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| Nanya, October sales down by 20% |
11/4/2010 |
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Nanya Technology saw revenues decline about 17% sequentially to NT$3.78 billion (US$124 million) in October 2010, while Inotera Memories' sales decreased 19% to NT$2.9 billion.
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| Elpida reports lower profit for 3rd Quarter |
11/2/2010 |
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Elpida Memory has estimated its operating profits for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 at 23.1 billion yen (US$287 million), down almost 48% from the 44.4 billion yen posted in the prior quarter
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| Xilinx announces 28nm 7 series FPGA family |
11/1/2010 |
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Xilinx has announced its 28nm 7 series FPGAs, which embrace 3D packaging technologies and through-silicon vias (TSV) for applications requiring high-transistor and logic density as well as tremendous levels of computational and bandwidth performance.
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| Winbond unveil serial flash MCP chips |
11/1/2010 |
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Winbond Electronics has delivered its serial flash multi-chip packaging (MCP) memory products to MediaTek and Spreadtrum Communications for verification,
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| Elpida predicts lower profits for fiscal 2Q10 |
11/1/2010 |
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Elpida Memory has estimated its operating profits for the quarter ended September 30, 2010 at 23.1 billion yen (US$287 million), down almost 48% from the 44.4 billion yen posted in the prior quarter.
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| Microsoft to equip all employee with phone 7 |
10/29/2010 |
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Microsoft would be encouraging its employees to drink the smartphone kool-aid by giving everyone a free WP7 device. Microsoft exec Guy Gilbert told Network World that all 89,000 staff would indeed be getting an early Christmas present.
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| Weak PC market creates DRAM glut |
10/29/2010 |
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Citing slow PC sales, DRAM was weaker than expected, which led to oversupply in the arena, according to Samsung. NAND demand remained strong, according to the firm. In its outlook, Samsung said ''oversupply would continue with weak PC demand.''
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| Microsoft beat expectations |
10/29/2010 |
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Its shares, down 14 percent this year, rose 3 percent in after-hours trading. Despite doubling sales and profit in the last eight years.
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| Can Pico projection capture a niche market? |
10/28/2010 |
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With the proliferation of photos and video, phones are moving to a "shared experience" paradigm, and projection is an ideal way to do that. "Projection gets [us] the biggest image from the smallest box,"
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| Rumor: Apple working on multi-carrier iPhone |
10/28/2010 |
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With this system in place, Apple could more easily offer iPhones directly to consumers via retail or online, allowing them to choose any available carrier at the time of purchase.
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| Intel lead data alliance on Cloud Computing |
10/28/2010 |
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Speeding cloud development and interoperability is likely to speed Intel and AMD chip consumption. That’s why Intel orchestrated the alliance. It will set best practices and standards that allow enterprises to proceed with cloud operations.
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| China built world's fastest supercomputer |
10/28/2010 |
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The Tianhe-1 machine is capable of sustained computing of 2.507 petaflops. If verified, Tianhe-1 would be significantly faster than the current title holder, the U.S. Department of Energy's Cray XT5 Jaguar in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which topped the list issued in June at 1.75 petaflops per second.
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| ARM processor continue to gain ground |
10/27/2010 |
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In the quarter 900 million ARM-processor based chips were shipped in mobile devices and four processor licenses signed for mobile phone and computing applications.
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| Intel opens fab in Dalian, China |
10/27/2010 |
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In 2007, Intel won approval to build a $2.5 billion, 300-mm wafer plant in northern China for chip sets. The plan called for the fab to be in the city of Dalian. The fab will produce 65-nm devices.
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| Apple App store in Chinese |
10/27/2010 |
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Analysts said the introduction of new, easier ways for customers to access products showed that the China market has become increasingly important to the California-based company.
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| Space robot to reside on Space Station |
10/27/2010 |
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GM and NASA designed the robot, which is the most advanced humanoid of its kind, according to NASA, to perform mundane tasks and set up work sites for astronauts, eliminating some of their busywork so they can focus on other things, according to the space agency.
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