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Wednesday, February 8, 2012


Nvidia Licenses Set of Technologies to Halt All Legal Disputes with Rambus. DRAM  Rambus  Nvidia  DDR  DDR2  DDR3  mobile DDR  LPDDR  LPDDR2  GDDR3  PCI Express  Serial ATA  Serial Attached SCSI  SAS  DisplayPort
[4:52 pm]

Nvidia and Rambus Sign License Agreement: Nvidia Licenses PCI Express, Serial ATA, Other Industry Standards

Nokia to Cease Manufacturing Operations in Europe. Nokia
[1:13 pm]

Nokia Moves Production to Asia to Lower Costs

 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012


Notebook Makers Integrate Intel Extreme "Sandy Bridge-E" Chips into Laptops. AvaDirect  Eurocom  Intel  Core  Sandy Bridge-E  Radeon  Geforce
[11:01 pm]

AvaDirect, Eurocom Unveil Super Laptops with LGA2011 Intel Extreme Processors

Apple Could Grab 5% of HDTV Market - Analysts. Apple  Apple TV  iOS  Mac  HDTV
[9:36 pm]

Apple May Add $17 Billion to Revenue with Apple TV

AMD Denies Building Chips at IBM's Factories. AMD  Globalfoundries  IBM  Semiconductor  Llano  Bulldozer  Zambezi  Orochi  32nm
[5:05 pm]

AMD: IBM Only Provided Consultations to Boost 32nm Yields

Engineers Show Way to Improve Performance of AMD, Intel Hybrid Chips by 20%. AMD  Fusion  Llano  Trinity  Intel  Sandy Bridge  Ivy Bridge
[1:58 pm]

Researchers Propose Using CPU-Specific Functionality to Improve GPU Computing

 

Monday, February 6, 2012


Death of Micron's CEO May Slowdown Consolidation of DRAM Market. Micron  DRAM  Business  Elpida
[10:37 pm]

Micron-Elpida Alliance May Be Affected by Steve Appleton's Death

Intel Launches 520-Series "Cherryville" Solid-State Drives. Intel  Cherryville  SSD  25nm  NAND  Flash
[10:14 pm]

Intel Unleashes High-Capacity Reliable SSDs

Rambus Purchases Patents for Future Types of Non-Volatile Memory. Rambus  CMOx  ReRAM  Memristor  Unity Semiconductor
[9:13 pm]

Rambus Gets Non-Voltatile Technologies to Demand Royalties from Manufacturers

Micron Appoints Mark Durcan as Chief Executive Officer . Micron
[2:51 pm]

Micron Shuffles Executives to Fill CEO, President Positions

 

Sunday, February 5, 2012


AMD: We Need Third Party IP to Differentiate. AMD  Apple  Samsung  Fusion  Radeon
[9:34 pm]

AMD Implies on "Major" Tablet Maker as Interested in APUs

IBM Quietly Starts to Make Chips for AMD. AMD  IBM  Semiconductor  Globalfoundries  32nm
[4:17 am]

AMD's Fusion Chips Are Made by IBM

 

Friday, February 3, 2012


Corning and Samsung Mobile Display to Make Rigid Glass for OLED Displays. Samsung  OLED
[9:59 pm]

Corning and Samsung to Jointly Develop Lotus Glass

Micron Loses Chief Executive as Steve Appleton Dies in Plane Crash. Micron
[1:51 pm]

Steve Appleton Passes Away in Plane Accident

 

Thursday, February 2, 2012


ARM Forecasts Smartphones, Tablets with 64-Bit Microprocessors. ARM  ARMv8  Atlas  Apollo
[11:59 pm]

ARMv8 "Atlas" and "Apollo" to Power Smartphones, Tablets in 2013

WD's Capacities to Total 58 Million HDDs per Quarter This Summer. Western Digital  WD  HDD
[11:48 pm]

Western Digital Expects to Restore All Capacities by July

AMD Trinity for Ultrathins Platform to Enable 18mm Notebooks for $600 - $800. AMD  Trinity  Southern Islands  Radeon  Fusion  Ultrabook
[11:46 pm]

AMD Trinity for Ultrathin Notebooks: Quad-Core, 17W, 18mm, High-Performance Graphics, Low-Cost

AMD: Leading Graphics Performance Is Critical for Us. AMD  Radeon  ATI  Sourthern Islands  Sea Islands  Piledriver  Steamroller
[11:44 pm]

AMD Puts Graphics on Central Stage as High-Performance CPUs Stagnate

AMD Cancels 10-Core, 20-Core Server Processors. AMD  Opteron  Piledriver  32nm  Bulldozer  Sepang  Terramar  Abu Dhabi  Delhi  Seoul
[12:41 pm]

