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Sunday, November 30, 2008


IN BRIEF: Intel Teams Up with Taiwanese Makers to Tap Digital Signage Market.
[11:14 pm]

Intel and Taiwanese Makers Form Digital Signage SIG Joint Venture

Consumers Plan to Spend the Same or More This Holiday Season – Research Firm.
[10:39 pm]

Consumer Technology Spending Will Stay Flat or Will Grow, Claims ABI Research

Intel Stresses Again: Netbook is Not a Notebook Replacement.
[10:21 pm]

Intel Admits Underestimation of Netbook Popularity on Developed Markets

Dell Readies Notebooks with Two Central Processing Units.
[1:55 pm]

Dell Plans to Install Chips from ARM and Intel

 

Friday, November 28, 2008


Nintendo Sells 34.55 Million Wii Video Game Consoles.
[10:58 pm]

Life-to-Date Sales of Nintendo Wii Reach 34.55 Million

Elpida Acquires Rexchip Electronics from Powerchip Semiconductor.
[12:45 pm]

Elpida Takes Over Taiwanese Memory Maker

 

Thursday, November 27, 2008


IN BRIEF: Nokia Pulls Out From Japanese Cell Phone Market.
[3:33 pm]

Global Financial Slump Forces Nokia to Cease Cell Phone Development for Japan

Shipments of Set-Top Boxes to Start Declining After 2012 – Research Firm.
[2:02 pm]

Set-Top Box Shipments to Peak in 2012, Says ABI Research

IN BRIEF: Economic Crisis Reportedly Forces Chip Designers to Migrate to Newer Process Technologies.
[1:18 pm]

Fabless Chip Designers Tend to Transit to New Fabrication Processes

Via Technologies’ Dual-Core Microprocessors Only Due in 2010.
[12:27 pm]

Via’s Dual-Core Processors Delayed to 2010

FTC Asks Supreme Court to Re-Evaluate Rambus Antitrust Case.
[8:14 am]

FTC Wants Supreme Court to Admit Anticompetitive Behaviour of Rambus

 

Wednesday, November 26, 2008


Lenovo to Allow Locking Down ThinkPad Notebooks by Text Message.
[6:49 pm]

Lenovo ThinkPad Notebooks to Get Remote Lockdown Feature

Imagination Technologies’ PowerVR Graphics Chip Rumoured to Power Sony PlayStation Portable Successor.
[6:08 pm]

ImgTec’s PowerVR Reportedly Goes Into PlayStation Portable 2

Inexpensive Blu-Ray Disc Players Scarce in Europe – Research Firm.
[2:43 pm]

No Cheap Blu-Ray in Europe for Christmas

Shipments of Mainboards Are Dropping Dramatically – Goldman Sachs.
[12:34 pm]

Motherboard Industry Faces Financial Disaster

Elpida Unveils 2.50GHz Memory Chips with Reduced Voltages.
[11:12 am]

Elpida Completes Development of 50nm Process DDR3 SDRAM

 

Tuesday, November 25, 2008


Panasonic Vows to Standardize Three-Dimensional High-Def Movies on Blu-Ray.
[5:20 pm]

New Lamps for Old: Panasonic Proposes Red-Blue 3D for Blu-Ray

Life-to-Date Sales of Microsoft Xbox 360 Surpass Those of the Original Xbox.
[3:45 pm]

Microsoft Claims Life-to-Date Sales of Xbox 360 to Be Over 24 Million

Elpida to “Consider Merging with ProMOS”, Says Chief Executive Officer.
[12:45 pm]

Elpida Confirms Intention to Merge with ProMOS

 

Monday, November 24, 2008


Western Digital Mulls Entering Solid-State Drive, SAS HDD Markets.
[11:45 pm]

Western Digital Calm about Solid-State Drives, Serial Attached SCSI

Asustek Computer Expects All-In-One Eee Top PC to Impact Small Vendor Businesses.
[9:03 pm]

Asus Eee Top PC to Slowdown Sales of Mainboards, PCs, Says Asustek Computer

Correction: Ultra Low-Power Desktop Intel Processors Will Be in Mobile Form-Factor.
[1:14 pm]

Intel’s 35W Chips to Feature FC-PGA Packaging

Intel’s and Micron’s IM Flash Starts Production Using 34nm Process Technology.
[9:06 am]

Intel, Micron Move into Mass Production with 34nm NAND Flash

Hynix Semiconductor Introduces 7GHz GDDR5 Memory.
[7:14 am]

Hynix Reveals World’s Fastest Memory for Graphics Adapters

 

Friday, November 21, 2008


IN BRIEF: Qimonda Accuses Seagate, LSI of Patent Infringement.
[2:29 pm]

Qimonda Asks ITC to Investigate Alleged Patent Infringements by LSI, Seagate

Sales of Blu-Ray Disc Players Below Expectations, Movie Prices Should Get Cheaper – Sony.
[6:05 am]

