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| Capacitorless DRAM scalable beyond 30nm |
3/18/2010 |
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Using 3D transistors similar to FinFETs, the two companies have demonstrated behavior similar to the floating-body effect in SoI planar transistors. IS claims the effect is strong enough and has the right characteristics to implement a capacitorless, one-transistor DRAM that can meet DDR3 voltage, power, and performance specs at and beyond the 50nm half-pitch.
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| Prices help smartphone sales in Asia |
3/18/2010 |
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The growth will be driven by strong demand in China and India and this will present a challenge to the traditional smartphone vendors and an opportunity for competition as well as opening up a large grey market. Smartphone shipments to Asia will be feature an average selling price of under $120 before subsidies or taxes.
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| Nanya and Inotera to expand with hiring |
3/17/2010 |
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Inotera is shifting from 70nm-class trench directly to 50nm stack, and expects to convert all of its chip production (130,000 wafers a month) to the more advanced process in the fourth quarter.
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| Intel offers SSD option to netbooks |
3/17/2010 |
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The SSD is loaded with the operating system and favorite applications to take advantage of the speedy performance, which Intel claims is nearly 4x faster than a 7200RPM HDD.
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| Subscribers call for iPhone to broaden support |
3/17/2010 |
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"It befuddles my imagination to figure out why Apple refuses to do things that would further please customers," "why [Apple] takes such an exclusionist attitude about relationships with the outside world."
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| IC Insights projects 27% jump in semi market |
3/16/2010 |
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Therefore, with only a moderate seasonal increase forecast for the IC market in the second half of this year, IC Insights believes its 27% growth forecast for 2010 still can be considered conservative.
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| Semi companies raising prices due to shortage |
3/16/2010 |
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''In short, near-term business conditions are robust, end demand appears strong, particularly in Asia where signs of a broader economic recovery are apparent, and visibility is robust through 2Q,'' according to a report from FBR.
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| Researchers upgrades lithium ion battery 5X capacity |
3/16/2010 |
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Nanocomposites aim to boost the capacity of lithium ion batteries by five-times by hanging nanometer-sized silicon particles on trees of carbon black that self-assemble into porous micron-sized spheres, which increase an electrode's surface area with interconnected internal channels.
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| Google defiance on China "Search" laws? |
3/16/2010 |
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A key issue is whether Beijing, angry and embarrassed by Google's public defiance, would allow the company to continue running other operations, including advertising and a fledgling mobile phone businesses in China if Google.cn closes.
China promotes Internet use for business and education but bars access to sites run by human rights and political activists and some news outlets.
Officials, who defend China's controls by pointing to countries that bar content such as child pornography, are stung that Google has drawn attention to how much more pervasive Chinese limits are.
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| AMD to produce netbook class processor in 2011 |
3/15/2010 |
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On the face of it this make sense. Bobcat was supposed to have power efficiency in mind and AMD has claimed that it will burn the same amount of juice as an Intel Atom ie 10W-15W.
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| Google Chrome, too expensive to penetrate |
3/15/2010 |
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Google's requirements for systems using Chrome include relatively high performance graphics, accelerometers and other sensors. "PC OEMs say the hardware requirements—still under NDA--will make the systems actually more expensive than a Windows device, yet they don't have anywhere near the applications support
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| 3G Internet and modem to gain ground |
3/15/2010 |
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This is likely to be good news for Qualcomm, Icera and ST-Ericsson who are all suppliers of 3G modem ICs. Shipments will continue to soar during 2010 but price erosion will also be savage.
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| China's PV initiative runs into grid road block |
3/15/2010 |
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Chinese grid companies are currently quite unwilling to purchase the electricity generated by PV as there is uncertainty about the quality of the electricity and the impacts on the grid."
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| National Semi reports strong sales up 5% |
3/12/2010 |
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National Semiconductor reported sales of $362 million in the quarter, up 5 percent from $345 million in the previous quarter and up 24 percent from $292 million reported in last year's third fiscal quarter.
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| SMIC to cut 10% of work-force |
3/11/2010 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Company (SMIC), China's top foundry chipmaker, plans to downsize 10% of its workforce in a move to accelerate its progress towards profitability.
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| Winbond to raise price on NOR Flash |
3/10/2010 |
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Winbond Electronics is looking to raise prices for NOR flash memory by 5% to reflect tight capacity according to industry sources
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| Cisco unveils new CRS-3 routers |
3/10/2010 |
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Cisco Systems announced its next generation core router which can route 100 Gbit/second streams an throughput of up to 322 Terabits/second.
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