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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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| EV car maker gets traction on IPO |
6/29/2010 |
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Tesla sold 13.3 million shares instead of the 11.1 million originally planned and exceeded its previous estimated range of between $14 and $16 a share.
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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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