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| JMicron develops SATA 6Gbps controller IC for SSDs |
7/26/2011 |
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JMicron Technology has successfully developed SATA 6Gbps controller ICs for use in solid state drives (SSD), and will begin small-volume shipments in the third quarter, according to industry sources.
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| TSMC regains orders from chipset players |
7/26/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has managed to regain more orders recently, aiming at sustaining a positive on-quarter growth in revenues for the third quarter, according to industry sources.
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| Hynix Q2 result below expectations |
7/25/2011 |
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Benchmark DRAM prices have fallen over 7 percent in the first half of July alone and market research firms have little doubt that the prices will slide further, threatening third quarter earnings.
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| Apple and Qualcomm will boost Taiwan foundries |
7/25/2011 |
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Taiwan is taking comfort from an expected cycle of semiconductor purchasing to come in the second half of 2011, driven by the needs of forthcoming Apple products, according to a Taiwan Economic News report.
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| Apple iPad ad hints Mac OS Lion compatible |
7/25/2011 |
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During the "learn new things" section of the ad, a child is shown writing the word "Lion" next to a picture of a lion. Of course, the lion reference could be viewed as mere coincidence, but given the company's tight control, it's likely that the allusion is intentional.
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| Rambus say it will rebound in Q3 |
7/22/2011 |
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Rambus Inc. made a net loss of $10.6 million on sales revenue of $66.2 million in the second quarter of 2011. However, Rambus (Sunnyvale, Calif.) guided that it would be profitable in Q3 on rising revenue.
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| Apple interested in Hulu.com |
7/22/2011 |
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Apple has begun preliminary discussions that may eventually lead to an acquisition, Bloomberg reported without elaborating.
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| Nokia's China dominance challenged |
7/22/2011 |
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Nokia’s second-quarter handset shipments in China fell to 11.3 million, less than half the previous quarter’s number and 41 percent less than a year earlier.
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| Google+ attracked 20 million first month |
7/22/2011 |
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Google+ continues to go from strength to strength, with 20 million people visiting the site in less than a month - and all this despite it currently being an invite-only service.
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| Cisco to cut 6500 |
7/21/2011 |
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Analysts have been expecting Cisco to cut jobs since the company turned in disappointing quarterly numbers in May. According to the Wall Street Journal, analysts had pegged the number of layoffs at between 5,000 and 10,000.
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| Intel revenue grew 23% |
7/21/2011 |
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Revenue growth was strongest in its embedded and communications section at 25 percent, followed by servers and PCs at 15 and 11 percent respectively.
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| Fake Apple Store exposed in China |
7/21/2011 |
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Many of the Apple products carried by resellers are purchased from the company’s retail outlets in China, while others are bought overseas and smuggled in. In some cases, the products on offer are second-hand or even knock-offs.
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| Teardown found Huawei designed baseband IC |
7/20/2011 |
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Huawei makes two wideband CDMA external modems, both sold as the E173. One version uses a Qualcomm MSM6290 HSPA chipset, the other uses a baseband designed by Huawei's HiSilicon division and both are subjects of ABI teardown reports.
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| DRAM price errosion slows |
7/20/2011 |
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After dropping 14.2 percent in the first quarter, the global average decline in pricing for DRAM slowed to 12 percent in the second quarter, according to IHS (El Segundo, Calif.).
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| Nissan up prices on Leaf |
7/20/2011 |
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Nissan spokeswoman Katherine Zachary said the price is going up because Nissan is adding some standard features, including a battery warmer, heated steering wheel and front and rear heated seats.
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| ARM to challenge Intel in Notebooks |
7/19/2011 |
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IHS (El Segundo, Calif.) said it expects that ARM-based systems will account for 22.9 percent of global notebook PC unit shipments in 2015, up from 3 percent in 2012. The firm said it expects total ARM-based notebook shipments to hit 74 million in 2015, up from 7.6 million next year.
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| China now has half billion people online |
7/19/2011 |
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The statistics show that between January and June China's Internet population grew 6.1 percent, a drop from the 9.4 percent increase the country saw during the same period in 2010. In previous years, the growth was in double digits.
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| ITC upholds Kodak win over Apple |
7/19/2011 |
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At issue is an Apple complaint, filed in April 2010, charging Kodak with infringement of two patents on image processing and power management. On May 12, ITC Judge Robert Rogers shot down Apple's attack, ruling that the patents were not infringed.
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| SMIC appoints new chairman and CEO |
7/18/2011 |
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SMIC reported the death of its chairman and that the company's president and CEO David Wang had failed to win re-election to its board of directors. Jiang Shang Zhou, who was non-executive chairman of the company's board, passed away on June 27.
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| Sears.com listed iPad 2 for $69 |
7/18/2011 |
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Oddly enough, the listing claims that you’ll save a whopping $30 by taking advantage of this deal, posting an original price of $99.99.
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