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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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| Apple to acquire 3D machine vision company |
11/18/2013 |
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PrimeSense's sensing technology, which gives digital devices the ability to observe a scene in three dimensions, was used to help power Microsoft's Xbox Kinect.
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| Applied Materials meets target |
11/18/2013 |
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Revenue in the current period will climb 3 percent to 10 percent from the prior quarter, the company said yesterday in a statement, indicating a range of $2.05 billion to $2.19 billion. Profit before certain costs will be 20 cents to 24 cents a share. On average, analysts projected sales of $2.19 billion and profit of 23 cents.
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| This is PS4 launch day |
11/15/2013 |
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If enough people buy the device, and a $50-a-year PlayStation Plus service, Tokyo-based Sony stands to generate billions of dollars from sales of movies, TV shows and music, as well as games.
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| Microsoft suggested fuel cell to power data centers |
11/15/2013 |
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"By integrating fuel cells with IT hardware, we can cut much of the power electronics out of the conventional fuel cell system. What we are left with is a very simple and low cost data center and fuel cell system."
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| Intel goes retail store front in New York |
11/14/2013 |
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The company is now experimenting with a line of retail stores this holiday. A range of Intel "experience" pop-up stores are set to debut shortly, with the first opening in New York on November 23rd.
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| Microsoft to replace surface with small screen tablets |
11/14/2013 |
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Consumers instead often have simpler needs for a tablet: a device that starts up instantly, something to check their e-mail on, the ability to surf the Internet, and access to their favorite Web services, Shim said. Thus, providing solid Windows alternatives to the Surface makes sense for Redmond.
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| Koreans now own 2/3 of the DRAM market |
11/14/2013 |
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Samsung accounted for 37.1 percent, or US$3.45 billion, of the global DRAM market in the July-September period. SK hynix grabbed a 28.5 percent share in the global DRAM market in the same quarter with $2.65 billion in sales.
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| AMD gains with gaming consoles |
11/14/2013 |
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AMD grew its market share thanks to the millions of semi-custom x86 architecture chips it shipped for Microsoft's Xbox One and Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming consoles.
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| Survey shows touch screen notebook is preferred |
11/13/2013 |
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"While IDC believes that touch-enabled screens will eventually become the new standard of the industry, touch-enabled apps that are relevant to PC end users will be the crux of a much faster penetration in Asia,”
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