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| RIM cut Playbook price by $200 |
9/29/2011 |
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Research In Motion have reduced the price of its PlayBook tablets after Amazon unveiled the company's new tablet, RIM reduced the price of its PlayBook tablets by $200.
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| Inotera completes 42nm DRAM Fab transition |
9/29/2011 |
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Inotera Memories has completed its 42nm process technology transition, according to the company, which added that it has also started 30nm pilot runs with commercial production scheduled for 2012.
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| Elpida to buy more Powerchip shares |
9/28/2011 |
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Elpida Memory is looking to wholly own its Taiwan-based subsidiary Rexchip Electronics, through acquiring the remaining 36% stake held by Powerchip Technology, according to company president and CEO Yukio Sakamoto.
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| Macronix, Winbond ramp up NAND flash production |
9/27/2011 |
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Macronix International and Winbond Electronics are expected to extend production from NOR flash to NAND flash, viewing that NAND flash tends to replace NOR flash for use in popular consumer technology devices such as smartphones and tablets.
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| PQI orders large volume of Nand Flash |
9/27/2011 |
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Powerchip Technology received order for NAND flash using 4,000-5,000 12-inch wafer equivalents from Power Quotient International (PQI), a Taiwan-based memory module maker.
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| Global HDD shipments increase by 3% |
9/27/2011 |
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Global hard disc shipments are expected to grow slightly by 3% in the third quarter, up from 165 million units in the second, while shipments in the fourth quarter are expected to stay flat on quarter.
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| Positive news on DRAM prices |
9/23/2011 |
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Spot price for the mainstream DDR3 2-GB chip currently stands at US$1.21, an increase of 19.8 percent since the beginning of September. As for the DDR3 2-GB eTT, its spot price stands at US$1.12, rising 21.7 percent from the beginning of the month.
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| Samsung predicts storm ahead on memory industry |
9/23/2011 |
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"We must prepare for an intensifying storm in the semiconductor industry by further enhancing our technological capabilities and expertise in order to maintain our leadership position,"
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| Samsung opens $10 B state-of-art fab |
9/22/2011 |
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Samsung said it has invested 12 trillion Korean won (about $10.2 billion) in Line-16. The company said it began construction of the fab in May 2010 and completed installing one year later.
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| Huge demand on MEM will force consolidation |
9/22/2011 |
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ABI forecasts that the market for MEMS chips will grow to nearly $1.5 billion in 2016, driven by soaring sales of touchscreen tablets and smartphones. The overall MEMS market, including electronics, displays, sensors/actuators and microfluidics, is expected to grow from $10 billion in 2011 to $18 billion by 2016.
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| Nokia confirms CTO |
9/22/2011 |
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The company is widely expected to launch its first devices running the Microsoft OS next month at its Nokia World event in London.
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| Flash is vulnerable, too |
9/22/2011 |
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Wednesday's Flash update was the first since Adobe patched 13 bugs on Aug. 9. Adobe has fixed Flash eight times so far this year, including several emergency, or "out-of-band."
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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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