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Friday, November 30, 2012
Apple iPhone 5: Widely Available at Last – Analyst.
Leading U.S. Operators Show 90% Availability for Apple iPhone 5
59% of Laptops to Feature Quad-Core Chips in Four Years
Microsoft Mulls Unveiling Xbox Next at E3 2013 or at Dedicated Event – Report
Khronos Group Publishes Updated OpenCL 1.2 Spec
Voodoo PC Founder Upset About HP’s Usage of “Envy” Brand
Scythe Set to Continue Making Legendary Coolers
AMD Does Not Expect x86 Architecture to Extinct for Several More Decades
Thursday, November 29, 2012
TSMC Breaks Ground to Build 16nm FinFET Fab.
TSMC Begins to Build Fab 14 Phase 6 Fab, Reveals Plans for Phase 7 Factory
Sony’s XBR-84X900 4K UHDTV for $25 000 Starts to Ship
Sapphire Brings VaporX Cooling Technology to Central Processing Units
Microsoft to Sell Surface Business Tablet Starting at $899
Sales of Nintendo Wii U Considerably Behind Both Rivals on Thanksgiving Week
Scythe USA Falls Victim of Economic Crisis
Nintendo Wii U: Triple-Core PowerPC 750 CPU, 550MHz AMD Evergreen GPU
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Nokia Demands to Stop Sales of RIM’s Blackberry Phones.
Nokia Wants to Forbid Sales of Wi-Fi-Enabled Smartphones from RIM
Nvidia GK110-Based Compute Cards Available for Purchase at $3200 - $4000
Researchers Create Flexible Low-Voltage Circuits of Nanocrystals
First Nintendo Wii Mini Details Emerge as Pre-Order Begins
Toshiba Expands Portfolio of Enterprise HDDs with New 1TB, 2TB, 3TB and 4TB Models
Microsoft Windows Phone May Become World’s No. 3 Mobile OS This Quarter
Sharp Set to Release 4K IGZO Display for Japanese Market
AMD Hopes to Demonstrate Next-Generation Ultra Low-Power APUs at CES
Nintendo Awaits Microsoft’s and Sony’s Response to Wii U
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Apple and AMD May Offer Radeon HD 7000-Series for Macintosh.
Apple Drivers Now Support AMD Radeon HD 7000 GPUs
MediaTek Reportedly Preps Leading-Edge Multi-Core Mobile Chip with Up to Eight Cores
Microsoft Xbox 360 Remains Most Popular Game Console in the U.S.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Help Amazon to Boost Kindle and Kindle Fire Sales
AMD to Sell Austin, Texas Campus to Raise Cash
Ericsson Sues Samsung After Refusal to Prolong License
BitMicro Introduces Architecture for High-End Enterprise SSDs
Microsoft Shares First Windows 8 Sales Results
Promising Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sales May Point to Successful Holiday Season
OCZ Unleashes Vector Series Solid-State Drives with Indilinx Barefoot 3 Controller
Monday, November 26, 2012
Apple to Begin Shipping New iMac 21.5” This Friday, Delay 27” Version to December.
Apple Clarifies Availability of New iMac All-In-One PCs
Nolan Bushnell “Baffled by” Nintendo Wii U
Nintendo Readies Small Form-Factor Wii Console
Shipments of Samsung Galaxy Note II Exceed Five Million Units
Nintendo Sells 400 Thousand Wii U Consoles in First Week
Friday, November 23, 2012
Smartphones Set to Overtake Feature Phones in Flash Memory Consumption Next Year.
Feature Phones Remain Relevant, But Smartphones are on Offensive
Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deal with Apple and Massive Discounts
120GB SSDs with 550MB/s Read Speed Cost Less Than $100
Affordable Media Tablets Get Dual-Core Processors, Android 4.0 OS
Thursday, November 22, 2012
AMD’s Steamroller High-Performance Core Slips to 2014, Excavator May Face Delays.
AMD May Be Reconsidering High-Performance x86 CPU Cores Roadmap
Nokia Lumia 920 Is Selling Better than Expected – Analyst
PowerColor, Club3D Reveal Special Editions of Radeon HD 7870 Graphics Cards
Consumers to Get Google Glass in 2014 – Time Magazine
Motorola Launches MT788 Smartphone with 2GHz Processor for Chins
Microsoft to Release Xbox STB Alongside Xbox Next – Report
Nintendo Wii U Very Close to Break Even Point – President of Nintendo of America
Post-Haswell Chips to Feature BGA Packaging, Set to Be Sold with Mainboards
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
TSMC Rumoured to Build Semiconductor Manufacturing Facility in the U.S.
TSMC May Build Large Fab in the U.S. to Compete for Fabless Clients like Apple
Microsoft Game Studios Sees Major Expansion of Competitors
Starting Black Friday, Tablets to Outsell Notebooks
Two Independent Thunderbolt Ports to Enable 4K HDTV Output
4A Games Debunks Nintendo Wii U’s Multi-Core IBM Power Processor
OCZ Technology Receives Inquiry From SEC
Apple’s Platforms Could Finally Compete with Windows Head-to-Head - Analyst
Nintendo No Longer Develops Games for Wii
Ceva Proposes to Acquire MIPS Technologies for $75 Million
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Hewlett-Packard: Share of x86 Mission-Critical Servers Up, Sales of Itanium-Based Systems Down.
