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| Apple ships notebook with Intel chip |
2/15/2006 |
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The first portable computers with Intel Corp. chips was shipped this week, after announcing last year it would switch from IBM chips, Apple Computer said.
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| DRAM sales declined in 2005 |
2/13/2006 |
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Worldwide DRAM revenues declined 5 percent in 2005 to $25 billion, down from $26.3 billion in 2004, according to Gartner Dataquest.
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| Technology export control killed Transmeta deal |
2/10/2006 |
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After several meetings with U.S. government officials, Transmeta and Culturecom mutually concluded that the necessary technology export control approvals could not be obtained for these two agreements within the timeframe.
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| Remarkable Nand profit elevates manuafacturer value |
2/10/2006 |
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Top suppliers Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. all reported enviable profits. The NAND businesses of these three companies collectively generated more than $6 billion in operating profits in 2005.
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| Micron promote CTO to COO position |
2/10/2006 |
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“Micron’s products, customers and the solutions we enable have evolved to a point where changing parts of our organization will continue to increase our presence and competitiveness in the global marketplace ,” Appleton said in a statement.
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| Korean FTC raided Intel office |
2/10/2006 |
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The commission's raids are part of an investigation into Intel's business dealings with four South Korean PC makers. That investigation began last summer.
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| IBM to ship blade server with Cell processor in Q3 |
2/9/2006 |
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The company said its new blade server would be part of a new family of blade servers called BladeCenter H and enable computing systems to transmit data 10 times faster than previously possible across corporate networks.
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| AMD sponsored study found government bias on MPU purchase |
2/9/2006 |
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The report found that approximately 69 percent of the applicable government solicitations for computer systems and technology in 2004 contained language that either required specific brand-name microprocessors or specified that the processor should be equivalent to a particular brand microprocessor.
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| Spansion regained market lead on NOR |
2/9/2006 |
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Spansion in the fourth quarter reported flash-memory revenue of $601 million, compared to Intel’s total of $600 million, according to iSuppli. STMicroelectronics Inc. was third with $335 million in NOR sales in the period, according to iSuppli.
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| AMD to leverage on I/O vertualization |
2/8/2006 |
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"Virtualization helps customers overcome the physical boundaries and underused capacity of IT systems, and is a key stepping stone for customers to increase operational efficiency and become more dynamic and responsive to business needs,"
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| TI/MIT claimed 0.4V lowest power SRAM |
2/8/2006 |
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The 0.4-volt, sub-threshold SRAM achieves 2.25 times lower leakage power, as compared to its six-transistor counterpart at 0.6 volts, according to TI and MIT. The SRAM also claims to incorporate 10 transistors per bitcell to enable operations down to 400-mV.
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| TV industry poised to expand |
2/8/2006 |
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South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. expects its strength in flat screen TVs to propel it to TV sales of $10 billion by 2010.
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| National Semi praises Bush's hi-tech policy |
2/8/2006 |
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Halla said that he is encouraged by the recent State of the Union speech by President George W. Bush in which he pledged to double R&D funding, boost funding for math and science education and seek more liberal immigration policies for high-tech workers.
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