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| Rambus cut sales guidance |
12/20/2007 |
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Rambus lowered its Q4 revenue guidance of $45 million to $50 million to $40 million, citing open contract negotiations.
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| Semi capex to fall next year, report says |
12/20/2007 |
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Gartner Inc. has once again lowered its capital spending forecasts for 2008. Capital spending and the fab equipment markets are expected to decline next year.
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| Best Buy delivers impressive earnings |
12/19/2007 |
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Best Buy, the No. 1 electronics retailer, posted much better-than-expected third-quarter profit and sales Tuesday, which it attributed to an extra sales reporting week last month and new store openings.
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| Gateway CEO to leave |
12/18/2007 |
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Acer announced that Gateway CEO, Ed Coleman, has decided to leave the company at the end of January 2008.
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| Intel to upgrade dual-core mobile platform |
12/18/2007 |
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Intel said it plans to ship next month an upgrade of its dual-core mobile platform that's based on the company's next-generation 45-nanometer manufacturing process.
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| Micron unveil 68nm DDR2 chip |
12/17/2007 |
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Micron Technology announced production sampling of its 1 gigabit DDR2 device fabricated on 68 nm DRAM process technology.
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| Intel to delay X48 Chipset |
12/17/2007 |
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Intel may delay the X48 chipset launch by 2 months because motherboard makers are still holding a large volume of X38 chipset inventory.
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| India PC shipment up 20% in Q3 |
12/14/2007 |
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PC shipments in India reached over 2.2 million units in the third quarter of 2007. An increase of 19.7 per cent over the same period in 2006, according to Gartner.
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| SunPower Corp. to buy distributor/system integrator in Italy |
12/14/2007 |
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Solar Solutions is a 14-person division of Combigas, a petroleum products trading firm, and distributes components such as solar panels and inverters, and offers turnkey solar power systems and standard system kits through dealers in Italy.
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| ITC judge ruled in favor of Nokia |
12/14/2007 |
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Administrative Law Judge Paul J. Luckern ruled that GSM/GPRS/Edge handsets manufactured by Nokia don't infringe on three Qualcomm patents. Qualcomm noted that the ruling didn't address Qualcomm's WCDMA patents.
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| AMD Puts 8-core on their Roadmap |
12/14/2007 |
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The product roadmap included plans for an eight-core server processor, codenamed Montreal, in 2009. The new product would be introduced along with the company's first server platform, codenamed Piranha. The platform would feature HyperTransport 3.0 and DDR3 memory technology.
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| Digital convergence promises to reshape industry and world |
12/13/2007 |
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Digital convergence promises to reshape the entire electronics industry. The shift will be characterized by lower power consumption, higher processing capacity, greater functionality, interoperability and wireless access to information from myriad sources along with rapid introduction of new products.
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| Attentions are on future server power consumption |
12/13/2007 |
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In total, electricity to power computer servers and related infrastructure worldwide reached 123 billion kWh in 2005, which is equivalent to fourteen 1,000-megawatt power plants, or 14 typical nuclear or coal-burning plants
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| SSD standard in the forming |
12/12/2007 |
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Taiwan manufacturers in the NAND flash industry are probing the possibility of forming a solid state drive (SSD) alliance to work towards setting worldwide standards for a device promising to replace the hard disk drive (HDD) as the market mainstream.
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| DRAM market at below cost level |
12/12/2007 |
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Samsung and Hynix in combination own nearly 50% of the global DRAM market, once they or other DRAM makers decide to reduce production, we will then see a chance for DRAM market to reach a balance between supply and demand next year
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| TSMC has 32nm technology not based on high-k |
12/12/2007 |
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TSMC calling attention to the fact that this is the first 32 nm low-power technology that did not have to resort to high-k gate dielectric and metal gates to achieve its performance characteristics.
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| AMD's disclosed bug on Barcelona |
12/12/2007 |
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A chip-level bug, or errata, that affected both the quad-core Opterons and AMD's recently released quad-core Phenom desktop processors was "part of the reason" for the sluggish ramp-up, said Phil Hughes of AMD Global Communications.
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