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| BlackBerry is looking for a buyer |
8/13/2013 |
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A special board committee will consider ways to enhance BlackBerry’s value and scale, including joint ventures, partnerships or a sale of the company, according to a statement today.
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| Micron is not far behind on 3D NAND |
8/12/2013 |
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"It takes awhile to enable customers to use memory like that," he said. "I don't think it will be material to the industry in terms of impacting supply in a significant way until 2015."
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| China's semi industry - still controlled in foreign hands |
8/12/2013 |
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According to the IC Insights report, 58 per cent of IC production in China last year came from fabs owned and run by companies based outside of China, including Intel and SK Hynix. With Intel continuing to ramp up its 300mm fab in Dalian and Samsung set to build a 300mm fab in Xian, that percentage is expected to rise to 70 per cent in 2017.
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| Gaming segment PC sales continue |
8/12/2013 |
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"Many games are placing increasing demands on the CPU. The result is that swapping out the graphics add-in board is not enough this time around and gamers are building (and ordering) overclocked PC's from the ground up."
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| PC Memory suppliers cut 4GB DRAM prices |
8/9/2013 |
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A Korea-based memory company has recently lowered its quotes for 4GB DRAM modules to US$25, with corresponding 4Gb chips quoted at as low as US$2.80.
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| Samsung unveil 3D V-NAND Chip |
8/7/2013 |
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Samsung has begun mass producing 3D vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory chips, designed for a wide range of consumer electronics and enterprise applications such as embedded NAND storage and solid state drives (SSDs), according to the company.
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| Nanya post revenue down by 6% |
8/7/2013 |
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Nanya Technology has announced consolidated revenues of US$138.2 million for July 2013, down 6.6% on month and hitting the lowest monthly level in four months.
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| Adata posts record profits in 2Q13 |
8/6/2013 |
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Memory module maker Adata Technology has reported record net profits of NT$1.13 billion (US$37.7 million) for the second quarter of 2013.
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| Inotera July revenues hit record |
8/5/2013 |
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Inotera Memories generated consolidated revenues of US$180 million for July, hitting monthly record for the second consecutive month and growing by 2.84% on month and by 77.75% on year,
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| Micron owns Elpida offficially July 31 |
8/2/2013 |
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Micron Technology on July 31 announced the closing of its acquisition of Elpida Memory, and also its takeover of a 24% share of Rexchip Electronics from Powerchip Technology.
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| Winbond reports 2nd Quarter profit |
8/2/2013 |
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Winbond Electronics has reported net profits for the second quarter of 2013, ending a string of six consecutive quarter losses.
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