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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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| ST Ericsson to open technical office in Silicon Valley |
9/13/2011 |
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The company's NovaThor Tech Center will provide local technical support and be a meeting place for partnerships and demos. It currently has a staff of about 50, rising to about 150 over the next 18 months.
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| Microsoft to separate its Win8 from legacy |
9/13/2011 |
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Microsoft has suggested that Windows 8 will use Hyper-V virtualization to run legacy applications (those designed for Windows 7 and earlier), so Microsoft can break free of the legacy technology and move Windows to a new level, as Apple did when it virtualized its old System 7 architecture a decade ago and came up with Mac OS X.
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| Double ordering of Japanese IC caught up with reality |
9/12/2011 |
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He said that Japanese chip exports rose sharply in July, but the quicker than expected recovery had revealed that many customers double ordered in the months after the earthquake. "Ironically, the rebound in Japan¡¯s exports in July probably prompted many customers to cancel orders in August,"
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| Not to give up T-Mobile without a fight |
9/12/2011 |
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The comments, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., Friday, are AT&T's first formal reply to the government's effort to block the deal. At the heart of the rebuttal is the notion that T-Mobile USA is too weak to be an effective competitor and its removal from the market wouldn't harm consumers.
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| Analyst Amazon will challenge iPad sales |
9/12/2011 |
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"We believe Amazon's entry into the tablet market could provide a shot in the arm to the non-Apple tablet market. As we have discussed in previous reports, entry into the tablet market by Amazon or Microsoft (NASDAQ:AMZN) could make for reshaped market conditions,"
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| Is Windows on ARM really compatible> |
9/12/2011 |
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"There will be some stuff that's compatible between the architectures and there will be completely new applications written for the new API and native languages which are going to have to be ported,"
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| TSMC report 3Q11 sales up by 6% |
9/9/2011 |
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TSMC has announced that consolidated revenues grew 6.2% sequentially and 0.7% from a year ago to US$1.29 billion in August 2011.
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