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| IBM unveils fastest mainframe processor |
9/2/2010 |
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IBM said it will begin shipping a new mainframe computer computer capable of 50 billion instructions per second, powered by 96 microprocessors with clock speeds up to 5.2 gigahertz.
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| Globalfoundries unveils 22/20nm roadmap |
9/2/2010 |
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Globalfoundries has announced the addition of a new technology offering based on its 28nm high-k metal gate (HKMG) technology, and revealed for the first time its manufacturing timeline for the 22/20nm node.
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| Hynix & HP co-develop ReRAM |
9/1/2010 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has entered into a joint development agreement with Hewlett-Packard (HP) to develop memristor technology in resistive random access memory (ReRAM).
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| ProMos report narrow loss for 2Q ,2010 |
9/1/2010 |
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ProMOS Technologies remained unprofitable in the second quarter of 2010, but saw net losses for the quarter narrow significantly compared to losses in the prior quarter and a year ago.
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| Intel cut price for i7 processors |
8/31/2010 |
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Intel recently dropped the price of its quad-core Core i7-950 processors to US$294 from US$562 to defend from AMD's recent price cuts.
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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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