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| Teradyne post 3rd Quarter profit |
10/28/2009 |
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Automated test equipment vendor Teradyne Inc. posted a profit $6.7 million on revenue of $262 million for the third quarter.
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| Acer launch 3-D Notebook |
10/27/2009 |
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Acer America has announced its Aspire 5738DG notebook with 3D viewing technology that features advanced display capabilities, a high-definition graphics engine, an Intel Core 2 Duo processor and Dolby surround sound.
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| Asustek unveil Nvidia Tesla workstation |
10/26/2009 |
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Asustek Computer unveiled a workstation (ESC1000) in Taiwan developed in cooperation with Nvidia and Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University (NCTU).
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| The Chinese chip market will grow by 17.8% in 2010 |
10/25/2009 |
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China's semiconductor market is projected to decline by 6.7 percent to $68 billion in 2009, mainly due to falling exports, but is expected to rebound in 2010, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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| Nanya plans to raise prices 20 percent next month |
10/23/2009 |
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Nanya Technology Corp., Taiwan's biggest computer-memory chipmaker, plans to raise prices 20 percent next month because of rising demand, Vice President Pai Pei-Lin said. The company increased prices by 20 percent this month from September, after boosting them 35 percent in the third quarter from the preceding three months, Pai said. Taoyuan-based Nanya yesterday reported its smallest loss in eight quarters.
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| MEMC will acquire SunEdison for $200 in cash and stock |
10/23/2009 |
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Silicon wafer supplier MEMC Electronic Materials Inc. will acquire SunEdison LLC, described as North America's largest solar energy services provider, for at least $200 million in cash and stock, the company said Thursday .
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| Researcher says DRAM rebound to continue in 2010 |
10/23/2009 |
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The DRAM industry is likely to continue to rebound in 2010, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp., which said sequential growth in DRAM revenue and pricing during the second and third quarters was the strongest the industry has seen in at least five years.
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| Freescale and E Ink reach Ip agreement for eBook silicon |
10/21/2009 |
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Electronic-paper pioneer E Ink and SoC giant Freescale Semiconductor this morning announced an intellectual-property agreement that will allow Freescale to
integrate E Ink¡¯s Vizplex display controller IP onto Freescale¡¯s ARM-based microcontroller SoCs. The two companies both claim market leadership in their respective portions displays and system chips of the eBook market, so the agreement could influence the future direction of hardware architectures for the
devices.
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| Samsung has invested in Fusion-io |
10/21/2009 |
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Samsung has invested in Fusion-io, deepening the relationship between two significant players in the fast-growing flash-storage business.
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| sun plans to cut 3,000 jobs in the next 12 months |
10/21/2009 |
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With its proposed acquisition by Oracle Corp. being delayed by regulators, Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to cut 3,000 jobs across several regions over the next 12 months, the company said Tuesday .
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| Nokia has been exonerated in 3G patents dispute |
10/20/2009 |
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Nokia has been exonerated by the U.S. International Trade Commission in the case against InterDigital when the agency confirmed an earlier decision that the Finnish phone maker did not violate some of the King of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based wireless IP group's UMTS based 3G patents.
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| Xilinx and ARM announce development collaboration on programmable platforms. |
10/20/2009 |
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Xilinx Inc and ARM today announced they are collaborating to enable ARM processor and interconnect technology on Xilinx FPGAs. Xilinx is adopting ARM Cortex processor IP, using performance-optimized ARM cell libraries and embedded memories for its future programmable platforms. In addition, ARM and Xilinx are working to define the next-generation ARM AMBA interconnect technology that is enhanced and optimized for FPGA architectures.
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| SanDisk rolls 64Gbit 4X flash memory cards |
10/19/2009 |
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SanDisk Corp. has begun production shipments of memory cards based on the company's X4 flash memory technology. This technology holds four bits of data in each memory cell, twice as many as the cells in conventional multi-level cell NAND memory chips.
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| Window 7 to boost notebook space |
10/16/2009 |
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DRAM Exchange believes that Windows 7 has far better performance than Vista, incorporating better memory utilization, power management and interface.
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| SMIC to extend process to 40nm |
10/16/2009 |
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"Our 45-nm technology has been implemented at SMIC's 300-mm facility in Shanghai ahead of schedule and we look forward to a similar result at these additional geometries," said Richard Chang, president and CEO.
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