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- Who will fill Otellini's shoes at Intel?
Intel CEO Paul Otellini says he'll retire in May. Intel traditionally has chosen insiders for its top post, and it promoted three executives Monday who may have the inside track to the CEO's office: Chief Operating Officer Brian Krzanich, Chief Financial Officer Stacy Smith and Renée James, general manager of the Software and Services group, were named executive vice presidents. San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) (free registration)
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- AMD's Q4 layoffs won't be the end of restructuring
After reducing its workforce 15% in this quarter, Advanced Micro Devices will continue its cost-cutting and restructuring in 2013, this blog post notes. "As we communicated during our third quarter earnings results, we expect to take further restructuring actions in the first half of 2013," AMD said in a statement, adding: "We have not provided any updates since then and do not comment on rumor or speculation." XBitLabs.com
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- Methanol fuel cells as generator alternatives
Fuel cells running on methanol are being developed by Nokia Siemens Networks and Ballard Power Systems as a backup source of power for mobile networks. Paired with a base station, the fuel cells are being tested with NTT DoCoMo, this article notes. While the fuel cells consume more fuel per hour than diesel generators, they need less maintenance than diesel units and methanol costs less than diesel fuel, it was said. Network World/IDG News Service
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- Qualcomm IC-based devices to get free cloud storage
Android-based devices with Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 MSM 8x25 and Snapdragon S4 MSM 8x25Q processors will get up to 30 gigabytes of cloud storage for free from Baidu, the largest search engine company in China. Baidu has been working with Dell and other companies to provide handsets with built-in access to its Baidu Cloud platform. CIO.com/IDG News Service
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- NIST, USC researchers fine-tune carbon nanotube production
Researchers at the University of Southern California and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have come up with a way to make carbon nanotubes with predictable diameters and symmetry. The research team has adapted the chemical vapor deposition process for fabricating carbon nanotubes to produce more consistent results. EE Times
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Updates to JEP95: JEDEC Registered and Standard Outlines for Solid State and Related Products now available for free download
JEP95 is a compilation of some 3000 pages of outline drawings for microelectronic packages. An annual updating service and complete hard copies are available for purchase. Recent updates include: SO-018A (DDR4 and GDDR5M SODIMM), SO-008B (DDR1/DDR2/DDR3, 144 Pin, 16b/32b SODIMM), MO-274B, and MO-276G.
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