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| ChipMOS develop alternative to gold bumping |
1/5/2012 |
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Chipbond Technology and ChipMOS Technologies have both adopted Cu/Ni/Au bumps for LCD driver IC packaging to significantly reduce gold use, according to the companies.
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| VIA unveils Mini-ITX embedded motherboard |
1/4/2012 |
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VIA Technologies has announced the VIA VB7009 embedded Mini-ITX motherboard. Measuring only 17x17cm, the VIA VB7009 Mini-ITX is a flexible embedded board for POS and kiosks.
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| Powerchip lands order for MCP chip |
1/4/2012 |
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Powerchip Technology has received orders for 100,000 512Mb and 1Gb MCPs (multi-chip packages) made of 40nm-based NAND flash chips and low-power Mobile RAM chips.
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| Intel to announce 40 new server processors |
1/3/2012 |
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Intel is set to launch 40 new processors including those for its upcoming Romley platform, in the first half of 2012 with the company to release 20 models each quarter.
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| Amazon released holiday sales data |
12/29/2011 |
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Amazon customers purchased millions of Kindle Fires and millions of Kindle e-readers. And 2011 was the best holiday ever for the Kindle family, as customers purchased over 1 million Kindle devices each week.
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| Breakthroughs at UT can double solar efficiency |
12/28/2011 |
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"Plastic semiconductor solar cell production has great advantages, one of which is low cost. Combined with the vast capabilities for molecular design and synthesis, our discovery opens the door to an exciting new approach for solar energy conversion, leading to much higher efficiencies."
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| NTT Docomo JV with 5 others on Mobile chip development |
12/28/2011 |
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It reached a basic agreement with five companies— Fujitsu Ltd., Fujitsu Semiconductor Ltd., NEC Corp., Panasonic Mobile Communications Co. Ltd. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.—to establish a fabless joint venture to develop and sell semiconductors for handsets and other mobile devices.
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| Amazon.com sales surged 15% |
12/28/2011 |
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For the most recent week ending December 18, led by four individual days surpassing $1 billion in sales, online retail spending reached an all-time record of $6.3 billion, up 14 percent from the corresponding week last year.
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| iTV will initially come with 32" and 37" screen |
12/28/2011 |
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Apple will launch both a 32-inch and 37-inch iTV this summer, which will presumably have all the features of the Apple TV integrated along with "the simplest user interface you could imagine."
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| Boston-Power raised funding on battery development |
12/27/2011 |
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Boston-Power has raised an additional $30 million in private equity. The investment follows Boston-Power's September 2011 announcement of $125 million in growth capital and Chinese government stimulus programs – comprising a combination of grants, low-interest loans and related financial and tax incentives.
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| iOS 5.05.1 jailbreak released |
12/27/2011 |
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The untether is only for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4 - CDMA, the first iPad, iPod touch 3G, and iPod touch 4G with iOS 5.0.1
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| Google to make its own Nexus Tablet |
12/27/2011 |
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Google’s potential launch of its own tablet could “cause conflict with branded PC vendors who are cooperating with Google to launch Ice Cream Sandwich-based tablet PCs in the first half of 2012”.
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| China Beidou offers mapping system alternate to GPS |
12/27/2011 |
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China has been working on the system since 2000 to provide an alternative to the US government-run Global Positioning System (GPS). The move should make China's military less dependent on foreign technology.
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| Rumor of Elpida/Nanya tie-up |
12/22/2011 |
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The report comes as Japan's last remaining player in the dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) market struggles with tumbling prices and loss of market share to South Korea's better-funded giants.
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| Micron endures second consecutive quarterly loss |
12/22/2011 |
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The memory chip vendor posted a net loss of $187 million, or 19 cents per diluted share, compared to a net loss of $135 million or 14 cents per share in the previous quarter and a net income of $155 million or 15 cents per share in the year ago quarter.
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| Smartphone buyer's guide |
12/22/2011 |
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Buy a smartphone today, and it will be out-of-date by tomorrow. That's how fast the smartphone market is changing. New models are being announced at a stunning rate.
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| Microsoft departing CES |
12/22/2011 |
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Big reveals and launches of major products will in the future be made at Microsoft-organized, Microsoft-specific events. Events that happen when Redmond says they should happen, and that make Microsoft products the star of the show.
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