Sony Admits: High BD Movie Prices Curtail Sales of Blu-Ray Players

AMD to Release Quad-Core Processor for Notebooks in 2010.
[4:12 am]

AMD’s “Champlain” CPU Set to Emerge in 2010

 

Thursday, November 20, 2008


Foxconn Rumoured to Take Over Pegatron, Quit Channel Business.
[3:21 pm]

Foxconn May Sacrifice Channel Business for Contract Manufacturing Capacity Expansion

Intel Plans to Release Discrete Larrabee Graphics Processors in 2009 or 2010.
[1:43 pm]

Intel Unsure When to Release Its Standalone Larrabee Graphics Chip

S3 Graphics Reveals New-Generation Graphics Processor.
[12:09 pm]

S3 Unveils GPU with Built-In Audio Core, Starts to Sell Chrome 530 GT Graphics Card

Blu-Ray Disc Players’ Prices Fall Below $150.
[8:29 am]

Relatively Inexpensive Blu-Ray Players Finally Emerge

JEDEC to Set Solid State Drive Standards in 2009.
[4:24 am]

JEDEC Plans to Standardize SSDs Next Year

Elpida May Gain Manufacturing Capacity or May Slowdown Its Further Expansion.
[3:00 am]

Elpida May Plan Surprising Acquisition of Powerchip or ProMOS

 

Wednesday, November 19, 2008


IN BRIEF: HDMI Continues to Gain Popularity as DVI Slides, Analysts Say.
[11:27 pm]

DVI Continues to Lose Popularity on Consumer Electronics, Notebooks Markets

Microsoft Cuts Prices on Zune Players, Adds Free Tracks to Keep to Zune Pass Music Subscription.
[11:06 pm]

Microsoft Zune Drops in Pricing, Changes Zune Music Pass Model

First-Generation Intel Core i7 Chips Will Never Become Mainstream – Slides.
[6:02 pm]

Intel Core i7 Microprocessors Will Remain a Niche High-End Product

PC Gaming Hardware Market on the Rise and Will Continue to Grow – Jon Peddie Research.
[12:58 pm]

End-Users to Spend More Money on PC Gaming Hardware, Research Firm Claims

Intel Prepares Assault with 35W Quad-Core, Dual-Core Processors for Desktops.
[6:14 am]

Intel Readies Broad Lineup of Ultra Low Power Processors for Desktop Computers

NPD Group: More Smartphone Owners are Playing Games than Using Business Applications.
[3:59 am]

Market Research Firm Reports on Portable Device Usage

Intel to Unveil Desktop Quad-Core Chips with Lowered Power Consumption.
[3:43 am]

Intel Plans to Release Low-Power 65W Quad-Core Processors for Desktops

 

Tuesday, November 18, 2008


Nintendo Wii Still Most Popular Video Game Console in the USA – NPD.
[10:31 pm]

Video Games Market Hit New Heights as Wii Continues to Outsell PS3 and X360 Combined

Intel Set to Refresh High-End Desktop Processor Lineup in Q2 2009.
[4:18 pm]

Intel to Speed Up Core i7 Processors in the Second Quarter of 2009

Art Lebedev Demos Working Sample of Optimus Aux Keypad.
[12:52 pm]

Optimus Aux Keypad Set to Sell for $650

Kodak Sues LG Electronics and Samsung, Wants to Ban Sales of Digital Cameras.
[11:26 am]

Kodak Accuses LG and Samsung of Patent Infringement

IN BRIEF: Quanta to Decrease Prices to Keep Orders from Partners, Says Rumour.
[11:08 am]

Quanta Fights Against Compal, Wistron for Orders from Acer Group

Intel to Initiate Shipments of Nehalem Processors for Servers Early Next Year.
[8:27 am]

Intel to Ramp Up Nehalem-Based Xeon Microprocessors in Q1 2009

AMD’s Partners Initiate Shipments of 45nm Server Processors.
[5:13 am]

AMD’s Quad-Core Opteron “Shanghai” Now Available for Purchase

 

Monday, November 17, 2008


Spansion Sues Samsung, Seeks to Ban Sales of Flash-Based Devices.
[11:51 pm]

Legal Dispute Between Samsung and Spansion May Lead to Ban of Sales of Products by Apple, Lenovo, Sony, Others

Video Processor Developer Novafora to Acquire Processor Designer Transmeta.
[10:33 pm]

Novafora to Acquire Transmeta for $255.6 Million in Cash

Dell May Change Technology Development Direction amid Chief Technology Officer Leave.
[2:53 pm]

Dell’s Chief Technology Officer to Leave in Two Months

SuperSpeed USB Specification Now Available for Implementers.
[2:52 pm]

