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| Teardown found Huawei designed baseband IC |
7/20/2011 |
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Huawei makes two wideband CDMA external modems, both sold as the E173. One version uses a Qualcomm MSM6290 HSPA chipset, the other uses a baseband designed by Huawei's HiSilicon division and both are subjects of ABI teardown reports.
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| DRAM price errosion slows |
7/20/2011 |
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After dropping 14.2 percent in the first quarter, the global average decline in pricing for DRAM slowed to 12 percent in the second quarter, according to IHS (El Segundo, Calif.).
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| Nissan up prices on Leaf |
7/20/2011 |
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Nissan spokeswoman Katherine Zachary said the price is going up because Nissan is adding some standard features, including a battery warmer, heated steering wheel and front and rear heated seats.
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| ARM to challenge Intel in Notebooks |
7/19/2011 |
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IHS (El Segundo, Calif.) said it expects that ARM-based systems will account for 22.9 percent of global notebook PC unit shipments in 2015, up from 3 percent in 2012. The firm said it expects total ARM-based notebook shipments to hit 74 million in 2015, up from 7.6 million next year.
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| China now has half billion people online |
7/19/2011 |
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The statistics show that between January and June China's Internet population grew 6.1 percent, a drop from the 9.4 percent increase the country saw during the same period in 2010. In previous years, the growth was in double digits.
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| ITC upholds Kodak win over Apple |
7/19/2011 |
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At issue is an Apple complaint, filed in April 2010, charging Kodak with infringement of two patents on image processing and power management. On May 12, ITC Judge Robert Rogers shot down Apple's attack, ruling that the patents were not infringed.
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| SMIC appoints new chairman and CEO |
7/18/2011 |
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SMIC reported the death of its chairman and that the company's president and CEO David Wang had failed to win re-election to its board of directors. Jiang Shang Zhou, who was non-executive chairman of the company's board, passed away on June 27.
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| Sears.com listed iPad 2 for $69 |
7/18/2011 |
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Oddly enough, the listing claims that you’ll save a whopping $30 by taking advantage of this deal, posting an original price of $99.99.
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| HTC plans to appeal ITC ruling |
7/18/2011 |
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HTC Corp. plans to appeal a preliminary ruling Friday by the U.S. International Trade Commission that the Taiwan handset maker infringed on two Apple Inc. patents.
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| Samsung to add new Korean Fab in September |
7/14/2011 |
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Samsung Electronics is expected to open a new memory semiconductor fabrication plant in September, according to industry sources. Dubbed Line-16, the facility will be focused on the production of NAND chips.
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| Hynix, Toshiba co-develop MRAM chip |
7/14/2011 |
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Hynix Semiconductor and Toshiba have co-develop a magnetoresistance RAMs together and said this is an important next-generation non-volatile memory.
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| UMC predict weak 3Q |
7/13/2011 |
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United Microelectronics (UMC) predict third quarter of 2011 will decrease about 10% on quarter.
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| NTT DoCoMo to add 15-20 tablet PC |
7/12/2011 |
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NTT DoCoMo, Japan's biggest mobile operator, will launch 15 to 20 new smartphone and tablet models this autumn and winter,
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