July 30, 2010 - Industry News
TI Eyeing Purchase Of China Chip Foundry
An 8-inch wafer plant in China's Chengdu that is run by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) for the local government ...
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July 29, 2010 - Industry News
TI Eyeing Purchase Of China Chip Foundry
Texas Instruments is expected to buy a wafer plant run by Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation. An 8-inch wafer plant in China's ...
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July 23, 2010 - Top Story News
Analyst Warns Of Semiconductor Monopoly
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.'s deep pockets and enormous fabs give it a substantial market lead over competitors, says chip market ...
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April 5, 2010 - Top Story News
Inside Apple's iPad: FCC Teardown Photos
The Federal Communications Commission has provided the first literal inside look at Apple's iPad, posting 17 photos of its teardown of the ...
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March 16, 2010 - Technology News
Do SSDs Belong In Laptops?
If there is confusion over when you use solid state disk (SSD) in the enterprise then there seems to be utter chaos when it comes to the ...
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December 15, 2009 - Industry News
Chip Foundries Increase Spending On Capital Equipment
As the global market for semiconductor equipment nears the end of a dismal year, spending by chip foundries and some memory companies is ...
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October 14, 2009 - Industry News
Electronics Industry Recovery Underway
Gartner says growth is resuming, but the effects of the recession on the electronics industry will linger for several years. Sales of PCs, mobile ...
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October 6, 2009 - Industry News
Chip Market Turnaround Unlikely In 2009
The semiconductor market is unlikely to see a significant market turnaround this year, despite manufacturers' success at reducing inventory ...
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August 21, 2009 - Industry News
U.S. Smartphone Sales Grew 47% In Q2
Smartphones continue to sell well, but feature phones grabbed 72% of U.S. handset purchases in the second quarter, according to NPD Group ...
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August 20, 2009 - Industry News
RIM Owns Half Of U.S. Smartphone Market
The worldwide boom in smartphones is defying the worldwide economic recession; globally, smartphone shipments grew by 13.4% in the second ...
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June 29, 2009 - Industry News
Apple Increases Investment In British Chip Designer
Apple has been on a chip-design spending spree, buying PA Semi, a vendor of low-power PowerPC processors, and hiring more than 100 people with ...
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May 15, 2009 - Industry News
One In Five Laptops Shipped In Q1 Was A Netbook
Manufacturers shipped nearly 6 million of the mini-laptops, with Acer leading the market with a 30.5% share. Global shipments of netbooks ...
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April 22, 2009 - Industry News
Sun's Deep Tech Bench Is Biggest Asset For Oracle
The most interesting omission I've seen in all the nattering about Oracle's planned acquisition of Sun Microsystems is discussion of whether the ...
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March 27, 2009 - Technology News
Android Getting Flash Support
Bsquare will port the technology to Google's platform, and having Flash could give Android a leg up on Apple's iPhone. Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE)'s ...
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March 20, 2009 - Industry News
Mac Purchases Slip; Netbooks Climb In February
Would-be Apple buyers aren't opting for netbooks instead; they're holding off until economic conditions improve, an NPD Group analyst said. ...
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January 23, 2009 - Industry News
Intel Plant Closures Mask Grave Chip Challenges
It's been a quadruple whammy week for the semiconductor industry, amid Intel's moves to close five factories and cut quad-core processor ...
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December 29, 2008 - Industry News
US Tech Firms Seek $1 Billion for Advanced Battery Plant
More than a dozen tech companies announced an alliance seeking more than $1 billion in federal funding to build a U.S. car battery plant that ...
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December 10, 2008 - Technology News
HP, ASU Unveil Paper-Like, Flexible Display
Hewlett-Packard and Arizona State University on Monday introduced a prototype of a paper-like, flexible computer display made almost ...
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November 20, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor Industry Faces First Year Of Revenue Decline Since 2001
The global semiconductor industry this year will see its first revenue decline in seven years, as manufacturers enter a period of "fear and ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
Semiconductor Industry Revenue Forecast Reduced
Gartner on Monday dramatically lowered next year's revenue forecast for the semiconductor industry, a reflection of the damage being done by ...
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October 29, 2008 - Industry News
AMD, Intel Biggest Winners In Hot GPU Market
The global economy is slowing, but the market for graphics processors is going strong with the largest vendors Intel and Advanced Micro Devices ...
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October 3, 2008 - Top Story News
Chip Industry Calls On Congress To Act On Financial Crisis
Sales of PCs and portable gadgets could be hurt dramatically if people pulled back on spending out of fear of a weakening economy, ...
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September 30, 2008 - Technology News
IBM, ARM Join On Mobile-Device Chip Technology
The results of the partnership will be used in logic, memory, and interface products for the customers of IBM's Common Platform ...
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September 22, 2008 - Industry News
Android To Capture 4% Of Smartphone Market
Buoyed by Google's brand, the first Android handset from T-Mobile and HTC is expected to sell 400,000 units by the end of the year, according to ...
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January 31, 2008 - Industry News
Internet-Enabled Gadgets Shipments Exceed 60 Million
Shipments of IP-enabled consumer electronics reached 64 million units in 2007, according to a new report from industry analyst group ...
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