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| New PC market emerging in China |
2/9/2007 |
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Small businesses (with up to 99 employees) constitute a large proportion of the overall market in China, and comprise 93% of the China business universe. Yet, 67% of small businesses (SB) in China do not own any computers, representing a potential US$345 million market opportunity for PC vendors.
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| PC sales jumped on Vista introduction |
2/9/2007 |
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PC unit sales soared 173 percent at U.S. retail stores during the week ended February 3, compared with PC sales in the previous week, according to the report. Current Analysis also noted that during Vista's debut week PC unit sales rose 67 percent compared with the same period a year ago.
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| Intel to offer Pentium M based embedded processor |
2/9/2007 |
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Tolapai processor is intended for use in embedded systems and the industrial computer market and is being introduced to compete with the C7 and Geode processors from Via Technologies Inc. and Advance Micro Devices Inc. respectively.
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| DRAM prices on the fall |
2/9/2007 |
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Poor demand and seasonal factors prompted the DRAM crash, causing vendors to cut prices at an alarming rate. On the spot market, ASPs were down by an average of 4.8 percent across all densities for the week ended Feb. 2, standing at $4.90 on a 512-Mbit equivalent basis, according to Gartner Inc.
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| Quantum computer solves non-deterministic calculations |
2/9/2007 |
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Nondeterministic polynomial (NP) problems are the most difficult to solve on conventional computers because each variable adds yet another dimension to its possible solutions. Each must be calculated and compared to find an optimal solution.
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| Windows Mobile 6 can go open source |
2/9/2007 |
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A fully featured, fully open source mobile handset could help reduce the cost of mobile telecommunications and give users access to a rich set of low cost applications for texting, instant messaging and other uses.
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| Malwares roaming the World Wide Web |
2/8/2007 |
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Sophos detected 41,536 new pieces of malware in 2006. Of these threats, Trojans now outnumber Windows viruses and worms by four to one.
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| LCD production equipment: a fading game |
2/8/2007 |
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Array processing equipment for flat-panel displays dropped 11 percent in 2006 and will decrease another 14 percent in 2007, according to The Information Network, a New Tripoli, Penn.-based market research company.
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| Patches made as company recognise Vista incompatibility |
2/8/2007 |
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That includes not only iTunes but QuickTime, Airport For Windows, Bonjour For Windows, iDisk utility, and AppleWorks for Windows. All of those applications or utilities are listed by Apple as compatible with Windows XP and earlier versions of Windows, but not Vista.
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| AMD brings out new low Power dual core |
2/8/2007 |
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The dual-core Opteron 1218 HE, 2218 HE and 8218 HE offer 68-watt maximum thermal design power versus the mainstream 95 watts, the company said. The new processors target companies looking to reduce the cost of power consumption and cooling in the datacenter.
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| Nvidia found compatibility issue with Vista |
2/8/2007 |
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Nvidia has acknowledged that its Vista drivers haven't performed as well as they should, and said in an e-mail on Wednesday that driver development for Vista is "the highest priority in our company."
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| WiFi/Blue Tooth to fill next round of handsets |
2/7/2007 |
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Handheld wireless systems featuring IEEE 802.11a/b/g (MAC, baseband and radio), support for Bluetooth 2.0 plus enhanced data rate (EDR) that is upgradeable to version 2.1 and an advanced FM receiver.
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| Samsung settles on DRAM price fixing case |
2/7/2007 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has agreed to pay $90 million to settle litigation brought by 41 U.S. states pertaining to Samsung's alleged participation in a global DRAM price-fixing conspiracy.
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| Freescale is paying off for equity investor |
2/6/2007 |
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Freescale Semiconductor, bought last year by a private equity consortium led by Blackstone, saw sales grow 9 percent to $6.36 billion in 2006 in a total semiconductor market that grew 8.9 percent.
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| TSMC setup support center in Bangalore |
2/6/2007 |
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The office's primary mission is to locally support existing TSMC customers in North America, Europe and Asia with design activities in India, and to help new fabless companies in India to grow and expand.
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| Future Horizons sees the ASP upside |
2/6/2007 |
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Penn made his assessment based on the view that there will be a belated return to ASP growth aligned with continuing unit demand over the next couple of years. However, Penn's analysis is also based on the assumption that there will be no major shocks to the global economy
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| Analyst predicts semi slow down |
2/6/2007 |
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End-demand is expected to peak in the second half, dampening growth to single digits in 2007, according to market researcher Advanced Forecasting.
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| DRAM prices expect to drop |
2/5/2007 |
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iSuppli Corp. has downgraded its rating of near-term DRAM market conditions for suppliers to “negative” while maintaining its negative rating for NAND-type flash memory. As of the end of January, DRAM spot market prices had been sliding for three consecutive weeks.
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| SMIC to spin off Beijing fab. and IPO HK market |
2/5/2007 |
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Chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is mulling the possibility of spinning off its profitable 300mm wafer operations in Beijing for a domestic initial public offering.
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| FTC final rule on Rambus case |
2/5/2007 |
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Royalty caps: 0.25 percent for SDRAMs; 0.5 percent for DDR SDRAMs; 0.5 percent for SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components; and 1.0 percent for DDR SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components. The maximum rates will be in effect for three years.
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| NAND price collapse on the market |
2/5/2007 |
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Starting late last year, poor seasonal demand prompted Samsung, Hynix and others to dump 8-Gbit NAND parts in the spot market. This sent average selling prices (ASPs) plummeting in January, and caused the apparent collapse of the contract market, analysts said last week.
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| Transmeta cut 39% of workforce |
2/5/2007 |
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Transmeta Inc, began cutting its worldwide workforce by approximately 39 percent of whom worked in the company's engineering services business
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