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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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| Rambus invested in next generation memory startups |
5/11/2011 |
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The company has begun investing in startup companies and providing support to universities researching next-generation memory technologies, as a means of keeping itself acquainted with potential approaches,
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| Google to supply Chrome notebook on $20/month |
5/11/2011 |
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According to Forbes, Google will announce a $20-a-month package for students that includes both the hardware and internet access, in what "is almost certainly a precursor to an enterprise offering."
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| Cellphone will alert you in case of emergency |
5/11/2011 |
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The emergency alert system will be used only for critical national messages from the president, information in life-threatening situations and Amber Alerts meant to widen the search for missing or abducted youngsters,
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| Built-in WiFi becoming popular in consumer electronics |
5/10/2011 |
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Shipments of consumer electronics, computer, communications, and automotive products with built-in WLAN capability such as Wi-Fi will amount to 1.2 billion units in 2011, up 35.8% from 880.4 billion units in 2010. In 2015.
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| Nvidia buys into mobile base band |
5/10/2011 |
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Nvidia has made yet another move that proves it's dead serious about the mobile market, announcing plans to fork over $367m to acquire baseband-processor developer Icera of Bristol in the UK.
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| Freescale files IPO to raise $1 Billion |
5/10/2011 |
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Freescale has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 6,525,000 common shares to cover over-allotments. The common shares have been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange, subject to official notice of issuance, under the symbol FSL.
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