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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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| Leap's motion gesture sensor hooks up with HP |
4/17/2013 |
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Already, Leap Motion had cemented deals to bundle its controller with Asus PCs, and to sell it in Best Buy stores and at Bestbuy.com, as well as on its own Web site. But now, it also will have access to HP's substantial brick-and-mortar and online distribution channels,
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| Taiwan suppliers came together to fight Samsung |
4/17/2013 |
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Samsung was accused by a local magazine of launching an internal "Kill Taiwan" campaign. Samsung has denied those claims, but the rumors have helped spur Taiwanese companies to come together as a counterpunch to Samsung's market successes.
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| Once popular netbook to go away |
4/17/2013 |
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Next year will be the last hurrah for netbooks on the market, with shipments amounting to a mere 264,000 units. By 2015, netbook shipments will be down to zero, indicated IHS.
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| Telefunken Semiconductor International has plan to revive |
4/16/2013 |
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TSI has a 200-mm wafer fab in Roseville. The company also has a 150-mm wafer fab in Heilbronn, Germany acquired from Atmel Corp. The company has its own process technologies for power, analog and mixed-signal as well as processes licensed from Atmel.
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| Apple to provide lower-cost phones |
4/16/2013 |
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BTIG analyst Walter Piecyk expects Apple to charge $300 for the phone and launch it by year's end. Piecyk believes Apple needs such a device to boost its earnings and market share.
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| Social media boost WiFi camera sales |
4/16/2013 |
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In the last two years, digital still cameras with Wi-Fi capabilities have been enjoying brisk sales in Southeast Asia, registering nearly two fold value growth in the span of a year.
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