is Kalashnikov's MP-155 Ultima. In the initial marketing campaigns for the product, the arms…

Image: Hasbro, Paramount, Netflix, and SabanThere’s plenty of Primes to celebrate with Prime Day this week—perhaps even a Primal or two—but we should never forget the greatest among them all that inspired such a celebration, even more than a multibillion dollar retailer ever could. The one, the only Optimus Prime: or he would be, if there weren’t so damn many of him.One of the most enduring giant robots in history, over generations Optimus Prime has seen himself re-worked and tweaked for new iterations of cartoons,…

By now you've probably heard of this incredibly popular cellular accessory called PopSockets, right? You know, those round little things you stick on the back of your iPhone or case that you can "pop" out for a better grip on your phone? You can stock up on a bunch of different styles right now for up to 20% off for Prime Day, making this a great Apple Prime Day deal. Yes, I thought they were stupid at first too, but I've been using them for years now and they've become an absolute necessity for my current iPhone and…

A visitor (R) learns about huaneng's high-temperature gas-cooled reactor model at the China International Nuclear Power Industry and Equipment Exhibition 2021 in Yantai, Shandong Province, China, Oct. 19, 2021.Future Publishing | Future Publishing | Getty ImagesNuclear power could be a dominant player in the next-generation clean energy landscape, but that will require concerted action and focus from governments and private industry that is not happening right now, according to the head of the International Energy Agency…

Long-haul flights are a necessary evil and I was intrigued this week to see Air New Zealand is launching the world’s first sleep pods for economy class travellers.  This is a rare bit of good news for aviation design. I’m still smarting from Ryanair’s idea to remove toilets from planes and its Skyrider concept, a “standing seat” from the pits of hell.  It’s baaaaaack! The AvioInteriors Skyrider saddle seat is returning to #AIX18 after its controversial reception. Will the fact that 28” is…

Max and Ben Ringham had wildly clashing music tastes growing up. There were “sound wars” in their bedroom as a result. They did, however, pool their equipment – musical instruments, keyboards, samplers – which piled up high at one end of the room.That pile turned into a mountain and then followed them into a shared London studio in their 20s when they decided to make music together. They have now been in a professional partnership of 25 years which began with composing drum’n’bass records, then making TV production music,…

This poster by artist Gabz is an award card coming soon to Star Wars Card Trader by Topps.Image: Gabz/Bottleneck/LucasfilmBefore you ever heard of NFTs, maybe you heard about the $225 jpeg of Han Solo. Back in 2015, I wrote an article about a Han Solo card worth over $200 in an app called Star Wars Card Trader by Topps. At the time, I spent most of the article explaining how a person could own something that they merely have on their phone. It was not easy.01:57Rainn Wilson’s First Fandoms: Star Trek And D&DYesterday…