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| Korean FTC fines Intel on anti-trust |
6/6/2008 |
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Intel offered rebates to South Korean PC makers including Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and Trigem Computer between 2002 and 2005 in return for not buying microprocessors from rival Advanced Micro Devices.
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| Notebooks at Computex |
6/5/2008 |
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Taiwan-based notebook makers, including Micro-Star International (MSI), Gigabyte Technology, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), Acer, GeCube, Dialogue Technology and Asustek Computer are showcasing several new notebooks at Computex 2008.
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| AMD introduce new Swift processor and chipset |
6/5/2008 |
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Known as the Turion X2 Ultra, the CPU runs at up to 2.4 GHz at an average 35W power consumption. It initially will appear in notebooks from Acer, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens, MSI, NEC and Toshiba.
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| Aptina to provide improved camera circuit |
6/5/2008 |
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"The Scalado-Aptina collaboration enables camera phones to deliver improved capturing, instant access to captured multi-megapixel images, unique user experience and JPEG handling performance"
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| Wafer supply growing to support solar cells |
6/4/2008 |
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By the end of this year, the new facility will produce approximately 9,000 metric tons of new polysilicon capacity, bringing the company’s annual capacity to approximately 19,000 metric tons.
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| SanDisk expects SSD to grow |
6/4/2008 |
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SanDisk plans to launch solid-state drives with 4-, 8-, and 16-gigabyte capacities for ultra-low cost PCs this year. Prices were not available.
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| Acer expects low price laptop boom |
6/4/2008 |
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"The notebook market is growing for at least the next two to three years, and with the entry of new mobile internet devices, the market can easily double in size, changing the profile of the industry dramatically,"
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| Intel's Atom fills Computex floor |
6/4/2008 |
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Some net-tops may cost as little as $200, said Erik Reid, director of mobile platforms at Intel. The new price points could drive as many as 100 million new users to the Web.
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| Seagate is going into SSD |
6/3/2008 |
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“While there is no competition now between hard drives and SSDs, Seagate is thinking of going to SSDs in the long term to replace hard drives for top-tier enterprises”
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| Mobile phone chip business slows down |
6/3/2008 |
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"Right now there's not a feature hanging out there that will drive a new wave of applications processors," said Jeff Brown, a principal analyst at Portelligent and author of the report.
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| DOD hands out engineering R&D projects |
6/3/2008 |
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The funds will be used to conduct "basic research in core science and engineering disciplines that underpin future DoD technology development,"
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| 32nm MLC promises low cost SSD |
6/2/2008 |
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Intel and Micron said the memory was designed with solid-state drives in mind in order to allow more cost-effective SSDs, and double the current storage volume of these devices
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| OLPC, out-of-the-traditional design and cost concept |
6/2/2008 |
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The OLPC effort helps change the way the industry thinks about how expensive a PC really needs to be. Surely there will be beneficiaries along the way, direct and indirect, even if the project never reaches its full set of philanthropic objectives.
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| Infineon possibilities: Freescale, NXP or ST? |
6/2/2008 |
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"One of the possibilities being floated around is a merger (of Infineon) with NXP. Another possibility is a wireless JV with Freescale. Also, these possibilities are not mutually exclusive either,"
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| Dell earnings beat estimates |
5/30/2008 |
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Dell Inc. posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit Thursday amid strong demand from consumers and foreign markets and lower operating costs.
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