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| Is RIM going to survive? |
12/20/2012 |
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This year, RIM has watched its market share in North America dramatically fall to about four per cent as the BlackBerry became an afterthought in the face of Apple's iPhone and the Samsung Galaxy S3.
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| Semi sales down 2.3% for 2012 |
12/19/2012 |
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Semiconductor silicon revenue will close the year at $303 billion, down 2.3 percent from $310 billion in 2011. The projected decline comes in contrast to the 1.3 percent gain made last year.
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| UBM found new SK Hynix DRAM cell quite different |
12/19/2012 |
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The process integration scheme is significantly different: The Hynix 44-nm SDRAM has a WL above the Si substrate level and the array transistor employs the saddle-fin structure; the new Hynix SDRAM has a WL below the substrate surface and uses the buried-wordline (bWL) scheme.
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| Samsung stays ahead on smartphone shipment |
12/19/2012 |
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"Samsung made significant gains in both the high end as well as the low-cost market with its Galaxy line of smartphones. This diversified market approach has allowed Samsung to address a larger target audience for its phones than Apple’s limited premium iPhone line.”
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| Return of the Google Maps on iPhone helped adoption of iOS 6 |
12/19/2012 |
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Advertising companies saw a spike in individual iOS 6 users in the days following Google Maps' availability for the iPhone. The theory is these users decided to avoid iOS 6 (at least for a little while) due to its lack of Google Maps.
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| IBM and Intel race to 22nm |
12/18/2012 |
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Intel and IBM went head-to-head with their latest 22-nm technologies in back-to-back papers at the International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) here Monday (Dec. 10).
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| Industry executives see market to rebounce |
12/18/2012 |
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The rebound is likely to begin in the second half of 2013, but 75 percent of the 152 executives polled said their companies' revenue growth will increase in the next fiscal year, compared to 63 percent a year ago. Also, two-thirds expect their workforce to expand.
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| IBM: Computers will have 5 senses |
12/18/2012 |
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Computers with the ability to both understand the human senses and relay that information to users will widen the world for those with access to smartphones and tablet computers.
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| Walmart cut prices on iPhone5 |
12/17/2012 |
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Walmart is offering the 16 GB iPhone 5 for $127 (normally $189.97) and the 16GB iPhone 4S for $47 (normally $87.97), along with a two-year contract. They'll also sell the third-generation iPad for $399.
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| Acer to unveil new tablet in 2013 |
12/14/2012 |
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Acer is already set to announce new products in early 2013 and will also release Windows 8 Pro tablets in the second quarter of 2013.
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| Intel unveil server-class processors |
12/13/2012 |
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Intel has introduced the Atom processor S1200 product family, delivering the world's first low-power, 64-bit server-class system-on-chip (SoC) for high-density microservers.
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| ProMos unable to sell 12-inch fab |
12/13/2012 |
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ProMOS Technologies failed, for the second time, on December 12 to sell its 12-inch fab located in Taichung, central Taiwan
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| Toshiba develops MRAM for smart phone |
12/12/2012 |
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Toshiba has announced the development of a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM).
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| HTC unveiled new Phone |
12/11/2012 |
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HTC unveiled a new smartphone boasting a higher resolution display than the iPhone 5 just days before Apple's latest handset goes on sale on the island.
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| TSMC November revenues down sequentially |
12/11/2012 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) on December 10 reported consolidated revenues of NT$44.253 billion (US$1.52 billion) for November,
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