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| Toshiba shipped perpendicular disk-drive |
8/17/2005 |
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Toshiba Corp. announced it has started shipping production quantities of a 1.8-inch hard disk drive using perpendicular recording to pack 40-Gbytes of memory storage on a single platter, about 10-Gbytes per platter more than on its existing drives.
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| HP profit fell but outlook good |
8/17/2005 |
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HP reported stronger than expected 3rd quarter earnings amid strong growth in notebook and printer business. Non-GAAP earnings beat analyst estimates, as did revenue, which rose 10 percent year-over-year.
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| VoIP requires wireless IP phone to gain ground |
8/16/2005 |
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A report from In-Stat shows that dual-mode cellular/WiFi handsets will be the key driver to mass consumer adoption of VoIP, the high-tech market research firm says. By 2009, In-Stat forecasts that over 66 million cellular/WiFi handsets will be in operation.
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| Micron unveils 800Mhz DDR2 MiniDIMMs |
8/15/2005 |
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Micron Technology announced availability of what it claims to be the first PC2-5300 and PC2-6400 double data rate 2 (DDR2) very low profile (VLP) registered and unbuffered mini dual-inline memory modules (MiniDIMMs) for the growing networking and communications equipment markets.
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| Agilent to let go semi unit |
8/15/2005 |
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Agilent Technologies agreed to sell its semiconductor unit and its stake in a lighting technology firm for $3.6 billion.
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| Samsung plans to raise Nand Flash price |
8/12/2005 |
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ongoing downward trend in NAND flash contract pricing may reverse this month, as market leader Samsung Electronics plans to raise 8Gbit NAND flash prices by US$1.5 to US$46
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| DDR2 memory to move to main stream |
8/12/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said this week that the global shift to a speedier computer memory chip
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| Intel to announce processor architecture at IDF |
8/12/2005 |
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Paul Ottelini, Intel’s chief executive officer, is expected to announce an architecture for microprocessors during a keynote speech on Aug. 23 at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco
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| Chipset vendor sales up for July |
8/9/2005 |
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Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS), VIA Technologies and ULi Electronics – reported slight sequential growth in their July revenues
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| IBM launches 130-nanometer SiGe processes |
8/8/2005 |
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IBM has announced the availability a fourth generation of its silicon germanium foundry manufacturing process, which the company claimed provides twice the performance of the previous generation.
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