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| Microsoft chief kicks off CES pitching Windows 7 |
1/8/2009 |
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Kicking off CES 2009 Wednesday night in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer used his opening keynote address to pitch Windows 7 to an audience of PC fans still smarting from a less-than-satisfying experience with Windows Vista.
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| AMD to release 45nm Phenom II chip |
1/8/2009 |
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Advanced Micro Devices announced at the Consumer Electronics Show the second processor design to come out of its new 45nm process technology.
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| Intel 4th quarter sales fall short |
1/7/2009 |
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Intel Corp. says its fourth quarter 2008 revenue fell a hefty 20 percent on a sequential basis and 23 percent from the comparable year-ago period due to soft end-equipment demand and inventory correction actions taken by customers towards the end of the year.
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| Intel eyes stake in SMIC |
1/6/2009 |
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Foundry chip supplier Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. (Shanghai, China) is in discussions over the sale of a strategic stake in itself to the world's largest chip manufacturer Intel Corp., according to a Reuters report.
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| Global chip sales fell further |
1/5/2009 |
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Worldwide semiconductor sales fell in November, as the economic downturn continued to hammer chipmakers, industry figures showed.
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| Samsung might plan to raise DRAM prices, analyst said |
1/5/2009 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is mulling a plan to raise its DRAM prices, while Taiwan's suppliers have cut projection, according to an analyst. Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has also cut its DRAM production.
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| SSD to compete with HDD in 2009 |
1/2/2009 |
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"The oversupply of flash memory, which has hurt the semiconductor industry in 2008 will hurt the hard disc drive market in 2009."
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| Apple's new version iPhone to help components market |
1/2/2009 |
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Positive news for Apple PC chip suppliers like Intel Corp., Marvell Technology Group Ltd., LSI Corp. and Nvidia Corp., Berger wrote. The news is neutral for iPhone chip suppliers like Broadcom Corp., Marvel, Linear Technology Corp., National Semiconductor Corp., Triquint. Semiconductor Inc. and Skyworks Semiconductor Inc
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| Dell quietly reorganized |
1/2/2009 |
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As part of the reorg, two executives hired by Michael Dell to revitalize the company upon his return in 2007 will leave the company.
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| DRAM Exchange lowered 2009 NAND Flash projections |
12/31/2008 |
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DRAM Exchange attributed the revised growth rate to a significant decline in sales for devices that utilise NAND Flash chips. For example, 2009 shipments of mobile phones are expected to reach 1.16 billion units, which represents a 5.4 per cent decrease compared to 2008.
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| Actel loses president |
12/31/2008 |
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Anderson died unexpectedly on December 22 from medical complications following a recent hospitalization. He was 50 years old.
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| Executive changes at NXP |
12/31/2008 |
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Former Agere CEO, Richard L. Clemmer is taking over as president and chief executive officer of NXP Semiconductors.
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| Intel to introduce Student Notebook at CES |
12/31/2008 |
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Intel will debut at CES its so-called Learning Series of hardware, software and services for global education markets. The family includes a small notebook with a touch screen that folds into a tablet and is aimed at children.
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| HP to supply home server compatible to Mac and PC |
12/30/2008 |
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The servers will offer multimedia streaming, expandability, and ease-of-use that may take servers out of the realm of IT departments. It is a storage device to enable better home automation, and will serve as a central brain for a home network.
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| Counting back events on the DRAM industry |
12/30/2008 |
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After all, the global financial crisis once again pushed the DRAM industry into the frozen period, not only did the DDR2 1Gb eTT chip price fell once below its historical low 0.58 USD, the net cash outflow put the DRAM vendors in a devastating position.
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| 65nm cuts PS3 prices |
12/30/2008 |
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The second generation of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 gaming console features a new design and carries a bill of materials (BOM) that is 35 percent lower than the original model.
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| Google designs their own computer |
12/30/2008 |
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Google has not disclosed details of its motherboard design, but it did release a white paper calling for designs built on 12V-only power supplies. Besides such supplies, Google's design is said to use at least two full servers per board and remove many of the unneeded parts found in many mainstream server motherboards.
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| As scientist look into 22nm DRAM |
12/29/2008 |
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As the cell gets smaller, the transistor necessarily gets smaller. But scaling the cell transistor into the 32-nm realm requires very shallow junction depths. That, in turn, creates problems with both high source-drain resistivity and high junction leakage.
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| Defining a Green Corporate |
12/29/2008 |
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1. Be part of an industry-wide dialogue about environmental issues and strategies. 2. Make plain your corporate environmental goals and strive to achieve them. 3. Focus your energies on actions, not rhetoric.
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| WalMart sells iPhone at $197 |
12/29/2008 |
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Wal-Mart plans to sell the black 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G model, which holds about 2,000 songs, for $197. The 16-gigabyte model, in black or white, will be priced at $297.
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