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| Microsoft to offer its own "App store" |
12/7/2011 |
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Microsoft on Tuesday began wooing developers for a February opening of its first "app store" for computers powered by the US technology giant's Windows software.
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| Intel and Taiwan co-develop new memory chip |
12/7/2011 |
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Intel has joined hands with a top Taiwan research institute to develop a new generation of memory chips for use in lighter, energy-saving smartphones and tablets.
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| Micron unveil 20nm NAND flash |
12/7/2011 |
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Intel and Micron Technology have jointly announced a 20nm, 128Gb multilevel-cell (MLC) NAND falsh device.
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| Powerchip mass producing driver ICs at 90nm |
12/6/2011 |
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Powerchip Technology has announced mass production of the foundry segment's 90nm high-voltage process technology for small- to medium-size driver ICs used in mobile device applications, utilizing capacity at its existing 12-inch facilities.
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| Price of solar wafers steadies at US$1.10 |
12/6/2011 |
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The price drop of solar wafers has been leveling off, according to industry sources. Since the beginning of November, the average selling price (ASP) of solar wafers has been steady.
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| Nvidia target 25 million Tegra 3 processors in 2012 |
12/5/2011 |
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Nvidia is set to challenge to ship 25 million Tegra 3 processors for use in smartphones, tablet PCs and automobiles in 2012 as the company is unlikely to be able to achieve the same shipment goal for its Tegra 2 in 2011.
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| Samsung to produce pixel resolution touch screen |
12/2/2011 |
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All of the input functions of a keyboard, mouse or scanner can be carried out on the panel which can detect up to 50 touch points on the screen while displaying high definition resolution images.
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| Memory engineers to work on TSV stack |
12/2/2011 |
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IBM said it would the details of its TSV manufacturing breakthrough at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting on Dec. 5 in Washington, D.C.
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| Kindle Fire to outsell Galaxy tablet |
12/2/2011 |
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IHS projects Amazon will ship 3.9 million Kindle Fire tablets in the fourth quarter, giving it 13.8 percent of the global market, well ahead of No. 3 Samsung, which is expected to have 4.8 percent of the market despite offering a wide range of Galaxy Tab tablets.
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| Verizon to buy spectrum for LTE expansion |
12/2/2011 |
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"Buying the AWS spectrum now solidifies our network leadership into the future, and will enable us to bring even better 4G LTE products and services to our customers.”
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| In pursue of the American Deam |
12/1/2011 |
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Engineering innovation has created whole new fields of technology and many exciting possibilities and opportunities. But, clearly, many of those opportunities are now found in places with lower costs and standards of living, and thus lower salary requirements.
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| Is Windows 8 tablet going to hold? |
12/1/2011 |
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Windows 8 tablets are scheduled to launch next year. Although Microsoft hasn’t been able to win significant market share for Windows on tablets, some market watchers are saying Windows 8 will change that situation.
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| AT&T/T-Mobile to joint venture and share carrier assets |
12/1/2011 |
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A joint venture could help solve some of the wireless-capacity constraints both companies are expected to face in the coming years while avoiding the competitive concerns voiced by the Justice Department. Much would depend on how the deal is structured and the details.
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| IDT announced Pizo-MEM timing device |
11/30/2011 |
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IDT (San Jose, Calif.) also claimed its new pMEMS process could produce oscillators that operated at higher-frequencies than traditional MEMS, had higher-stability than quartz oscillators, and could be delivered in the world's smallest waferscale package.
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| Google refines mapping to find your shopping isle |
11/30/2011 |
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Google's inside mapping will work similarly to its outside mapping. A little blue dot will move along with you to show you where you are, and the technology is even able to know what floor you are on.
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| FCC discloses reason for rejecting ATT/T-Mobile merger |
11/30/2011 |
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A 109-page Federal Communications Commission report concludes the combination would cause significant jobs losses and that AT&T would probably build high-speed wireless Internet connections without the merger. The conclusion undermines AT&T’s claims about the deal’s benefits, the official said.
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| Semiconductor prices to recover 2012 |
11/29/2011 |
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With an inventory correction well under way, semiconductor sales will remain tepid for the rest of the year before returning to sequential growth sometime in the second half of 2012.
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| Is PCM memory ready for commercial use? |
11/29/2011 |
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Technical challenges to PCM continue to exist over the ability of the heating effect to scale both within the memory cell and due to thermal cross-talk effects on neighboring cells. There are also concerns on whether this sensitivity to temperature could prevent pre-programmed phase-change memories being taken through printed circuit board production processes such as solder baths.
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| Seagate announced third generation hybrid drive |
11/29/2011 |
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During an initial OS installation, the Momentus XT captures boot files and places them in a special segment of the NAND flash where they remain for the life of the drive. The feature ensures that the drive always boots from flash and not spinning disk.
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| iPad 3 is thinner and lighter |
11/29/2011 |
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The discovery has added to rumours that the iPad 3 will launch in March and feature a fractionally thicker design and a significantly higher resolution display.
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