X-Bit Labs Wishes Prosperous 2013

Intel Sets Introduction Timeframe for Next-Generation Core i “Haswell” Microprocessors

Toshiba to Showcase SDHC Card with Wireless Transfer Tech Next Month

PC May Be Coming Back as Leading-Edge Gaming Platform

Sony PS2 Ends Life in Japan After Twelve Years on the Market

Carnegie Mellon University Wins Patent Infringements Case Against Marvell

Popularity of E-Books Grows as Tablets Gain Market Share

Intel May Still Offer Broadwell Chips in LGA1150 Packaging

HTC Readies 7” Tablet with Phone Call Capability and Windows RT, 12” Slate in Plans

Samsung Intends to Sell Over Half a Billion of Cell Phones in 2013

Google Android Apps Find Way to Apple Macs

Toshiba Unveils Highly-Sensitive 20MP BSI CMOS Image Sensor

Locals Protest Building of TSMC’s First 450mm Fab in 2014

LG to Show Off AH-IPS Monitors with Extreme Resolutions at CES 2013

AMD to Launch FX-8300 Processor Before Year’s End

Intel Designs Integrated VRM for Chips to Further Cut Power Consumption

Michael Goddard Becomes Chief System Architect of Samsung

Acer’s New Iconia B1 Slate to Fight Kindle Fire and Nook Tablets

Popularity of Stereo-3D Increases Despite of Higher Prices and Limited Amount of Content

Huawei Readies Smartphone with Ultra-Large 1080p Display

Apple’s Fifth-Generation iPad Due in March, Say Reports

Microsoft’s Visionary Craig Mundie to Retire in 2014

Nokia Readies Media Tablet with Special Case Equipped with Keyboard, Battery

Gaikai May Become Key Part of Next-Generation PlayStation Gaming

Sony’s Next PlayStation May Carry “PlayStation Omni” Name

We Wish Happy Holidays to All Our Readers

Blu-Ray 3D Now Makes Up 8% of Physical Video Business in the U.S.

Structural Technological and Economic Changes May Eliminate Consumer LGA Chips for Intel

Sharp: IGZO Display Panels to Revolutionize Resolutions and Pixel Density of Displays

Japanese FTC Let Micron to Buy Elpida

Google and Motorola Mobility to Finally Release Own Smartphone, Tablet

“Quantum Spin Liquid” Could Have Applications in New Computer Memory Storage

Asustek Remains Optimistic About High-End Mainboards Market Despite Intel’s BGA Plans

Research In Motion to Pay Nokia for Wi-Fi-Related Patents

President of THQ Sees Bankruptcy as New Beginning

Apple iPad Mini 2 Expected to Feature Retina Screen, Advanced Processor

Global 4G/LTE Smartphone Shipments Will Reach 275 Million Units in 2013

Micron Shares SSD and NAND Flash Progress: New Drives and NAND Memory Types on Track

Samsung Reaches 14nm FinFET Process Technology Development Milestone

As DRAM Prices Remain on Low Level, Manufacturers Reduce Investments

TSMC Set to Expand Global Presence to Satisfy Different Clients

Samsung Preps Demonstration of Flexible Screens for Smartphones, TVs

Contract Price of 4GB DDR3 Module Rises to $15.5

Patriot Reveals World’s Smallest USB Flash Memory Drives

Imagination Tech to Obtain MIPS Business for $100 Million

Display Panel Makers See More Prospects for 4K Ultra High-Definition TVs

Nintendo TVii Service Approaches the U.S. and Canada

Arris to Acquire Motorola Home Business

THQ Evaluating Linux Operating System for Upcoming Releases

Samsung Becomes World’s Largest Mobile Phone Vendor

Apple TV May Not Be Released Even Next Year

Nintendo DS Outsells Legendary Sony PlayStation 2

Apple, Google, Microsoft, Others Acquire Kodak’s Patents for $525 Million

Digital Cameras and Portable Game Players Suffer at the Hand of Smartphones, Says ABI Research

UCLA Develop Energy-Efficient Memory Using Magnetic Materials

Trustonic: The New Standard of Trust and Security for Connected Devices

Samsung No Longer Wants to Ban Apple’s iPhone, iPad Sales in Europe

Sony Yuga C660 to Feature Full-HD 5” Display, Quad-Core Chip and Much More

Court Rejects Apple’s Demand to Ban Samsung’s Phones and Tablets in the U.S.

Nvidia Tegra “Wayne” to Get Massive Performance and Capabilities Improvements

Stephen Elop: There Is Frustration Because of Lumia 920 Limited Supply

OCZ to Restate Previous Financial Statements

Toshiba Launches World’s Fastest NAND Flash Memory Card Ever

First Specs of AMD Radeon HD 8000M Get Published

PLX and Kontron Demonstrate 5.6GB/s PCIe 3.0 Fabric

Computers to Receive Five Human Senses in Five Years

Dying Microprocessor Technology Developer May Get $100 Million for Business

Chinese Acquire Two Million Apple iPhone 5 Phones in Three Days

Specifications of High-End Mobile Core I “Haswell” Chips Revealed

OCZ Tests SSD Caching Solution for Linux Systems

AMD to Reveal Next-Generation Mobility Radeon HD 8000 “Solar System” GPUs at Consumer Electronics Show

Market Observer Reveals Intel’s Average CPU and Wafer Prices to Support Custom Foundry Biz’s Viability

Nvidia Tegra 4 Announcement May Be Near, But Actual Products May Be Far Away

World’s Largest Foundry Ups CapEx from $8.3 to $9 Billion per Year

Amazon’s Smartphone Reportedly Slips to Next Year

Samsung’s Acquisition of Nvelo Will Enable Samsung to Design Hybrid Storage Solutions

