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| TSMC December sales down 16% |
1/10/2013 |
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December sales at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) declined by 16% sequentially, the lowest level in nine months.
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| 32-inch TV panels drop US$2 |
1/9/2013 |
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Open cell TV panels sized 32-inch have recently seen a 1% or US$2 decline due to TV vendors slowing down orders and preparing for new TV arrivals in the beginning of the second quarter of 2013, according to market observers.
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| Adata reports revenues up by 14% |
1/8/2013 |
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Adata Technology's revenues for December 2012 registered a 14.75% sequential increase, as a recent rebound in chip prices buoyed sales of DRAM modules.
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| Apple to unveil low cost iPhone |
1/8/2013 |
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Apple will roll out a low-cost version of the iPhone for China and other emerging markets in the second half of 2013.
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| AMD unveils new GPUs at CES Show |
1/8/2013 |
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AMD has launched the Radeon HD 8000M series of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs) set to deliver discrete graphics performance to a variety of notebook designs, including the portable ultrathin form factor.
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| Chinese to test anti-satellite missiles |
1/7/2013 |
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Among the concerns raised by ASAT tests is that they can create large fields of space debris that could collide with and damage other satellites. ASAT tests can generate large debris fields.
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| Nvidia's Tegra 4 processor to be quad core |
1/7/2013 |
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Tegra 4 includes 72 GPU cores to provide approximately six times the graphics performance of the company's previous application processor, the Tegra 3. Web browsing is said to be 2.6 times faster than Tegra 3. This is also thought to include a proprietary implementation of ARM's Big-little technique similar to that implemented by Nvidia in Tegra 3.
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| WD extended life HDD fills with helium |
1/7/2013 |
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The helium-filled data center drives are said to drastically reduce internal friction, lowering power consumption by 23% and increasing capacity by 40%.
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| Judge ruled Rambus DRAM patents unenforceable |
1/4/2013 |
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U.S. District Judge Sue Robinson in Wilmington, Delaware, said yesterday the patents are unenforceable as a sanction against Rambus officials who engaged in a document-destruction campaign designed to “gain a litigation advantage” in a patent-infringement lawsuit over technology for high-speed memory chips.
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| Intel to create new TV services |
1/4/2013 |
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At Intel's January 7th CES event, the tech company will unveil its new cable service and set-top box, according to sources close to TechCrunch.
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| Facebook gets into VoIP and Voicemail |
1/4/2013 |
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The company is testing the ability to make VoIP calls using its Messenger app. Those in Canada can start a call with a contact by tapping the “i” button in the top right corner and hit “Free Call.”
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| Some one can be monitoring your office activities |
1/4/2013 |
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The hack allows the researchers to turn on a telephone's microphone and listen in on conversations from anywhere around the globe. The only requirement, they say, is an Internet connection.
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| Apple, Microsoft, Google in race to home automation |
1/3/2013 |
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Microsoft's purchase of id8 Group R2 Studios was revealed by The Wall Street Journal. The price Microsoft allegedly paid for R2 Studios is unknown, but the new acquisition does not yet have any products on the market, aside from an Android application that can control heating and lighting systems.
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| Apple wants to bolster maps by acquisition |
1/3/2013 |
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The appeal for Apple is obvious; the Cupertino company suffered at the hands of the tech press following the lacklustre launch of their own Apple Maps service in iOS 6, which was littered with inaccurate mapping information and warped satellite imagery when it replaced Google Maps as the default mapping service for Apple mobile devices.
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| Netbooks won't go away, just transform |
1/2/2013 |
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The smallest Ultrabooks are similar in size to the largest netbooks, and at some point their prices will tumble into the sub-$500 territory where most netbooks lived. Once that happens, the netbook will be back.
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| Intel delays TV set-top debut |
1/2/2013 |
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Content deals have typically squashed attempts at revolutionizing the living room. Google TV had plenty of potential at launch with its ability to combine traditional TV service with web video, but broadcast networks were quick to block GTV devices from their websites and Hulu.
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