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| HTC suffers decrease in sales in 1Q12 |
4/25/2012 |
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HTC saw its business operations slip significantly in the first quarter of 2012, a sequential decrease for the second consecutive time, according to the company's financial report.
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| Intel announces Ivy Bridge processors |
4/24/2012 |
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Intel has introduced the quad-core third-generation Intel Core processor family, delivering visual and performance computing gains for gamers, media enthusiasts and mainstream users alike.
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| HTC to develop its own processors |
4/24/2012 |
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HTC plans to cooperate with Qualcomm, Nvidia and ST-Ericsson to develop and produce customized processors with specific functions for its smartphones
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| Nanya see hope for H2 turn around |
4/20/2012 |
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Extending that positive trend, chip prices should be higher this quarter than in the first quarter, as historical data shows that major clients usually start building inventory next month and in June for the holiday buying spree,
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| Microchip acquired wireless design company |
4/20/2012 |
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Roving Networks (Los Gatos, Calif.), founded in 2000, is a privately held, fabless developer of Wi-Fi certified transceiver ICs and FCC certified Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules. Microchip (Chandler, Ariz.)
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| Microsoft beat expectations |
4/20/2012 |
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Businesses buying desktop PCs running Windows and Microsoft's cloud services helped Microsoft exceed analysts' estimates for its fiscal third quarter ended March 31.
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| Memory prices to stay low into the slow season |
4/19/2012 |
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Due to the slow season effect and the change in NAND Flash vendors’ pricing strategy, TrendForce expects the future NAND Flash contract price trend to show a mild decline.
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| Researcher getting close to form graphene transistors |
4/19/2012 |
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The team at UWM has produced a derivative with oxygen atoms included within the hexagonal carbon-ring structure that characterizes graphene. The existence of the semiconducting derivative could help advance an era of carbon-based nanoscale electronics
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| Future DRAM will drive EUV lithography |
4/19/2012 |
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The DRAM 1x or 1y generation, a process node just below 20-nm was looking very complex using multipatterned optical lithography and DRAM makers seemed prepared to wait for EUV lithograpy to be ready for production.
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| Biwin to offer eMMC SSD system on a chip |
4/18/2012 |
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Biwin's new e-MMC SSDs are offered in capacities from 2GB to 64GB. They integrate both flash and a full SSD controller into a single chip, featuring advanced SSD features such as ECC, wear leveling and bad block management.
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| Judge ordered Samsung/Apple to talk |
4/18/2012 |
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Apple and Samsung have been engaged in bitter and long running disputes over allegations of patent infringement. Judge Koh has told both parties to sort the matter out in a gentlemanly manner.
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| Verizon to offer Private IP network business security |
4/18/2012 |
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With the new service, customers with LTE smartphones and tablets and LTE modems for their laptops can access the nearest cell tower and will then be routed to an enterprise gateway in one of many Verizon switching centers. Data routed to and through the enterprise gateway is encoded, but not encrypted, and kept totally separate from the public Internet.
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| ProMOS obtained badly needed roll over financing |
4/17/2012 |
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ProMOS said a consortium of bank creditors has agreed to extend the company's NT$57 billion (US$1.93 billion) debt for six months amid the financial difficulties faced by the global DRAM sector due to slowing demand and falling product prices.
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| Samsung Galaxy S II gaining traction |
4/17/2012 |
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Galaxy S II get brought up to speed with Ice Cream Sandwich, adding features like Face Unlock and a newly tweaked TouchWiz to the device. There are also many performance improvements.
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