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| Nanya posts revenue drop in May |
6/7/2013 |
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Taiwan-based DRAM manufacturer Nanya Technology saw its May sales fall about 4% sequentially ending a four-month streak of on-month increases.
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| Adata May sales surge up 50% |
6/6/2013 |
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Adata Technology registered a 57% sequential increase in May 2013, hitting the highest monthly level in 30 months.
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| HTC sales jump up 48% |
6/6/2013 |
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HTC climbed 47.9% sequentially to NT$29 billion (US$1.64 billion) in May, thanks to brisk shipments of its New HTC One smartphone.
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| SanDisk refresh SSD portfolio |
6/5/2013 |
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SanDisk has further enhanced its SSD product line for consumers and PC makers, and is looking to become one of the world's top-three SSD suppliers in 2014
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| Lenovo, NEC may set up smartphone joint venture |
6/5/2013 |
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China-based vendor Lenovo and Japan-based NEC are likely to establish a joint venture in Japan to design, produce and sell smartphones in the global market, according to Taiwan-based supply chain makers.
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| Asustek unveil 6-inch Fonepad |
6/4/2013 |
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Asustek Computer announced its 6-inch FonePad Note FHD 6 and an upgraded Transformer Pad Infinity at its pre-Computex launch conference on June 3
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| Computex expects 40,000 visitors |
6/4/2013 |
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Computex Taipei 2013, which will run from June 4-8, is expected to attract 40,000 international buyers and create business opportunities worth US$25 billion
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| A-Data predicts DRAM shortage in June |
6/3/2013 |
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Supply of DRAM chips will remain mostly tight in 2013, while the NAND flash market will face a shortage of supplies starting the second half of June
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| Rising DRAM prices elevated Micron stock |
5/31/2013 |
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Micron stock hit a 52-week high on Thursday as the spot price for 2-gigabyte dynamic random access memory (DRAM) climbed to $1.78 from last October’s low of 77 cents.
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| Asus to ship ultra high-res 4K monitor |
5/31/2013 |
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Asus PQ321 is a 31.5-inch IGZO monitor with 3840 x 2160 resolution. For context, you could fit four 1080p videos on the PQ321's 140 ppi screen without missing a pixel, assuming you have a graphics card that could support such a task.
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| Fan TV to offer "Do All" set-top box |
5/31/2013 |
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The general aim is to bring to market a tiny device that replaces not just the traditional set-top but specialized streaming devices as well. All of those video sources would be streamed to the Fan TV device over IP, erasing the need for manual input switching.
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| EU committed $12B funding to semiconductor |
5/30/2013 |
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The plan is to channel more than 5 billion euro (about $6.4 billion) of public authority money into research, development and innovation over the next seven years to match a similar amount of investment from the companies supported by the plan.
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| Samsung to show Galaxy S4 Mini |
5/30/2013 |
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Samsung said many of the software functions shown off at the S4's glitzy launch earlier this year would be available on the cheaper model.
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| Motorola Mobility brings manufacturing back to Texas |
5/30/2013 |
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Motorola’s partner in the Texas project, global contract manufacturer Flextronics, has leased a 481,000-square-foot factory in Fort Worth and has begun recruiting the nearly 2,000 workers who will assemble the Moto X.
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| Wolfson to integrate DSP with MEM microphone |
5/29/2013 |
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Wolfson is using local voice recognition in the DSP alongside the microphone to wake up the applications processor and the phone modem via a code phrase, providing voice control at a much lower power consumption.
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| Samsung sells older microcontroller lines |
5/29/2013 |
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Power IC vendor Ixys Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.), also parent of Zilog Inc., is buying the 4- and 8-bit microcontroller business of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for about $50 million.
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