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| Semi equipment industry to do good this year |
9/16/2010 |
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Following on the "worst year ever" for the semiconductor equipment industry, capital equipment spending is expected to skyrocket more than 122% this year with growth projected to continue through 2012, Gartner reports.
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| TSMC to cultivate future telents |
9/16/2010 |
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Through the agreement, NCKU and NUK will provide courses related to semiconductor technology, semiconductor components, and surface materials; assign professional teachers to teach at TSMC; introduce an assessment certification system; and assist TSMC colleagues in acquiring professional certification, second degrees, and credits approved by the Ministry of Education.
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| Microsoft to show multi-core operating system |
9/16/2010 |
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A researcher from Microsoft is due to present an operating system that has been written to cope with the scaling of cores in processor chips, at the Intel European Research and Innovation Conference (Intel-ERIC) being held in Germany Sept. 21 and 22.
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| Highlights at IDF |
9/16/2010 |
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Intel showed progress getting its Atom processors and MeeGo operating system into a range of embedded devices include tablets and set-top boxes at its Intel Developer Forum. The PC giant also announced Stellarton, a system-in-package that pairs an Altera FPGA with an Atom to enable reconfigurable systems.
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| iSupply: DRAM production cost on the rise |
9/15/2010 |
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The average production cost for DRAM rose to $2.03 per gigabit in the second quarter, up from $2 in the first quarter, according to iSuppli¡¯s memory price tracking and forecasts. The increase was only 1.2 percent, but it signals a major departure from the historical trend.
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| Intel brings out next generation cores |
9/15/2010 |
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The improvements over the current mainstream Core i7 series CPUs largely relate to media processing. The graphics processor and I/O components have been integrated onto the same piece of silicon as the CPU itself, and improvements have been made to Turbo Boost and power management.
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| Power Chip stock resumes trading |
9/15/2010 |
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Company chairman Frank Huang reiterated that Powerchip would post a fourth straight quarterly profit this quarter on expectations that the price of PC memory chips, or DRAM, would fall at a measured pace.
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| Identity of speakers in controversal |
9/15/2010 |
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As Nokia World began yesterday, speculation buzzed about the identity of the two opening keynote speakers. The line-up had been settled months ago.
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| iPad to hit China market this week |
9/14/2010 |
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Gleacher & Co., recently boosted his estimates to 12 million for 2010 and 20 million for 2011. Others have pegged 2011's sales as high as 28 million.
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| Chinese telecom companies overcome Indian suspecions |
9/14/2010 |
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Indian security agencies have long worried about allowing Chinese telecom equipment to be installed in Indian networks, warning that domestic communications could be monitored via spyware, leading to security breaches.
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| USB3 has finally arrived at market |
9/14/2010 |
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NEC, now part of Renasas, said in March it had shipped three million USB 3.0 controllers and is now on track to ship 20 million chips this year. Taiwan's Gigabyte said it shipped a million motherboards supporting SuperSpeed USB in the first quarter of 2010 and expects to ship more than five million this year.
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| Philips announces direct AC driven LED lighting |
9/13/2010 |
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Philips Research has developed an organic light emitting diode module that can be powered directly from a standard wall outlet, accelerating the move to create mainstream OLED products.
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| Android to dominate Mobile OS |
9/13/2010 |
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Where Symbian and Android are expected to be found in all market segments, Apple is expected to keep its iPhone at the high end of the market. At the same time, the overall market is expected to increase dramatically.
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| Youtube to deliver live programs |
9/13/2010 |
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YouTube has started to experiment with its own-brand live video-streaming technology.The live programming system is likely to be only open to media partners rather than individual web users.
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| Transcend reports poor August Sale |
9/10/2010 |
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Transcend Information saw revenues decrease 5.19% on month to US$79 million in August 2010, as sales of its DRAM modules and NAND devices both declined sequentially.
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| AMD unveil new ATI FirePro family in Amstedam |
9/10/2010 |
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At IBC 2010 in Amsterdam, AMD introduced the newest member of the ATI FirePro family, the ATI FirePro V9800, featuring support for up to six monitors with ATI Eyefinity technology.
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| Acer to launch Tablet PC in 4th Q, 2010 |
9/9/2010 |
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Acer will introduce a Tablet PC based on the Wintel platform in the fourth quarter to test the market, and an Android-enabled device in early 2011.
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| SIS august revenue dives 9 % |
9/9/2010 |
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Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) saw its August 2010 revenues drop 44.93% on year and 9.28% sequentially to US$7.6 million.
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| Samsung unveils new Tablet PC |
9/8/2010 |
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Samsung Electronics unveiled a new tablet PC named Galaxy Tab as the latest device meant to rival Apple Inc.'s popular iPad at Berlin's IFA consumer electronics fair.
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| Samsung rolls out Dual-core A9 processor |
9/8/2010 |
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Samsung has introduced a dual-core Cortex A9-based applications processor, codenamed Orion, capable of running at a clock frequency of 1-GHz and intended for advanced mobile applications.
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| A-Data august revenue down 4% |
9/8/2010 |
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Affected by weak prices for DRAM and NAND flash, Adata Technology saw its revenues drop 4.15% sequentially in August 2010.
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