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| TSMC reports higher profit for Q1 |
4/27/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported consolidated net income of US$1.05 billion for the first quarter of 2010, its best quarterly profits since the fourth quarter of 2007.
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| AMD to announce 6-Core Phenom CPU |
4/26/2010 |
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AMD is preparing to launch its six-core Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T Black Edition CPUs with prices of US$207 soon, according to sources from motherboard makers.
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| Micron samples 2GB LP-DDR2 Memory chip |
4/26/2010 |
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Micron has announced that it is now sampling a monolithic 2Gb low-power DDR2 (LPDDR2) memory device designed for smartphones, tablet PCs and other mobile products.
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| VIA unveils Nano E-series processor |
4/26/2010 |
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VIA Technologies has announced its Nano E-series processors, bringing native 64-bit software support, virtualization capabilities and extended longevity support to embedded markets.
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| Analyst have mixed feeling on Sandisk |
4/23/2010 |
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Sandisk rose 12.3% to $42.22 on what were generally viewed as upbeat results, although analysts continued to debate the company's strategy in the market for NAND Flash chips used in such devices as digital cameras and mp3 music players.
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| Is Apple to own ARM ? |
4/23/2010 |
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The newspaper quoted an un-named London stock broker saying: "A deal would make a lot of sense for Apple. That way, they could stop ARM's technology from ending up in everyone else's computers and gadgets."
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| Google turn-to-turn GPS may not come into iPhone |
4/23/2010 |
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"We did not say we would bring it to iPhone, we said to date we've had it on Android and that in the future it may come to other platforms but did not confirm this will be coming to iPhone at all," a Google spokesperson told PCWorld.
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| Elpida up estimates |
4/22/2010 |
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Elpida's estimated net profit tops the average forecast for a net loss of 4.5 billion yen in a poll of 17 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Shares of Elpida shot up 4.2 percent to 2,095 yen in early trading on Wednesday.
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| Solar installation to double this year |
4/22/2010 |
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Plunging prices for solar panels last year are now being reflected in system prices, and these price declines will compensate for the FIT reductions, resulting in a favorable Return on Investment (ROI) for homeowners and project developers, he said. In some cases, the ROI will remain higher than 10%.
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| Flash for iPone, a case between open or closed platform |
4/22/2010 |
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"We are at the beginning of a significant change in the industry, and I believe that ultimately open platforms will win out over the type of closed, locked down platform that Apple is trying to create," Chambers wrote.
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| Speculation: Google is designing ARM server |
4/22/2010 |
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It was speculated that the design team could be proposing to reduce server power consumption by designing a multiprocessing ARM chip as a server engine, just as the team when working at Apple is believed to have worked with an ARM architectural license to improve power efficiency and extend battery life.
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| Google to build experimental fibre network |
4/21/2010 |
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“We'll deliver Internet speeds more than 100 times faster than what most Americans have access to today with 1 gigabit per second, fiber-to-the-home connections. We plan to offer service at a competitive price to at least 50,000 and potentially up to 500,000 people,” the blog reads.
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| UAE to build semi-industry with help from Korea |
4/21/2010 |
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The UAE delegation, headed by Advanced Technology Investment Co. CEO Ibrahim Ajami, also met with South Korean business leaders, including the president of Samsung Electronics Co., according to the report. The delegation also visited a Hynix Semiconductor Inc. fab in Icheon.
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| 1-Gbit phase memory delayed |
4/21/2010 |
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The delay could fuel speculation that phase-change memory is hard to make, or that the technology is going to be de-emphasized when Micron completes its acquisition of the Numonyx.
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| Early iPad users clings on to Windows |
4/21/2010 |
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Windows XP was the most popular OS among iPad users (19.2 percent), followed closely by Windows 7, then Windows Vista. Windows 2000 brought up the rear. 62.95 percent of the group had a computer running Mac OS X.
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| Altera Stratix V comes in 28nm |
4/20/2010 |
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Today, the demand for at-speed deep packet inspection has pushed performance requirements for network-edge devices to the level of core transport. And here’s where the Stratix V might have its best opportunity at obsoleting the ASIC.
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| Samsung announced 20nm NAND |
4/20/2010 |
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''While there may be differences in terms of the process technology itself, they are fundamentally all '20-nm- class' NAND flash technologies. Therefore the key differentiator is when volume production commences.
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| Is Microsoft switching to ARM server? |
4/20/2010 |
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ARM processors are often used as disk drive controllers, but this ad does not mention Intel explicitly and seems to imply an ARM processor could be used for the main server in an attempt to save power.
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| Gizmodo paid $5K for the 4G iPone? |
4/20/2010 |
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Ultimately, Gizmodo may have dropped $5k for a supposed iPhone 4G prototype--but it's racked them up over 10 million page views, according to Site Meter.
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| Is MRAM to replace battery-back SRAM? |
4/19/2010 |
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Everspin (Chandler, Ariz.)Semiconductor Inc.--is positioning its 16-Mbit MRAM for the SRAM replacement, data retention and related markets. Everspin hopes to displace battery-backed SRAMs or associated discrete solutions--a move that threatens the likes of Cypress, ISSI, Maxim, STMicroelectronics, TI and others.
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| NXP files IPO in US |
4/19/2010 |
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The IPO was filed by an entity called Kaslion Acquisition, which will change its name to NXP. As previously reported, NXP (Eindhoven, The Netherlands) and its backers are looking to raise about $1 billion to pay down debt and further improve NXP's financial position.
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| HTC Droid phone get good comments |
4/19/2010 |
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The HTC Incredible combines Verizon's network with the latest Google Android release (2.1) wrapped in HTC's Sense UI. The phone runs on a fast 1GHz processor, has a huge 3.7-inch capacitive display and features an 8-megapixels camera on the back. It also comes with 8GB of internal storage, upgradeable up to 32GB via MicroSD cards.
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