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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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| Nvidia's Tegra processor takes off |
5/13/2011 |
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Nvidia Corp. Thursday (May 12) reported results for the quarter ended May 1 that handily beat consensus analysts' expectations as the company's CEO said sales of the Tegra mobile applications processor accelerated during the quarter.
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| Google may one day drive your car |
5/13/2011 |
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When the vehicle starts, Google Prediction would use historical driving behavior to predict the most likely destination, check with the driver that it's correct, and then optimize driving performance for the journey.
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| Analyst see boom on Cisco is over |
5/12/2011 |
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The company is promising to cut $1 billion in costs, and cautions staff that layoffs are coming among both employees and contractors.
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| SMIC forms JV to build Wuhan Fab. |
5/12/2011 |
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The joint venture is split with Hubei having 33.3 percent of the JV and providing $500 million of capitalization and SMIC having 66.7 percent of the JV and providing $1 billion over several years. Hubei has also undertaken to supply a cash injection of $226,168,955.
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| TSMC: No Wafer Material Shortage |
5/12/2011 |
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TSMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) had secured all the prime wafer supply that it requires. This is despite the closure of a Shin-Etsu plant in northern Japan that reportedly is responsible for about 20 percent of the 300-mm diameter raw wafers.
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| Intel to reduce Clearwire holding |
5/12/2011 |
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Intel said in the filing that it owns more than 102.4 million shares of Clearwire, or about 33 percent of the company's total outstanding shares.
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| Intel to dump Clearwire holding |
5/12/2011 |
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Intel said in the filing that it owns more than 102.4 million shares of Clearwire, or about 33 percent of the company's total outstanding shares.
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