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| Intel to buy Infineon wireless business |
8/30/2010 |
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Infineon Technologies and Intel on August 30 jointly announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to transfer Infineon's Wireless Solutions (WLS) business to Intel in a cash transaction valued at approximately US$1.4 billion
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| TSMC to build Solar Fab in Taiwan |
8/30/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) plans to break ground for the construction of a new fab at the Central Taiwan Science Park
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| JEDEC marching on to DDR4 memory |
8/27/2010 |
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A basic outline was given of DRAM memory technology evolution from DDR3 to DDR4 over the next few years. Following the recent MemCon 2010 event last month in Tokyo, the site has combined the roadmaps of several DRAM manufacturers in the industry and aggregated them into prediction charts on what they expect DDR4 to offer.
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| China expanding in uP architecture design |
8/27/2010 |
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The heart of the chip is the 64-bit, MIPS-compatible 464V core which sports a superscalar out-of-order pipeline capable of retiring four instructions per clock cycle. It supports 200 instructions to emulate the Intel x86.
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| Samsung position to overtake Intel in ranking |
8/27/2010 |
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is on track to catch Intel Corp. in semiconductor revenue and will most likely become the No. 1 chip vendor by the middle of this decade, according to a prominent semiconductor industry analyst.
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| Taiwanese delegation to recruite US engineers |
8/27/2010 |
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The delegation includes representative from Taiwanese electronics companies, universities and government who are trying to fill 1,000 technician, engineer, researcher and teaching positions in Taiwan, China and the U.S.
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| Netflix to bring Movie on Demand to iPhones |
8/26/2010 |
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But streaming media on demand is clearly the marquee feature of the app, and if that works half as well as the iPad version, most users will probably welcome it with open arms.
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| Dell over bids HP |
8/26/2010 |
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Dell had initially offered $18 a share last week, but on Monday, Hewlett-Packard, the world’s largest technology company, started a bidding war for 3Par, bidding $24 a share, 33 percent higher than Dell’s offer. Dell’s latest bid is a slight increase over Hewlett’s.
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| Cannon announced super resolution image sensor |
8/25/2010 |
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The sensor is the so-called APS-H size and measures 29.2-mm by 20.2-mm and contains 13,280 by 9,184 pixels (121.96 million pixels). The advantage of such a extremely high-resolution sensor is that images can still be at high resolution – similar to film quality – after zooming and cropping.
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| Breakthrough in shrinking MRAM |
8/25/2010 |
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Now researchers claim to have solved MRAM's density problems by crafting a ferroelectric interface that allows perpendicular magnetic domains to be as small as 40 nanometers, potentially achieving higher densities than flash.
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| Google to announce VOIP services |
8/25/2010 |
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If the speculation is true, Gmail is about to become an even more indispensable Web-based productivity app than it already is.
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| Apple to introduce 99 cents TV episode rental |
8/25/2010 |
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Bloomberg reports the Apple announcment's big news will be the introduction of 99-cent television show rentals that will feature the content partners News Corp. along with CBS, NBC Universal, and Walt Disney.
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| Jailbreak on iPhone comes with problems |
8/24/2010 |
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Since the U.S. Copyright Office declared last month that it's legal to jailbreak your iPhone, lots of iPhone users have been doing just that -- nearly 9 percent of them as of late July.
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| Samsung widen market share on DRAM |
8/24/2010 |
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Second quarter DRAM was the highest the industry has seen since 1995 and bit shipments, at 3.56 billion 1Gbit-equivalent units, reached the highest level ever, iSuppli said. The $3.03 ASP for all DRAM parts was the highest it has been since the third quarter of 2008.
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| Samsung to introduce Tablet on Sept. 3 |
8/24/2010 |
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Tech-focused readers are interested in an unreleased Android device over an iPad. As of this morning, a surprising 58% of them (below) would rather have the Android OS on their tablets.
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| HDD company alliance to look at new technology |
8/23/2010 |
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"So in the next two years we have to make some significant decisions," Munce said. "The supply base needs a common direction from the industry, and that can't come from one company alone,"
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| Leaked Droid X shut down |
8/23/2010 |
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"With the release of Froyo MDW has received a C & D from Motorola requesting removal of the software from our server. We are sorry for the inconvenience but we must oblige Motorola."
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| Apple has technology to identify iPhone user |
8/23/2010 |
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"The photograph, recording, or heartbeat can be compared, respectively, to a photograph, recording, or heartbeat of authorized users of the electronic device to determine whether they match,"
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| HP out bids Dell on data storage company |
8/23/2010 |
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In 3Par (PAR) they are bidding for a company that provides software for organizing data on corporate servers. The company, based in Fremont, Calif., offers its products on a subscription basis over the Web, an approach known as "cloud computing."
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| Dell: Corporate is coming back |
8/20/2010 |
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Dell said that it is seeing the effects of a corporate refresh cycle, with revenue in total mobility and desktop products growing 21 and 17 percent, respectively, driven by particular strength in large enterprise and small and medium businesses.
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| PC sales increasing rapidly in India |
8/20/2010 |
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"Personal computer is a multi-functional device that consumers can use to work, learn and play. Most importantly it helps people to take full advantage of today’s technological advances and prepare for tomorrow’s challenges,”
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