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| 3D notebook shipments to rise in 2011 |
2/1/2011 |
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The global shipment of 3D notebooks, active-shutter and polarized glasses models together, as a percentage of total shipments will increase from below 1% in 2010 to 2% in 2011
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| Powerchip to exit DRAM business |
2/1/2011 |
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Powerchip Technology will quit the sale of commodity DRAM chips and instead shift all of its commodity DRAM capacity to the production of DRAM parts for Elpida Memory on an OEM basis, according to company chairman Frank Huang.
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| Lenovo report joint venture with NEC |
1/31/2011 |
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Lenovo said it will establish a joint venture, NEC Lenovo Japan Group, with NEC. Lenovo will hold a 51% stake in the newly formed company and NEC 49%
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| Cree announced breakthrough in LED light bulb |
1/28/2011 |
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The prototype bulb is dimmable and emits an incandescent-like color of 2700 K, with a CRI of at least 90, according to Cree. It delivers more than 800 lumens and consumes fewer than 10 watts.
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| Microsoft see a need for 16 cord low power processor |
1/28/2011 |
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Microsoft has asked Intel to develop a 16-core version of its low-power Atom chip for use in servers, part of a wider effort to reduce power consumption in its massive data centers, a Microsoft executive said Thursday.
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| News Corp to put Daily online for iPad |
1/28/2011 |
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Murdoch and News Corp will really be the guinea pigs, as everyone watches to see if this could be the saving grace for print media companies.
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| Egypt in communication black out |
1/28/2011 |
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As the country braced for huge anti-government protests on the traditional day of prayer, the government appeared to have unplugged most means of communication--including social network Facebook and Twitter--that activists had been using to coordinate action across the country.
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| Acer revenue increased |
1/27/2011 |
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Acer, one of the world's top PC vendors, reported record high revenue of NT$629.7 billion (US$19.9 billion) in 2010 and profits in its core business.
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| Stealth bomber engineer sentenced for spying |
1/27/2011 |
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A former Northrop Grumman Corp engineer who worked on the Stealth bomber has been sentenced to 32 years in prison for providing classified national defense information to the People's Republic of China (PRC), illegally exporting military technical data.
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| Executives shaken up at Ramtron |
1/27/2011 |
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At that time, Ramtron expected to generate first production wafers during 2010 on the IBM 0.18-micron wafer manufacturing process. To date, IBM has failed to deliver.
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| The Sputnik movement to revitalize technology |
1/27/2011 |
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In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Barack Obama called for more federal government investment in R&D, education and transportation at what he dubbed is a "Sputnik moment."
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| DRAM prices continue down trend |
1/26/2011 |
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The contract price of 1-gigabit DDR3 DRAM tumbled to the 22-month low of $0.88 this week, down 3.3 percent from earlier this month, according to Taiwan-based DRAMeXchange Technology Inc., which tracks prices of computer memory chips.
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| UMC set Capex at $1.8B |
1/26/2011 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) said it is planning to maintain its annual capital expenditure budget at $1.8 billion; in line with capex spending in 2010.
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| Intel tap broadcast executive to head digital home |
1/25/2011 |
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Huggers is director of the BBC's future media and technology division and serves as a member of the BBC's Executive Board. He joined the BBC in 2007 and is responsible for delivering BBC content over the Internet, interactive TV, and mobile.
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| Huawei sued Motorola |
1/25/2011 |
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In a suit, China's Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. has asked a U.S. District Court to prevent Motorola Inc. from illegally transferring Huawei's intellectual property (IP) to Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN).
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| Executives indicted and fined on LCD price fixing |
1/25/2011 |
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Executive from Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. (Chi Mei) agreed to plead guilty and serve 14 months in a U.S. jail for participating in a global conspiracy to fix prices of TFT-LCD panels, and a second executive pleaded guilty and was sentenced for his role in the same conspiracy,
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| Would most software sold in Apps stores? |
1/25/2011 |
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Users will see more branded app stores selling software that runs on notebooks and desktops. "The idea of using a store to promote a platform and its development community is too good to pass up."
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| Micron teams up with Unity to development 3D memory |
1/24/2011 |
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As lithographic scaling becomes more challenging, companies are turning their sights to vertically stacked implementations of memory cells or 3D memory. 3D memory technologies offer the promise of continued increases in storage capacities and lower cost per bit necessary to enable emerging applications such as solid state drives.
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| DDR3 prices halved in the past 7 weeks |
1/24/2011 |
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According to the recent report by DRAMExchange, the lowest price for 4GB DDR3 module quoted for the third week of January 2011 was around $32, which is approximately 50 percent lower than the price at the start of December 2010.
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| Joint venture in personal computers |
1/24/2011 |
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NEC, which controlled about 18% of the Japanese PC market in 2009, expects the PC business to post a profit in the year to March 31. Lenovo sells around one in four PCs in its home market.
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