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| Intel to set $9B Capex for this year |
1/19/2011 |
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The year's growth will be supported by the planned $9 billion capex investment, R&D spending of $7.3 billion, and moves top 22 nm, executives said.
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| New iPad 2 features surface |
1/19/2011 |
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More importantly, the use of a mini DisplayPort would allow the iPad to be connected to the iMac (and other Apple monitors) without any other adaptor.
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| Starbucks accepts Mobile Payment from smartphone |
1/19/2011 |
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The coffee behemoth launched its mobile payment service today, and Blackberry and iPhone or iPod Touch users can download an app that lets them pay through a barcode sent straight to their devices.
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| ARM to work with IBM on 14nm |
1/18/2011 |
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This is intended to minimize the risk and barriers to migrating to smaller geometries while enabling optimized density, performance, power and yield in advanced SoC designs; accelerating the introduction of advanced electronics into the marketplace.
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| Plastic solar panel color match your roof |
1/18/2011 |
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The cells are printed onto glass or other surfaces, are available in a range of colors and could be ideal for new buildings where solar cells are incorporated into glazing panels and walls.
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| Smart phone hack activity will peak next week |
1/18/2011 |
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Ralf-Philipp Weinmann told Computerworld that his technique will break into a smartphone's baseband processor, which sends and receives radio signals as it communicates with the mobile network. A hacker can then listen in to conversations from far away.
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| World PC ship increased while US shipment declined |
1/17/2011 |
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Worldwide PC shipments totaled 93.5 million units in the fourth quarter of 2010, a 3.1 percent increase from the fourth quarter of 2009, according to preliminary results from Gartner. For the whole of 2010 PC shipments totaled 350.9 million units.
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| Scientist are one step closer to quantum memory |
1/17/2011 |
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"We have already demonstrated entanglement between a photon and the atoms of the crystal. Our next step will be to use interactions with a third photon to teleport its state into our solid-state memory by virtue of that entanglement," said University of Calgary professor Wolfgang Tittel at the Institute for Quantum Information Science.
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| Other tablet makers getting aggressive |
1/17/2011 |
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RIM PlayBook and Motorola Xoom tablet orders to Taiwanese hardware makers point to 2 million in first-quarter shipments for the Apple iPad challengers.
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| Steve Job to take medical leave again |
1/17/2011 |
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Mr. Jobs's health is key to Apple. He is deeply involved in all aspects of the company's business and is widely credited for reviving the then-struggling computer maker in the late 1990s with hit products such as the iMac desktop computer.
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| Nvidia ship 1 Billion GeForce chips |
1/13/2011 |
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Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) celebrated the shipment of the one-billionth GeForce graphics processor designed by Nvidia and manufactured by TSMC.
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| TSMC to buy ProMos for U$ 100 Million |
1/13/2011 |
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TSMC announced plans to buy a 218,156-square-meter plot of land, located at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), northern Taiwan, from Powerchip Technology for US$100 million.
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| AMD appoints new interim CEO |
1/12/2011 |
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AMD has announced that its board of directors has appointed senior vice president and CFO Thomas Seifert as interim CEO following the resignation of Dirk Meyer as president, CEO and a director of the company effective immediately.
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| TSMC report weak Q4 sales |
1/11/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. showed a continued market weakness resulting in a quarterly drop in revenue.
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| TSMC 4Q10 sales exceeds expectation |
1/10/2011 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) turned in NT$110.14 billion (US$3.77 billion) in fourth-quarter consolidated sales, higher than its target of NT$107-109 billion.
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