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| Google Profit and Revenue rise in Q1 |
4/17/2009 |
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Google grew its profit and revenue in the first quarter, ended March 31, despite a tough economic environment that is affecting online advertising spending, the company's main revenue engine.
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| Nanya Tech prepare to raise contract chip price |
4/17/2009 |
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Nanya Technology, Taiwan's No.2 DRAM maker, is in talks with clients to raise the contract price of its chips by 10 percent later this month, following a recent cut in production and recovering demand.
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| PC shipment fell less than expected in Q1 |
4/16/2009 |
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PC shipments declined less than expected in the first quarter, propped up by consumers' continuing interest in low-cost netbooks, IDC said in a report Wednesday.
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| Skype on iPhone now possible |
4/16/2009 |
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Skype recently released its free iPhone app to complement its free Skype-to-Skype VoIP calls. PC World's Liane Cassavoy gave Skype for iPhone a favorable review.
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| Apple to introduce new iPod Shuffle also |
4/15/2009 |
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The new version of the Shuffle includes 4 GBs of NAND flash memory, while the first edition of the second-generation model included only 1 GB, iSuppli said.
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| Challenges ahead for lithium vehicle batteries |
4/15/2009 |
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The design problem with lithium-battery packs is balancing performance, economics, and safety. The two key variables are the battery-cell design and the cell-management electronics.
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| Elpida stock rises on government support |
4/15/2009 |
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The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry told Taiwanese authorities on Tuesday that a plan is under way for the use of public funds to boost Elpida's capital once Japan's parliament passes in the current session a new public fund scheme for ailing companies, the NHK said.
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| Intel beats expectation, but failed to put guideline ahead |
4/15/2009 |
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Citing continued difficult economic conditions and limited visibility, Intel said it would not provide a second quarter revenue outlook. For internal purposes, Intel said it was planning for revenue to be approximately flat.
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| DRAM vendors trouble on 50nm migration |
4/14/2009 |
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From the preliminary estimation, it takes at least US$ 210 million to just upgrade the equipment in this single immersion production line in order to convert a 70 K monthly capacity to immersion technology. With other migration related cost, it might take US$ 100 million CAPEX.
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| New iPhone to impact global Nand supply |
4/14/2009 |
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''Our checks confirm that Apple placed orders for 100 million 8-Gb and 16-Gb NAND flash chips, mostly from Samsung, for the new iPhone launch in June,''
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| Japan to remove tariff on Hynix DRAM. |
4/13/2009 |
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Japan lowered its tariff on chips from Hynix from 27.2 percent in September, after a World Trade Organisation ruling in 2007 that Tokyo cut its duties on Hynix's dynamic random access memory chips.
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| New SandForce controller extends SSD endurance |
4/13/2009 |
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SandForce said the SF-1000 SSD processor series, with its DuraClass firmware, will address the endurance, reliability and data retention issues associated with MLC NAND flash memory. Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst at research firm IDC, said SandForce's new processor could be a major catalyst for increasing SSD adoption in the enterprise.
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| Micron turned down TMC offer with a new twist |
4/13/2009 |
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''Micron, Nanya and Inotera have decided not to join TMC as it has currently been structured,'' according to the companies. As reported, Micron recently acquired Qimonda AG's share in a joint DRAM venture with Nanya in Taiwan, dubbed Inotera Memories Inc.
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| Triple efficiency solar cell found |
4/13/2009 |
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By trapping light inside the nanoscale pores of thin-film solar cells coated with diatoms, the engineers claim that more incident photons are captured to boost electricity generation, thereby greatly increasing efficiency.
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| Micron said no interest to joint Taiwan Memory |
4/9/2009 |
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Micron Technology and Nanya Technology, along with their joint venture Inotera Memories, have announced that they will not participate in the formation of Taiwan Memory Company (TMC).
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