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| AMD to sell Singapore Factory to HSBC |
8/27/2013 |
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AMD has announced that its Singapore subsidiary has entered into a conditional put-and-call option agreement to sell and lease-back its Singapore facility located at 508 Chai Chee Lane, Singapore 469032 to HSBC Institutional Trust Services (Singapore), in its capacity as trustee of Sabana Shari'ah Compliant Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust (Sabana REIT).
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| AMD updates product roadmap for 2014 and 2015 |
8/27/2013 |
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AMD has recently updated its product roadmap and is set to release its Hawaii-based GPUs at the end of September, Kaveri-based APUs for the high-end segment and Kabini-based APUs for the entry-level segment in the first quarter of 2014.
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| Toshiba breaks ground for Phase 2 of Fab 5 |
8/26/2013 |
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Toshiba on August 23 held a groundbreaking ceremony in readiness for the start of construction of Phase 2 of Fab 5, a NAND flash fab located at the company's Yokkaichi operations memory production facility in Mie Prefecture, Japan.
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| HP introduces new thin client solutions |
8/26/2013 |
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HP has announced its new thin client solution, the HP t820 Flexible series thin client, and also announced support for new Nvidia GRID graphics processing units (GPUs) for the HP WS460c Generation 8 (Gen8) graphics server blade.
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| Lenovo unveil new workstation |
8/26/2013 |
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Lenovo has announced the ThinkStation E32, an entry-level workstation for professionals working in computer-aided design, product development and architecture.
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| Lenovo to add start button to Win 8 |
8/23/2013 |
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Lenovo says that if a Start Menu is what it will take to get you to start buying Windows 8 PCs, then by gum, a Start Menu you shall have.
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| Microsoft's Ballmer to step down in a year |
8/23/2013 |
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Ballmer's eventual departure from the tech giant arrives during a significant market transition. With more consumers shifting from desktop and laptop computers to mobile devices.
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| Yahoo returns to "most visited website" |
8/22/2013 |
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Yahoo received 196.6 million unique visitors last month, compared to 192.3 million for Google. This is the first time Yahoo has returned to the top spot for U.S. web traffic since May 2011.
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| New battery concept packs 3 times the energy |
8/22/2013 |
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Braff and his colleagues estimate that the membraneless flow battery may produce energy costing as little as $100 per kilowatt-hour—a goal that the U.S. Department of Energy has estimated would be economically attractive to utility companies.
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| Sony wants to regain its position in smartphone |
8/21/2013 |
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Over the past year, Sony has been stepping up its effort to become a major smartphone vendor. Even though the company is still a minor competitor in the U.S. mobile market, it has gained some ground in Japan and Europe.
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| Apple to launch iTunes Radio in September |
8/21/2013 |
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Apple iTunes Radio will launch in September with advertising from a number of global brands including McDonald’s, Pepsi, Nissan and Procter & Gamble, according to reports.
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| Zuckerberg declares free internet for the world |
8/21/2013 |
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The group — Internet.org — intends to make the Internet an option for the 5 billion people who don't have it. Presently, only about one-third of the world's population – 2.7 billion – has Internet access.
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| Foxconn might use 7-Eleven to market Mobile devices |
8/20/2013 |
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Foxconn may team up with 7-Eleven to make smartphones and tablets in the futureBoth Foxconn and President Chain Store, which operates 7-Eleven stores in Taiwan, announced that they could cooperate on such a venture.
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| ARM working on exceedingly low power processor |
8/20/2013 |
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Strategies for processing small amounts of data and transmitting small payloads for the IoT might differ depending on whether a node was powered or relied on energy scavenging from the local environment. A processor optimised for exceedingly low-power consumption that could wake up whenever enough energy had been harvested could be useful.
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| Facebook called for lower cost cold flash |
8/19/2013 |
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A relatively low endurance, poor performance chip would better server Facebook's need to store some 350 million new photos a day, said Jason Taylor, director of infrastructure at Facebook.
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| Supply control boosted DRAM profit |
8/19/2013 |
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DRAMeXchange has reported the average price for mainstream 4GB modules rose by 16% in the second quarter, from US$23.50 to US$27.25. DRAM manufacturers’ second quarter revenue broke records, increasing by 24% QoQ to US$8.53 billion for the highest quarterly revenue growth in three years.
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