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| Qualcomm rolls in 64-bit Snapdragon |
12/10/2013 |
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Qualcomm lead the way for a new 64-bit generation of ARM processors announcing the Snapdragon 410 processor that will hit smartphones in the second half of 2014.
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| DRAM spot price surge up 5% |
12/9/2013 |
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DRAM spot prices have risen significantly with recent quotes soaring more than 5% on a single day, buoyed by a recent pull-in of short lead time orders from China's tablet market, according to industry sources
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| Nanya-Inotera revenue soar 117% |
12/9/2013 |
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Taiwan-based DRAM maker Inotera Memories saw its November revenues soar 117.3% from a year ago while revenues at Nanya Technology grew 33.7%
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| Four things important for smartphones next year |
12/6/2013 |
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Next year will also see at least one major vendor emphasize that a new smartphone model can be transformed into a PC-like device, CCS Insight expects. The device will come with a second interface when deployed as a computer.
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| Get your $99 Win tablet on Monday |
12/6/2013 |
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Microsoft's new 12 days of deals promotion promises a sale each day until Christmas week rings in. To kick off the holiday discounts, Microsoft will sell the Dell Venue 8 Pro for just $99, down dramatically from $299 at its retail outlets and online stores.
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| Broadcom joins bandwagon on wearables |
12/6/2013 |
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a chip that lets a device communicate over low-power Bluetooth links and charge its batteries wirelessly. But the chip fits neatly into two hot new trends: wearable computing and the Internet of things.
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| China Mobile denies rumor of signed iPhone contract |
12/5/2013 |
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The Wall Street Journal said the rollout of iPhones by the world's largest mobile carrier by users, with more than 700 million subscribers, is expected to start around the time of a Dec. 18 China Mobile conference in the city of Guangzhou.
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| Intels touts new architecture for telecom processor |
12/5/2013 |
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Telcos are trying to consolidate their hardware on a common infrastructure to offer them more agility. As this transition happens, Intel (as well as ARM) is trying to offer an architecture onto which telcos can consolidate.
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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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