June 21, 2010 - Industry News
Three questions for Ray Kurzweil
The scope of Ray Kurzweil's endeavors and depth of his thinking elicits comparisons to Thomas Edison. Like the "Wizard of Menlo Park," he's a ...
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May 7, 2010 - Industry News
WOW: The iPad Is Destroying The Netbook Business
Philip Elmer-Dewitt picks up an amazing chart from Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. The chart shows what has happened to netbook sales since ...
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July 22, 2009 - Industry News
Hot-selling iPhone helps Apple earnings soar
Apple Inc. reported a recession-defying quarter, fueled by the release of the hot-selling iPhone 3GS and an update to the MacBook line. Macworld ...
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June 30, 2009 - Industry News
Jobs back at Apple after 5 1/2-month leave
After a 5 1/2-month medical leave, Apple CEO Steve Jobs resumed control of a company that hasn't skipped a beat in his absence, but faces more ...
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May 4, 2009 - Technology News
Computer History Museum celebrates the semiconductor
Fifteen scientists will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Mountain View museum, and Intel co-founder ...
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March 13, 2009 - Industry News
National Semiconductor to cut 25% of workforce
A Silicon Valley chipmaker said it will cut a quarter of its workforce Wednesday in a sign that the deepening global recession is ...
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March 12, 2009 - Industry News
Apple brings out a new iPod Shuffle that talks
Well, it's about time. Apple's budget music player the iPod Shuffle hasn't gotten a real make-over since Sept. 2006, when Apple introduced ...
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November 4, 2008 - Industry News
When the chips are down, no wonder investment suffers
The Gartner market research firm now expects worldwide semiconductor industry revenues to expand just one percent in 2009, dramatically ...
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September 29, 2008 - Technology News
Supercomputers merge senses, data at school
On a hillside overlooking this college town on the banks of the Hudson, the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has erected a technological ...
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September 9, 2008 - Industry News
SanDisk CEO downplays Samsung takeover talk
SanDisk CEO Eli Harari said his company has the financial strength to weather the economic slump alone, but called partnerships essential ...
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September 8, 2008 - Industry News
Sales rumor sends SanDisk shares soaring
Shares of SanDisk, in Milpitas, shot up more than 30 percent Friday after news reports that it might be acquired by Samsung Electronics in South ...
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August 21, 2008 - Technology News
Intel pitches getting inside cheap processors
The chipmaker that became a household name with its "Intel Inside" campaign now hopes to leverage its dominance of the PC to win a share ...
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June 30, 2008 - Technology News
Nanotubes could boost semiconductor production
Two Stanford University engineers have developed a nanotechnology that could be used to mass-produce semiconductors that are much faster ...
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October 24, 2007 - Industry News
Chinese solar firm Suntech to base North American outpost in S.F.
China's Suntech Power Holdings Co., one of the world's largest makers of solar cells, has chosen San Francisco as the site of its North ...
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October 1, 2007 - Technology News
High-tech culture of Silicon Valley originally formed around radio
They weren't out to make history, the eight young engineers who met secretly with investor Arthur Rock 50 years ago to form Silicon ...
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August 13, 2007 - Technology News
How to innovate into the future
ONE OF this nation's great strengths - innovation - got its just due Thursday when President Bush signed a bipartisan bill to boost ...
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July 17, 2007 - Industry News
Chipping away at toolmakers' profit margins
Has Moore's Law grown too expensive to enforce? That question will ripple through Moscone Center this week as the companies that form ...
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May 16, 2007 - Industry News
Chipmakers take a global perspective
Over the last decade or so, the business that made Silicon Valley famous -- semiconductor manufacturing -- has quietly evolved into a highly ...
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September 28, 2006 - Industry News
Intel says new chips will arrive this year
With an eye on its chief rival, Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini told several thousand hardware and software developers that his ...
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