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| NXP adopts "to be more Chinese" in China |
3/11/2014 |
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When Freeman, responsible for NXP's global automotive sales and marketing, was asked what drove NXP to form a fabless automotive chip joint venture in China with China's state-owned Datang Telecom Technology Co., he simply said: "We've kept thinking that we need to be more Chinese than we already are."
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| Tablet market is maturing |
3/10/2014 |
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The slowdown in shipments is due to a maturing tablet market, along with stabilizing prices and a decline in purchases of cheap tablets
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| Imagination Tech downgrads forecast |
3/10/2014 |
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Imagination said it expected its partners to ship between 520 million and 550 million units this year, excluding the impact of its acquisition of MIPS technology in 2012, down from its previous forecast of 580-630 million.
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| NAND demand tapering will affect prices |
3/10/2014 |
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OEMs continue to adjust their inventories and slow their orders during the off-peak season, said DRAMeXchange. As end-market demand is unlikely to pick up until later in the third quarter, the oversupply will remain causing chip prices to fall further
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| New graphene nonoflakes enhance solar conversion efficiency |
3/10/2014 |
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"Because graphene is pure carbon, its charge conductivity is very high. We want to maximize the energy being absorbed by the solar cell, so we are increasing the ratio of the donor to acceptor and we're using a very low fraction of graphene to achieve that."
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| Spin Waves Cut Logic Power |
3/7/2014 |
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A research team is using electron spin to cut the power consumption of logic devices dramatically.
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| U.S. PlayStation CEO will step down |
3/7/2014 |
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Sony Computer Entertainment America President and CEO Jack Tretton will end his nearly 20-year run and step down from his position at the end of the month.
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| Facebook Overpaid for WhatsApp |
3/6/2014 |
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Before Facebook (FB) paid $19 billion last month for text-messaging service WhatsApp, Google considered it Overpaid.
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| Walmart slashes iPhone prices |
3/6/2014 |
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Walmart announced price cuts Wednesday on the Samsung Galaxy S4, as well as for Apple’s 16-gigabyte iPhone 5s and 5c, for customers signing two-year contracts with AT&T and Verizon.
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| 6 Million PS4 Worldwide |
3/4/2014 |
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Sony reports that the next-gen video game console has topped 6 million units sold globally.
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| NAND Up, NOR Down in Flash |
3/3/2014 |
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The worldwide market for memory appeared to present a great divide between NAND Flash, which is doing very well, and NOR Flash, which continues to struggle.
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| IBM layoffs 2014, 13000 expected |
3/3/2014 |
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IBM has confirmed that it's laying off a portion of its workforce in order to focus on new priority areas, like the cloud, analytics, and cognitive computing.
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