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| Qimonda test equipments up for Auction |
2/16/2010 |
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Qimonda automatic test equipments, assembly and packaging and test and measurement instruments will go under the hammer this week at Munich Germany.
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| NEC to unveil quad-core Cortex-A9 processor |
2/15/2010 |
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NEC Electronics looks set to grab a share of the lead in terms of high performance ARM processors at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week with a quad-core Cortex-A9 design.
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| Nanya has 42nm DRAM in qual. |
2/12/2010 |
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Nanya and Inotera will use 42nm process to produce 2GB double data rate 3(DDR3) DRAM chips. The cutting-edge process, he added, is an ideal solution for building lower power-consumption, higher-efficiency and larger-capacity circuits on smaller chip dies than last-generation process.
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| Toshiba to build $8.9billion NAND fab. |
2/12/2010 |
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When fully facilitized the wafer fab is expected to double Toshiba's NAND production capacity from about 260,000 wafers per month to 500,000 wafers per month.
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| Intel to push on new low power silicon technology |
2/12/2010 |
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Inclusion of III-V materials is a 2015 transistor option that could deliver either three times the performance of silicon at the same power consumption, or deliver the same performance as silicon at one-tenth the power consumption.
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| Motorola to split into two companies |
2/12/2010 |
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Motorola Inc. is moving forward with a plan to separate the company into two independent, publicly-held entities. One will include the company's mobile devices and home businesses. The other will include its enterprise mobility solutions and networks businesses.
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| DDR3 prices rose |
2/11/2010 |
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In terms of market dynamics, DDR3 is still in tight supply due to aggressive migration plans by PC-OEMs. Hence, DRAMeXchange projects that the contract price of DDR3 will continue to rise, while that of DDR2 will likely decline.
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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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