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| SIA: Semiconductor market hit record September |
11/7/2013 |
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"The global semiconductor industry has built impressive momentum through the third quarter of the year and is well-positioned for a strong close to 2013, thanks largely to growing strength in the Americas,"
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| Imec demonstrated first III-V FinFET device |
11/7/2013 |
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"This is an exciting accomplishment, demonstrating the technology as a viable next-generation alternative for the current state-of-the-art Si-based FinFET technology in high volume production."
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| Notebook market seen Q3 growth |
11/6/2013 |
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Mobile PC shipments worldwide are estimated to have reached 47.9 million units in Q3, up six per cent from Q2. This represents the largest sequential growth since two years ago when the market rose seven per cent in 3Q11.
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| BlackBerry is off the selling block |
11/5/2013 |
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The Canadian company said Monday it abandoned a tentative $4.7 billion plan to go private and instead will continue as a public company with new leadership and a $1 billion investment from a group led by major shareholder Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
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| New supercomputer to use SSD |
11/5/2013 |
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Each node has 128GB of DRAM, while 304 nodes have 800GB of solid-state drive storage. Additionally, 12 nodes have 3.2TB of solid-state drive storage for use across computing units.
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| Amazon improved streaming graphic with Nvidia Grid |
11/5/2013 |
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With NVIDIA GRID GPUs, software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies can now build cloud-based offerings with extreme graphics performance for design, visualization, media creation, games and more.
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| Apple to make sapphire lenses in Arizona |
11/5/2013 |
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After years of outsourcing much of its manufacturing to Asian suppliers such as Foxconn Technology Group and facing criticism from labor groups and politicians for the practice, Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has made adding jobs in the U.S. a priority.
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| Qualcomm entered STB market |
11/4/2013 |
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In September Qualcomm announced it was partnering with Technicolour, a top-tier STB manufacturer based in France with a U.S. subsidiary in Boston, to power the Svelte box. The Snapdragon 600 will be inside the Svelte box.
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| Flash is positioned to grow |
11/4/2013 |
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It's important to remember that flash memory in enterprise storage is not a market -- it¡¯s a technology that is being incorporated into storage arrays in a variety of ways.
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| iPad Air weighs only one pound |
11/4/2013 |
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The Air features the now-familiar 9.7-in. Retina display surrounded by a new, narrower aluminum-and-glass enclosure that's 28% lighter and 20% thinner than last year's model.
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| Nokia/Samsung signed 5 year continuation on technology license |
11/4/2013 |
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The once-mighty mobile firm has hung on to its impressive patent portfolio but sold off its device and services business to Microsoft. It says it plans on making money now by "investing in innovation and by actively managing its patent portfolio and licensing activities".
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| UK court found HTC infringed on Nokia IP |
11/1/2013 |
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"Nokia will now seek an injunction against the import and sale of infringing HTC products in the U.K. as well as financial compensation," Lawsuits have been filed against HTC over the same patent in Germany, Italy, Japan and the U.S. Nokia has also sued HTC in France and the Netherlands over other patents.
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| SK Hynix has 6G LPDDR3 |
11/1/2013 |
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With a server data transfer speed of 1,866 Mbps, SK Hynix¡¯s latest mobile DRAM module can feed 7.4 GB of data to the processor via a single funnel, or 14.8 GB of data using two funnels, through a 32-bit Information Outlet (I/O). Designed specifically for use in mobile devices.
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| Delaware legalised online gaming |
11/1/2013 |
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"This is another chapter in Delaware's history of staying competitive in the gaming industry, It is something that has to grow, but we're in a fiercely competitive environment here. This is just one more opportunity for entertainment."
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| China manufacturer is catching up to the act |
10/31/2013 |
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"At ZTE we believe that smartphone technology should be accessible for everyone. The popularity of the Blade series across Europe proves that there is real consumer appetite for high performance smartphones at a great price."
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| Dell completes privatization deal |
10/31/2013 |
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Dell has announced the completion of its acquisition by Michael Dell, Dell’s Founder, Chairman and CEO, and Silver Lake Partners, a leading global technology investment firm.
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| Intel made available first LTE chip |
10/31/2013 |
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Right now the LTE market is still relatively small compared to the 3G market – it just seems big here in the U.S. because of its fast pace of LTE adoption – so Intel still has a huge opportunity to capture market share.
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| Lenovo hired high profile Kutcher to enhance products |
10/31/2013 |
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Kutcher has a proven track record in tech investments, intends to offer advice on design and software for Yoga tablets. "Lenovo makes really, really, really good hardware," he said. "I hope to make their products as consumer friendly as possible."
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| Second electronic barge sighted in Portland |
10/30/2013 |
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"A floating data center makes more sense because it takes an enormous amount of energy to keep data centers cool. The company would save a lot of money if it could cool its servers with sea water rather than air conditioners, he said. The ocean would be like a “heat sink,”
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| Motorola to allow customers to design their own phone |
10/30/2013 |
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"Our goal is to drive a more thoughtful, expressive, and open relationship between users, developers, and their phones. To give you the power to decide what your phone does, how it looks, where and what it's made of, how much it costs, and how long you'll keep it,"
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| SK Hynix to produce more mobile DRAM |
10/30/2013 |
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“SK hynix will increase the portion of mobile DRAM chips to 40 percent by the end of next year from this year’s estimated 30 percent. They are more profitable than conventional memory chips.
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