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| Micron/Intel commits to 2xnm Flash process |
12/24/2009 |
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Micron’s fiscal year 2010 ends in late September, 2010, it is highly likely that the company will start sampling of its 20nm-class flash devices sometime in early calendar 2010.
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| DRAM Capex to increase in 2010 |
12/24/2009 |
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With PC vendors having grown their average DRAM content per box to 2.92GB, DRAM makers are seeing a positive outlook for demand in 2010, according to industry sources in Taiwan. The sources expect growing demand for DRAM memory may outpace suppliers' expansion pace next year.
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| UMC embraces LED manufacturing |
12/24/2009 |
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UMC said in a filing dated Dec. 15 that it would also invest $8 million in a Mainland China venture called United LED Corp. A spokesperson for UMC Wednesday confirmed that the firm is joint venture between UMC and Epistar.
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| Altera named new CFO |
12/23/2009 |
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The appointment comes after Altera in late November upped its Q4 guidance. The company now expects sales to be up 15% to 18% on Q3’s $286.6 million opposed to its previous guidance calling for 6% to 10% growth.
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| Electronic wall paper changes color on demand |
12/23/2009 |
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According to Philips, its technology allows different colors of ink to be built into one layer with each color controlled separately, allowing a layer to be transparent, the same color as any one of the inks, or a mixture of multiple colors.
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| Chip sells going strong |
12/23/2009 |
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This would represent a rise of 7.7 percent year-on-year against the three-month average for November 2008. However, actual November chip sales probably rose 26 percent compared with November 2008,
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| LG forms company to manage OLED IP's |
12/22/2009 |
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As such it is expected that the Kodak patents will be placed in the LG OLED portfolio. LG OLED is expected to sign contracts with LG affiliates to share patents with them.
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| Converge reports DDR2 prices leveling |
12/22/2009 |
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The DDR3 market remains stable, but the DDR2 market is showing some signs of weakness. In both SO-DIMM and desktop, 2-GB PC800 DDR2 has dropped from the low-to-mid-$50s range to high $40s in a two-week span.
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| WiFi comes into automobile starting 2010 model |
12/22/2009 |
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More than half of the 77 million U.S. driving adults considered technology enthusiasts expressed the desire for a Web access in their cars, according to a study by the Consumer Electronics Association. Among the general population, more than one third of Americans said they would be interested.
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| TSMC employees get bonus + 15% raise |
12/22/2009 |
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TSMC will raise base salaries for employees by 15 percent beginning next month, anticipating a strong year. TSMC also said it would give employees an annual bonus equal to two months' salary on Jan. 25, according to the report.
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| PC Market helps DRAM rebound |
12/21/2009 |
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That's partly due to good sales of netbooks and the introduction of Intel's Calpella. Windows 7 has helped boost sales of memory but notebook shipments are likely to have grown by nearly 12 percent in the fourth quarter of this year.
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| Nokia to partner with Ericsson on TD-SCDMA |
12/21/2009 |
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Nokia has affirmed its commitments to the development TD-SCDMA, the the Chinese homegrown 3G standard. In October, the company launched Nokia 6788, its first Symbian-based TD-SCDMA phone and announced the creation of a dedicated TD-SCDMA R&D team in Beijing.
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| France and Italy to build Solar Farm |
12/21/2009 |
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“We are convinced that R&D and investment in innovative and sustainable projects, in all strategic sectors including energy to stop climate change, are essential to economic revival and growth in our countries.”
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| Automobile and Green Engergy seen as growth areas |
12/21/2009 |
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The real driver of global economic growth will no longer be consumers, but rather emerging markets and economies that need infrastructure. So future growth will not be dependent on disposable consumer production.
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| Engineering openings in Ireland |
12/18/2009 |
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Maxim Integrated Products is establishing a new international business services operation in Dublin, where it will initially recruit 50 employees in various disciplines.
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| Intel to highlight new MPU line up at CES |
12/18/2009 |
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Intel has designed two generations of x86-based system-on-chips geared for digital TVs, but so far the company has yet to gain a single design win. TV makers have long design cycles and are secretive about their component choices,
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| Intel extends speed by stacking GaAs on Silicon |
12/18/2009 |
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The resultant compound semiconductor quantum-well FET demonstrated the high carrier velocity and high drive current that make InGaAs-on-Si attractive, but it must be scaled down in size before the technology can be commercialized.
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| Intel and Samsung still led in 2009 |
12/18/2009 |
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Intel Corp. held the No. 1 position for the 18th consecutive year, despite revenue declines, and it increased its market share to 14.2 percent in 2009, according to Gartner. There was also no change among the next four companies in terms of rankings. Samsung was in second place, followed by Toshiba, Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics.
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| New Toshiba 64G Nand revolutionizes iPhone |
12/17/2009 |
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There's speculation that Toshiba's new 64 GB memory module may be in the next iPhone release. The press release distributed yesterday said that the module will be used in smartphones, mobile phones, netbooks, and digital video cameras.
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| Semi Equipment Billing improved |
12/17/2009 |
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Worldwide billings reached $4.54 billion in the third quarter, up 69 percent compared to the second quarter, but down 31 percent from the third quarter of 2008, according to a report based on data collected by SEMI and the Semiconductor Equipment Association of Japan (SEAJ).
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| FTC sued Intel on Section 5 violations |
12/17/2009 |
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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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| Militants hacked into Predator drone video |
12/17/2009 |
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Insurgents intercepted the video feeds by taking advantage of an unprotected communications link in some of the remotely flown planes' systems. Shiite fighters in Iraq used software programs such as SkyGrabber -- available for as little as $25.95 on the Internet -- to regularly capture drone video feeds.
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| High growth set for LED |
12/16/2009 |
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“The LED industry is on the threshold of a new expansion phase—a phase that will be characterized by growth rates in the high double digits during the next three years,”
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| NEC/Renesas merger date set for April |
12/16/2009 |
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Japan’s NEC Electronics Corp and Renesas Technology Corp are moving ahead with plans to combine, today announcing an April 1, 2010, expected merger date.
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