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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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| Elpida in talk to acquire PSC and ProMos |
12/29/2008 |
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The talks between Elpida and ProMOS would be a major surprise. ProMOS is working with DRAM rival Hynix Semiconductor Inc. Korea's Hynix also invested in ProMOS. At the same time, Micron Technology Inc. is also reportedly working with ProMOS.
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| Hynix To Cut Spending On Its Fab |
12/26/2008 |
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Hynix plans to cut spending on a South Korean fab and will delay a $260 million investment in its Chinese joint venture with Numonyx B.V.
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| Micron post signifcant loss |
12/26/2008 |
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Micron has posted a net loss of US$706 million ,on net sales of US$1.4 billion for the company's first quarter of fiscal 2009.
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| Taiwan Goverment May Bail Out DRAM Makers |
12/23/2008 |
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Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) has reportedly drafted about NT$200 billion (US$6.50 billion) to be used in a bailout of the island's fragile DRAM industry, according to sources close to the deal
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| Intel shipping 160GB SSD Drives |
12/22/2008 |
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Intel is now shipping a 160GB version of its solid state SATA drives for mainstream laptops and is preparing to launch a different version for ultraportable notebooks in January 2009.
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| MicroSoft release new IE patch |
12/22/2008 |
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Microsoft issued an emergency patch for Internet Explorer vulnerability that has opened the door for hackers to install malware on susceptible computers without any user intervention.
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| Foxconn Plans To Cut Thousands Of Jobs |
12/22/2008 |
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Foxconn Electronics's chairman Terry Gou has said that the economic crisis is three times worse than expected and that Foxconn will have to issue more layoffs in order to reduce the company's operating costs.
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| Spansion complaint against Samsung under investigation |
12/19/2008 |
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to investigate a complaint by flash memory specialist Spansion Inc. against some flash memory chips made by South Korean giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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| The trio develop "smallest" functional SRAM cell |
12/18/2008 |
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Toshiba, IBM and AMD have developed what they says is the smallest functional SRAM cell that makes use of FinFETs. The trio outlined details of the cell at this week's International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
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