Sales of Business-Critical Servers Slightly Up at Hewlett-Packard
HTC “Happy” with Apple Settlement, Does Not Have to Pay $6 - $8 per Handset
Lack of Speedy Innovation Calls Fujitsu and Oracle to Discuss Already Known Chips at ISSCC
Samsung to Unveil Ultimate Chip for Smartphones and Tablets at ISSCC 2013
Microsoft Windows 8 May Become the Next Vista
Memoright QuadLife MLC SSDs Feature Four Times the Average Endurance
Partners of Intel Want the Company to Continue with Ultra Low-Power Chips
UMC Replaces Chief Executive Officer with 300mm Production Specialist
Western Digital Introduces 4TB WD Black Hard Disk Drive
Monday, November 19, 2012
Intel’s Slow Progress on Ultra-Mobile Market Led to Early Retirement of CEO – Analysts.
Financial Analysts Consider Reasons for Paul Otellini’s Early Retirement
Intel Licenses Patents, Acquires Engineering Resources from Creative
AMD to Take Further Restructuring Actions in the First Half of 2013
BSC Selects Samsung Exynos Processor Over Nvidia Tegra
Crucial Releases Low-Profile DDR3 Memory Modules
Intel’s Paul Otellini to Retire in May
AMD to Launch New High-Performance Radeon HD 7800 GPU
Imagination Unveils Six-Cluster PowerVR6 Graphics Core
Friday, November 16, 2012
WD Debuts New-Generation My Net Draft 802.11ac My Net Wireless Router and Bridge.
WD Introduces Dual-Band 450Mb/s + 1300Mb/s 802.11ac Wireless Router and Bridge
Sony Preps Flagship High-End Smartphones to Fight Iconic iPhone and Galaxy S
HP Launches ProLiant SL4500 Server Technology for Big Data Applications
After Six Years on the Market, Sales of PS3 Nearly Match Sales of Xbox 360
Wire-Free Dream Closer with Renewed WiGig VESA Collaboration
Intel Develops Atom “Briarwood” SoCs for Storage Applications
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Apple May Be Unable to Fulfill Demand for New iMacs This Quarter.
Certain New Apple iMac Shipments May Be Delayed to 2013
HP Does Not Considers Microsoft Surface a Competitor, Has No Immediate Plans for Consumer Tablets
Chief Executive of Ubisoft Glad to See Wii U Launching, But Would Prefer Lower Price of Console
AMD’s FirePro S10000 Accelerator Speeds Up Saudi Arabian Supercomputer
OnLive Game Service Now Available on LG G2-Series HDTVs
Samsung May Start Mass Producing Bendable Smartphones Next Year
4GB DDR3 Memory Module Now Costs $15.5 per Unit on Average
Kingston SSDNow V300 Series Provides 450MB/s Read and Write Speeds at Low-Cost
Texas Instruments Officially Refocuses OMAP Division to Address Embedded Markets
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Samsung Begins Production of 64GB eMMC Storage Solutions Using 10nm-Class Process Technology.
Samsung Introduces 10nm 64GB eMMC Memory Storage Solution for Slim Smartphones and Tablets
Nvidia Hopes to Get First Tegra “Grey” Silicon This Quarter
Belkin Transforms iPad Mini into Notebook with New Keyboard Folio
Elliptic Creates Touch-less Gesturing Tech, Just as Seen in Minority Report Movie
Non-Volatile DIMMs May Be Game-Changers for Datacenters
Microsoft Windows 7 and Vista Will Not Get DirectX 11.1, Native Stereo-3D Output
Next-Gen 3DMark Will Compare Windows, Android and iOS Devices
Apple Set to Get from $180 to $200 Million from HTC in Annual Fees
G.Skill TridentX DDR3 Module Overclocked to 3900MHz
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Intel and Qualcomm May Team Up for Sharp Investment.
Intel and Qualcomm In Talks to Invest $378 Million into Sharp
AMD Rolls-Out FirePro S10000 Compute Card for Servers
Acer Launches World’s Most Affordable Laptop
Toshiba Reopens Chip Plant After Last Year’s Flooding
AMD’s Management Considers Sale of Company, Patent Portfolio
Nintendo Wii U Will Have Challenges Achieving Success of Wii Console
Asetek Unveils ISAC Reference Design
Intel Unveils New Core i7 Extreme Microprocessor and Mainboard
Everspin Introduces First Spin-Torque MRAM with DDR3 Interface
Monday, November 12, 2012
Nvidia Reveals Tesla K20 Accelerators for Supercomputers.
