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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$8.53 billion for the highest quarterly revenue growth in three years.
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| iPhone lineup for this year |
8/19/2013 |
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"iPhone 5C" will actually be positioned as the company's mid-range device, not a low-end option as was previously rumored. Instead, the company's entry-level iPhone will be the iPhone 4S, he said.
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| Dell earnings fall |
8/16/2013 |
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After Dell's report came out, ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall advised shareholders to "take the money and run" in a research note that referred to a 1976 song by the Steve Miller Band.
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| Rumor: Nokia Win R/T phones are near |
8/16/2013 |
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Microsoft believes Windows RT 8.1 can rehabilitate the platform's image via UI refinements, improved native apps, access to Outlook and other enhancements.
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| IBM to put Flash modules in DIMM slots |
8/15/2013 |
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"I think you will see [flash in DIMM slots] hit the market in a bigger way in 2014," Kuhn said. "We'll be doing some work on that using Diablo [controllers] and own controller next year."
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| IBM inked B$ Cloud contract with DOI |
8/15/2013 |
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IBM will provide the DOI with cloud computing technologies and services, including data storage, secure file transfer, Web hosting, virtual machines, development testing and SAP application hosting.
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| DoComo promotes Sony smartphone instead of Samsung |
8/15/2013 |
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In comparison, the other phone of the summer, Samsung's S4 sold fewer than 700,000, compared to the Xperia A's 1.3m. DoCoMo had been hoping for sales of a million from the latest Galaxy mobe.
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| Micron/Elpida to layoff 1500 |
8/14/2013 |
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A Micron spokesman said the job cuts, announced internally last week, were not related to the Elpida transaction. Rather, they were about the company’s continuing search for greater efficiency.
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| Intel acquired LTE technology from Fujitsu Semi |
8/14/2013 |
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The move was "very important," because it gave Intel access to the mobile communications transceiver and design team previously described as probably the best standalone RF team in the world. Intel likely would have made such a move to help it win design slots in mobile equipment such as smartphones and tablet computers.
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| Ron Black wants to diversify Rambus |
8/13/2013 |
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Under Black, Rambus will be extending the company's business model by "bringing inventions to market from licensing, from collaborative development, and through software platforms, products, and hosted services,"
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| Would Moto X make Google's investment justified ? |
8/13/2013 |
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The “X phone” project, which Google has purportedly had kicking around since shortly after the iPhone launched, has been designated a Motorola product. That makes the Moto X phone Google’s first attempt to do something constructive with Motorola and finally get something out of its original investment. It should rack up at least enough sales to make the Motorola buyout something other than a train wreck.
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| BlackBerry is looking for a buyer |
8/13/2013 |
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A special board committee will consider ways to enhance BlackBerry’s value and scale, including joint ventures, partnerships or a sale of the company, according to a statement today.
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| Micron is not far behind on 3D NAND |
8/12/2013 |
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"It takes awhile to enable customers to use memory like that," he said. "I don't think it will be material to the industry in terms of impacting supply in a significant way until 2015."
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| China's semi industry - still controlled in foreign hands |
8/12/2013 |
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According to the IC Insights report, 58 per cent of IC production in China last year came from fabs owned and run by companies based outside of China, including Intel and SK Hynix. With Intel continuing to ramp up its 300mm fab in Dalian and Samsung set to build a 300mm fab in Xian, that percentage is expected to rise to 70 per cent in 2017.
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| Gaming segment PC sales continue |
8/12/2013 |
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"Many games are placing increasing demands on the CPU. The result is that swapping out the graphics add-in board is not enough this time around and gamers are building (and ordering) overclocked PC's from the ground up."
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