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| Morris Chang gives dismal outlook for 2012 |
10/14/2011 |
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Chang is reported to have said. The U.S. economy will not recover until 2013 and the European nations' debt crisis is more serious and complicated than previously thought. As a result the semiconductor industry is going to face a slow recovery from its present, third quarter weakness.
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| IMEC: R-RAM won't take hold until 11nm |
10/14/2011 |
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SONOS flash has a vertical 8-layer stacked structure at 17-nm. The stacking could increase to 16 layers at 14-nm to 11-nm. Only after that would Resistive RAM (RRAM) enter the market when it would necessarily have to have a similarly stacked structure to allow it to compete.
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| Google's business model re-inforced |
10/14/2011 |
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Google CEO Larry Page said that the company had a great quarter and that its revenue had grown 32% year-on-year. "Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark,"
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| Microsoft finally own Skype |
10/14/2011 |
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"We look forward to working with the Skype team to create new ways for people to stay connected to family, friends, clients and colleagues — anytime, anywhere."
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| Altera add ARM core synthesis on FPGA |
10/13/2011 |
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Altera Corp integrates 28-nm Cyclone V and Arria V FPGA fabric, a single- or dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor, ECC (error correcting code) protected memory controllers, peripherals and high-bandwidth interconnect into a single chip.
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| Chevy Spark to go all electric on 2013 |
10/13/2011 |
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The biggest challenge to automakers now is convincing Americans to buy all-electric cars. According to a recent survey, a large majority of Americans won’t pay extra for an electric vehicle.
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| Apps enhanced through iOS5 release |
10/13/2011 |
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Apple released new versions of many of its iOS apps on Wednesday. Most of them bring support for some of iClouds features, but additional enhancements and improvements have been thrown into the mix as well.
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| Semiconductor packaging interrupted by flood |
10/12/2011 |
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Chip makers On Semiconductor Inc. and Microsemi Corp., as well as disk drive components supplier Hutchinson Technology Inc., were among companies that reported suspended operations at a Thai industrial park about 40 miles north of Bangkok.
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| Cray to build the fastest computer on planet |
10/12/2011 |
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Cray valued the multi-year contract at more than $97 million and said that Titan will be at least twice as fast and three times as energy efficient as today's fastest supercomputer, which is located in Japan.
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| BlackBerry experience service interruption |
10/12/2011 |
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Users in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India suffered patchy email service and no access to browsing and messaging, ratcheting up negative sentiment towards a company already losing market share to Apple and Samsung .
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| Apple iCloud to lock-in product loyalty |
10/12/2011 |
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If iCloud works as advertised -- something Apple's previous online products haven't always achieved -- the convenience of no longer needing to upload, download or sync files may lead many customers to buy exclusively from Apple.
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| Consortium to develop new hybrid memory |
10/11/2011 |
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A key motivation for forming the HMCC – is that the memory bandwidth required by high-performance computers and next- generation networking equipment has increased beyond what conventional memory architectures can provide. The term “memory wall” has been used to describe the problem.
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| TSMC to continue on innovations |
10/11/2011 |
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The introduction of 450-mm diameter wafers which the company plans to have in a pilot mode in its Fab 12 (Hsinchu, Taiwan) in the time period 2013 to 2014 and to be in volume in Fab 15 (Taichung, Taiwan) in 2015 or 2016.
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| Samsung Galaxy takes the lime light from iPhone |
10/11/2011 |
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Managed by the UK-based website T3, the awards show acknowledges the best gadgits across a wide variety of categories, and has come to be recognized as one of the most prestigious awards to be received in the consumer electronics industry.
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| iPhone 4S pre-order breaks record |
10/11/2011 |
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Orders for the latest iPhone, the last product the company introduced before the death of its co-founder Steve Jobs, surpassed 1 million in the first 24 hours, beating Apple's previous one-day record of 600,000 sales for the iPhone 4.
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| Transcend September revenues up 13% |
10/10/2011 |
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Memory module firm Transcend Information saw its revenues grow 12.8% sequentially in September, driven by shipments of flash products.
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| Sony in talks to buy Ericsson |
10/7/2011 |
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Sony in talks to buy out Ericsson's stake in their mobile phone joint venture, a source said, in a bid to catch up with rivals.
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| Macronix post mixed September results |
10/7/2011 |
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Macronix International saw its revenues increase 5.6% sequentially in September 2011 while fellow NOR flash manufacturer Winbond Electronics' revenues decreased 2.9% on month.
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| India launch U$46 tablet PC |
10/6/2011 |
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India launched its long-awaited "computer for the masses", unveiling a US$46 tablet device designed to bring the information technology revolution to tens of millions of students.
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| Foxconn pays respect to Steve Jobs |
10/6/2011 |
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Foxconn Electronics after learning of the death of Apple Steve Jobs, pointed out that Jobs was a respected leader in the IT industry and Foxconn express its greatest grief toward the death of Jobs.
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