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| Android Apps support gaining ground |
6/13/2011 |
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A new survey of attendees at Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference found that nearly half of iOS developers attending the conference support Android, while just 7 percent write applications for the Mac.
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| Inotera to produce server-use DRAM chips |
6/10/2011 |
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Inotera Memories started manufacturing DRAM chips used in servers in May 2011, ahead of the originally scheduled second half of the year, according to company president Charles Kao.
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| TSMC May revenues up 5.4% on year |
6/10/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced consolidated revenues for May 2011 of NT$36.71 billion (US$1.28 billion), up 5.4% on year.
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| TI reduces quarterly guideline |
6/9/2011 |
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Shortfall is entirely attributed to lower-than-expected demand from Nokia, which itself said late last month that it expects sales to be substantially below its previously guided range.
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| Nokia CEO: "Nokia is not for sale" |
6/9/2011 |
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Nokia is struggling to compete in the high-end handset market, where it has been losing market share to nimbler competitors such as Apple Inc. (AAPL) and devices based on Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Android operating system. Its failure to keep pace with the fast-moving market saw it abandon its Symbian platform for smartphones in February.
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| Semi contents in automobile grew 15% |
6/8/2011 |
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IC Insights has raised its forecast for average semiconductor content per automobile to $350 in 2011, a 15% increase from the $305 average in 2010.
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| UMC see signs of sales weakening |
6/8/2011 |
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UMC's sales were NT$9,400 million (about $327 million) in May, down 1.7 percent compared with sales of NT$9,564 million (about $333 million) in April and down 6.8 percent compared with sales in May 2010.
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| 7 injured at Intel fab |
6/8/2011 |
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The explosion occurred in a support building adjacent to a wafer fab in Chandler, Ariz., at about 2:00 p.m. local time.
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| IDC lowered PC shipment forcast in 2011 |
6/7/2011 |
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"Consumers are recognizing the value of owning and using multiple intelligent devices and because they already own PCs, they're now adding smart phones, media tablets, and e-readers to their device collections. And this has shifted the technology share of wallet onto other connected devices."
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| Samsung foundry to offer 28nm process |
6/7/2011 |
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Samsung said its 28-nm LP process delivers a 35 percent reduction in active and standby power at the same frequency or 30 percent performance boost at the same leakage compared to the company's 45-nm LP process.
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| Students demonstrated PCM array on a PC |
6/7/2011 |
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The Onyx memory module, contains 80 128-Mbit phase-change memories and connects to the host system using the PCIe bus standard. UCSD did say that the team has received help from Micron Technology Inc., which has provided non-volatile phase-change memories
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| iOS5 iMessage undermines BlackBerry Messenger |
6/7/2011 |
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"Anyone with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch can send unlimited free text messages to anyone else using an iOS device. The two mainstays of RIM's sales have been corporate email users and consumer BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) users,"
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| NAND prices drop on lagging demand |
6/6/2011 |
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Chip prices for NAND declined more than 15 percent, and about 20 percent in the spot market, in May following "lackluster demand," according to Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes.
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| Global semiconductor market seen retreat |
6/6/2011 |
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The net result has been to strip about 91.1 million in value out of the first quarter's sales figures, which is now listed by WSTS at $75.675 billion, compared with the previous figure of $75.766 billion.
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| Steve Job to promote iCloud in person today |
6/6/2011 |
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¡°This is kind of the new normal for Steve Jobs and Apple,¡± Eugene Munster, an analyst at Minneapolis-based Piper Jaffray, said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio¡¯s ¡°The First Word¡± with Ken Prewitt. ¡°That he may not be full time involved at the office, but he is definitely involved and this is a sign he is involved strategically.¡±
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| Nintendo hacked after Sony |
6/6/2011 |
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LulzSec said it intended to continue its hacking spree and appealed to Twitter followers for cash donations, describing itself as ¡°a small team of lulzy individuals who feel the drabness of the cyber community is a burden on what matters: fun¡±.
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| Samsung, Hynix lead DRAM sales |
6/1/2011 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world’s two largest makers of computer memory chips, dominated the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in the first quarter despite decreasing demand for personal computers
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