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| Intel to target 11nm with EUV |
2/22/2010 |
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At 11-nm, Intel reiterated its concept of a ''complementary'' or mix-and-match strategy, in which 193-nm immersion could work hand-in-hand with EUV or maskless lithography to enable advanced chip designs.
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| Caltech discovered low cost/high efficiency solar cell |
2/22/2010 |
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Solar cells based on the technique could potentially be very inexpensive to manufacture since only 2 percent of the materials are expensive semiconductors while the remainder is made from inexpensive plastic.
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| LED backlight price continues to fall |
2/19/2010 |
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LED backlight costs are falling faster than conventional LCD backlights, with LED backlight unit for 40 inch full HD LCD TVs to reach USD 100 in Q4 2010.
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| MIT researcher develop energy-harvesting systems |
2/19/2010 |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) researchers have develop an energy-harvesting systems that could replace batteries in electronic devices that need to work for long periods of time.
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| AT & T to offer Android Phone |
2/18/2010 |
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AT&T set a March 7 release date for the Motorola Backflip, which will become the first Android-powered smartphone to run on AT&T's 3G network.
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| Silicon revenues declined 41% in 2009 |
2/16/2010 |
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Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments hit rock bottom in the first quarter of 2009, but a strong recovery was noted in each subsequent quarter of 2009
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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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