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| Smartphone shipment accelerates |
2/11/2010 |
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With the economy expected to continue improving, Forward Concepts forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 24 percent for smartphones so that they reach the 496 million unit annual level in 2014.
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| Micron to own Numonyx |
2/11/2010 |
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With the deal, Micron ''becomes an integrated memory provider spanning DRAM, NAND and NOR comparable in breadth to Samsung and gain a new memory technology, PCM which has the potential to replace NAND and DRAM,''
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| IBM propose inexpensive process for PV cells |
2/11/2010 |
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IBM Research has proposed solutions to both stumbling blocks by demonstrating a photovoltaic cell that uses common, abundant elements and is produced using an inexpensive nanoparticle- and spin-coat-based "printing" technique.
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| TSMC - January sale slips by 4.5% |
2/10/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has announced revenues for January 2010 slid 4.3% on month to NT$29.16 billion (US$910 million).
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| Micron to buy Numonyx for U$1.2 Billion |
2/10/2010 |
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Micron Technology said they have signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately held Numonyx in an all-stock transaction valuing Numonyx at approximately US$1.27 billion.
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| AMD launch new Graphic chip |
2/8/2010 |
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AMD has announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics chip, the latest addition to the line-up of ATI Radeon HD 5000 series GPUs.
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| Altera unveil 28-nm FPGA |
2/8/2010 |
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Altera announced today new innovations that will be incorporated into upcoming 28-nm FPGAs.
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| Taiwan government refuse to fund TMC |
2/5/2010 |
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Critics say the new DRAM company has proceeded at a snail's pace since its formation in March 2009, and that the timing for restructuring Taiwan's DRAM sector has passed as some chipmakers are returning to profit as chip prices recover.
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| IBM showed graphene transistor success |
2/5/2010 |
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Almost four times faster than previous demonstrations, the graphene transistors were fabricated at the wafer scale using epitaxially grown graphene processing techniques that are compatible with those used to fabricate silicon transistors.
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| Apple's A4 guru started own venture |
2/5/2010 |
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It now transpires, according to a New York Times article, that former P.A. Semi engineers have been leaving Apple to form a startup said to be working on a server processor and with links to Cisco. Company is named Agnilux Inc. (San Jose, Calif.)
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| New enterprise smartphone in development |
2/5/2010 |
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"The Nirvana phone represents a near-term paradigm shift — OK Labs, Citrix, and our ecosystem partners envision real-world converged nirvana devices enabled for both mobility and desktop productivity entering the market within 12 to 18 months."
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| Electronic Distributor Association set rules to discourage counterfeit |
2/4/2010 |
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Robin B Gray, executive vice president of NEDA, describes the guidelines as a way to codify best practices and as a way to thwart the entrance of counterfeit components into the electronics supply chain. “It's something that authorized distributors have been doing for several years now".
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| EU to bring anti-trust to 10 DRAM companies |
2/4/2010 |
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The people familiar with the situation said the companies were expected to settle with the Commission under its new settlement procedure introduced in 2008, possibly making it the first case in which firms admit taking part in a cartel in return for a 10 percent cut in fines.
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| Electronics to be blamed on Toyota recall? |
2/4/2010 |
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Automotive electronics will become even more pervasive as new hybrid, electric and fuel cell technologies are deployed in new cars. Hence, the auto industry must boost its investment in consistent data collection methods, advanced analytics and new techniques for tracking design and manufacturing data to pinpoint which vehicle models need to be recalled.
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| IC Insights: DRAM will do well in 2010 |
2/4/2010 |
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IC Insights said that 2010 will start a three-year reversal of this downward trend. The high wafer fab manufacturing capacity utilization, low capital spending, improving global economy and ongoing demand for units is likely to put upward pressure on average selling prices, which should help turn the market around for many IC products beginning in 2010.
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| Smart Modular upgraded guidiance |
2/3/2010 |
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The Company expects to report GAAP diluted net income per share in the range of $0.16 to $0.18 for the second quarter of fiscal 2010, substantially exceeding its previous guidance of $0.06 to $0.08 per share announced on December 17, 2009. Non-GAAP diluted net income per share is expected to be in the range of $0.14 to $0.16, a substantial increase to the previous guidance provided by the Company of $0.09 to $0.11.
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| Business and investment returns to UMC |
2/3/2010 |
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UMC (Hsinchu, Taiwan) announced it would increase its capital expenditures for 2010 to be between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion to accommodate strong demand from customers at advanced technology nodes. Fourth quarter sales were up 1.2 percent compared with the third quarter and up nearly 50 percent from the fourth quarter of 2008, UMC said.
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| Apply executives arrested for leaking customer process |
2/3/2010 |
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The information stolen included manufacturing process technology details for DRAMs and NAND flash memory as well as investment plans for chip production, which were passed on to Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the reports said.
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