January 23, 2012 - Industry News
2012 Semiconductor Forecasts - Take Your Pick
The new year is well underway and several companies have updated their forecasts for 2012. What will the year year bring? Unfortunately the outlook ...
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January 17, 2012 - Industry News
At CES, the only Law that Matters is Moore's Law
Personal drone helicopters, $2,000 3D printers, and OLED televisions. Computers in TVs, TVs in smartphones, HD cameras in everything, and everything ...
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December 15, 2011 - Industry News
After Thai Floods, Companies Reconsider Risk
A shortage of hard drive disks in Thailand after the devastating floods that put Bangkok under water in October has started to show up as heavy costs ...
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November 14, 2011 - Industry News
How to Be an Optimist in a Pessimistic Time: A Techonomy Manifesto
It's no secret that technology is changing the world. Unfortunately, there are a surprising number of people who don't get it. Many of them, even ...
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November 10, 2011 - Industry News
Is There A Moore's Law For Solar?
Moore's Law. The great thing about it--Gordon Moore once told a group of us reporters--is that there are so many different versions, it's bound to be ...
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October 25, 2011 - Industry News
Moore's Law Meets MEMS: Tiny Devices In Your Smartphone Are The Next Big Thing
Nanotechnology is bursting with promise, but so far all we've really seen are nanoparticle-enhanced sunscreens and nanotube-reinforced tennis ...
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October 11, 2011 - Industry News
Going Beyond Silicon to Beat Moore's Law
The University of California, Riverside has just received a $1.85 million grant for a very ambitious project -- moving computer processing out of ...
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September 21, 2011 - Industry News
New Patent Law Means Trouble For Tech Entrepreneurs
President Obama signed into law the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, which passed the Senate by a large bipartisan majority. Normally, when ...
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September 15, 2011 - Industry News
As Intel Chases Smart Phones, AMD Grabs Cheap Notebooks
It's a tradition. Every year, processor giant Intel throws a big budget party for itself and a few thousand developers in the glass and steel ...
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September 14, 2011 - Industry News
Chip Companies Keep Cutting Guidance; Market Doesn't Care
One after another, chip companies have been cutting guidance for the third quarter, and no matter who issues a warning, the market doesn't seem to ...
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September 8, 2011 - Industry News
Gartner Chops 2011 PC Unit Growth View To 3.8% From 9.3%
Gartner this morning cut its forecast for 2011 worldwide PC unit growth to 3.8% from 9.3%, while trimming their 2012 forecast to 10.9%, from ...
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September 1, 2011 - Industry News
What Does HP Know?
The big news last week -- at least until Steve Jobs announced his retirement as CEO -- was Hewlett-Packard Co.'s decision to drop its new computer ...
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September 1, 2011 - Industry News
Electronics Enters Era of 'Systemic Risk'
From EE Times and Global Foundries Conference we hear from several industry leaders. The header for the discussion: Electronics enters era ...
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August 31, 2011 - Industry News
Intel Won't Move Fab 24 To 22 NM; No Change In Cap Ex
Given recent signs of weak PC sales at both Dell and Hewlett-Packard, the market is feeling ultra-sensitive at the moment to any evidence of slowing ...
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August 26, 2011 - Industry News
Applied Materials and the Semi-Equips
I suppose I could comment on HP and the news from Apple but there's plenty of fodder for that on the worldwide InterTubes. Instead, I thought ...
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August 5, 2011 - Industry News
IBM’s Palmisano: How You Get To Be A 100-Year Old Company
A 100-year-old computer company. That's what IBM is. Not very many companies make it to the century mark; many tech players never make it through even ...
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August 5, 2011 - Industry News
Keep Up With The Pace Of Change By Innovating The Adjacent Possible
We live in a world punctuated by big innovations. From fire and the wheel down to the light bulb and the iPad, we mark the march of history by the ...
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July 29, 2011 - Industry News
New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth's atmosphere is allowing far more heat to be released into space than ...
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July 20, 2011 - Industry News
Intel 2Q will give clues on consumer PC spending
Intel Corp.'s second quarter results will be an important referendum on how well the consumer PC market, which has been cripplingly weak for the ...
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June 30, 2011 - Industry News
Think Intel Is Old Tech? You're Wrong
Conventional wisdom is that Intel is an old tech has-been, in the mold of innovation laggards long past their prime. Whereas it seems evident that ...
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May 3, 2011 - Industry News
Intel Should Be Apple's Chip Foundry
Here's a novel idea. Piper Jaffray analyst Auguste Richard this morning theorizes that the best option for Intel to make dent in the mobile ...
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April 27, 2011 - Industry News
Moore's Law: Why It Matters Now More Than Ever
Coverage of new security breaches and conversations about the cloud can be seen and heard daily -- and these two themes have something very ...
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April 21, 2011 - Industry News
Intel Is Alive And Well: An Interview With CEO Paul Otellini
Heading into Q1 earnings report, the Street had turned cautious on Intel. After all, both IDG and Gartner just reported that PC sales were down in ...
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April 15, 2011 - Industry News
Fairchild Semiconductor profit jumps in 1Q
Chip maker Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. said its first-quarter profit nearly doubled as revenue climbed, helped by demand from ...
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March 10, 2011 - Industry News
Looking More Like A Chip Shop, Apple May Expand Ties To Taiwan Fab
Apple is looking more and more like a semiconductor company. The Cupertino, California-based computer and smart phone company could be about ...
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