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| TI to build Kilby Labs for innovations |
9/15/2008 |
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The facility aims to bring university researchers and leading TI engineers together to discover and develop life-changing opportunities for semiconductor technology, ranging from new ways to make health care more mobile to harnessing new power sources to enabling more fuel-efficient vehicles
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| New network algorithm to reduce power usage |
9/15/2008 |
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The company's Cypress system finds and eliminates duplicated files as it reads them, compresses what is left and keeps disks in a low power state when not needed. The result is a network-attached storage device that consumes an estimated 80 percent less power than its competitors,
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| NXP restructure, 4500 affected |
9/15/2008 |
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Frans van Houten, president and CEO of NXP (Eindhoven, Netherlands) told a teleconference that "redundancies are inevitable" with the biggest impact coming in the Netherlands, Germany, France and the United States.
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| Embedded SD Card to hit market soon |
9/12/2008 |
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SD Card Assiciation announced it will enter the embedded storage market in November, and it rolled out a standard for these storage devices Thursday.
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| 32GB CompactFlash Card from Sandisk |
9/12/2008 |
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SanDisk unveiled a 32-GB CompactFlash card, the company's largest CF storage device for professional digital photographers and videographers.
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| Micron to lower 2009 capital spending |
9/12/2008 |
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Micron Technology Inc. has quietly lowered its capital spending and is re-thinking the spin-off of its CMOS image sensor unit, according to an analyst.
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| Gartner cut 2008 chip forecast shipment |
9/12/2008 |
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Market research firm Gartner Inc. has revised its 2008 and 2009 semiconductor forecasts downward, saying macroeconomic trends, the collapse of the NAND flash memory market
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| Apple hit 4th place in notebook market ranking |
9/11/2008 |
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Apple has risen to fourth place in the home notebook PC market, driven by its success at attracting younger, more highly educated, and higher-income households, as well as the self-employed, a research firm said.
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| MEMS chip could prevent automobile accidents |
9/11/2008 |
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High aspect ratio microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) could harness the physics of inertial mass to enhance the sensitivity, signal-to-noise ratio and mechanical dampening of accelerometers for automobile airbags.
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| Elpida, Powerchip to reduce DRAM output |
9/10/2008 |
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Elpida Memory Inc. and its Taiwan partner, Powerchip Semiconductor Corp., have cut their production rates amid a downturn in the sector, according to reports.
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| HP annoucned 24 hours battery for notebook |
9/10/2008 |
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Hewlett-Packard launched a notebook configuration that the company claimed would provide 24 hours of battery runtime, beating claims by rivalDell by about five hours.
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| Intel goes green on Xeon chips |
9/9/2008 |
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Intel rolled out four halogen-free 45-nm Xeon processors and said all previously launched versions of the Xeon 5200 and 5400 series will now be halogen-free.
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| National Semi net earnings down |
9/8/2008 |
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National Semiconductor reported sales for its fiscal Q1 2009 ended August 24 of $466 million, up 1% from fiscal Q4 and down 1% from fiscal Q1, while fiscal Q1 net income dropped to $80 million, or 33 cents per share, from net income in fiscal Q4 of $83 million, or 34 cents per share.
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| TSMC reportedly see slower 4th quarter |
9/8/2008 |
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Leading foundry chip vendor TSMC is seeing orders down substantially in the fourth quarter, according to Tristan Gerra, an analyst with financial management company Robert W. Baird & Co..
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| AMD to launch Low Power Desktop CPU |
9/5/2008 |
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AMD is planning to launch two low-power desktop CPUs – Athlon 2650e and Athlon X2 3250e – under its Ultra-Value Client product line targeting OEMs in November.
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| Dell unveils Inspiron Mini netbook |
9/5/2008 |
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Dell has officially unveiled its Inspiron Mini 9 netbook,the Mini 9 series starts at a weight of 2.28lbs with a 8.9-inch (1024×600) glossy LED display.
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