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| Microsoft to buy Fash Search & Transfer |
1/8/2008 |
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Microsoft Corp has offered to buy Fast Search & Transfer, a Norwegian Internet-search software firm, for about $1.2 billion, the companies said on Tuesday.
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| Gate took center stage at CES |
1/7/2008 |
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Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates took center stage at the world's largest technology show for the last time on Sunday and predicted that his industry was on the cusp of the next "digital decade."
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| AMD forth R&D lab in India |
1/7/2008 |
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AMD Inc. has announced the opening of a fourth R&D center in Hyderabad, India. The new center will focus on next-generation graphics and computing solutions, the company said.
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| Patriot to setup own module production in Taiwan |
1/4/2008 |
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Initial plans for the plant involve an investment of NT$100 million (US$3.08 million) to set up two production lines, the company said. Patriot, which set up a branch office in Taiwan in 2004, has outsourced most of its production for DRAM modules and NAND flash products.
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| NAND flash price pressure has lessened |
1/4/2008 |
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Customers from China are more active in purchasing as those from Europe and the US are experiencing a slow season. Demand trends in China will determine the price trend, rather than procurement by Apple.
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| 3D TV a reality now |
1/4/2008 |
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A researcher from Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (Cambridge Mass.) explains a complete real-time three-dimensional television capture and display system. See U-Tube video!
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| Hitachi's power saving 500GB mobile drive |
1/4/2008 |
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Consumers tend to think of their notebooks as less of a pure technology tool and more of a mobile entertainment devices. Notebooks are now starting to ship with wide, high definition screens and large, high quality speakers for playing digital audio and video.
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| Mobile navigation converging to cell phone |
1/3/2008 |
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It estimates that navigation-enabled mobile phones will start outselling dedicated PNDs next year, with the combined segments reaching annual sales of more than 220 million by the end of 2012.
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| Motorola provides mobile video player |
1/3/2008 |
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Mobile TV, which is in the early stages of development, joins Web surfing and music as an emerging wireless feature expected to boost service revenue as mobile calling prices fall.
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| FCC modified rules on analog TV phase out |
1/3/2008 |
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The FCC announced changes on New Year's Eve. Under the new rules, broadcasters would be allowed to phase out or end their analog signals before the Feb. 17, 2009, deadline.
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| Electronics market flat in November |
1/2/2008 |
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Chipmakers' stocks have been under pressure for months, as investors fret that a potential U.S. recession in 2008 could cause consumers to stop buying electronics products.
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| MEMS microprojector to use single mirror |
1/2/2008 |
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"TI's DLP dedicates a separate mirror to each pixel, requiring a million micro-mirrors for a million-pixel display. Instead, we use a single mirror to create all the pixels--enabling our device to be much, much smaller and less expensive."
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| Solar cell break-through with nanotechnology |
1/2/2008 |
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While Professor Zaban's earlier efforts produced photovoltaic cells one square centimeter in size, he has now achieved a cell measuring 10 centimeters by 10 centimeters, which he claimed would boost the technique's usefulness in producing commercial amounts of solar power.
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| Digital TV to take hold in new year |
1/2/2008 |
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CEA President Gary Shapiro said in a statement that the group expects pricier high-definition sets to account for 79 percent of total DTV shipments in the U.S. in 2008.
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| Samsung to launch 14 new Digital Camera |
12/28/2007 |
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Samsung will launch 14 new digital cameras in Taiwan in 2008, aiming to hike its market share from 4-5% in 2007 to 12% to become one of the top three vendors
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| SMIC license IBM 45nm process |
12/28/2007 |
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Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) and IBM announced that they have signed an agreement to license IBM's 45nm bulk CMOS technology to SMIC for 12-inch wafer foundry service.
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| AMD to phase out Athlon X2 CPU |
12/27/2007 |
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AMD plans to phase-out several of its Athlon 64 X2 CPUs, while the Athlon brand name will be reposition for the coming dual-core CPUs based on the K10 core.
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