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| Chartered invests in design house |
6/10/2008 |
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Pte. Ltd. has made an investment in Socle Technology Corp., a Taiwan-based design services company.
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| Faster, cheaper iPhone |
6/10/2008 |
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The first phone had a bill of materials estimated at $170 at launch, but the iPhone 3G could have a BOM as low as $100 when it debuts July 11
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| Sandisk acquired MusicGremlin |
6/10/2008 |
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SanDisk Corp. has acquired MusicGremlin Inc., a company that develops digital content distribution technologies.
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| TI lowers Q2 revenue forecast |
6/10/2008 |
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Texas Instruments Inc. narrowed a quarterly earnings and revenue target range it issued in April because of caution among its chip customers and weak demand for high-end phones.
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| Q-Cells to build plant in Mexico |
6/9/2008 |
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Germany's Q-Cells, the world's largest solar cell maker, will invest up to $3.5 billion in a new production plant in Mexico, a senior executive said last week.
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| SSD and ultra-notebook to save Nand industry? |
6/6/2008 |
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But for next year, as SSD is certain to replace traditional HDD in low-cost PC market, along with the popularization of low-cost PCs, the oversupply NAND industry will find a new solution.
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| Adata to pick up shares of Apacer |
6/6/2008 |
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Acer plans to release its approximate 30% stake in memory module maker Apacer Technology soon, with fellow memory maker A-Data Technology likely to be the potential buyer for the freed-up shares.
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| Spansion to dismiss 500 |
6/6/2008 |
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The move includes planned consolidations, attrition, and a reduction in regular, contract and temporary workers in manufacturing, engineering, management, and administrative support functions.
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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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