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| Micron owns Elpida offficially July 31 |
8/2/2013 |
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Micron Technology on July 31 announced the closing of its acquisition of Elpida Memory, and also its takeover of a 24% share of Rexchip Electronics from Powerchip Technology.
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| Winbond reports 2nd Quarter profit |
8/2/2013 |
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Winbond Electronics has reported net profits for the second quarter of 2013, ending a string of six consecutive quarter losses.
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| Semiconductor revenues to rise 6.9% in 2013 |
7/31/2013 |
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Semiconductor revenues worldwide are forecast to reach US$320 billion in 2013, up 6.9%, according to IDC. The research firm previously estimated a smaller 3.5% increase.
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| AMD announces new lower-power G-series APUs |
7/31/2013 |
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AMD has announced a new low-power accelerated processing unit (APU) in the AMD G-series with the GX-210JA, further reducing x86 power requirements for embedded designs.
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| Amazon adding 5000 US Jobs |
7/29/2013 |
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Amazon.com announcedthat it will add more than 5,000 U.S. jobs to its fulfillment network, with hiring starting today
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| Automobiles are going wireless |
7/26/2013 |
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The automotive wireless market is projected to expand by more than 40 percent from 2012 to 2018, according to the market research firm IHS's latest Automotive Infotainment Market tracker Report.
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| SK Hynix result improved |
7/26/2013 |
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Revenue grew 41 percent from the first quarter and 49 percent from the second quarter of last year to 3.93 trillion won (about $3.52 billion).
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| ARM and Oracle to work on multicore solutions together |
7/26/2013 |
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Oracle's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is a critical component for high-throughput Java applications used in enterprise servers and embedded systems and helps to increase the performance of ARM-based multi-core systems. Additional areas for cooperation include improving boot-up performance, power savings and library optimization
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| Infineon allowed to keep some Qimonda IP's |
7/26/2013 |
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Infineon argued in a lower court that the suit covers thousands of Qimonda patents and that the question of whether it still has rights to that portfolio is key to Infineon’s business.
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| Samsung announced 3GB LPDDR3 |
7/25/2013 |
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The Samsung 3GB LPDDR3 mobile DRAM uses six of the industry's smallest 20-nanometer (nm) class* four gigabit (Gb) LPDDR3 chips, in a symmetrical structure of two sets of three chips stacked in a single package only 0.8 millimeters high.
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| SanDisk has technology for 3D Nand |
7/25/2013 |
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Stacking chips still consumes the same area so it does nothing to reduce costs, but creating vertical structures (3D NAND or FinFETs) crams more transistors/bits into a given area so the chip can be made smaller and cheaper.
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| Free WiFi at San Francisco parks, thanks to Google |
7/25/2013 |
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Google’s gift could pave the way for wider SF Wi-Fi. It could also improve the company’s image in the city following protests that its shuttle buses from San Francisco to its Mountain View headquarters are contributing to gentrification.
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