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Article | 5/01/2011 Samsung announces first DDR4 DRAM module
Samsung Electronics said it has completed development of the first DDR4 DRAM module, which offers twice the performance of today's DDR3 DRAM and reduc...
Article | 21/12/2010 Spintronic memory gets a breakthrough
An international group of researchers has figured out how to encode information within the spin of an electron, a technique that may one day lead to s...
Article | 20/12/2010 Intel's Atom chip: Can it take on ARM?
Intel will make a big splash at the Consumer Electronics Show on Jan. 6 with its Atom chips featured inside a variety of tablet computers and netbooks...
Article | 18/12/2010 Report: EU may delay Intel's McAfee acquisition
European regulators are looking closely at Intel's planned McAfee acquisition and may hold up the deal with an investigation, according to a report pu...
Article | 17/12/2010 FBI: Executives at Dell, AMD sold inside information
Four executives at publicly traded technology companies have been arrested on charges they sold inside information about their employers, sometimes fo...
Article | 16/12/2010 LG unveils dual-core, Android-based LG Optimus 2X
LG Electronics Thursday unveiled the Optimus 2X, a smartphone based on Android and Nvidia's dual-core Tegra2 processor, which provides 1080p HD video ...
Article | 15/12/2010 Rise of the tablet may be a blow to Intel, says Goldman Sachs
Tablets are making such a mark in the computer market that they just might start giving the world's largest chip maker a good bashing.
Article | 15/12/2010 Broadcom readying chip for low-cost Android smartphones
Broadcom is working on a dual-core processor that will allow smartphone makers to build Android-based handsets with integrated Wi-Fi hotspots, the com...
Article | 14/12/2010 Tablets changing the way chip makers think
The emergence of tablets as an alternative to PCs has caught the attention of chip makers, which are preparing next-generation processors to boost app...
Article | 10/12/2010 Power glitch hits Toshiba's flash memory production line
Toshiba could lose up to a fifth of the NAND flash memory chips it was making for delivery early next year, after a momentary power glitch caused its ...
Article | 10/12/2010 Semiconductor market to slow down next year
Market research firms Gartner and IDC on Thursday said that worldwide semiconductor revenue will slow down next year, putting the brakes on the market...
Article | 9/12/2010 Gartner: Samsung gains on Intel in semiconductor market
Worldwide semiconductor revenue is expected to go up this year, with Samsung gaining ground on top semiconductor company Intel in market share, Gartne...
Article | 9/12/2010 TI raises speed bar with new smartphone processor
A new Texas Instruments chip that incorporates Arm technology could raise the level of graphics and application performance in smartphones and tablets...
Article | 8/12/2010 Oracle to halve core count in next Sparc processor
Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one ...
Article | 7/12/2010 Ellison: Oracle Enterprise Linux coming to Sparc
Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun's Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard ...