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| China claimed home grown 22nm prototype |
12/21/2012 |
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The construction of a 22-nm transistor as an academic and prototype exercise puts China's internally-developed technology at two to four years behind the west.
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| Micron hit manufacturing glitch |
12/21/2012 |
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They said that the problems were "nothing out of the ordinary" but had created supply chain disruptions that had led to an inability to get all the product out that the company might otherwise have done.
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| Home Automation: The next target? |
12/21/2012 |
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Assuming R2 Studios is in independent talks with Apple, Google and Microsoft, the companies are likely seeing home automation as the next market they all want to dominate.
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| Apple TV may be closer to reality |
12/20/2012 |
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Foxconn is now testing large LCD TV for Apple Inc. According to the source from Focus Taiwan, Apple is working with Hon Hai to test several designs for its long-talked-about TVs and currently testing several LCD panels ranging between 46~55 inches.
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| TSMC admits consideration for US site |
12/20/2012 |
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It has been speculated that TSMC might be the entity behind Project Azalea that is considering build a factory in New York state, or behind a similarly named project in Oregon. It has also been speculated that TSMC might be considering a U.S. site under pressure from Apple, which has become an important buyers of foundry services for the processors it uses in its smart phones and tablet computers.
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| Imagination wins bid on MIPS asset |
12/20/2012 |
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Ceva bid twice against forcing Imagination to rebid up to a level of $100 million. Ceva said that while there had been merit in trying to acquire MIPS, at the level reached it would rather preserve its cash for other opportunities.
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| Google begin to divert Motorola assets |
12/20/2012 |
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MMI's Home business generated quarterly revenues of about $880m over the past year, and about $60m of quarterly profit. It builds set-top boxes for a broad range of US cable companies.
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| Is RIM going to survive? |
12/20/2012 |
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This year, RIM has watched its market share in North America dramatically fall to about four per cent as the BlackBerry became an afterthought in the face of Apple's iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S3.
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| Semi sales down 2.3% for 2012 |
12/19/2012 |
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Semiconductor silicon revenue will close the year at $303 billion, down 2.3 percent from $310 billion in 2011. The projected decline comes in contrast to the 1.3 percent gain made last year.
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| UBM found new SK Hynix DRAM cell quite different |
12/19/2012 |
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The process integration scheme is significantly different: The Hynix 44-nm SDRAM has a WL above the Si substrate level and the array transistor employs the saddle-fin structure; the new Hynix SDRAM has a WL below the substrate surface and uses the buried-wordline (bWL) scheme.
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| Samsung stays ahead on smartphone shipment |
12/19/2012 |
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"Samsung made significant gains in both the high end as well as the low-cost market with its Galaxy line of smartphones. This diversified market approach has allowed Samsung to address a larger target audience for its phones than Apple’s limited premium iPhone line.”
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| Return of the Google Maps on iPhone helped adoption of iOS 6 |
12/19/2012 |
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Advertising companies saw a spike in individual iOS 6 users in the days following Google Maps' availability for the iPhone. The theory is these users decided to avoid iOS 6 (at least for a little while) due to its lack of Google Maps.
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| IBM and Intel race to 22nm |
12/18/2012 |
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Intel and IBM went head-to-head with their latest 22-nm technologies in back-to-back papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) here Monday (Dec. 10).
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| Industry executives see market to rebounce |
12/18/2012 |
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The rebound is likely to begin in the second half of 2013, but 75 percent of the 152 executives polled said their companies' revenue growth will increase in the next fiscal year, compared to 63 percent a year ago. Also, two-thirds expect their workforce to expand.
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| IBM: Computers will have 5 senses |
12/18/2012 |
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Computers with the ability to both understand the human senses and relay that information to users will widen the world for those with access to smartphones and tablet computers.
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| Walmart cut prices on iPhone5 |
12/17/2012 |
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Walmart is offering the 16 GB iPhone 5 for $127 (normally $189.97) and the 16GB iPhone 4S for $47 (normally $87.97), along with a two-year contract. They'll also sell the third-generation iPad for $399.
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| Acer to unveil new tablet in 2013 |
12/14/2012 |
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Acer is already set to announce new products in early 2013 and will also release Windows 8 Pro tablets in the second quarter of 2013.
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