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| IBM unveils chip with triple data storage |
2/14/2007 |
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IBM says it is developing new circuitry that could triple the data stored on a typical microprocessor, and thereby double the performance of computers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
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| 4GB microSD from Sandisk |
2/13/2007 |
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SanDisk has introduced a 4GB microSD High Capacity card for mobile phone that can store more than 1,000 digital songs or up to eight hours of MPEG 4 video, according to the company.
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| ST license AMD's graphic chips technology |
2/13/2007 |
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STMicroelectronics Inc. has announced a licensing agreement with Advanced Micro Devices Inc. to deliver next-generation graphics technology for mobile devices.
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| Sony to cut back on chip research |
2/13/2007 |
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Aiming to achieve better earnings, Sony Corp. will cut back on future chip spending and may not produce advanced chips used in its PlayStation 3 (PS3) in-house, a senior executive said.
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| Intel reveals teraflops-capable chip |
2/12/2007 |
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Intel said it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations per second, or deliver a performance of 1.01 teraflops.
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| TSMC, UMC January sales down |
2/12/2007 |
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Taiwanese foundry giants TSMC and UMC each reported this week that sales in January declined on both a year-to-year and sequential basis.
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| Prices cut on AMD dual-core CPUs |
2/12/2007 |
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AMD has cut prices on its mid- to high-end dual-core desktop CPUs, the Athlon 64 X2. AMD has cut prices on its lower-end desktop models its Opteron series server processors just weeks ago.
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| Court rules in favor of Broadcom |
2/12/2007 |
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Broadcom said today that a recent ruling by a US District Court clears the way for cellular handset makers Samsung and Panasonic to continue using Broadcom's chips in WCDMA-based handsets without the threat of patent infringement claims by Qualcomm Inc.
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| New PC market emerging in China |
2/9/2007 |
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Small businesses (with up to 99 employees) constitute a large proportion of the overall market in China, and comprise 93% of the China business universe. Yet, 67% of small businesses (SB) in China do not own any computers, representing a potential US$345 million market opportunity for PC vendors.
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| PC sales jumped on Vista introduction |
2/9/2007 |
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PC unit sales soared 173 percent at U.S. retail stores during the week ended February 3, compared with PC sales in the previous week, according to the report. Current Analysis also noted that during Vista's debut week PC unit sales rose 67 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
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| Intel to offer Pentium M based embedded processor |
2/9/2007 |
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Tolapai processor is intended for use in embedded systems and the industrial computer market and is being introduced to compete with the C7 and Geode processors from Via Technologies Inc. and Advance Micro Devices Inc. respectively.
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| DRAM prices on the fall |
2/9/2007 |
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Poor demand and seasonal factors prompted the DRAM crash, causing vendors to cut prices at an alarming rate. On the spot market, ASPs were down by an average of 4.8 percent across all densities for the week ended Feb. 2, standing at $4.90 on a 512-Mbit equivalent basis, according to Gartner Inc.
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| Quantum computer solves non-deterministic calculations |
2/9/2007 |
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Nondeterministic polynomial (NP) problems are the most difficult to solve on conventional computers because each variable adds yet another dimension to its possible solutions. Each must be calculated and compared to find an optimal solution.
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| Windows Mobile 6 can go open source |
2/9/2007 |
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A fully featured, fully open source mobile handset could help reduce the cost of mobile telecommunications and give users access to a rich set of low cost applications for texting, instant messaging and other uses.
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| Malwares roaming the World Wide Web |
2/8/2007 |
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Sophos detected 41,536 new pieces of malware in 2006. Of these threats, Trojans now outnumber Windows viruses and worms by four to one.
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| LCD production equipment: a fading game |
2/8/2007 |
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Array processing equipment for flat-panel displays dropped 11 percent in 2006 and will decrease another 14 percent in 2007, according to The Information Network, a New Tripoli, Penn.-based market research company.
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| Patches made as company recognise Vista incompatibility |
2/8/2007 |
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That includes not only iTunes but QuickTime, Airport For Windows, Bonjour For Windows, iDisk utility, and AppleWorks for Windows. All of those applications or utilities are listed by Apple as compatible with Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, but not Vista.
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| AMD brings out new low Power dual core |
2/8/2007 |
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The dual-core Opteron 1218 HE, 2218 HE and 8218 HE offer 68-watt maximum thermal design power versus the mainstream 95 watts, the company said. The new processors target companies looking to reduce the cost of power consumption and cooling in the datacenter.
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| Nvidia found compatibility issue with Vista |
2/8/2007 |
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Nvidia has acknowledged that its Vista drivers haven't performed as well as they should, and said in an e-mail on Wednesday that driver development for Vista is "the highest priority in our company."
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| WiFi/Blue Tooth to fill next round of handsets |
2/7/2007 |
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Handheld wireless systems featuring IEEE 802.11a/b/g (MAC, baseband and radio), support for Bluetooth 2.0 plus enhanced data rate (EDR) that is upgradeable to version 2.1 and an advanced FM receiver.
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| Samsung settles on DRAM price fixing case |
2/7/2007 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay $90 million to settle litigation brought by 41 U.S. states pertaining to Samsung's alleged participation in a global DRAM price-fixing conspiracy.
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| Freescale is paying off for equity investor |
2/6/2007 |
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Freescale Semiconductor, bought last year by a private equity consortium led by Blackstone, saw sales grow 9 percent to $6.36 billion in 2006 in a total semiconductor market that grew 8.9 percent.
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