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| Apple business booming this quarter |
8/26/2008 |
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IPhone 3G has become available in 20 more countries today and market watchers now believe that Apple will ship more than 5 million iPhone 3Gs this quarter. A record 3 million Macintosh are projected to be sold this quarter, fueled by the user experience of the iPhone 3G and back-to-school rebate programs.
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| Rumor: Micron to acquire Qimonda |
8/26/2008 |
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Despite of especially tough times for Qimonda, the benefits of acquisitions are clear to Micron: it will be able to control roughly 20% of the DRAM market and will get technologies necessary to produce high-margin GDDR and XDR memory for graphics cards, video game consoles and other products.
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| German automobile electronics to expand |
8/26/2008 |
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In order to differentiate themselves in the highly competitive market, automotive OEMs will roll out several new applications in the near future, Kumar said. Besides environmental and safety aspects, these applications will meet customers demand for comfort inside the vehicles at affordable prices.
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| ITC judge recommand bar SiRF GPS chips |
8/26/2008 |
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Judge Carl Charneski recommended that the ITC block the importation of all downstream products that incorporate those chips—such as personal navigation devices and cell phones
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| Siemens acquired software service company |
8/25/2008 |
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Siemens boasted that the deal makes its industry automation group the first industrial equipment provider able to offer all sectors of the manufacturing and process industries system-wide solutions for integrating the entire production sequence and production lifecycle.
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| Open source tools to get more popular |
8/25/2008 |
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Most commercial off-the-shelf board vendors now offer preconfigured open-source board-support packages for their products. For example, WinSystems provides a customized open-source-development kit with its off-the-shelf board-level products, which includes device-specific drivers, documentation, cables, and a quick-start guide
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| ProMos report 2nd Quarter smaller losses |
8/21/2008 |
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ProMOS Technologies announced that its losses in the second quarter have shrunk by about 30%, making it the most improved company among Taiwan's DRAM players in the quarter.
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| Intel unveils its own SSD Drive |
8/20/2008 |
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Intel have launched a family of solid-state drives claiming significant performance advances over its many competitors.
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| Hynix unveiled 16GB DDR3 DIMM at IDF |
8/20/2008 |
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Hynix announced that it is using MetaRAM's new DDR3 technology in its next generation R-DIMMs, including the world's first 16GB 2-rank DIMM Memory.
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| SIS to postpone spin-off till next year |
8/19/2008 |
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has announced it will postpone the planned spin-off of three subsidiaries from the original schedule of September 1 this year to January 1 next year.
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| IBM unveils 22-nm SRAM Memory |
8/19/2008 |
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IBM and its development partners have claimed their first working SRAM cell implemented in a 22-nm manufacturing process. The SRAM cell was built at its 300-mm fab in Albany, New York.
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| Toshiba unveils 32GB embedded NAND flash |
8/18/2008 |
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Toshiba announced the launch of the 32GB embedded NAND flash memory modules that are thelargest density yet announced, with the modules also having full compliance with the e-MMC and eSD standards.
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