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The Gobi technology lets travelers connect to both HSPA and EV-DO networks. Later this year, it’ll be in laptops from Dell, HP, and Lenovo. (From ZDNet UK) Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Lenovo are to incorporate Qualcomm’s Gobi chipset into their laptops later this year. Gobi, which Qualcomm released…
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Sun Microsystems has received a $44 million contract from the Pentagon to explore the high-risk idea of replacing wires between computer chips with laser beams.The New York Times Sun Microsystems is trying to do for computing what all the king’s horses and men failed to do for Humpty…
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Analysts say the greatest economic challenge for Taiwan is overcoming its reliance on manufacturing for other brands and focusing on innovation and building its own brands.(From The New York Times) Mike Liang earns the equivalent of $37,500 a year, owns a four-bedroom apartment, and can afford to send…
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The complex is part of a long-term commitment to investing in Taiwan, chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. says. Top contract chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and two other Taiwan chipmakers began work on Tuesday on new plants for a $14.7 billion complex that TSMC said is part of…
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Texas Instrument shares had already lost more than 11 percent of their value since the start of 2008 as investors worried it would be hurt by a slowdown in the U.S. economy. Chipmaker Texas Instruments on Monday lowered its outlook for earnings and revenue in the first quarter…
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Chip giant picks “Atom” as the new brand name for its latest microprocessor. Intel has picked “Atom” as the new brand name for its latest microprocessor, the world’s largest semiconductor company said. The Intel Atom processor is the name for the new family of low-power processors,…
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New OMAP chips are designed to support features in music players, as well as navigational and medical-imaging equipment. Texas Instruments unveiled new application chips on Tuesday that can be used in everything from music players to medical equipment, with an aim of expanding its business beyond the cell…
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The equipment will be used by their semiconductor joint venture that will make high-performance Cell chips and RSX graphic chips. TOKYO–Sony said Wednesday it will sell its microchip production facilities in western Japan to Toshiba for $835 million, in their latest move to focus on their core…
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Montalvo Systems has a multi-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it. It works like an Intel chip, but looks like the Cell processor. That’s one way of describing the energy-efficient multiple…
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Montalvo Systems has a multiple-core chip, but not all of the cores are the same. That in part explains why investors have put money into it. It works like an Intel chip, but looks like the Cell processor. That’s one way of describing the energy-efficient multiple…
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Demand for flat-panel displays boosts profits, even as revenue declines 8 percent amid a slump in semiconductor equipment manufacturing. Applied Materials’ quarterly profit topped analysts estimates, helped by good flat-panel display demand, even as revenue declined 8 percent amid a slump in semiconductor equipment manufacturing. …
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New drive crams enormous storage capacity into standard 3.5-inch format, but it’s not ready for delivery just yet. BitMicro Networks has announced plans for a 1.6TB solid state drive the size of a standard 3.5-inch hard disk. The Altima E3S320 solid state is the first in the…
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Montalvo has some cash and a lot of execs with deep backgrounds in the chip industry. But will it have the staying power to survive against Intel? It’s a drama we’ve all seen play out before: a small, secretive start-up lays plans to come out with a chip…
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Earnings below expectations as company cites flash-memory competition, price drops, and HD DVD woes. Japanese electronics group Toshiba posted a worse-than-expected 25 percent drop in quarterly operating profit after tumbling flash memory chip prices ate into margins. The world’s No. 2 NAND flash memory chipmaker now expects…
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Chipmaker’s Isaiah processor architecture is expected to double performance but consume same amount of energy.Images: Isaiah architecture up close Via Technologies is making processors based on a new architecture this year that may help the tiny company inch up the chipmaking pecking order. The chips, which utilize…
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Japanese electronics maker plans to put struggling chipmaking operations in new unit and transfer some development from Tokyo to Mie. Japanese electronics firm Fujitsu on Monday said it would put its struggling semiconductor operations into a new unit, in a move that could smooth the way for partnerships…
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Panasonic parent Matsushita Electric Industrial and chipmaker Renesas Technology agree to work together to develop next-generation semiconductors. Panasonic parent Matsushita Electric Industrial and chipmaker Renesas Technology have agreed to work together to develop next-generation semiconductors, the Nikkan Kogyo newspaper reported Thursday. Renesas–a joint venture between Hitachi and…
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