AMD to Prolong Lifespan of Current Opteron Server Platform

AMD Unwraps 2013 Client Roadmap: 28nm Everywhere. amd  Steamroller  Jaguar  Sea Islands  Temash  Kaveri  Kabini  ati  28nm  TSMC  Globalfoundries
[11:25 am]

AMD 2013 Plans: Steamroller, Jaguar and Sea Islands

AMD Promises "Full" Fusion of CPU and GPU in 2014. AMD  Fusion  ATI  Radeon  Steamroller  Excavator  Piledriver  Bulldozer  Sea Islands  Southern Islands  28nm  20nm
[10:24 am]

AMD's Chips in 2014 to Support CPU-GPU Context Switching

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012


Samsung Becomes Top Smartphone Vendor in 2011 - Market Observers. Samsung  Apple  Motorola  Nokia  Sony Ericsson  iOS  Android  Symbian  Windows Phone
[11:15 pm]

Samsung and Apple Led Smartphone Shipments Last Year

Intel Shows Off First Atom Chips for Micro-Servers. Intel  Atom  32nm  Xeon
[10:23 pm]

Intel Begins to Sample Server-Class Atom System-on-Chip

HP Paid Intel $690 Million to Keep Itanium Alive - Court Findings. Intel  HP  Tukwila  Poulson  Kittson  Itanium  IA64  Integrity  HP-UX  OpenVMS  NonStop
[8:11 pm]

HP Pain Intel to Keep Itanium on Life Support Till 2017

PlayStation Chief to Become Sony's New President, CEO. Sony  Business
[5:54 pm]

Kazuo Hirai Promoted to Lead Sony Starting from April

 

Tuesday, January 31, 2012


Microsoft Officially Releases Kinect for Windows Sensor. Kinect  Windows  Xbox  Windows 8
[11:57 pm]

Developers Receive Green Light for Kinect Apps for Windows

Graphics Cards Maker Leaks AMD Roadmap: New Radeon HD 7000 Incoming in February, March. AMD  ATI  Radeon  Southern Islands  Tahiti  Pitcairn  Cape Verde  New Zealand
[11:25 pm]

AMD’s Cape Verde, Pitcairn Are Approaching

ARM: Windows 8 Will Have Numerous Advantages over Android. ARM  Windows 8  Microsoft  Cortex
[10:35 pm]

ARM Expects Windows 8 to Be Successful on Tablets

AMD Starts Selling Second Radeon HD 7900-Series Graphics Card. AMD  ATI  Radeon  Southern Islands  Tahiti  28nm
[9:57 pm]

AMD Unleashes Radeon HD 7950 Graphics Board for $449

Seagate's Profitability Skyrockets Due to Constraints in Hard Drives Shipments. Seagate  HDD  Business
[9:28 pm]

Seagate: HDD Industry Will Never Be the Same as Before

Nintendo: Wii U Is Not a "Brute Force" Console. Nintendo  Wii  Wii U  Playstation  Xbox
[8:50 pm]

Nintendo Admits: Wii U Will Not Compete Against PlayStation 4, Xbox Next

Court: Oracle Breached Contract with HP to Boost SPARC Positions as HP Hid Itanium Roadmap. Intel  Itanium  HP  HP-UX  Kittson  Poulson  Tukwila  Oracle
[7:05 pm]

Court Found Both HP and Oracle Acting Unfairly in Itanium Situation

 

Monday, January 30, 2012


Memory Prices Finally Begin to Stabilize: 4GB Module Now Costs $16.5. DRAM  DDR  Business
[11:40 pm]

DRAM Prices Begin to Stabilize, But Demand Remains Soft

Tilera Unveils Processors with Up to 36 Programmable Cores. Tilera
[10:09 pm]

Tilera Intros Tile-Gx36 and Tile-Gx16 Programmable Chips

Microsoft Denies Plans to Show Xbox Next This Year. Microsoft  Xbox  Xbox Loop  Xbox Next
[9:27 pm]

Microsoft: Nothing New Incoming in 2012

Intel Introduces "Sandy Bridge" Microprocessors without Graphics. intel  core  sandy bridge  32nm
[9:03 pm]

Intel Debuts "Graphics-Free" Sandy Bridge Chips

Intel Buys Video Codec, Video Streaming Technologies from RealNetworks. Intel  RealNetworks
[8:30 pm]

Intel Acquires Video Technologies from RealNetworks

Microsoft Looking Forward Integration of Kinect into Notebooks. Windows 8  Microsoft  Windows  Kinect  Xbox
[7:55 pm]

Kinect Incoming to Mobile Devices - Report

Hitachi Introduces Fast 4TB Hard Disk Drive. Hitachi  Deskstar  Hitachi GST  HDD
[3:21 pm]

Hitachi Begins to Sell Deskstar 7K4000 7200rpm 4TB HDD