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| US Patent office rejects Rambus patents |
11/25/2009 |
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected all 17 claims in three Rambus patents that the company asserted against Nvidia in a complaint filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC).
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| Elpida opens Munich-Germany Test Lab |
11/24/2009 |
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Elpida Memory officially opened its German High Speed DRAM Test Laboratory.President and CEO Yukio Sakamoto was welcomed by the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs.
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| Google unveil open-source Chrome OS |
11/23/2009 |
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Google Inc have announced the open-sourcing of code for Chrome OS, the cloud-based operating system the company is developing to power netbooks.
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| Hynix launch new 2GB DDR3 Chip |
11/23/2009 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has announced Intel validation of 2Gb DDR3 DRAM chips using 40nm-class process technology.
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| AMD launched High-end Graphic Card |
11/23/2009 |
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AMD has announced the ATI Radeon HD 5970, a new ultra high-end model joining its list of Radeon HD 5000 series graphics card
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| Elpida unveil GDDR5 graphic chip |
11/23/2009 |
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Elpida Memory has unveiled the development of a 1-gigabit (1Gb) GDDR5 that operates at a speed of six gigabits per second (Gbps).
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| Dell's third-quarter profit drop |
11/20/2009 |
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Dell reported third-quarter profits on Thursday that were down 54 percent from this time last year, though the company said it was encouraged by a slight uptick in sales from the prior quarter.
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| DRAM prices possibly retreat in December |
11/19/2009 |
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Some DRAM module makers in Taiwan are forecasting a price correction to reflect seasonal demand in December, and have expressed caution about the near-term
chip pricing.
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| Yahoo Go to shut down on January 12, 2010 |
11/19/2009 |
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Yahoo Go will soon be gone. The mobile application service, launched in 2006 at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, will shut down on January 12, 2010, Yahoo has announced.
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| Google announce update to Google Earth iPhone app. |
11/18/2009 |
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Google has announced an update to its popular Google Earth iPhone app. Version 2.0 lets users view personalized maps created on a desktop machine. The upgrade also adds 13 new languages to the mix, bringing a total of 31 supported languages.
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| Applied Materials will purchase Semitool for $364 million |
11/18/2009 |
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Leading chip making equipment company Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) has made an agreement to purchase Semitool Inc. (Kalispell, Mont.) for $364 million in cash. This is based on an $11 per share tender offer. Semitool is a supplier of electrochemical plating and wafer surface preparation
equipment.
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| The era of ddr3 is coming |
11/17/2009 |
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With customers pushing the DDR3 generation, memory packaging and testing firms Powertech Technology (PTI), Formosa Advanced Technologies Company (FATC) and Walton Advanced Engineering all estimate DDR3 will contribute 90% to their overall DRAM shipments at the end of 2010, up from 40-50% at end-2009, according
to company sources.
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| SOI Industry Consortium adopted new member:Mentor |
11/15/2009 |
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The SOI Industry Consortium this week announced Mentor Graphics Corp as its newest member, saying that in joining the group the company aims to expand EDA tool and methodology support for SOI (silicon-on-insulator) technology.
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| Kaspersky Unveils Antivirus for Mac |
11/15/2009 |
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"Since 2005, there has been a marked increase in the number of vulnerabilities in the Mac OS which can be used to conduct an attack via the Internet," said Gun Suk Ling, managing director for Kaspersky Lab, Southeast Asia.
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