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| Foxconn to ship 10 Million Notebooks |
8/5/2010 |
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Foxconn Electronics shipped over six million notebooks in the first half of 2010 and is expected to reach its goal of shipping 10 million for 2010.
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| UMC Fab capacity fully booked for Q2 |
8/4/2010 |
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UMC eported its capacity utilization rate was 100 percent in the second quarter and said the company logged record wafer shipments during the period.
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| Winbond to add more investment in US Fab |
8/3/2010 |
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Winbond Electronics, a maker of NOR flash and niche DRAM memory, has announced a plan to add US$12.45 million of investment in its US-based subsidiary Winbond International.
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| Global chip sales up by 7% in 2Q10 |
8/3/2010 |
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Global sales of semiconductors reached US$74.8 billion in the second quarter of 2010, up 7.1% from US$69.9 billion in the first quarter, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
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| Samsung develop DDR Nand Flash Standard |
8/3/2010 |
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Samsung and Toshiba have announced they will develop a second-generation double data rate (DDR) NAND flash memory specification with a 400-Mbit/s interface.
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| Rebound seen on Japanese electronic companies |
7/30/2010 |
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Japanese chipmaker earnings beat expectations on Thursday thanks to booming chip demand but the strong yen, the uncertain outlook in Europe and the prospect of a new chip glut remain a worry for Toshiba (6502.T) and its peers.
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| Fail to assemble patent pool may stall LTE |
7/30/2010 |
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As equipment starts to be rolled out, the possibility of patent infringement claims and the threat of unknown licensing costs would concern equipment makers and network operators, while patent holders – often the same companies – would be concerned that a failure to act could harm the value and enforceability of their patents.
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| Android 2.2 update supports Flash player |
7/30/2010 |
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In addition to support for Flash 10x, Froyo will bring improved browser performance and a faster JavaScript engine. Other features include voice dialing when using Bluetooth and application storage on an external storage device.
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| E-reader competition heats up |
7/30/2010 |
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Nevertheless, Amazon is making the Kindle available in time for the back-to-school shopping season. The retailer is also pressuring competitors to lower prices, as the industry moves closer to offering devices possible as low as under $100, which analysts say would be low enough to be a compulsive buy for consumers.
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| MEM revolutionize 3D mapping projectors |
7/29/2010 |
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"We've been using $30,000 DLP [digital light processor] hardware in the research lab; over 90 percent of the cost of our system is in the projector right now," "Where Seikowave comes in is using MEMS to bring the projector cost down to $40, changing the economics to a mass-market technology."
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| Beware of Free Android Wallpaper! |
7/29/2010 |
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Wallpaper for smart phone, has reportedly been stealing information from millions of users and sending it to a website based in Shenzhen, China.
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| JEDEC announces 1.35V low power DDR3L |
7/28/2010 |
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The DDR3L standard sets a requirement of 1.35V for memory devices that adhere to the standard. Standard DDR3 voltage is set at 1.5V, with Jedec claiming that the reduction will result in a 15 per cent drop is power usage.
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| Foxconn keep growing |
7/28/2010 |
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Foxconn's revenue was significantly higher than No. 2 player Flextronics International Ltd, which posted revenue of $5.9 billion in Q1. Foxconn's revenue in the quarter was up 54.1% from $11.1 billion during Q1 2009.
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| Infineon recovered |
7/28/2010 |
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The net profit was up from 79 million euro (about $100 million) in the second quarter and a loss of 23 million euro (about $30 million) in the same quarter a year before. The revenue was up 59 percent year-on-year and 17 percent sequentially and the results prompted Infineon to raise its guidance for the fourth fiscal quarter and its financial year.
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| Micron pushes forward on PCM memory |
7/28/2010 |
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PCM is suitable as a storage-class memory and predicted it would be used in solid-state disk drives to drive higher performance than NAND flash memory at power consumption figures lower than RAM. Thereafter, and as systems software evolves, PCM will be able to move from an I/O drive based usage model to memory-mapped "main memory"
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| Where is DRAM prices going? |
7/27/2010 |
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According to market research firm DRAMeXCHANGE, the average sales price of the DDR3 1Gb eTT chip stands at US$2.31, down 25.24 percent from the US$3.09 in March. Since July, the average sales price of the chip has fallen 6.1 percent.
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| India to expand in chip design |
7/27/2010 |
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" Indian designers "have a strong customer base across market segments, good domain knowledge, enough skilled engineers and they can, with the help of the growing domestic electronics market, align their design expertise with the experience of multinational clients,"
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