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| Western Digital unveils new Hybrid hard disk |
11/26/2013 |
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Western Digital has developed a new hybrid drive technology, integrating an 120GB solid state drive (SSD) and an 1TB hard disc drive (HDD) into a 2.5-inch hard drive.
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| Stan Shih resumes Acer Chairman seat |
11/25/2013 |
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Acer has announced that its board of directors has elected company founder, Stan Shih, as Chairman and interim corporate president with immediate effect
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| Mobile DRAM grew 14% in quarter |
11/22/2013 |
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Mobile DRAM accounted for more than 30% of the overall DRAM market revenues in the third quarter, DRAMeXchange observed. The proportion is set to expand further, thanks to the increasing popularity of smartphones and other mobile devices.
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| Market timing on DDR4 memory |
11/22/2013 |
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"The only real customer [for DDR4] right now is Intel for use in next-generation system validation," Howard said in an email. "We are still 18 months away from client PCs with DDR4."
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| EV taxi with quick charge and good comfort |
11/22/2013 |
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TUM Create aims to address range and recharge, as well as the unique challenges posed by the heat and humidity in tropical megacities, through its research and development. Unlike temperate climates, passenger cooling and battery pack heat management are issues specific to tropical and equatorial regions.
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| SK Hynix goes 16nm for 64Gb flash |
11/21/2013 |
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SK Hynix entered mass production of its first-version 16nm NAND flash in June, and has recently started to mass produce the second version which is more cost competitive due to its smaller chip size, the company said.
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| Sprint services sank to the bottom |
11/21/2013 |
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Sprint scored "dismal marks" in value, voice, text messaging, and 4G reliability, according to Consumer Reports' survey released Thursday. Sprint ranked No. 2 behind Verizon Wireless a year ago.
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| Caution: Your smart TV could be watching you |
11/21/2013 |
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A file given the spurious name "midget porn" was reported to LG when Mr Huntley attached a disk drive to the TV Instead he had found the name of each media file stored on the drive - including photos labelled with his children's names - had been sent back to LG.
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| X-Fab survives on 200mm wafer analogue mixed-signal |
11/21/2013 |
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X-Fab has evolved in the analogue and mixed-signal foundry space by moving from 6-inch to 200mm diameter wafers and by moving into innovative processes such as MEMS and battery-on-silion deposition.
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| Micron announced fundamentally new computing architecture |
11/20/2013 |
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Micron's Automata Processor is an accelerator that leverages the intrinsic parallelism of memory which the company claims will dramatically improve computing capabilities in areas such as bioinformatics, video/image analytics, and network security, applications which normally pose challenges for conventional processor architectures
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| Mobile DRAM: the mainstream memory |
11/20/2013 |
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With the potential changes affecting the structure of market demand, the shipment of mobile DRAM is likely to officially surpass that of PC DRAM in 2014.
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| Flash prices erode as inventory rises |
11/20/2013 |
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Chipmakers have seen their eMMC inventory levels hike, and therefore started to dump their stocks for a price that is even lower than a NAND flash chip price , the sources said.
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| Driving chip prices down with volume |
11/20/2013 |
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Increased exposure to China has diluted chipmakers' gross profit margins to somewhere in the mid-40 percent range from an average of nearer 50 percent in developed markets, analysts estimate. The rewards lie in the huge volumes demanded by Chinese handset makers.
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| Huawei's Ascend P6 will run Octa-core |
11/19/2013 |
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According to Huawei President, Xu Xin Quan, he has recently confirmed that the Ascend P6 will be getting a successor in the form of the Ascend P6S that will feature a true octa-core processor which will be powered by MediaTek.
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| PS4 packs 8GB of DRAM memory |
11/19/2013 |
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There are eight DRAM ICs on the top of the board and eight on the bottom of the board. Given Sony's published specs giving the amount of main memory at 8GB, we can conclude that each of the 16 DRAM die are 512MB.
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| Chinese smartphone manufacturers outsold Korean LG |
11/18/2013 |
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Huawei jumped into the third spot by shipping 12.7 million smartphones in the third quarter, and Lenovo Group Ltd. also expanded its sales to become the fourth-largest player by selling 12.22 million units, the data showed.
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