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| Powerchip to enter Flash market |
7/7/2010 |
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Powerchip Technology has reiterated its efforts to expand the company's NAND flash business, while maintaining DRAM as a focus.
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| Taiwan chipset manufacturer sees slump in revenue |
7/7/2010 |
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Silicon Integrated System posted June revenues of NT$276 million (US$8.57 million), down 10.33% on month and 29.43% on year, while VIA Technologies saw June revenues fall 4.84% on month, but up 5.85% on year to NT$439 million.
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| Samsung reports record breaking profit for 2010 |
7/7/2010 |
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Samsung Electronics has estimated its operating profits at 4.8-5.2 trillion won (US$3.92-4.25 billion) during the April-June period, almost doubling the 2.67 trillion won it posted in the second quarter of 2009.
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| MSI release new Netbook supporting DDR3 Memory |
7/6/2010 |
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MSI has announced its latest netbook, the Wind U160DX, which supports DDR3 memory and comes with the Intel Atom N455 processor and MSI's own Turbo Drive Engine (TDE) technology.
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| Chinese government sent young interns to Foxconn |
7/2/2010 |
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The internship program appears to be part of an effort by the Chinese government to bring industrial manufacturing to the relatively undeveloped Henan. Reportedly Foxconn plans to eventually employ 300,000 people in Henan bringing its own manufacturing there up to rival its main base in the coastal city of Shenzhen.
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| China company said Israel Siano intringe its patents |
7/2/2010 |
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Siano (Netanya, Israel) said that Innofidei (Beijing, China) had written to several Siano customers alleging that Siano has infringed patents. Siano did not detail which patents were cited, but denied the allegations and said that Innofidei's action seemed to be the result of frustration at Siano's success in the CMMB (Chinese Multimedia Mobile Broadcast) market.
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| Intel acquires cellphone modem company |
7/2/2010 |
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''The company was offering a combo WiMAX/GSM modem chip (not IPR). Although 3G capability was mentioned in the Israeli news reports of the acquisition, we are unaware of such IPR by Comsys,''
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| Are you really getting the bars? |
7/2/2010 |
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The Cupertino, Calif., company said that since the original iPhone, it has used an incorrect method to determine the number of bars to display on the device. In several instances, the iPhone would display two more bars than it should, providing an overly rosy indication of its cellular reception.
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| Migration to 40nm will boost DRAM profit |
7/1/2010 |
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40-nanometer process will impressively drive up earnings for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers in 2011 as the process would then grow mature in terms of technology, cost and yield rate.
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| Mobile network to be a big challenge |
7/1/2010 |
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Data traffic over mobile networks is exploding, thereby requiring new technologies to keep up with the frenetic demand, according to Paul Jacobs, chairman and chief executive of Qualcomm Inc. Mobile is changing everything.
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| Consumer file suit on iPhone 4 receiption |
7/1/2010 |
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“Apple’s sale of the iPhone with this unannounced defect, assuming Apple’s prior knowledge of the defect, constitutes misrepresentation and fraud,” Christopher Dydyk of Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in his complaint. “In omitting to disclose the defect in the iPhone 4, Apple perpetrated a massive fraud upon hundreds of thousands of unsuspecting customers.”
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| Mobile phone memory to shift to LPDDR2 |
6/30/2010 |
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Both Kim and Yoshitomi predicted that DRAMs for smartphones will shift from the existing LPDDR type to the LPDDR2 type within 2010. Kim said that, in 2011, 20 to 30% of DRAMs for mobile phones including smartphones will be the LPDDR2 type.
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| Solar market resumes growth |
6/30/2010 |
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“Despite much uncertainty over policy outcomes, a challenging economic environment and inverter supply, the PV industry is once again demonstrating that consumers respond to supportive government policies. The growth in demand is a response to major cuts in price levels afforded by lower manufacturing costs. As a result, module and inverter supply is just barely keeping up with demand.”
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| Taiwan TIMC reinvent itself in NAND memory |
6/30/2010 |
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The Taiwanese government is prepared to supply up to 40 percent of TIMC's capital needs and the company would reveal a NAND flash memory technology by the end of October, a Taipei Times report said quoting a MOEA official.
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| Verizon Wireless to get new iPhone |
6/30/2010 |
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Verizon Wireless, the largest U.S. mobile-phone company, will start selling Apple Inc.’s iPhone next year, ending AT&T Inc.’s exclusive hold on the smartphone in the U.S., two people familiar with the plans said.
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| Gyros sensor manufacturer files for IPO |
6/29/2010 |
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Nintendo was its largest customer in fiscal years 2009 and 2010, incorporating our motion sensing dual-axis gyroscope into its Wii MotionPlus accessory, according ot the filing. Nintendo represented 85 percent of its sales in 2010.
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| Intel SSD gets design win on Oracle server |
6/29/2010 |
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The flash disks are more expensive that traditional hard disk drives, "but Oracle claims the performance boost more than offsets the incremental cost," Brookwood said. "The math will probably work for many I/O-intensive tasks, but end-users be well advised to check to see if it works for their specific workloads," he added.
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| Micron show big market improvement |
6/29/2010 |
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Sales in the quarter ended June 3, 2010 rose to $2.3 billion from $2 billion in the fiscal second quarter and more than double the $1.1 billion reported in the year-ago comparable quarter. Analysts were on the average expecting the company to post sales of $2.1 billion for the recently concluded quarter.
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