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| BlackBerry stops BBM for Android rollout |
9/23/2013 |
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"Our teams continue to work around the clock to bring BBM to Android and iPhone, but only when it’s ready and we know it will live up to your expectations of BBM," said BlackBerry's Luke Reimer.
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| New 450mm fabs to be built Upstate NY |
9/23/2013 |
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Each wafer fab would have approximately 450,000 square feet of cleanroom space after between $10 billion and $15 billion of private and public money had been spent. Such a build-out would create about 5,000 direct jobs and 15,000 indirect jobs.
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| Agilent to split into two companies |
9/20/2013 |
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The $3.9 billion group that will retain the Agilent name -- will focus on life science instruments and will consider moving into related markets such as gene sequencing. The remaining $2.9 billion group -- yet to be named -- will carry on the traditional test and measurement business.
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| STT-MRAM drives into new life |
9/20/2013 |
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Potential applications for STT-MRAM are in the areas of MCUs, storage controller buffers, and later on, low-level cache with high-speed perpendicular magnetic anisotropy.
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| Predicting the DDR4 DRAM maket |
9/19/2013 |
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Just like in case of transition from DDR2 to DDR3, the transition from the latter to DDR4 will take a rather long time. This time, however, it could be even longer than originally expected due to condition of the DRAM market.
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| Energy Department to auction off Fisker loan |
9/19/2013 |
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Fisker had received $192 million before the loan was frozen. The DOE says it has recouped about $28 million since then; the auction will allow the government to collect as much of the remaining $168 million as possible.
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| White House directs FCC to unlock all cell phones |
9/18/2013 |
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“Americans should be able to use their mobile devices on whatever networks they choose and have their devices unlocked without hassle,” said Lawrence Strickling, assistant secretary of the NTIA.
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| iOS7 due today |
9/18/2013 |
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The new software not only brings a completely overhauled design but also a host of new features. All the apps have been redesigned.
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| Nexus 4 smartphone sold out |
9/18/2013 |
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The listings for the 8GB and 16GB Nexus 4 smartphones on Google Play are currently accompanied by a note that says: "We are out of inventory. Please check back soon."
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| DRAM prices up 30% after SK Hynix fire |
9/18/2013 |
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The spot prices for 2Gb DDR3 chips have surged to US$2.20 recently compared to US$1.50 prior to the outbreak of the fire, while those for 4Gb DDR3 ones have rallied to US$4.20, the sources indicated.
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| New plastic memory fit for retail labelling |
9/17/2013 |
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The pilot production line will make anti-counterfeit, printed plastic, 4-bit memory labels and will be part of a push on offering brand protection technology in 2014.
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| Potentials of Cloud Smartphone |
9/17/2013 |
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A new crop of "cloud" smartphone operating systems are in the works and they offer many advantages like tons of apps and affordatble phones.
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| HTC to trim some US workforce |
9/17/2013 |
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The move was to “to streamline and optimize our organization and improve efficiencies after several years of aggressive growth.”
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| New alloy to enhance PCM memory |
9/17/2013 |
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Researchers discovered that Al50Sb50, in particular, has three distinct levels of resistance—and thus the ability to store three bits of data in a single memory cell, instead of just two. This suggests that this material can be used for multi-level data storage.
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| Apple to access China Mobil |
9/16/2013 |
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Landing this deal is a milestone for Apple since more than half of the estimated 1.2 billion mobile subscribers in the country are registered under China Mobile.
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| Samsung will invest to boost Xian fab |
9/16/2013 |
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Following the firm's latest decision, the combined investment on the construction will reach up to $7.5 billion, making the project Samsung's single largest overseas investment for a chip-making plant.
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| Samsung increased DRAM production to fill Hynix's void |
9/16/2013 |
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SK Hynix said on September 13 that the company expects to restore full operations at its fire-affected plant in October. "We will make every effort to ramp up operations in stages in order to fully recover normalized production level in November,"
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| IBM and STMicro to roll out silicon in India |
9/16/2013 |
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The outlay of the IBM fab is about Rs.26,300 crore for establishing the facility of 40,000 wafer starts per month of 300 mm size, using CMOS technology. Technology nodes proposed are 90, 65 and 45 nm nodes in Phase I, 28 nm node in Phase II with the option of establishing a 22 nm node in Phase III.
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| Mobile phones and tablet to drive Christmas e-Commerce |
9/6/2013 |
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Total e-commerce spending this holiday shopping season is expected to rise by 15 percent to $61.8 billion. Shoppers on smartphones and tablets will account for 16 percent of all purchases made through e-commerce sites.
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