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| Memory market propels Micron to top growth semi company |
12/5/2013 |
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Partly because of its success in the booming DRAM and NAND markets, Micron will grow by 109.2 % in 2013, catapulting the company up the semiconductor market’s ranks to No. 4 in 2013, rising from No. 10 in 2012.
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| Jeff Bezos wants package delivery by drones |
12/4/2013 |
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“There will have to be sense-and-avoid technology so you are sure it won’t crash into other airplanes, some kind of encrypted communications spectrum (and) you will have to have training for pilots. All of that stuff has not yet been established by the FAA,”
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| Nvidia sells Tegra Note through partners |
12/4/2013 |
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Nvidia is responsible for development, design and production of Tegra Note while partnering with graphics card vendors for marketing under their own brands.
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| India PC market continue to emerge |
12/4/2013 |
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The combined desk-based and mobile PC market in India reached roughly 3.2 million units in 3Q13, a 7.9 percent increase over 3Q12.
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| Game resolutions hampered by complex memory system |
12/3/2013 |
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the higher complexity of the Xbox memory architecture is the likely culprit behind the Lower resolutions of some of the Xbox launch titles, compared to the same games running on a PS4. Call of Duty Ghosts, for example, is said to run at 1080p on the PS4, but only at 720p on Microsoft's console.
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| CMOS sensor goes HD |
12/3/2013 |
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The CMV 12000 product features 5.5 x 5.5µm pixels laid out in a high-resolution 4096 x 3072 matrix covering superHD (4k) resolution in an APS-C optical format. Using the patented 8T pixels the sensor offers high sensitivity and low noise and global shutter.
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| Intel expected to ship 30 million tablet processors in 2014 |
12/3/2013 |
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Intel's tablet processor shipments for 2014 are expected to reach only 30 million units, accounting for about 10% of total tablet processor shipments and lower than the company's forecasted 40 million units as demand for Windows 8.1 and Bay Trail-T-based tablets are not as strong as expected recently, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
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| Technology drives NAND shortage in SSD market |
12/2/2013 |
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"Since everyone except IM Flash is converting to new technologies that they have never tried before -- either high-k gate dielectrics or 3-D -- there are likely to be a lot of stumbling blocks that would push the end of the shortage out to 2016 or even 2017,"
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| UL to certify energy efficient rating for Data Centers |
12/2/2013 |
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"Manufacturers shall comply with the Version 1.0 ENERGY STAR Data Center Storage specification which will take effect on December 2, 2013. To certify for ENERGY STAR, a product model shall meet the ENERGY STAR specification in effect on its date of manufacture."
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| NAND Flash to overtaken DRAM sales |
12/2/2013 |
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NAND flash revenue should reach $30 billion this year, surpassing DRAM revenue for the first time. Interestingly, the report predicts a drop in average selling price but cites that as a growth driver-lower prices increase market penetration, opening the way for new applications that trigger enough growth to offset the revenue differential.
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| Toshiba to close LCD TV Plant in China |
12/2/2013 |
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Toshiba has announced that it will end production of LCD TVs at Dalian Toshiba Television and close down the China plant by end of December 2013.
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| Acer eyes 3 candidates for new chairman |
11/29/2013 |
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Acer reportedly has targeted three candidates for its new chairman: co-founder George Huang, ex-executive vice president Chuang Jen-chuan (transliterated from Chinese) and iGware founder Wei Yen
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| Toshiba to purchase assets from bankruptcy OCZ Technology |
11/29/2013 |
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OCZ Technology, which specializes in providing high-performance solid state drives (SSDs) for computing devices and systems, has announced that on November 25, 2013, it received notices that Hercules Technology Growth Capital took exclusive control
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| India PC market grew 7.9% in 3Q13 |
11/27/2013 |
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Combined desktop and mobile PC shipments in India totaled nearly 3.2 million units in the third quarter of 2013, a 7.9% increase over the third quarter of 2012
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