USB 3.0 Specification Now Available

Pirates Start to “Replicate” Blu-Ray Movies.
[9:07 am]

Counterfeited Blu-Ray Movies Begin to Emerge

TSMC Begins Volume Manufacturing of Products Using 40nm Process Technology.
[7:20 am]

TSMC Begins to Ramp Up 40nm Fabrication Process Production

 

Sunday, November 16, 2008


ATI, Nvidia to Cut Prices on Graphics Cards, Says Report.
[11:09 am]

Standalone Graphics Cards Set to Become Cheaper

 

Saturday, November 15, 2008


AMD Delays Introduction of "Fusion" CPU-GPU Products.
[2:15 pm]

The First AMD Fusion Products to Be Available Only in 2011

 

Friday, November 14, 2008


Kingston Set to Build Another Memory Module Plant - Media Report.
[11:21 pm]

Kingston Plans Expansion Despite Economic Crisis

Advanced Micro Devices Ignores Netbooks, Targets “Ultra-Portable” Notebooks.
[10:47 pm]

AMD Says “No” to Netbooks, Praises “Ultra-Portables”

 

Thursday, November 13, 2008


Chartered Semiconductor Rumoured to Merge with Bigger Market Player.
[11:02 pm]

Chartered May Be Looking Forward to Merge with TSMC, UMC

ARM Expects to Unveil Netbooks in Q2 2008 Along with Ubuntu Linux for ARM.
[8:18 am]

ARM-Based Netbooks, Mobile Internet Devices to Get Ubuntu Linux Operating

 

Wednesday, November 12, 2008


Mainboard Manufacturers Suffer from Declining Orders for Mainboards.
[11:52 pm]

Mainboard Producers Seek to Cut Expenses Amid Downturn in Demand

Qualcomm Unveils “PC Alternative” Platform for Internet Access.
[11:10 pm]

Qualcomm Reveals Alternative for Ultra Low-Cost PCs for Internet Access

AMD Set to Disclose Netbook Strategy at Analyst Conference.
[5:00 pm]

AMD to Talk About Netbook Platforms at Analyst Meeting

Intel Expects Revenue to Drop Due to Economic Downturn.
[3:52 pm]

Intel Reduces Sales Expectations for the Fourth Quarter

IN BRIEF: Ex-IBM Employee Ordered to Stop Working for Apple.
[3:32 pm]

Judge Rules Against Ex-IBM Executive in Legal Dispute

Kingston Redesigns Heat-Spreaders for Enthusiast-Class Memory Modules.
[3:11 pm]

Kingston Launches HyperX T1 Family of Memory Modules

Economy Slowdown May Hit Blu-Ray Format Adoption.
[8:40 am]

Economic Crisis – Major Challenge for Blu-Ray, Claim Hollywood Execs

ATI Begins to Fight Back Market Share from Nvidia in Desktop Discrete Market Segment.
[3:58 am]

Demand for Graphics Cards Increased in Q3 2008, Average Selling Prices Dropped Again – Research Firm

 

Tuesday, November 11, 2008


Dell Denies Rumours Regarding Imminent Portable Digital Media Player Launch.
[11:20 pm]

No MP3 Player from Dell, Says Company

Online Stores Begin to Sell Intel Core i7 Microprocessors.
[8:22 pm]

Intel Core i7 Chips Available Online Ahead of Schedule

Analysts Cut Estimates for AMD, Intel as Demand for PCs Slows Down.
[7:39 pm]

Financial Analysts Pessimistic about AMD and Intel

Nvidia Offers Professional Graphics Solutions for Clients in Budget.
[3:16 pm]

Nvidia Revolutionizes Professional Graphics Market with Integrated and Low-Cost Options

Microsoft Releases Direct3D 11 Technical Preview for Developers.
[9:21 am]

Microsoft DirectX SDK Update Now Features DirectX 11 Technical Preview

 

Monday, November 10, 2008


Panasonic and Sanyo in Talks for Merge.
[10:36 pm]

Panasonic Set to Acquire Sanyo

Nvidia Reassures Partners that Litigation with Rambus Will Not Affect Business.
[9:26 pm]

Nvidia Continues to Deny Accusations of Rambus of Patent Infringement

IBM Ready to Manufacture Chips for Clients Using 45nm Process Technology.
[8:40 pm]

IBM Starts to Offer 45nm SOI Foundry Services

Nvidia Delays Shipments of Tegra Multimedia System-on-Chip.
[2:40 pm]

Nvidia Tegra Delayed to Spring 2009

IN BRIEF: PC Market Set to Decline: Apple, Asus Cut Notebook Manufacturing.
[2:00 pm]

Apple, Asustek Computer Trim Down Orders for Notebooks

Intel Rolls Out Healthcare Device, Service.
[1:05 pm]

