Our trusted sources tell us, Samsung is buying LTE modems from Intel and using them with their own Exynos 5 Octa (5420) SoC, as using in - house
silicon reduces manufacturing costs.
Not exact matches
Other companies, like Los Angeles - based Rayton Solar, are trying to lower
costs by drastically
reducing the amount of
silicon required to
manufacture the panels.
«Economies of scale have greatly
reduced the
cost of
silicon manufacturing,» said Professor Ted Sargent, an expert in emerging solar technologies and the Canada Research Chair in Nanotechnology.
In the July 14 Applied Physics Letters, the researchers describe making LEDs on
silicon with a built - in reflective layer, which
reduces cost; with mass
manufacturing, affordable LED lamps could appear in two years, they predict.