Nvidia Unveils GPU Accelerators Based on GK110 Chip with Up to 2688 Stream Processors
Kingston Introduces New Family of High-End Memory Modules
PLX Unveils PCI Express-Based ExpressFabric Supercomputer Fabric
Windows Chief Unexpectedly Leaves Microsoft
Intel Introduces Xeon Phi 3100 and 5110P Coprocessors
28nm Supply Situation Breaks Through
Friday, November 9, 2012
LG Electronics Begins to Ship Ultra-Wide 21:9 Display.
LG Electronics’ EA93 Ultra-Wide 21:9 Display to Cost from $635
Intel’s NUC Barebones to Cost Over $300, Complete Systems May Hit $500
Mushkin Debuts Ultra High-End Atlas Deluxe 30GB mSATA SSD
Belkin Is First with Third-Party Accessories for Apple iPhone 5
Nvidia Earns Record $1.2 Billion in Q3 Thanks to Demand for Gaming GPUs, Tegra Mobile Chips
Habey Debuts Fanless Ultra-Small Quad-Core Core i7 “Ivy Bridge” PC
Thursday, November 8, 2012
HP Triples Performance of New Mission-Critical Servers with New Itanium Chips.
HP Rolls-Out New Superdome 2 Business Critical Systems, Integrity Blades
Asetek Unleashes Liquid-Cooling Technology for Datacenters, HPC
AMD Slashes Prices of A-Series APUs and Athlon II CPUs
Nvidia Expects Denver Microprocessor to Be Competitive in ARM Servers
Intel to Finalize Unification of Itanium and Xeon Platforms Later This Decade
Mainstream and Value PCs Remain to Be the Most Popular
Liquid-Cooled Mainstream Servers May Be Just Around the Corner
Intel Upgrades Mission-Critical Servers with Itanium 9500 “Poulson” Chip
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Samsung Galaxy S III Achieves 30 Million Sales in Five Months.
Samsung’s Flagship Smartphone Hits Another Shipments Milestone
Qualcomm to Release World’s First Global 4G/LTE Advanced Category 4 Modem with Carrier Aggregation
Foxconn Still Unable to Produce Enough Apple iPhone 5 Smartphones
AMD Shuts Down Operating System Research Center in Germany
Samsung Set to Reinvent Its Brand Recognition
Amazon, Asus and Samsung Rapidly Boost Tablet Shipments
Samsung 840-Series SSDs Comes with Assassin’s Creed III
TI Introduces Nokia Lumia 820, 920 Wireless Power Technology
New Driver for Nvidia Speeds Up Linux Gaming on GeForce Systems
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
AMD Reportedly Working on Cost-Efficient Eight-Core FX Microprocessor.
Makers of Mainboards Add Support for AMD FX-8300 Chip
Microsoft Surface Tablet Costs $284 to Manufacture
AMD’s Market Share Decreases as Market of Chips Shrinks
ARM, Imagination and Bridge Crossing Share MIPS's Patents and Technologies
JESD230 Standard Makes JEDEC- and ONFI-Compatible NAND Flash Chips Interoperable
TDK Develops New Controller for Embedded SSDs
Apple Makes Profit Selling iPad Mini
Microsoft Hopes Windows Phone 8 to Finally Break Through onto the Market of Smartphones
Monday, November 5, 2012
AMD Preps New Radeon HD 7800-Series Graphics Card with Tahiti LE Chip - Report.
AMD Reportedly Readies Performance-Mainstream Tahiti-LE Graphics Solution
Apple Develops High-Performance ARM Microprocessor to Substitute Intel’s Chips
Intel to Release Core i7-3970X Extreme Processor in Mid-November
AMD Speeds Up Opteron Chips with Piledriver Cores
Intel Introduces New Solid-State Drives for Data Centers, Business Computing
Apple’s iPad 4 and iPad Mini Turn Out to Be Popular
AMD Has No Steamroller APUs and CPUs for 2013 – Report
A*Star Introduces 5mm Hybrid Hard Disk Drive
Friday, November 2, 2012
LG Introduces 23” Display with Touch for Windows 8-Based PCs.
LG’s Touch 10 Display Brings Touchscreen Experience to Desktops
Linaro Forms Enterprise Group to Develop Linux for ARM Servers
Google Android Smartphone Market Share Hits 75%, iOS and Windows Phone Behind
UMC Follows Globalfoundries with Hybrid 14nm FinFET
Smartphones with Ultra-Large Displays Continue to Gain Popularity
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Microsoft Tests Own-Brand Smartphone with Asian Manufacturers.
Report: Microsoft’s Own Windows Phone Features Between 4” and 5” Screen
Apple’s R&D Spending in Fiscal 2012 Hit $3.4 Billion
Sony’s Second-Generation PlayStation 4 “Orbis” Development Kit Reportedly Features AMD A10 APU
Windows for ARMv8 Processors Already in the Works
Globalfoundries Aims to Become Profitable by 2015, But Freezes Investment into Abu Dhabi Plant
AMD's ARM Datacenter Plans Have Pros and Cons
LG and DMP Further Enhance HSA Foundation
Google Unwraps Nexus 4: Retina-Class Screen, Quad-Core Processor, Android 4.2, No 4G/LTE








