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| Samsung unveils new Laptop for US Market |
10/20/2008 |
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Samsung has announced its entrance in the US notebook market with a product lineup including notebooks in four categories – premium thin and light, all purpose, business, and desktop replacement, and the netbook segment.
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| Nokia Q3 profit, market share drop |
10/17/2008 |
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Nokia Corp., the world's largest cell phone maker, lost market share in the third quarter as profits dropped 30 percent because of falling sales and lower prices on the handsets.
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| Spansion, ASE form IC packaging joint venture |
10/17/2008 |
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Spansion and Taiwan's Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (ASE) have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a venture to jointly own Spansion's IC-assembly operations in Suzhou, China.
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| Google immune to economic downturn |
10/17/2008 |
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Google reported third-quarter 2008 revenue of $5.54 billion, a 31% increase compared with its third quarter in 2007 and a 3% increase compared with the $5.37 billion the company reported for its second quarter of 2008.
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| AMD posts loss, beats estimates |
10/17/2008 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. posted a net loss of $67 million, or 11 cents per share, for the third quarter, the company said Thursday, an improvement from the $396 million loss that the company posted in the same period of 2007.
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| Intel introduces enterprise server SSD |
10/16/2008 |
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Intel started shipping its 32-GB solid-state drives for servers, workstations, and storage systems. The X25E Extreme SATA SSD features Intel's 50-nanometer single-level cell NAND flash memory technology, which delivers 35,000 read input/output operations per second and 3,300 write IOPS, according to Intel. The read latency is 75 microseconds.
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| Altera delivers upbeat earnings |
10/15/2008 |
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Altera Corp. said third-quarter profit climbed 37 percent, topping Wall Street targets and sending its shares up nearly 9 percent.
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| Maxim acquired video compression chip maker |
10/15/2008 |
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Analog chip maker Maxim Integrated Products Inc. has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Mobilygen Inc., a developer of H.264 video compression chips.
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| Intel profits jump, uncertain about 4th quarter |
10/15/2008 |
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Intel said profits rose 12% in the third quarter because of higher margins and lower expenses, but the chipmaker said it was uncertain of the impact the global financial crisis would have on the rest of the year.
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| Global technology spending slowing down |
10/14/2008 |
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Gartner Inc. sharply cut its forecast for global technology spending next year, seeing a drop in spending in Western Europe and a slim rise in the United States.
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| HP to setup second PC production in China |
10/13/2008 |
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Aiming to raise its profile in the growing Chinese market, Hewlett-Packard said that it will open a second manufacturing plant in that country, to be located in the west China city of Chongqing.
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| Fabless market's growth slowing down |
10/13/2008 |
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Fabless semiconductor company revenue totaled $13.9 billion in the second quarter of 2008, rising 4 percent quarter-over-quarter and 9 percent year-over-year
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| Qimonda set for restructuring |
10/13/2008 |
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Qimonda will change its product focus, reduce capacities and shut down production lines. About 3000 jobs in Germany and the U.S will be cut.
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| Micron takes over Qimonda's Inotera stake |
10/13/2008 |
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Qimonda AG announced that it has reached an agreement with Micron Technology, Inc. to sell its 35.6 percent stake in Inotera Memories Inc., its joint venture with Nanya Technology Corporation, to Micron.
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| Electric fuel charger boost mileage by 20% |
10/10/2008 |
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Recently completed six months of road testing with a diesel-powered Mercedes-Benz. The tests increased fuel efficiency from 32 to 38 MPG on highways (a 20 percent boost) and a 12 to 15 percent gain in city-driving mileage. The researchers claim the device could also be adapted to gasoline, biodiesel and kerosene.
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| Turn your lights into network connection |
10/10/2008 |
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The initiative seeks to use visible light beams for communications between wireless devices and LED-based lighting fixtures. The LED-based scheme could also be used to communicate between automobiles that are increasingly using LEDs. The overall goal is to build new communications capbilities into all LED lights while alleviating congestion in current RF bands.
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