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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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| Kingston unveil Sandy Bridge memory kits |
1/10/2011 |
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Kingston has announced release of the high-performance dual-channel memory kits for motherboards featuring the Intel P67 Sandy Bridge platform as well as existing P55-based systems.
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| Motorola to ship 800,000 tablet PC |
1/10/2011 |
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Motorola has showcased its new Android 3.0-based Xoom tablet PC and has placed orders for about 700,000-800,000 units with four color options for the first quarter of 2011.
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| Samsung unveil Wintel-based tablet PC |
1/7/2011 |
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Samsung Electronics is showcasing its new tablet PC, the 7 Series sliding PC, featuring Intel's Atom processor (Oak Trail) and Windows 7, at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011.
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