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| UMC to hold stake in Chinese Company |
11/3/2011 |
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UMC has announced that the company has received approval from Taiwan's Investment Commission under the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) to acquire a 35.7% stake in China-based Hejian Technology.
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| HTC to complete new plant in early 2012 |
11/3/2011 |
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HTC is expected to complete construction of its new plant in Taoyuan, northern Taiwan in early 2012 with a production capacity of 40 million smartphones a year.
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| Xilinx unveil new Virtex-7 FPGA |
10/31/2011 |
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Xilinx has announced the first shipments of its Virtex-7 2000T FPGA, the first product using 2.5D IC stacked packaging technology
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| Spansion to close Kuala Lumpur assembly |
10/28/2011 |
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Spansion said the company would consolidate its test and assembly operations into a single site near Bangkok. About 660 jobs will be cut as the result of the closure of the Kuala Lumpur facility.
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| China hacked into US satellites |
10/28/2011 |
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“Access to a satellite‘s controls could allow an attacker to damage or destroy the satellite. An attacker could also deny or degrade as well as forge or otherwise manipulate the satellite’s transmission.”
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| Apple cooking voice controlled Apple TV |
10/28/2011 |
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your TV itself able to respond to your voice commands as well as connect to the Internet, it opens up a wide range of possibilities which are already hinted at by technology such as that seen in TiVo boxes suggesting other shows you might enjoy or recognizing content by factors other than just its title.
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| Whitman reversed HP decision to dump PC division |
10/28/2011 |
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In many respects, HP’s decision revolved around the fact it couldn’t afford to spin off the PC unit. The company wasn’t ready. When IBM sold its PC unit, the company had other divisions doing well and the computer business was hived off. HP’s PC business is too integrated to extract easily.
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| LSI to acquire SandForce |
10/27/2011 |
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LSI (Milpitas, Calif.) will pay about $322 million in cash¡ªnet of cash assumed from SandForce¡ªand assume about $48 million worth of unvested stock options and restricted shares held by SandForce employees
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| Android phone outsells iOS in Asia |
10/27/2011 |
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Android will represent 52 percent of smartphones sold in Asian markets, up from 16 percent last year. (Combined with the 56 percent increase in Asian smartphone sales that ABI reported, that means a stunning five times as many Asian Android phones sold in 2011 as in 2010.)
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| HTC 4G Windows phone for $99 with 2 years T-Mobil contract |
10/27/2011 |
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T-Mobile, meanwhile, is marketing the device as having 4G speeds, but the provider does not yet have a true 4G LTE experience like that offered by Verizon and AT&T. T-Mobile does, however, offer HSPA+ 21, which PCMag found to be "speedy" in its annual fastest mobile networks test, but not as fast as those LTE options.
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| DRAMexchange predicts Flash volume to increase |
10/26/2011 |
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According to DRAMeXchange, smart phones and tablet devices will be the main growth driver for NAND flash, which serves as the basis for memory cards inserted into these devices. Next year, shipments of smart phones may reach 600 million units, up 40 percent from this year.
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| Nvidia's quad-core processor in Asustek tablets |
10/26/2011 |
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The Asus Transformer Prime tablet, announced on stage at the AsiaD Conference in Hong Kong last week will purportedly boast 14.5 hours of battery life and include both USB and mini-HDMI ports as well as an SD card reader. It will be the first device to boast Nvidia’s Kal-El chip,
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| Apple TV -next hot consumer product? |
10/26/2011 |
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Apple TV set "would be seamlessly synced with all of your devices and with iCloud," adding: "It will have the simplest user interface you could imagine. I finally cracked it."
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