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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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| New Micron SSD to use SATA3 and ONFI 2.1 technology |
4/16/2010 |
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The P300 drives will be made using Micron's 34-nanometer manufacturing process and will come in 50GB, 100GB and 200GB sizes, shipping in sample quantities to system makers in late May. Dibelius expects them to hit the market in storage platforms in June.
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| Migration to copper for DRAM boosted equipment market |
4/16/2010 |
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Memory suppliers, led by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., spent large sums of money upgrading their wafer fabs to copper and this affected purchases of copper deposition equipment and materials in 2009. It also hit sales of traditional aluminum equipment and copper will impact nearly every sector of the semiconductor equipment market in 2011,
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| Tight memory supply keeps small guys out |
4/16/2010 |
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''At the same time Samsung and Toshiba will only be supplying chips to select customers due to continued supply constraints,'' he said. ''We believe the card side of the market will remain under pressure as Apple comes back to the market and smartphones continue to gain traction.''
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| Chip market rebounce is solid |
4/15/2010 |
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Last year’s talk that the chip industry was about to enter a dark age of low demand and under-investment thankfully now seems to be a distant memory.
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| Microcontroller Market to expand again |
4/15/2010 |
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With their wide variety of uses, including automotive, computer, consumer, communications and industrial uses, microcontrollers are slated to recover this year and grow steadily to $18.5 billion dollars in 2015.
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| US manufacturing see signs of come back |
4/15/2010 |
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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s general economic index climbed to 31.9, a ninth consecutive month of growth, from 22.9 in March. Readings greater than zero signal gains in the so-called Empire State Index that covers New York, northern New Jersey and southern Connecticut.
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