Intel Unveils Health Guide Tools

Prices of Blu-Ray Players to Drop In $150 - $200 Range – Research Firm.
[7:12 am]

Economic Downturn to Help Blu-Ray Players to Decrease in Price

 

Sunday, November 9, 2008


ATI Rumoured to Refresh ATI Radeon HD 4000 Lineup with Higher-Performance Chips.
[11:02 pm]

Advanced Micro Devices Expected to Release ATI RV790 Chips Shortly

Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for Netbooks.
[8:28 pm]

Netbooks May Get More Popular than Expected

 

Friday, November 7, 2008


Nvidia Reports Successful Transition to New Process Technology.
[11:52 pm]

Nvidia Admits: GeForce GTX 280, 260 Are Too Expensive to Make

Rambus Demands International Trade Commission to Stop Sales of Nvidia Products.
[11:21 pm]

Rambus Files Complaint with International Trade Commission, Seeks investigation of Nvidia products

 

Thursday, November 6, 2008


IN BRIEF: Seagate Invests $100 Million into Development of Solid State Drives.
[5:18 pm]

Seagate Has Huge Plans for Solid State Storage Systems

TSMC Plans to Start Making Chips Using 22nm Process Technology in 2011.
[11:55 am]

TSMC Becomes Ultra Aggressive with Adoption of New Process Technologies

Freescale and Samsung to Collaborate on LED Display Technology.
[9:00 am]

Freescale and Samsung to Advance LED Displays

 

Wednesday, November 5, 2008


Intel Discontinues Bunch of 45nm, 65nm Microprocessors.
[11:50 pm]

Intel to Cease Supplying Several Microprocessors

SanDisk Plans to Speed Up Solid State Drives by Up To 100 Times in 2009.
[8:42 pm]

SanDisk’s ExtremeFFS Technology to Accelerate SSDs

IN BRIEF: Intel Core i7 Microprocessors Set to Arrive on November 17.
[6:02 pm]

Intel, Partners to Start Selling Core i7 Chips, Systems on November 17

Qimonda Starts Commercial Production Using New Buried Wordline DRAM Technology.
[4:17 pm]

Qimonda Initiates DRAM Production Using Buried Wordline Tech

Sony Attempts to Improve Quality of Audio CDs with Blue Laser Recording.
[2:55 pm]

Sony Finds Way to Make Audio CDs More Expensive with Blu-Spec CD

 

Tuesday, November 4, 2008


Windows 7 to Boost Performance of Solid State Drives – Microsoft, Research Companies.
[8:34 pm]

Flash-Based Storage to Get a Boost from Windows 7

Apple Gets Sued for Hiring Ex-IBM Employee to Lead iPod, iPhone Teams.
[5:56 pm]

IBM’s Lawsuit May Point to Major Changes in Apple’s iPod and iPhone Biz

IN BRIEF: TSMC Chairman Calls for Expanding Chip Design Efforts in Mainland China.
[3:47 pm]

TSMC: Design in Mainland China, Manufacture in Taiwan

Alienware Launches Gaming Notebook with Quad-Core Processor, Dual-GPU Graphics Sub-System.
[3:18 pm]

Alienware M17 Features Core 2 Quad Processor, Radeon HD 3870 CrossFire

Fujitsu to Take Over Siemens’ Stake in PC Joint Venture.
[1:52 pm]

Fujitsu to Acquire Siemens’s Stake in Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Nvidia and Via Technologies Suspend Agreement to Co-Develop Platforms.
[7:54 am]

Nvidia and Via Abandon VN Computing Platforms

 

Monday, November 3, 2008


Apple Denies Plans to Update iMac, Mac Mini Desktops.
[9:02 pm]

Apple Has Finished with Product Families Updates for This Year, Says Company

Apple Expected to Cut Production of iPhone, Peak Popularity of iPhone May Be Over.
[3:58 pm]

Analysts Project Decline in Apple iPhone Sales Going Forward

OCZ Technology Unveils “Do-It-Yourself” Barebone for Centrino 2 Notebooks.
[3:52 pm]

OCZ Adds Quad-Core Microprocessors, ATI CrossFire, Blu-Ray Drive to DIY Lineup for Gamers

IN BRIEF: Taiwan Makers of Flash Drives Reluctant to Sign License Agreement with SanDisk – Report.
[3:50 pm]

A-Data Licenses SanDisk Flash-Related Patents, Others Unwilling

Acer Expects to Outsell Asus Eee PC with Aspire One Netbook.
[12:19 pm]

Acer Wants to Become Top Seller of Netbooks

Western Digital Enters the Market of Digital Media Players.
[12:17 pm]

Hard Drive Maker Unveils WD TV HD Media Player

Intel Atom Helps to Boost Microprocessor Shipments to Record Levels.
[7:55 am]

PC Processor Market Hits Record Levels Amid Gloomy Prospects