January 13, 2012 - Industry News
Coating lets smartphones survive under water
As sleek new smartphones prepared to make splashes at the Consumer Electronics Show, a California firm was out to prevent water from being the ...
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January 5, 2012 - Industry News
Seoul approves Samsung investment in China
South Korea approved Samsung Electronics' plan to build a new plant in China to produce high-tech memory chips used in tablets and Smartphones, the ...
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December 27, 2011 - Industry News
Sony, Samsung wind up LCD joint venture
Japanese electronics giant Sony has agreed to sell its stake in a joint liquid crystal display panel venture in South Korea to its partner Samsung ...
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November 15, 2011 - Industry News
S. Korea's SK Telecom signs deal to buy Hynix
South Korea's top mobile carrier SK Telecom said it signed a deal to buy a controlling stake in Hynix Semiconductor, the world's number two memory chip ...
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September 26, 2011 - Industry News
Samsung says 10 million Galaxy S II handsets sold
South Korea's Samsung Electronics said it had sold 10 million Galaxy S II smartphones worldwide since the device debuted in April. Sales of the new ...
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September 14, 2011 - Industry News
Intel teams with Google on smartphone chips
Intel announced that it has teamed with Google to tailor chips to get top performance out of smartphones powered by the Internet giant's Android ...
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December 13, 2010 - Industry News
2010 -- The Year Tablet Computers Came of Age
Yearning for a gadget that was bigger than a smartphone but smaller than a laptop made tablet computing a defining trend for 2010. The iPad, ...
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August 30, 2010 - Industry News
Qualcomm mulls Taiwan R&D unit
Qualcomm plans to set up a research and development centre in Taiwan to help it tap China's growing market. If realised, the plan would allow ...
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April 26, 2010 - Technology News
Revolutionary Hubble space telescope turns 20
Astronomers around the world this weekend mark the 20th anniversary of the launching of the iconic Hubble, NASA's first orbiting space telescope ...
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March 25, 2010 - Industry News
Taiwan chip tycoon warned over storming out of court
Taiwan's high court warned the former head of United Microelectronics Corp. he risks being arrested after shouting at the judges and walking ...
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February 8, 2010 - Industry News
Japan's Fujitsu says it made first 'iPad'
Apple's new tablet PC is not the first product to be called the "iPad". Japan's Fujitsu says it launched one years ago, and the name has also ...
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January 26, 2010 - Industry News
Taiwan lets chip firms invest in China
Taiwan will allow its chip makers to invest in their counterparts in China in response to growing calls from the island's business community for ...
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October 12, 2009 - Industry News
Philips posts surprise profit as cost cuts help
Dutch electronics giant Philips reported a surprise profit for Q3 as a series of cost cutting measures to cope with the global slump helped ...
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August 17, 2009 - Industry News
STMicoelectronics sees chip market firming
STMicroelectronics revised up its forecast for the global semiconductor market on Wednesday, a day after reporting quarterly sales exceeding ...
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June 11, 2009 - Technology News
Earth-Venus smash-up possible in 3.5 billion years
A force known as orbital chaos may cause our Solar System to go haywire, leading to possible collision between Earth and Venus or Mars ...
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May 12, 2009 - Top Story News
Samsung forecasts tough year for chipmakers
Samsung Electronics forecast a tough year for chipmakers due to the protracted global recession. Kwon Oh-Hyun, president of Samsung's ...
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May 1, 2009 - Industry News
Apple 'to design own computer chips'
Apple is building the capability to design its own computer chips in a strategic shift aimed at cutting its reliance on outside suppliers, The ...
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March 31, 2009 - Industry News
Google launches venture capital fund
Google has unveiled a new venture capital fund to back "young companies with truly awesome potential". Google Ventures will focus on finding ...
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February 9, 2009 - Technology News
Hynix develops new 40-nm-class memory chip
South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor announced Sunday it has developed the world's highest-density memory chip using the thinnest process ...
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February 4, 2009 - Industry News
Japan's Hitachi posts $4.1 bln quarterly loss
Japanese high-tech giant Hitachi, a major victim of the economic crisis, reported a 4.1-billion-dollar quarterly loss and kept its forecast to end ...
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January 19, 2009 - Top Story News
Taiwan's once-world beating memory chip makers face tough times
Taiwan's pivotal memory chip industry is facing tough times as international demand for high-tech products plunges in the midst of ...
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December 17, 2008 - Industry News
Toshiba to slash memory chip output due to supply glut
Japan's Toshiba Corp. said Tuesday that it was slashing its production of NAND flash memory chips - used in iPods and other digital music player ...
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September 29, 2008 - Industry News
Africa awash in sunlight, but not solar energy
From household solar panels to thermal generators big enough to power a town, sun power has enjoyed explosive growth around the world. ...
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September 17, 2008 - Industry News
Samsung offers to buy SanDisk
South Korea-based Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it is offering to buy US flash-memory titan SanDisk for 5.8 billion dollars. Samsung sent ...
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June 30, 2008 - Industry News
Bill Gates signs off at Microsoft
Bill Gates spent his last day at Microsoft Friday, bidding a teary goodbye to the company he built into a global software colossus. ...
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