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| China Wireless wants to outsell all rivals in China |
4/25/2013 |
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China Wireless, which sells phones under the Coolpad brand, is one of four domestic suppliers outselling Apple in China with smartphones tailored to the budget of the nation's budding middle class.
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| Memory vendor profit to rise as DRAM prices rise |
4/24/2013 |
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Charles Kau (¸ß†¢È«), general manager of Nanya Technology Corporation and chairman of Inotera Memories, Inc., said that the second quarter will be a marked improvement from the first due to rising DRAM prices.
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| Texas Instruments earnings up |
4/24/2013 |
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TI said revenue from analog and embedded processing made up 77 percent of the firm's total revenue in the first quarter, up from 72 percent in the first quarter of 2012.
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| Share holders approved MetroPCS/T-Mobile merger |
4/24/2013 |
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The transaction will probably be completed by May 1 after today’s ballot cleared the final hurdle for the combination of the country’s fourth- and fifth-largest wireless carriers,
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| Apple set to announce new iOS at June conference |
4/24/2013 |
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This year’s WWDC will be a major event for Apple because the company’s needs to show it is still a force for innovation. Apple SVP Phil Schiller said the company will deliver new versions of iOS and OS X software at WWDC.
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| Nand prices rose |
4/23/2013 |
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While 64Gb MLC prices, remaines flat, the prices for products such as 32Gb MLC and TLC grew 6-12% compared to 2H'March.
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| Is our PC still needed? |
4/23/2013 |
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More affordable laptops and Windows 8 tablets on the horizon. We are hearing that all of the PC vendors are working on what they call ¡°ultramobiles,¡± which are very low cost touch-based clamshells and convertible tablets for this holiday season.
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| Court bans HTC-one due to microphone infringement |
4/23/2013 |
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The current microphone for HTC's new flagship phone was manufactured by STMicroelectronics NV for the HTC One. The microphone uses components allegedly invented by Nokia and made exclusively for Nokia phones.
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| AMD exceeded expectations |
4/22/2013 |
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The company reported an operating loss of $98 million, narrowed compared with losses of $442 million in the previous quarter and $580 million in the year-ago quarter. AMD's first quarter sales beat consensus analysts' expectations of about $1.05 billion
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| Taiwan Andes microcontollers leads ARM in low end Apps |
4/22/2013 |
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Customers have already licensed the N7 for use in Bluetooth and touchscreen controllers. Separately, Andes (Hsinchu, Taiwan) is also shipping its high-end N13 cores, geared for dataplane networking systems running Linux.
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| Facebook to build $1.5b center in Iowa |
4/22/2013 |
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The paper reported that the proposal, which is dubbed Project Catapult, would involve a build in two $500m phases on a 1.4 million square foot site near Altoona in Iowa.
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| Soft switches could replace big-data ASIC hardware |
4/19/2013 |
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If the effort succeeds it could ease and lower the cost of running large data centers and business networks. It will also disrupt the current business model based on expensive network gear that uses complex ASICs and proprietary code.
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| As big-little processor gets more popular |
4/19/2013 |
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Under the terms of a single use design licence, ARM partners can licence the individual components required to enable the development of a big-little system, including the ARM Cortex-A15 and Cortex-A7 processors, CoreLink Cache Coherent Interconnect (CCI-400), Generic Interrupt Controller (GIC-400) and the AMBA Domain Bridge (ADB-400), all as a single package.
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| TSMC modern fabs are gaining business |
4/18/2013 |
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TSMC said that shipments of wafers made using 28-nm process technology reached 24 percent of total wafer revenues in the quarter. The 40/45-nm process node accounted for 23 percent.
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| Provo, Utah to be 3rd Google Fiber city |
4/18/2013 |
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“As a part of the acquisition, we would commit to upgrade the network to gigabit technology and finish network construction so that every home along the existing iProvo network would have the opportunity to connect to Google Fiber.
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| Yahoo's Marissa Mayer delivers |
4/18/2013 |
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It's not often that Silicon Valley CEOs make big promises and then deliver right away. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has done just that.
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| Dropping PC margins might help Dell to rebuild |
4/17/2013 |
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The struggling PC market is forecast to go from bad to worse, as one analyst believes a number of market factors will push gross margins even lower in the already-cutthroat business.
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