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| Samsung position Austin fab to support Apple |
6/28/2010 |
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But for the expansion, known as Fab 2, Phase 2, the company says it will make LSI — large-scale integration — chips designed for use in mobile devices. Much of the rest of the chip industry usually calls those chips SoCs, for system on a chip.
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| WiSpry works with IBM on tunable impedance RF frontend |
6/28/2010 |
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The key to WiSpry's competitive advantage is its tunable impedance matching MEMS technology that uses arrays of switchable capacitive devices that can be quickly switched in and out to quickly provide over 3-dB of link resilience by adapting to changes in frequency, antenna conditions and other ongoing operational conditions.
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| Mixed signal SOC to take lime light |
6/28/2010 |
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There really is no longer any digital design or analog design. We’re entering an era of true mixed-signal SoCs, with digital signal processors, CPU/GPUs and analog blocks defining every design.
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| Samsung joins Sprint with 4G Wimax phone |
6/28/2010 |
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The Epic 4G will come with at least one important exclusive app, a Samsung content-delivery service which will let device owners download major-studio movies and TV shows.
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| Elpida super high speed graphics memory |
6/25/2010 |
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Elpida’s new 2Gb GDDR5 chip can work at up to 7Ghz (quad data rate) clock-speed and will power graphics cards and/or other memory bandwidth-sensitive applications.
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| DRAM price fixing concluded with payment |
6/25/2010 |
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Some 32 states in the United States announced a $173 million settlement with six DRAM manufacturers who "conspired in an illegal global scheme to fix prices."
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| UNM files infringement against Samsung and TSMC |
6/25/2010 |
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The STC said the ''patent pertains to lithographic methods that allow for the manufacture of smaller features in semiconductor devices.'' The technology, which issued as a patent in 2000, was developed by several researchers at UNM, including Steven R. J. Brueck.
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| Apple advise iPhone 4 to be used with a skin cover |
6/25/2010 |
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"If you ever experience this on your iPhone 4, avoid gripping it in the lower left corner in a way that covers both sides of the black strip in the metal band, or simply use one of many available cases,"
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| Samsung gets memory design win on new HP server |
6/24/2010 |
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced here today at HP Tech Forum 2010 that its 1.35 Volt, 1333 Mbps Green DDR3 DRAM memory, and Enterprise SSDs, have been chosen for use in HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers using AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series and Intel Xeon 5600 processors.
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| iSupply reports tight supply chain |
6/24/2010 |
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"While inventories at present are not actually 20% lean, the adjusted calculation indicates that current DOI levels, as reported in company financial reports, are misleadingly elevated and that in reality, chipmakers and other participants in the [electronics supply] chain are shorter on supply than is widely perceived,"
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| iPhone 4 almost identical circuit with iPad |
6/24/2010 |
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Like the iPad, iPhone 4 uses Apple's A4 as its applications processor. It also uses a Broadcom Bluetooth FM radio combo chip (the BCM4329), Broadcom GPS device (the BCM4750) and Cirrus Logic audio codec (the 338S0589). The iPad and iPhone 4 also share in common two memory chips—a Samsung 256 Gbit NAND flash device (the K9TFG08U5M) and a combo device from Numonyx.
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| Hynix open new backend plant in China |
6/23/2010 |
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Hynix holds a 45-percent stake in the plant built in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province, with China's Wuxi Taiji Industry Co. owning the remainder. The completion of the chip plant cost US$350 million, Hynix said.
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| Market favors power control chips |
6/23/2010 |
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Power management ICs, what Gartner tracks as voltage regulators, is the largest segment of the standard analog IC market (multimarket building blocks) and promises the strongest growth, the research company said. Nonisolated DC-DC converters will show the fastest revenue growth,
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| Freescale switching from Power PC to ARM |
6/23/2010 |
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"We already had experience with ARM cores for our i.MX multimedia applications processors based on ARM9, ARM11 and ARM Cortex-A8," said Jeff Bock, director of marketing for industrial and multi-market microcontrollers at Freescale.
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| Low power supper server packs 512 cores |
6/23/2010 |
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Multicore processor designer Tilera Corp. announced it plans to ship a 200-core device in 2013 and demonstrated a 512-core server made by partner Quanta Computer Inc. using Tilera's current 64-core chip. An SGI executive said it plans to field systems using Tilera's processors.
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| EU initiates electric car infustructure study |
6/22/2010 |
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The objectives of the Information and Communication Technologies for the Full Electric Vehicle (ICT4FEV) project consist in building a R&D community, editing a European roadmap, recommending standards and regulations and establishing a European organization for electric mobility.
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| Intel and FTC intend to settle |
6/22/2010 |
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The FTC complaint alleges that Intel has deprived consumers of choice and innovation in microprocessors through a systematic campaign to shut out competing chips--such as those from rival AMD.
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| Image sensor market on the rise again |
6/22/2010 |
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Sensors and Discretes (O-S-D) Report. The new report's forecast shows CMOS image sensors sales rising 34 percent in 2010 to a record-high $5.2 billion from nearly $3.9 billion in 2009, when revenues fell 16 percent due to the economic recession,
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| Apple iOS4, not doing much for business yet |
6/22/2010 |
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The biggest new capability -- multitasking -- is for all intents and purposes not available, and it won't be until individual apps are updated to take advantage of it. That's because iOS 4 leaves the multitasking not as a general OS capability automatically implemented as Windows or Mac OS X does it, but as one that must be explicitly used by the application.
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| Powerchip moved up in DRAM ranking |
6/21/2010 |
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Powerchip revenue has increased nearly 60 percent during each of the last three quarters. This caused the company’s ranking to rise from sixth place in the fourth quarter of 2009 and from ninth in the first quarter of 2009, according to iSuppli.
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