Samsung’s Next-Gen “Phablet” Expected to Blend Smartphones and Tablets

STM Unveils New Strategy

Texas Instruments Jacinto 5 Replaces Nvidia Tegra 3 in Audi Vehicles

Intel’s “Ambidextrous” Strategy with Atom Starting to Pay Off

Intel May Acquire Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang May Lead New Company

Samsung Set to Continue to Invest into Expansion of Austin, Texas Factory

Google Android Platform Becomes the “New Windows” of Mobile Internet Age

Seagate Introduces New Hard Drive for Always-On Applications

GE Develops 4mm Thick Cooling Solutions to Modern PCs

Asrock and Nick Shih Set World’s Record in AMD Fusion A-5800K “Trinity” Overclocking

Flextronics Projects Dramatic Changes on the Global Assembly Labor Market

AMD Unsure About Transition Timeframe to 20nm Node

Nvidia Aims Denver at HPC Space, Boulder Set to Fight for Servers

Kingston Ships 128GB Wi-Drive for Apple iOS, Google Android and Amazon Kindle Devices

Dell Has No Smartphone Plans

E-Book Readers Face Inevitable Decline

Asus Set to Adopt Via’s ARM Chip for $99 Media Tablet

End-Users Mostly Concerned About Endurance of NAND Flash Memory

ImgTec and Ceva Raise Their Offers for MIPS Business

Toshiba Initiates Sample Shipments of MG-Series Hard Drives

BitMicro Launches First maxIO PCI Express Solid-State Drives

Initial Shipments of Nokia Lumia 820 and 920 May Be Constrained

MediaTek Unleashes Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A7 SoC

Nvidia Receives $20 Million to Fund Research of Extremely-Efficient Processing

Apple Moves Closer to Making TV-Set

AMD: Intel Is Too Late with Chips for Micro-Servers

Globalfoundries Calls Europe to Support Chip Manufacturing

Toshiba and Hanrim Develop Wireless Power System Based on the Qi Standard

Intel Will Roll-Out Haswell Chips for Desktops in Two Phases, Starting from April

Microsoft Confirms Expanded Availability for Surface Media Tablet

Motorola Mobility Gets Rid of Production Capacities

Nintendo Sells Over 300 Thousand Wii U Game Consoles in Japan During Launch Weekend

Intel’s Server-Class Atom Chips Consume 6W, Win First Designs

TI Joins A4WP Wireless Power Alliance

Huawei Invests €70 Million to Boost R&D in Finland

Toshiba’s New Chip Cuts Power Consumption of Mobile Processor by Two-Thirds

IBM Finds Way to Build Silicon Nanophotonics into Chips

Head of Valve Mulls Benefits of Own Hardware

Showa Denko’s Ultra High-Capacity to Enable Multi-Terabyte Hard Drives for Notebooks

AMD Interested Only in High-Volume Design Wins

Numerous Transitions Incoming This Decade Will Reduce the Number of Semiconductor Companies - Paul Otellini

Despite of All Hype, Only a Small Part of Apple’s Products Will be Assembled in the U.S.

Microsoft to Compete Against Its Own Customers with Surface in Non-Microsoft Stores

Apple to Stick to “the Fewer the Better” Principle for Products

Samsung’s Next-Gen Galaxy S IV Flagship to Utilize Bendable Materials

Intel to Show Off New Mobile and Ultra-Mobile Products Running Atom and Core i Chips

Hitachi Pulls the Plug on Semiconductor Business

Plextor to Make Enterprise-Grade SSDs

Apple to Invest $100 Million into Manufacturing in the U.S

Paul Otellini: There Are Numerous Foundry Projects in the Pipeline

Research Analyst Believes Nintendo Set to Become Irrelevant in Coming Years

Qualcomm Unveils QCA1990 NFC Chip

Intel Set to Find New CEO Inside the Company

AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with Globalfoundries for Second Time in 2012

Apple Brings Some of the Production Back to the USA

TSMC Ramps Up 28nm Capacity Ahead of Plans

Apple Considers Today’s TVs Dramatically Outdated

EC Finds TV and Monitor Makers Guilty of Cartel Creation

Consequence of Patent Wars Is Impossibility of Innovation by Smaller Developers, Says Eric Schmidt

AMD: FX and A-Series Lines to Come in Socket-Compatible Packaging

Nvidia Remains Committed to TSMC, 20nm GPUs in Development

Plextor’s New “Xtreme” Firmware Enables 100K IOPS on M5 Pro SSDs

Qualcomm Ranks World’s No. 3 Semiconductor Company

Intel to Launch Core i and Pentium “Ivy Bridge” Processors with Extremely Low Power Consumption

Nokia Reveals Affordable Lumia 620 Smartphone for $249

Intel Remains Committed to Enthusiast and Channel Markets

Mushkin Drives Capacity of mSATA SSD to 480GB

Sharp to Sell Overseas TV Assembly Plants to Foxconn to Get Cash

Qualcomm Introduces High-Performance Quad-Core SoC with Krait Cores, Adreno 305 Graphics

Microsoft Surface on Windows RT May End Up as Success for Microsoft

Qualcomm Confirms Investment into Sharp

Apple Restarts PC Manufacturing in the USA

AMD Will Not Benefit from Globalfoundries Rapid Transition to 14nm

Marvell Unveils Advanced Wi-Fi Chip

Nokia Trades Headquarters for Cash

AMD Introduces New Opteron Chips for 1P and 2P Servers

Nintendo Wii U Now Available in Europe

Qualcomm and Sharp Could Jointly Develop Displays

WD to Update Green and Red HDD Lineups in Q4 2013

Computer Memory Remains Stable at $15 per 4GB Module, Shows Slight Decline

AMD to Update Server Processors in Two Years from Now