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| TSMC invest in China VC company |
5/26/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd announce it will invest $5 million, or about NT$160 million, in a venture capital company based in Shanghai.
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| Walmart offers $97 iphone |
5/25/2010 |
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Wal-Mart today began selling the 16GB version of the iPhone for $97 with a two-year AT&T contract.
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| Nanya to raise Capex for 2010 |
5/24/2010 |
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Nanya Technology plans to raise their capex again this year to come close to a combined total of US$3.1 billion, according to industry sources.
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| Major OEMs support further ROHS |
5/21/2010 |
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European Parliament published a draft proposal for the recast of ROHS with the intent to include all electronic and electrical equipment. ROHS' current scope exempts certain electronics. The proposed changes also include restricting use of substantially more substances, including PVC, chlorinated plasticizers, organohalogens, flame retardants, and the phthalates BBP, DBP, and DEHP.
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| Toyota teams with US venture in electric cars |
5/21/2010 |
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Toyota has agreed to purchase $50 million of Tesla’s common stock issued in a private placement to close immediately subsequent to the closing of Tesla’s currently planned initial public offering (IPO).
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| India completed 3G auction |
5/21/2010 |
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"All the incumbent operators have bid carefully, considering their circles of strength where they enjoy high revenue market shares. Hence, there was no single operator who secured a pan-India 3G spectrum."
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| Google with much aggressive game plan |
5/21/2010 |
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Google want to combine TV and the internet in a real way, not with token widgets or content stores. They want app devs, hardware partners, content partners and search traffic, which for us, translates to apps, tons of hardware choices, a multitude of viewing options and a real window to the internet.
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| Pakistan move to block Facebook and Youtube |
5/20/2010 |
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Pakistan on Thursday blocked access to YouTube -- a day after it shut down social networking site Facebook -- in response to an online group calling on people to draw the Prophet Mohammed.
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| Infineon/Elpida settle |
5/20/2010 |
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Infineon initiated proceedings in February 2010, when it filed a complaint against Elpida and Elpida's customers in the U.S. International Trade Commission. Elpida filed two lawsuits in the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, in April 2010.
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| Open source mobile codec picks up support |
5/20/2010 |
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Google announced at its annual Google I/O event in San Francisco it will make the V8 codec available as open source code with a royalty free license as part of a new WebM project. Google said it will pair V8 with the Vorbis open source audio codec and support the two in its Chrome browser and YouTube service.
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| European Commission set to fine memory companies |
5/19/2010 |
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The total fine is expected to be about 300 million euros (about $370 million), although it is expected that many of those accused will have accepted the European Commission's proposed fine in return for a 10 percent discount, the reports said.
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| Dell and IBM to field test low power ARM server |
5/19/2010 |
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"We're going from an era of general purpose processors to application-specific processors, and now we will go from general-purpose computers to application-specific servers," he said. "People will start to examine these machines and they will tend to be more appliance-like,"
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| Apple release iPhone OS 4 to developer |
5/19/2010 |
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Including features such as third-party app multi-tasking, the ability to organize apps in groups, a unified in box for email, Bluetooth keyboard support, and more.
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| Taiwan manufacturers go hi-gear on Capex |
5/18/2010 |
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No.1 foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to spend US$4.8 billion on expansions this year, almost 80% more than the capital it laid out last year. United Microelectronics Corp. (UMC) has decided to spend US$1 billion, nearly double its 2009 expenditure. The island`s dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chipmakers plan to raise an estimated NT$138.9 billion (US$4.3 billion) to finance their expansions their plans.
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| Now, LEDs are in short supply |
5/18/2010 |
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''The supply situation is tight due to increasing demand from backlighting for TVs and general lighting markets,'' he said. ''Vendors expect this situation to persist until the end of the year at least.''
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