Sylvie Barak

Samsung Electronics held the opening ceremony for its new state-of-the-art $300 million 1.1 million square feet, 10-story building and campus on Thursday in San Jose, California.

Samsung opened its doors to offer a look at the company's past, present and future activities, complete with demos and cutting edge 10nm FinFET wafers.

Technology analysts were overwhelmingly positive in their view of ARM's Cortex A-72 announcement; ARM said A-72-powered devices will be available mid-2016.

Chip IP designer ARM has announced what it deems to be a new high-end 64-bit CPU core, a new GPU core and a new fabrication process aimed squarely at the smartphone and tablet market.