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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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| SIS reports profit for 2009 |
6/18/2010 |
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has announced net profits of NT$605 million (US$18.77 million) for 2009.
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| Samsung to produce 500K iPad panels monthly |
6/18/2010 |
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Samsung will start volume shipments of 9.7-inch panels for the Apple iPad in July with monthly shipments reaching 300,000-500,000 units, according to market sources.
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| FormFactor cuts more Jobs |
6/17/2010 |
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Wafer probe card maker FormFactor said it will lay off about 8 percent of its workforce as part of an effort to reduce operating expenses.
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| Inphi file for $115 Million IPO |
6/17/2010 |
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Inphi announced it filed a registration for with the U.S. Securities and Exchange commission for an initial public offering (IPO) that reportedly could be worth $115 million.
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| AMD's six-core CPU in tight supply |
6/16/2010 |
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AMD is seeing the supply of its six-core processors fall short due to its caution about placing orders, according to sources from motherboard makers.
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| ChipSip offers new MCP package |
6/15/2010 |
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Taiwan-based ChipSiP Technology and Zoran have announced they will produce a new slim package solution for the compact digital camera market that includes both multi-memory and an image processor.
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| TSMC predict chip growth by 30% |
6/15/2010 |
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Morris Chang, chairman and CEO of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has raised his forecast for chip market growth in 2010
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