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| Cree simplifies LED light manufacturing |
5/14/2010 |
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All a fixture manufacturer needs to do is drop in an optional heat sink to accommodate high-temperature applications, such as down lights for insulated ceilings, and then design the external fixture package. The result is a low-power, long-life solid-state-lighting luminaire.
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| Samsung dramatically increased Capex |
5/14/2010 |
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Samsung is expected to make an announcement at a ground-breaking ceremony for a wafer fab due to take place on Monday (May 15). Such a large sum would represent a more than doubling of Samsung's existing, industry-leading capex plan and it is hard to see how the chip equipment industry could ramp up quickly enough.
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| Adobe promotes openess in mobile Flash |
5/14/2010 |
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Sure, it'd be easy to fire back against Steve Jobs and company for so publicly disparaging Adobe and Flash, but Adobe's taking of the high road -- through a new advertising campaign that actually praises Apple and its iPhone and iPad while stating a position on openness -- is a strong tactical maneuver.
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| Merger to fight against counterfeit components |
5/13/2010 |
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“NEDA and ECA have been united with respect to their fight against counterfeit product and in support of the authorized channel," said Robin B Gray, Jr, NEDA executive vice president, in a statement. "It makes good business sense to combine our efforts for maximum effectiveness."
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| Motorola to bring 4G to Russia |
5/13/2010 |
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"Our collaboration with Motorola marks a new phase in InformInvest’s business strategy in delivering innovative wireless technologies for the Russian market," said Igor Marchenko, vice president, Inform Invest Group.
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| Cadence to absorb Denali |
5/13/2010 |
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The transaction expands Cadence's solution portfolio to deliver efficient and cost-effective system component modeling and IP integration. The transaction was unanimously approved by the Cadence and Denali boards of directors.
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| Sprint 4G phone to go for $200 |
5/13/2010 |
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EVO’s best features is the ability to use it to share the WiMAX connection with up to eight other devices via Wi-Fi, will also cost extra. $30 per-month extra, in fact. It will be interesting to see what happens to this plan if and when the EVO is updated from Android 2.1 to 2.2, which has native tethering built-in to the OS
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| Otellini upbeat on processor market |
5/12/2010 |
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The company also said it remains "highly confident" that it will achieve its financial goals for the current quarter despite rising concerns about European economies amid Greece's financial crisis.
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| MEM gyroscope to revolutionize smartphone experience |
5/12/2010 |
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Just as the Apple iPhone opened the eyes of handset vendors to how a MEMS accelerometer could harness motion to change from portrait to landscape views, the MotionPlus game controller for Nintendo's Wii "has stimulated the imagination of handset makers" by proving "how well a six-axis solution—a three-axis accelerometer plus three-axis gyroscope—works by making the motion recognition smoother and more precise,"
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| Spansion emerged from bankruptcy |
5/12/2010 |
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Spansion said it entered Chapter 11 reorganization with over $1.5 billion in debt. It emerged with less than $480 million in debt and approximately $230 million in cash, which is supplemented with an undrawn credit line of up to $65 million.
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| Another lost iPhone prototype show up in Vietnam |
5/12/2010 |
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Images of what appears to be an iPhone similar to the one at the center of last month's Apple-Gizmodo flap have surfaced on Vietnamese language web site, Taoviet. The images include a complete hardware teardown, with close-ups.
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| Infineon takes over #1 in automobile chip market |
5/11/2010 |
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Infineon achieved sales of $1.31 billion with automotive parts, slightly more than Freescale which sold devices at a value of $1.163 billion. This equals a 9 percent market share for Infineon and 8 percent for Freescale.
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| DRAM in allocations, Nand prices slip |
5/11/2010 |
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''While demand remains light in the market, brokers and distributors are liquidating their inventory and realizing profits on stock that was purchased at a lower cost base,'' he said. ''Average spot pricing across all densities and technologies was down 1.5 percent (last week) compared with the previous week,
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| Droid phone overtakes iPhone in Q1 |
5/11/2010 |
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Android OS phones captured 28 percent of unit sales in the first three months of 2010, ahead of the iPhone's 21 percent, according to a report this week from the NPD Group.
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| Micron closes Numonyx acquisition |
5/10/2010 |
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"With this acquisition, Micron builds on its position as one of the world's leading memory companies with increased scale, a broader product portfolio and industry-leading technology," Micron CEO Steve Appleton said.
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| Does Renesas have too many products to support? |
5/10/2010 |
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The market is worried about the fallout between Renesas and NEC Electronics, at least according to competitors. At last count, the combined entity will sell and support no less than 16 separate MCU lines, including 4-, 8-, 16- and 32-bit products.
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| Global Foundries has agressive expansion planmed |
5/10/2010 |
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GlobalFoundries was not so far behind TSMC and that soon to be announced capacity expansions would close the gap. "Does that include TSMC's third 100K wafer fab?" Penn asked "The numbers will be comparable,"
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| Microsoft overhauls MS Office |
5/10/2010 |
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Office 2010, which goes on sale to businesses this week, shows Microsoft for the first time putting serious sweat into making the suite work better on the Web and smartphones.
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| US Patent office to increase patent application fee |
5/7/2010 |
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said they need to increase patent application fees to reduce its historic backlog, according to Congressional testimony by the office's newly appointed director, David Kappos.
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| A-Data April revenue up by 58% |
5/6/2010 |
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A-Data Technology has posted revenues of NT$3.71 billion (US$118 million) for April, down 23% sequentially but up 58% on year.
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| Inotera buys new equipments from ASML |
5/6/2010 |
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Inotera Memories has reported the purchase of NT$5.934 billion (US$188.8 million) worth of semiconductor equipment from lithography equipment vendor ASML
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