IDG News Service - Increased sales of electronics and new forms of computing devices will drive the worldwide semiconductor market to growth this year after a slowdown in 2012, the nonprofit organization World Semiconductor Trade Statistics ...
Tags: Semiconductor industry, electronics, computing devices
Computerworld - Booming sales of tablets, smartphones and solid-state drives (SSDs) are taking a toll on hard-disk drive (HDD) sales, revenue from which is expected to drop by about 12% this year. According to a market report from ...
Microsoft's low-end Surface Pro tablet, slated to start shipping Feb. 9, sports just 23GB of free storage space out of the box, Microsoft confirmed today. The 64GB Surface Pro, which will sell for $899, uses more than 60% of its flash ...
Net income was $151m for the quarter. South Korean chipmaker, SK Hynix, has reported revenues of KRW2.7 trillion ($2.4bn) for the fourth quarter of 2012, up 6%, compared to KRW2.5 trillion ($2.3bn) it reported in the corresponding quarter ...
Tags: chip demand, chipmaker, server products
Apple today doubled the maximum storage space of its fourth-generation iPad to 128GB, and announced it would start selling the new tablet next week. The Wi-Fi-only 128GB iPad will cost $799, while the cellular-enabled model will run $929. ...
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Silicon Motion Technology, the Taiwan-based supplier of NAND flash controllers for solid state storage devices, is offering its first, and possibly the market's first, single-channel, USB3.0 flash drive controller which supports Windows To ...
Seagate Technology and Virident Systems today announced a strategic partnership to jointly deliver NAND flash-based storage for data centers. Under the agreement, Seagate will immediately offer a complete line of rebranded, flash-based ...
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Micron today announced it is shipping its highest endurance, multi-level cell (MLC) enterprise-class solid-state drive (SSD) for servers, P400m, which can sustain 10 full drive writes per day for five years, the company said. The P400m ...
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UTAH-based Fusion-io is making waves in Silicon Valley. With companies such as Facebook and Apple as clients, the $US2 billion ($1.9bn) start-up produces so-called NAND flash boards that are becoming a building block of modern data centres. ...
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DAP Technologies is debuting its first Android computers this week at ProMat, the material handling and logistics industry's premier event. Rugged, lightweight and highly mobile, the M9705 tablet and the M4305 handheld are enterprise-ready ...
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Micron on Thursday unveiled its first terabyte-sized solid-state drive (SSD) for consumers, the Crucial M500, which will sell for under $600, or 60 cents per gigabyte. The new SSD, almost doubles the capacity over its predecessor the ...
Toshiba Corporation will showcase a reference display of an SDHC memory card with TransferJet™ close proximity wireless transfer technology at the 2013 International CES, to be held from January 8 to 11, 2013, in Las Vegas. The ...
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will launch a new line of high performance CompactFlash (CF) memory cards, the EXCERIA PRO series, expressly targeting the digital single lens reflex camera market. The initial line-up of 16GB, ...
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Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced the M500 solid state drive (SSD), featuring terabyte-class capacity, new ultra-slim package designs, and increased response times at a more affordable price point. Available to consumers, ...
Tags: Micron, Capacity Storage, solid state drive, SSD
Fabless IC suppliers grew by 6% in 2012, 10% better than the 4% decline registered by the IDMs and 8% better than the 2% decline shown by the total IC market last year. Except for 2010, fabless company IC sales growth has outpaced IDM IC ...
Tags: Fabless IC, IC, IDM IC sales, memory market