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| Lenovo sales rebounced |
8/20/2010 |
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Lenovo was hit hard by the global economic crisis, which prompted its core corporate customers to slash purchases. The company suffered three losing quarters before rebounding to profit in the three months ending last September.
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| Battle on Powerline network heats up |
8/20/2010 |
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Marvell's acquisition Thursday (Aug. 19) of powerline chip maker Diseno de Sistemas en Silicio SA (DS2) follows by less than a year the acquisition of Intellon by Atheros.
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| DRAM Contract Prices free fall again |
8/19/2010 |
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People in the know, and the strokers of beards think that since DRAM prices are so low, PC vendors will seek to increase the memory content of their products ensuring that demand picks up in the next quarter.
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| Cell Phone battery explosion kills man |
8/19/2010 |
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The victim, 23 year-old Gopal Gujjar, was found along with the remains of his Nokia 1209 mobile phone and its battery. He had suffered serious injuries to his neck and right ear.
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| Intel lost some ground on Q2 market share |
8/19/2010 |
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Intel earned 80.7 percent of the market of PC microprocessors in the second quarter of 2010, a quarterly sequential loss of 0.3 percent, IDC said. Intel's main rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. captured 19.0 percent of the market, a sequential increase of 0.2 percent, while Via Technologies earned a market share of 0.3 percent, IDC said.
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| Intel roadmap show new processor lineup |
8/18/2010 |
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It seems to be pretty straightforward, and we are told that frequencies will range between 2.3GHz and 3.8GHz in Turbo mode, depending on the model. Thirteen models will be pitched at desktops and the remaining nine at laptops.
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| Intel/Micron announce 25nm TLC Nand |
8/18/2010 |
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For example, a 256GB SSD can be built with 32 of the 8GB NAND flash dies instead of 64 dies; a 32GB smartphone needs just four dies; and a 16GB flash card requires only two. The change also cuts the overall cost to produce mobile products.
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| Iran activists sued Nokia for providing wiretap equipment |
8/18/2010 |
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The activists' lawyers, alleges that Isa Saharkhiz, a journalist and dissident, has suffered at the hands of the Iranian authorities because those authorities were able to listen to his telephone conversations using monitoring equipment sold to Iran by NSN.
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| Semi manufacturing at its peak |
8/18/2010 |
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Chip manufacturing capacity utilization was running at close to 100 percent in most leading-edge nodes in the second quarter of 2010, according to the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS) organization.
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| PC sales slumping |
8/17/2010 |
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According to Marketwatch, US analysts unanimously voiced concerns after AMD and Intel shares slumped. Market analysts agreed that the deceleration in PC orders was to blame, with some also noting DRAM supply constraints.
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| Taiwan DRAM manufacturers looking to diversify |
8/17/2010 |
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Huang said the company plans to invest a total of US$300 million in LED production facilities in China to help cushion the impact of a downturn in Powerchip¡¯s core business ¡ª dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip manufacturing.
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| In the case of Apple employee taking kickback |
8/17/2010 |
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Paul Shim Devine, 37, of Sunnyvale, Calif., entered the plea of not guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, before U.S. Magistrate Howard Lloyd. A detention hearing is slated for Wednesday.
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| Leading companies invested in low power server start up |
8/17/2010 |
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There is a strong market need for a new class of data center platforms that offer a significant improvement in performance from both the energy and density perspectives, and ARM is excited to support Smooth-Stone's efforts to develop innovative chip solutions for this new class of platforms.
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| New technolotgy lowers Solar power cost |
8/16/2010 |
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Stanford believes the process, called "photon enhanced thermionic emission," or PETE, could make solar power production more than twice as efficient as existing methods and potentially cheap enough to compete with oil.
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| Samsung ready with Andriod tablet |
8/16/2010 |
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Galaxy Tab will have a display resolution of 480x800, GPS functionality, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and rear and front facing cameras. The details also reveal that the Galaxy Tab will run JavaScript 1.5 and Adobe Flash Player.
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| "Apple Peel" to transform iTouch into iPhone |
8/16/2010 |
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Invented by a 22-year-old programmer who lives in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, the gadget is comprised of a case that fits around the outside of Apple's iPod Touch, a popular media player and Wi-Fi-enabled pocket computer with e-mail, maps and other applications.
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| Samsung and Seagate co-develop SSD controller |
8/13/2010 |
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Samsung Electronics and Seagate Technology have announced plans to jointly develop and cross license controller technologies for enterprise-class solid state drives (SSD).
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| Kingston bumps up DDR2 price by 10% |
8/13/2010 |
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Kingston Technology has raised its prices for DDR2 modules by a range of 7-10% recently pushing Taiwan-based module makers to also follow suit, according to industry sources.
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| SMIC's CEO denies receiving chinese goverment aid |
8/12/2010 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CEO David Wang has denied that the company is close to receiving tens of millions of dollars from the China government's budget for the country's 11th five-year plan (2006-2010).
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| India authorities to shut down Blackberry services |
8/12/2010 |
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Research In Motion's encrypted BlackBerry email and instant messaging services will be shut down if the Canadian maker does not address Indian national security concerns by August 31, the government said on Thursday.
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