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| AMD drops to 4th place in MPU sales |
5/22/2013 |
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The new top 10 MPU list shows most leading suppliers of mobile processors based on ARM technology moving higher in the ranking while PC-dependent x86 MPU companies—Intel and AMD—continued to lose marketshare in 2012.
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| Samsung offered 45nm embeded flash process |
5/21/2013 |
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The company said that an initial test chip had shown that the process has past stringent quality requirements and that the 45-nm process would be offered for commercial manufacture of smartcard ICs.
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| Amazon granted FedRAMP security compliance |
5/21/2013 |
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With this FedRAMP compliance, agencies can now utilize a streamlined process from AWS when moving applications to the cloud to meet their unique business and mission requirements."
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| Asian smartphone market grows |
5/20/2013 |
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Indonesia was the largest market with 37% of overall sales, but smartphone take-up rates varied across the region, ranging from 30% in Indonesia to 146% in the Philippines and 140% in Thailand.
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| Chinese hacker goes live again |
5/20/2013 |
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They have stolen product blueprints, manufacturing plans, clinical trial results, pricing documents, negotiation strategies and other proprietary information from more than 100 of Mandiant’s clients, predominantly in the United States.
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| ST to put PCM memory in MCU |
5/17/2013 |
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Phase-change memory has been touted as possible replacement for both flash memory and DRAM, but the technology has been in research for decades and now faces numerous competitor technologies.
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| Dell profit falls |
5/17/2013 |
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Dell’s profit for the quarter, ended May 3, was $130 million, down 79 percent from $635 million a year earlier. Revenue declined 2 percent to $14.07 billion.
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| Tokyo Court dismissed road block for Micron/Elpida merger |
5/17/2013 |
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In February the Tokyo District Court approved the reorganisation plan following a vote of approval by Elpida's creditors. However a month later, a number of Elpida's unsecured creditors filed an appeal of that decision with Tokyo's High Court, which was dismissed yesterday.
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| Inotera obtained U$200M through private placement |
5/16/2013 |
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Inotera plans to spend NT$4.5 billion on new equipment this year for its migration to 30-nanometer (nm) process technology. That does not include spending on further upgrading its technology to 20nm.
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| Startup to take FinFET into memory design |
5/16/2013 |
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SureCore claims that, using a combination of detailed analysis and advanced statistical modeling, it has designed an SRAM memory structure suitable for integration in advanced logic processes that consumes less than half the power of existing versions.
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| Analyst doubted if Toshiba really cut Nand production? |
5/15/2013 |
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Other NAND flash makers must envy Toshiba for growing revenues despite cutting bit production in a market where that goal eluded all other manufacturers. Either that, or they must doubt the authenticity of the company’s statements.
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| CMT moves to production on new NV Ram |
5/15/2013 |
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The LogicFlash memory – which has also been described as a non-volatile embedded DRAM – is designed for implementation in standard CMOS logic processes.
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| Google Maps to get overhauled |
5/15/2013 |
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New features highlighted in this leak include a much-improved fullscreen interface, more integration with your Google Search history, integrated flight search, and more goodies moved over from Google Earth.
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| TI puts micro mirror into new applications |
5/14/2013 |
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They are now being applied to portable and stationary 3-D measurement tools for machine vision, 3-D printing and quality control scenarios, medical imaging devices for dental and retinal scanning, spectrometers, augmented reality devices, and more.
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