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| SMIC posts 1Q11 profits |
5/23/2011 |
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SMIC has reported net profits of US$10.2 million on consolidated revenues of US$370.6 million for the first quarter of 2011.
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| Foxconn factory explosion kill 2 in Chengdu |
5/23/2011 |
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An explosion occurred at a factory building inside Foxconn's (Hon Hai Precision Industry) production base in Chengdu City, western China, on the evening of May 20, killing two employees and injuring 16.
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| ChipMOS reports improved business |
5/20/2011 |
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Overall, we expect the demand stability we are seeing in Q1 in our LCD driver business and in our niche/mobile DRAM segments will offset anticipated macro weakness in the flash and mixed-signal segments.
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| Semi book-to-bill improved |
5/20/2011 |
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"The continued pace of orders for new semiconductor manufacturing equipment coupled with a slight decline in billings moves the book-to-bill ratio toward parity,"
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| How fast can LTE be? |
5/20/2011 |
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During the demo, AT&T's LTE network was able to sustain 28.87Mbps download speeds and 10.4Mbps upload speeds.
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| Linkedin IPO gave hope for others to follow |
5/20/2011 |
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LinkedIn shares opened at $83 each in its first day of trade, a whopping 84% above its initial offering price of $45 a share. Soon they crept up to $90. Then $105. Shares ultimately reached a high above $122 before closing near $94.
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| Mosaid filed complaint on basic network patents |
5/19/2011 |
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Mosaid (Ottawa, Ontario) claims that Cisco (San Jose, Calif.) has been infringing six of its patents in various products including Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches and routers, DSL wireless access points, cable modem wireless access points, PoE Internet Protocol (IP) phones, and cable modems with Voice over IP (VoIP).
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| Graphend capacitor can beat litium battery |
5/19/2011 |
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The University of Texas-Austin, concluding that it had an energy density that could rival batteries, an energy-release and quick-recharge rate that exceeded batteries, and a lifetime of at least 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. Used instead of batteries, activated-graphene supercapacitors could last 27 years for a plug-in vehicle recharged once a day.
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| Netflex now occupy 30% of web bandwidth |
5/19/2011 |
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Meanwhile, TV service providers are starting to wage their own subtle war on Netflix and other bandwidth-intensive services. For example, a bandwidth caps of 150 GB per month for DSL customers has been enforced by AT&T. The company has also imposed a cap of 250 GB per month for U-Verse customers.
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| Q1 Mobile phone sales up significantly |
5/19/2011 |
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Sales of smartphones increased by 85% in the first quarter compared to the same quarter last year, according to the London-based research firm.
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| Next generation NAND awaits customer certification |
5/18/2011 |
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The transition has reportedly been held up because of longer certification times. While customers like Apple approved 30nm-class NAND flash in three to six months, validation now takes as long as nine months.
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| iPhone 4S will have A5 dual core + better camera |
5/18/2011 |
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Apple has slowed production of its iPhone 4, a surefire sign that a new model will soon be coming down the assembly line. That report also adds fuel to the rumor that the next iPhone will sport an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, which would be a 4MP boost from the current iPhone 4.
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| Intel move into tablets |
5/18/2011 |
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The microprocessor maker plans to showcase the new tablets along with its PC manufacturing partners at the Computex computer trade show, which opens on May 31 in Taiwan.
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| Russia government invested in MRAM |
5/17/2011 |
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The deal is for Crocus to form a Russian joint-venture to manufacture MRAMs, according to the Wall Street Journal, which quotes a Rusnano executive. Crocus has already received about $60 million in venture capital. It's VCs will put up another $55 million with Rusnano providing most of the rest of the $245 million.
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| New product announcement at 10th anniversary of Apple Store |
5/17/2011 |
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Between 10 and 15 employees at each Apple store will be working an overnight shift from Saturday evening and that during that shift, employees will be told to lock their cell phones in the main office and also asked to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
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| RIM must move fast to survive |
5/17/2011 |
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RIM may simply have been forgotten. Already, RIM watchers have latched onto the company's struggles: a depressed stock price, and recalled PlayBooks.
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| HP estimated sales a billion short |
5/17/2011 |
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Hewlett-Packard dropped as much as $2.30, or 5.8 percent, to $37.50 in early trading. Following the news of the memo yesterday, the stock dropped as much as 5.1 percent in extended trading. The shares closed at $39.80 yesterday in regular New York Stock Exchange composite trading.
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| Flash released bug fixes |
5/16/2011 |
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Yet again, there are critical bug fixes that need to be installed for Adobe's Flash. It never ends.
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| Yahoo in dispute with Alibaba |
5/16/2011 |
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Yahoo Inc. and Alibaba Group released a joint statement saying they are engaged in "productive negotiations" over online payment service Alipay.
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| DRAM prices up 3.4% |
5/13/2011 |
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Given that demand from PC manufacturers will continue to be strong, prices are likely to increase in the later half of May and the first half of June, it said.
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| Samsung to hire 30 chip designers in Austin |
5/13/2011 |
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The jobs come in addition to the 300 engineers and technicians that Samsung Austin Semiconductor is hiring in the first six months of 2011 as part of a $3.6 billion expansion of its plant.
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