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| SMIC reports record sales and profits for 1H13 |
8/28/2013 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International (SMIC) has announced interim financial results for the six months ended June 30, 2013, with revenues and net profits climbing to record highs.
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| Dell continues to focus on PC Business |
8/28/2013 |
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CEO Michael Dell, at the Dell Solutions Summit taking place in Beijing, China, stressed that Dell will continue PC business operations and related investments due to the large growth potential in emerging markets where PC penetration is as low as 40%.
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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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