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| Globalfoundies to buy Promos |
2/27/2012 |
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Globalfoundries reportedly has agreed to take over financially-troubled ProMOS Technologies for US$1 billion
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| Semi Equipment Book-to-Bill rises to 0.95 |
2/24/2012 |
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SEMI (San Jose, Calif.) said North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $1.18 billion in orders in January, on a three-month average basis, up 7 percent from December and down 22.1 percent from January 2011.
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| Windows Phone sales increased, thanks to Nokia |
2/24/2012 |
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Microsoft saw 2.7m Windows Phone device sales in Q4 2011, according to Strategy Analytics‘ figures, of which sales of Nokia devices like the Lumia 800 contributed 33-percent.
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| DOD to cut electronic spending by 1/4 |
2/23/2012 |
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U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $13.59 billion in federal fiscal year 2013 for procurement and research in military communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
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| Prices on DDR2 DRAM jumped |
2/23/2012 |
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Rising demand coming from the consumer electronics sector, coupled with chipmakers' ongoing production cutbacks earlier, has led to the tight supply, the sources indicated. Prices will likely be pushed up as a result of shortages, the sources said.
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| Apple to make 7" iPAD this year ? |
2/22/2012 |
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They expected to see Apple launch “a 7-inch iPad with a low-end specification,” in or around the third quarter of the year at a price point of about $299.
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| SanDisk shown 19nm NAND Flash |
2/22/2012 |
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The chip also has a 3-bit per cell write performance of 18-Mbyte per second and a read throughput of 400-Mbits per second. The chip is a rectangle of silicon of 170 square millimeters area.
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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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