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| Amazon tablet debut hurted by component shortage |
7/1/2011 |
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The paper says that Amazon wants up to two million touch panels by September. Apple, meanwhile, is said to be planning to ship between 12 and 14 million iPad 2s in the third quarter of this year.
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| Is HP's new tablet "Johnny come lately" ? |
7/1/2011 |
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But there are signs of greatness here. H.P. is coming to this battle very late, but it says it intends to stay the course. True, it’s tilting at windmills — but at least it’s riding an impressive steed.
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| Texas Instruments identifies direction of analog IC development |
6/30/2011 |
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The company is investing in all of the dimensions that its existing and prospective customers expect. That means new parts, support (via applications staff, reference designs, software), as well as long-term investment in fabs and processes.
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| Samsung seeks injunction to ban Apple products |
6/30/2011 |
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Samsung accused Apple of violating five key Samsung patents and asked the ITC for a permanent ban that would prevent Apple from bringing into the U.S. the iPhones, iPads and iPod touches that it manufacturers in China.
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| HP sued Oracle for terminating support on Itanium |
6/30/2011 |
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HP has claimed that Oracle's decision to stop supporting Itanium was in violation of commitments between the companies, and part of a plan to force HP customers onto Oracle's own hardware systems.
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| IBM claim break through in MLC PCM memory |
6/30/2011 |
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IBM said it has produced phase-change memory (PCM) chips that can store two bits of data per cell without data corruption problems, something that has plagued PCM development from the start.
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| Tough time for DRAM vendors |
6/29/2011 |
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“Prices have been going southwards since beginning of the year. We have no clear indication, how it will pan out in future,” said Nidhi Sethi, Sales Director, Flash Business, Kingston India.
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| Android gains ground steadily |
6/29/2011 |
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Either way, with 500,000 activations per day, Android's not going anywhere. The horse race against Apple may be fun to watch, but it only shows that both operating systems can exist side-by-side, continuing to grow.
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| Skype granted patent on snooping |
6/29/2011 |
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Titled "Legal Intercept", it covers one way in which a VoIP-based communications system might enable a call to be intercepted and covertly recorded, naming Skype as one of the services to which it could be applied.
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| Synopsys to offer AEON embedded NVM IP |
6/28/2011 |
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The new products include few-time programmable, multiple-time programmable RFID and erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) IP solutions.
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| Wafer suppliers to hike prices |
6/27/2011 |
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Two Japanese materials suppliers have firmly insisted on hiking pricing to reflect steep cost surge. They are said to raise prices of 200mm and 300mm raw wafers by at least 10%.
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| Apple to row iPhone 5 production in August |
6/27/2011 |
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She added that, based on her intelligence, the new handset will launch and be available to consumers sometime near the end of the third calendar quarter of the year, which ends September.
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| Apple likely to pull A6 production out of Samsung |
6/27/2011 |
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Apple is rumored to further distance itself from its rival Samsung starting with the "A6" chip in 2012, when the iPhone maker will allegedly transition production of its custom ARM chips to a new chipmaker.
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| Micron stock drop after hour on financial results |
6/24/2011 |
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Micron Technology Inc. Thursday (June 23) reported sales for its fiscal third quarter that fell below analysts' expectations as the company posted sequential declines in revenue in both DRAM and NAND flash memory.
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| Apple takes Samsung to Korean courts |
6/24/2011 |
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Apple filed the suit in the Seoul Central District Court on Wednesday. Since details on Apple's claims were not made public, the company's lawsuit could be entirely new or relate to the earlier suit it launched against Samsung.
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| Judge: Apple does not own the term "App Store" |
6/24/2011 |
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The term "App Store" is about as generic as they come, unless you count toy store, pet store or cake store, so we prefer Amazon's response, which at least gives users a little credit.
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