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Counterfeiting and piracy has always been an issue and it has become even a bigger concern since the rise of technology and the internet, piracy causes industries to lose millions of dollars every year because of the amount of information that is being stolen online. Counterfeiting is causing industries to lose money because of the mount of duplicates that are being released in the market for lower prices, this makes it harder for the big companies that are spending their time, energy, and money to design and produce products that are worthwhile. Texplained a company dedicated to help in protecting against piracy and counterfeiting has just opened a new lab that will analyze microchip technology and help create a better security software’s against piracy. Especially microchips have been found to be very easily hacked and vulnerable to security threats. Read more >>

According to a study surveying 100 senior-level executives from IT vendors and resellers, their revenue in 2020 will mostly come from hardware sales. This will be possible as users continue to adopt the cloud for storage. People are led to the cloud because of how practical and easy it is to use. Though data stored in the cloud is always accessible to its user, that data must be stored somewhere, and that leads to the increase in demand for hardware. This demands does not come from individual users but from big cloud firms like Amazon and Microsoft that need cloud environments for their users. These two companies have recently opened data centers in the United Kingdom. Read more >>

Semiconductor companies have been on the rise. They are known for providing excellent customer satisfaction because they provide the best products that are reliable and efficient. The top 20 semiconductor companies are expected to grow by 3$ this year the top three companies that are expected to grow the most are Nividia which is expected to grow 35%. Mediatek is expected to grow 29% and TSMC is expected to grow 11%. the fastest growing company. Read more >>

For the first time in 2 years, Intel Corp has raised its quarterly revenue forecast as one of the premiere supplier for personal computer parts. This improvement in revenue forecast comes amidst improving PC demands with shares rising from as much as 4.1 percent to a 15 year high of $38.05 just this past Friday. As tech users have been gradually shifting away from PCS to mobile phones, Intel has been experiencing a decline in the demand for PC sales. Sales were estimated to have declined as much as 3 percent to $7.3 billion in the latest quarter across the industry and this includes the sales of chips for mobile phones/tablets. However recently revenue has rose as much as 7.5 percent in the third quarter for HP Inc. and Shebly Seyrafi, FBN Securities analyst believes that Intel and HP are spearheading a resurgence in PC sales and PC sales are expected to decline less than the high-single-digit decline consensus in 2017. Intel has publicly announced they expect the third quarter to yield $15.6 billion with a standard deviation of about $300 million, this is compared to the prior forecast of $14.9 billion with a standard deviation of $500 million which would make it the highest-ever quarterly revenue for Intel according to analysts at Thomson Reuters data. Shares of rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc also rose about 1 percent and shares of Intel were up 2.6 percent at $37.53 according to afternoon trading. Read more >>

There are many kinds of SSDs, many companies own and operate a lot of different kinds of then. Patriot came up with a new Helfire SSD, this new SSD serves as a new chip on the competitive side. It is known to be less expensive than upper tier NVMe SSDs. It is also a little bit more expensive compared to the low performing SSDs out there. So, this new hellfire is serving a lot of people justice. It is a reliable, high quality piece that is very affordable compared to the other high priced SSD. Read more >>

As many know already, Donald Trump has been elected as the new president of the United states. Many people are excited for his presidency and many are scared as to what he might do to this great country. Beyond his racist slurps and his sexist mind, many say he is a smart man that will make “America great again” this is still in question if he will or not. He does plan to change a lot of things in our politics and economy. And there might be even change the aircraft industry. One financial analyst thinks that with Trump’s election, there could be more spending on defense, including military aircraft. J.P Morgan analyst Seth Seifman wrote “in the near term, it should support defense stocks, with a moderate negative impact for commercial aero that may be in line with the market as a whole” this is bad news from some especially on the commercial based companies. Read more >>

Corsair has created a multi storage device that allows for different files or storage be saved and placed in different compartments within the device its self. This Device is known as the Dominator Platinum and was not only created for daily use but was created as a collectable item. The item is an exclusive device with only 1000 of these Platinum’s being made. Every Dominator is given a specific number to differentiate it from the rest. The storage is split In between to levels of storage with a total of 1000 GB in each kit. Read more >>

Airbus has certainly expressed its standpoint on not making a similar mistake Boeing has made when Airbus penetrated the same market. Boeing also being protective of their market share is correspondingly going towards the same direction. Boeing has already previous attempts to prevent Bombardier discussing future potential business with any existing client in the market. This was confirmed by CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes when he stated that their first deal in January with United was planned to be a resistance to any Bombardier talks with one of their most valuable clients, United Airlines. Read more >>

Printed electronics are starting to become reality and many people are starting to take use of it in many ways even though 3D printing dates back into the 1980s where they used UV light and photo sensitive reigns it still wasn’t that popular and there wasn’t a necessity in using it. In recent years, around 2000 is when 3D printing started becoming a reality. The use of 3D printing technologies is much more successful and more cost efficient that is why they are starting to become reality. Read more >>

On September 22 2016, Dan Heilman wrote an article for Global Spec talking about Boeing’s newly upgraded 777x which comes with touchscreen flight displays. It was Rockwell Collins who would provide the touch screen flight displays for Boeing. With the implementation of the touch screens, Boeing Is able to make the flight deck more intuitive for pilots which in turn makes flight operations more efficient. Read more >>