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| Microsoft said Motorola use video patents as a ransom |
2/22/2012 |
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Motorola is demanding the company yank Windows PCs, Xbox 360 consoles and more from store shelves in North America and Europe, “or else remove their standards-based ability to play video and connect wirelessly.” That, Heiner argues, is antitrust behavior.
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| Intel Ivy Bridge to support new LRDIMM |
2/21/2012 |
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The first Ivy Bridge chip targets a range of desktop, notebook, embedded and single-socket server systems with up to 8 Mbytes cache. Like previous Intel parts it integrates a memory controller and graphics, now upgraded to support DDR3L DRAMs and Microsoft DirectX 11.0 graphics APIs.
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| Intel joins the foundry wagon |
2/21/2012 |
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Tabula (Santa Clara, Calif.) becomes the second programmable logic startup confirmed to be using Intel's Custom Foundry division for foundry work. In October 2010, Achronix Semiconductor Corp. announced that Intel would build its 22-nm FPGAs.
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| Nook Tablet priced at $199 |
2/21/2012 |
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For general consumers, the lower price point is most welcome. If you’re planning on using it for predominantly ebook reading, then 8GB is certainly sufficient for storing thousands of titles.
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| SanDisk into resistive memory development |
2/20/2012 |
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A job ad for the position was posted in SanDisk's website dated Feb. 15, 2012. The job is based at SanDisk headquarters in Milpitas, California, and the director's goal should be, the advert says, to bring the 3-D ReRAM technology from R&D to production.
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| iPad 3 Logic board picture shows A5X processor |
2/20/2012 |
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The big news (if true) is the "A5X" silicon, suggesting we'll see an incremental enhancement rather than the wholesale revolutions evident in the A4 and A5 chips that accompanied its predecessors.
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| FixYa compared user issues on Kindle Fire and iPad 2 |
2/17/2012 |
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There may be some value in the FixYa's Tablet Index nonetheless, to give potential device buyers a sense of the most commonly reported problems. The company claims that its index was generated from tens of thousands of issues posted to the community Q&A site.
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| Analyst's view on possible Elpida/Micron merger |
2/16/2012 |
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According to IHS, a merged Micron and Elpida would have capacity for 374,000 DRAM wafer starts per month. The combined company would have a 28 percent share of worldwide DRAM manufacturing capacity, placing it just behind Samsung, which has capacity for 433,000 wafer starts per month, or 33 percent of global DRAM capacity.
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| Cisco to fight Microsoft on Skype compatibility |
2/16/2012 |
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Cisco announced its intention to appeal the European Commission’s approval of Microsoft’s $8.5 billion Skype acquisition. Cisco wants the EC to require that Microsoft and Skype support standards for interoperability with other collaboration platforms.
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| Qimonda trustee request Infineon to pay $2.25B |
2/15/2012 |
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That action asserts that Infineon failed to make certain necessary declarations to the German company registrar as it moved assets through shell companies in association with the setting up of Qimonda as a subsidiary company.
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| Germans have a way to deal with un-employment |
2/15/2012 |
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German workers are treated as assets, not “overhead,” and German managers are making a bet – sticking out their necks – in hopes that new orders will come in and an economic recovery will indeed come.
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| Details of BlackBerry OS 10 leaked |
2/15/2012 |
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One of the differentiating factors between the BlackBerry OS 10 and its predecessors is the likely inclusion of widgets. If included, widgets would bring OS 10 at par with iPhone, Android and Windows Phone and may help it garner more users.
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| IC Insight predicted IC growth in 2012 |
2/14/2012 |
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NAND Flash has been a top growing market segment over the past few years due to the growth of consumer-driven mobile media devices – particularly smartphones and tablet PCs. In 2012, NAND Flash will also benefit from growing demand for solid-state drives.
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| Would Microsoft trade MS Office for ARM WOA market? |
2/14/2012 |
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Microsoft's announcement as confirming that the Office apps included with WOA -- touch-enabled versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote that run in the operating system's limited desktop mode -- would be bundled with the operating system, free to users.
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| Justice Department approves Google to acquire Motorola |
2/14/2012 |
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Company's bid for Motorola Mobility "will increase competition by strengthening Google's patent portfolio, which will enable us to better protect Android from anti-competitive threats from Microsoft, Apple, and other companies."
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