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| TSMC to cut Capex by 19 percent |
9/21/2011 |
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The result of this spending is set to be a steady expansion of TSMC's manufacturing capacity from about 11.3 million wafers in 2010, to about 13.5 million wafers in 2011 and between 16 and 17 million wafers in 2012.
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| Nvidia adds fifth core for low power standby mode |
9/21/2011 |
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The fifth core was made in a different process technology than the others, he said. Its transistors, which are the basis of chips, aren't as fast as those in the other cores, but that reduces the amount of current being leaked and lowers energy consumption.
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| Analyst see DRAM market to stabalize |
9/20/2011 |
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DRAM industry is responding to weaker demand with significant production cuts. The moves are ¡°key to stabilizing prices and profitability.¡±
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| PC shipment rebounced on Q2 |
9/20/2011 |
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After contracting on a sequential and annual basis during the first three months of the year, the global PC market returned to growth in the second quarter, with total shipments of 85.6 million units, up 3.7 percent from the first quarter and up 6 percent compared to the second quarter of 2010.
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| Google Wallet to replace your "plastics" |
9/20/2011 |
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"Our goal is to make it possible for you to add all of your payment cards to Google Wallet, so you can say goodbye to even the biggest traditional wallets."
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| Foxconn to produce iPads in Brazil |
9/19/2011 |
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These will be the first iPads not be made in China by Apple's electronic manufacturing services provider Foxconn. The "Made in Brazil" iPads will still be made for Apple by Foxconn but the company has moved rapidly to set up a plant in Jundiai northwest of Sao Paolo.
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| Hynix announce break through on 15nm NAND |
9/19/2011 |
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Hynix has just gone ahead and produced a 15-nm NAND flash memory cell which it plans to unveil at this year's International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM).
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| Tablet sales at 15% of PC and growing |
9/19/2011 |
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IDC says the tablet market grew between the first and second quarters from 7.2 million units to 13.6 million. Android tablet shipments grew substantially, from 2.45 million to 3.64 million, an increase of nearly 50 per cent.
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| Semi equipment book-to-bill fell to 0.8 |
9/16/2011 |
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North American fab tool vendors reported $1.18 billion worth of orders in August on a three-month average basis, down 8.8 percent from July and down 34.8 percent from August 2010, SEMI said.
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| Members of congress support T-Mobile merger |
9/16/2011 |
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AT&T's promise to bring 5,000 call center jobs back to the U.S. should the T-Mobile deal close, as well as a recent report that said the merger could create up to 96,000 new jobs.
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| Apple gearing up for iPhone 5 |
9/16/2011 |
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Leaks last week suggested production of the iPhone 5 had reached 150,000 units per day, indicating a launch was imminent.
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| BlackBerry market share continue to drop |
9/16/2011 |
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On Thursday, the company posted a sharp drop in quarterly profit and painted a dismal picture for its current quarter and said it now expects to reach only the lower end of an already reduced full-year outlook.
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| DRAM prices still in depress |
9/15/2011 |
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Although the market currently remains in a state of oversupply, production cuts across the board have improved the DRAM oversupply situation and eased the price decline.
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| Clear Wire to collaborate on China's TD-LTE |
9/15/2011 |
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The two companies will work together to ¡®cultivate a robust device ecosystem that supports multi-mode, multi-band devices with minimum component complexity and cost'.
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| Google launched travel reservation site |
9/15/2011 |
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Google Flight Search provides users with the ability to find and book air travel using Google's search engine. It's available at google.com/flights and as an option in the left-hand column of the search results page sidebar.
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| AMD ships 16 core |
9/14/2011 |
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This first Bulldozer core represents the beginning of unprecedented performance scaling for x86 CPUs. The flexible new 'Bulldozer' architecture will give Web and datacenter customers the scalability they need to handle emerging cloud and virtualization workloads."
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| Intel discloses 22nm CPU at IDF |
9/14/2011 |
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Overall, the 22nm process with its tri-gate FinFET transistors delivers twice the performance or half the power compared to 32nm Sandy Bridge chips, said Varghese George, a senior principal engineer.
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| AMD gets into Guiness record on fastest CPU |
9/14/2011 |
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AMD has set the world record of fastest CPU with a speed frequency of 8.429 GHz, winning the company a place in the Guiness World Records. AMD¡¯s yet-to-ship Bulldozer-based FX chips drew the Guinness ranking for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor." The AMD-FX CPU is set to debut in Q4 2011.
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| ARM renews research cooperation with University of Michigan |
9/13/2011 |
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Krisztian Flautner, vice president of R&D at ARM (Cambridge, England), is a former student of Trevor Mudge, Bredt Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, who leads the research.
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