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| New memory company claims no wear out non-volatile |
6/25/2009 |
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The wide band-gap characteristics of SIC-on-silicon technology enables ''fast read and write times'' and ''no wear out'' capabilities for its proposed devices. ''We're simply trapping a charge in SiC,'' Goodman said. "SiC is great for that.''
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| SSD to HDD ratio is low |
6/24/2009 |
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Because of uncertain demand, makers also expressed doubts whether SSDs would go mainstream replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in 2010. Though the flash-based drives can improve PC performance and reduce power consumption, HDDs are still competitive in terms of pricing, the makers said.
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| Qimonda being sold in pieces |
6/24/2009 |
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Qimonda's core assets such as patents and the fabs however are still in the hand of the insolvency administrator. Thus, a large-scale solution still would possible. At least theoretically.
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| Gartner projects sustained recovery |
6/24/2009 |
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The research company said that electronic equipment markets should begin a recovery in Q4 of this year, allowing the electronics industry to enter into a sustained recovery — as measured by a rolling 12-month comparison with the prior year — in the second half of 2010 with a reacceleration in sales in 2011.
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| Intel to regain ground lost to AMD |
6/23/2009 |
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"Also, we think some of AMD's better-than-expected Q1 revenues were a result of aggressive pricing actions, potentially impeding some of the firm's gross margin recovery. Finally, AMD may cede a couple of points of market share gained in Q1 as customer price sensitivity decreases, given broader signs of global economic stabilization,"
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| Intel to announce design win with Nokia |
6/23/2009 |
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A news agency has reported Intel Corp. is set to announce it has struck an agreement to supply wireless chips to Nokia Corp., the world's biggest mobile handset manufacturer.
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| IBM and Intel head to head on high performance computing |
6/23/2009 |
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Intel made modest gains as the dominant processor supplier in the latest version of the Top 500 supercomputer list released Tuesday (June 23) at a conference in Hamburg. But IBM retained its standing with the number one system on the list, the so-called Roadrunner which in May 2008 became the first to break the petaflops barrier.
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| Nokia Siemens will pay $650M for Nortel assets |
6/22/2009 |
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Nokia Siemens Networks said it has struck an agreement to pay $650 million for the next-generation wireless technology business of Canada's bankrupt communications equipment vendor Nortel Networks Inc.
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| iSuppli said worldwide chip sales to pick up sequentially |
6/19/2009 |
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Global chip sales in the first quarter declined to $44.3 billion, down 18.8 percent from $54.5 billion in the fourth quarter, and a decline of 33.8 percent from $66.8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to market tracker iSuppli.
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| Intel put more resource in energy R&D |
6/19/2009 |
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Intel Corp. has revamped its R&D activities, by renaming the group and forming several new units in the arena. The company has also formed a new group that will focus on energy.
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| TSMC to boost 2009 CAPEX to $1.9 billion |
6/18/2009 |
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Silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) plans to boost its capital spending from $1.5 billion to $1.9 billion in 2009, according to a report from the Financial Times.
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| ProMos to supply DRAM to Elpida, sources said |
6/17/2009 |
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ProMOS Technologies will sign a DRAM supply agreement with Elpida Memory soon, forming a partnership that may be key to success of the Taiwan government-led Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) project, according to industry sources.
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| Best Buy quarterly earnings down |
6/17/2009 |
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Best Buy Co. Inc. posted lower first-quarter earnings and weaker-than-expected sales Tuesday and implied earnings for the rest of the year would be worse than forecast.
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| Foundry to see improved sales in Q2 |
6/17/2009 |
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Global revenue for pure-play foundries is expected to jump in Q2 after disastrous performance in Q1 impacted the top 10 foundries, according to a report from iSuppli Corp.
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| Sharp intergrates memory to LCD panel to save power |
6/16/2009 |
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Because liquid crystal display (LCD) pixels are relatively large it is possible to integrate memory in the active memory backplane at each pixel site. Sharp Corp. has done this for a 96 x 96 pixel miniature monochrome LCD and claims a power saving of a factor of 130 compared to standard LCDs of equal size.
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| ST, Soitec co-develop next generation image sensors |
6/16/2009 |
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STMicrolectronics and Soitec announced an exclusive joint cooperation to develop 300-mm wafer-level BSI (backside-illumination) technology for the next-generation of image sensors in consumer electronics.
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