November 16, 2011 - Industry News
TI Gets Chip Win Inside Kindle Fire
Texas Instruments is a veteran when it comes to chips for mobile devices, but rivals Qualcomm and Nvidia seem to have gotten most of the attention in ...
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November 9, 2011 - Top Story News
Cypress Semi CEO Backing Another Startup
Cypress Semiconductor CEO T.J. Rodgers is a well-known maverick in the chip business, who played a sizeable role in the solar-power market with a spinoff called SunPower. Now he's putting ...
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October 28, 2011 - Industry News
Chip Maker Places Another Bet on Flash
A race to take cellphone-style data-storage technology into computers keeps accelerating, and chip maker LSI is laying out cash for a pole position. ...
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September 29, 2011 - Industry News
Amazon Challenges iPad With 'Fire'
Amazon.com Inc. unveiled the Kindle Fire tablet computer, the latest—and possibly biggest—challenger to Apple Inc.'s dominant iPad. riced at ...
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September 27, 2011 - Industry News
Nokia's Troubles Hit Suppliers
As chip makers struggle to unhinge themselves from the quickly sinking European handset giant, they are finding an even more competitive market ...
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September 12, 2011 - Industry News
The Allure of Being in the Chips
Chips Ahoy! Chip-stock investors last week smelled a whiff of capitulation, and they stepped in to grab bargains. Semiconductor stocks ...
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August 15, 2011 - Industry News
Google-Motorola: It’s All About the Patents
Our first thought when Google announced a $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility: Holy cow. Google wants to be Apple. Instead of ...
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August 2, 2011 - Industry News
Semis: Chip Sales Off 2% In Q2; Is This The Bottom?
Semiconductor Industry Association, and half a percent from the year-earlier, bringing the second quarter's average monthly sales to $24.7 billion, down ...
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June 30, 2011 - Industry News
Semis: Inventories High, Netbooks Dissolving, Say Analysts
Some food for thought on the health of the semiconductor supply chain. Brigantine Advisors's Darice Liu writes that executives of semiconductor ...
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April 28, 2011 - Industry News
Want To Understand The Future? Tell a Story Says Intel
The future of technology is the future of ever better storytelling, both receiving and telling, says the woman paid by the world's largest chip ...
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April 20, 2011 - Industry News
Intel’s Strong Earnings Prompt Wall Street Rethink on PCs
Some mea culpas are going around on Wall Street as Intel blew past 1Q expectations and gave a surprisingly strong 2Q revenue view in the face ...
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April 4, 2011 - Industry News
We've Become a Nation of Takers, Not Makers
More Americans work for the government than in manufacturing, farming, fishing, forestry, mining and utilities combined. If you want to understand ...
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March 14, 2011 - Industry News
Quake Disrupts Key Supply Chains
The earthquake that struck northeast Japan forced shutdowns across a broad spectrum of the country's industries, but the bigger impact for ...
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March 3, 2011 - Industry News
Apple's Showman Takes the Stage
Steve Jobs asserted Apple Inc.'s command over the hottest market in computing and demonstrated his flair as high-tech's most celebrated ...
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February 11, 2011 - Top Story News
New Chip-Making Technology?
Manufacturers keep shrinking transistors and other tiny components on computer chips, to the point that some materials and processing techniques used for decades are no longer ...
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February 8, 2011 - Industry News
TI Hopes New Chips Will Stand Out from ARM Crowd
Smartphones have already become pretty powerful computing devices. Texas Instruments says we haven’t seen anything yet. The semiconductor ...
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January 14, 2011 - Industry News
Multivac, Moore and more
When I was growing up in the Deccan--a land of black soil, a black magic called bhanamati and great backwardness--my dreams invariably revolved ...
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January 7, 2011 - Industry News
Why Samsung Investors Watch Chips, Phones
Samsung Electronics Co. seems to have the Midas touch at the moment. As it has for several years, Samsung has the biggest booth at the Consumer ...
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January 4, 2011 - Industry News
CES Notebook
Toshiba Corp. is joining the tablet PC onslaught at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Unlike some of its competitors ...
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December 30, 2010 - Industry News
Entrants Flood Race to Rival iPad
A race to respond to Apple Inc.'s hit iPad gadget enters a new phase next week, as a host of companies use a Las Vegas trade show to talk up a ...
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December 28, 2010 - Industry News
Intel, AMD to Unveil Combination Chips
Chip makers soon will deliver one of biggest advances in years in the technology that powers laptop and desktop computers. But how much ...
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December 14, 2010 - Industry News
Rising Computer Prices Buck the Trend
For the first time in several years, people shopping for personal computers are doing something new: paying more. Computer prices are ...
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December 10, 2010 - Industry News
Power Blip Jolts Supply of Gadget Chips
A split-second power disruption at a Toshiba Corp. factory in Japan could hurt shipments and raise prices for one of the world's most widely used ...
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November 22, 2010 - Top Story News
Intel Mobile Business 'Doomed'?
Intel's microprocessor business is doomed claimed one of Europe's leading tech entrepreneurs as mobile computing will replace the PC in the next wave of computing. Austrian-born ...
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November 22, 2010 - Industry News
California's Destructive Green Jobs Lobby
California officials acknowledged that the state faces $20 billion deficits every year from now to 2016. At the same time, California's ...
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