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| Blockbuster made offer to buy Circuit City |
4/14/2008 |
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Blockbuster, the No. 1 U.S. movie rental chain, on Monday said it has offered to buy electronics retailer Circuit City Stores for about $1 billion to $1.3 billion in cash
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| NAND flash prices up slightly |
4/14/2008 |
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''MLC NAND prices have been moving up as well as with spot pricing for 8-Gbit MLC strengthening about 8 percent over the past couple days alone. 8-Gbit SLC has stayed pretty stable
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| AMD CTO to resign |
4/14/2008 |
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AMD said Friday that senior VP and chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. Hester is the third senior executive to leave AMD in less than a year.
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| Bribery allegations may cause Samsung chairman his job |
4/14/2008 |
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Samsung group chairman Lee Kun-hee is expected to step down after a second round of questioning by an independent counsel investigating allegations of bribery at the Seoul, South Korea-based consumer electronics giant, according to reports.
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| Ramtron unveil 2-Mbit FRAM |
4/11/2008 |
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Ramtron has released the industry's first 2-Mb serial F-RAM memory in an 8-lead TDFN package.
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| Micron unveils 4 GB DDR3 DIMM module |
4/10/2008 |
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Micron announced that it is sampling 4 gigabyte (GB) DDR3 modules, designed using 2 gigabit (Gb) components, to provide the industry’s highest density DDR3 modules for notebook computers.
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| VIA and SIS may skip Computex |
4/9/2008 |
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Chipset makers VIA Technologies and Silicon Integrated System (SiS) have decided not to participate in Computex 2008.
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| Intel delays P45 chipset |
4/4/2008 |
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The delay of the chipset is due to problems over compatibility between the chipset's PCI Express x16 port and graphics cards, noted the sources, adding that Intel has notified them that the problem should be solved and ready to launch 2-4 weeks.
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| Intel to use Atom on low cost notebook |
4/4/2008 |
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Future Classmate PCs will be built with the Intel Atom processor because it is an energy-efficient, low-cost computer chip designed to provide wireless capability to small mobile computing devices such as netbooks. Atom processors range from 800 MHz to 1.86 GHz in speed.
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| Hynix licensed technology for future NVM process |
4/4/2008 |
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While existing memory technologies can be difficult to manufacture beyond the 40-nm process node, STT-RAM has shown excellent scalability with shrinking design rules, translating to greater density and, ultimately, lower cost per die.
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| Patent reform coming up on docket |
4/4/2008 |
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Bills are aimed in part at curbing a flood of patent litigation by limiting damages and the over-use of so called "rocket dockets," courts such as the Eastern District of Texas that tend to quickly set trail dates for patent suits.
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| LCD backlight TV delayed due to cost |
4/3/2008 |
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Despite a lot of interest in LED backlight units (BLU), "the reality is that the cost is 2 to 2.5X that of a cold-cathode fluorescent (CCFL) BLU," traditionally used in LCD TVs
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