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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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| 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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