The top three foundries are in the world top ten semiconductor companies ranked by first half sales, says IC Insights. TSMC's capacity utilization rate in 2Q12 was 102% (exceeding 100% because of the way the company defines its ...
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Threat data Future of hardware-assisted security Why Intel bought McAfee Defence in isolation and containment Social media, cloud, big data and mobile apps Video: McAfee co-president Michael DeCesare on consumerisation and security The ...
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Sharp has been bailed out by the banks to the tune of $4.6bn. Mizuho Corporate Bank and the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi are to put up $2.3bn in loans and extend a $2.3bn revolving credit facility. Sharp has debts of $12.76bn, of which ...
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Computerworld - With Intel reporting a year-over-year drop in revenue and profit for its third quarter, industry analysts say the company isn't in trouble but it needs to ward it off -- and now. Late on Tuesday, Intel execs blamed a tough ...
IDG News Service - Chip maker Calxeda has received an investment to the tune of US$55 million to develop low-power server chips with ARM processors, the company is expected to announce on Tuesday. Calxeda makes a chip called EnergyCore ...
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IDG News Service - Advanced Micro Devices renewed its attempt to make an impact in the tablet market, this time with its new dual-core Z-60 chip which the company introduced on Tuesday. Beyond tablets, the new dual-core chip, code-named ...
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Intel has announced a decline in its sales forecasts for the third quarter (Q3) of 2012, due to lower demand for consumer and enterprise PCs. The world's largest chip manufacturer expects revenue from Q3 to sit between $12.9bn and ...
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Models Offer Rugged Durability and Customizable Features for Public Safety Market FREMONT, CA, September 28, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GammaTech Computer Corp., a major international manufacturer and supplier of innovative notebook and ...
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An Ideal Solution for The Mining Industry, Models Offer Rugged Durability and Customizable Features FREMONT, CA, September 21, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- GammaTech Computer Corp., a major international manufacturer and supplier of ...
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VMware has fleshed out its desktop virtualisation strategy with a suite of products designed to make desktop computing more manageable by using workspace aggregation. As 30 June, 2014 – the end of support date for Windows XP – ...
Enabling Platform Independent Virtual Desktop and Application Delivery to mobile or desktop devices now available with the Intel AppUp SMB Service DALLAS, TX, October 17, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 2X Software, a global leader in ...
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While an analyst firm is reporting that global semiconductor revenue has dipped 3% this year, the market is expected rebound in 2013. Gartner Inc. reported this morning that worldwide chip revenue will hit $298 billion this year, a 3% ...
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AMD recently deployed a 6TB NAND flash storage array into a virtual server test environment and got some amazing results, says Fred Abounader, a performance systems engineer at the chip maker. In virtualization benchmarking tests, the ...
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Sprint Nextel will spend $2.2 billion to take complete ownership of Clearwire, a move that will help it expand its network capacity. Clearwire's board of directors has accepted the latest bid allowing Sprint to purchase the nearly 50% of ...
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Since 2010, solid state drive (SSD) prices for some models have plummeted from $3 to less than $1 per gigabyte. After dropping 20% in the second quarter of 2012 alone, SSD prices fell another 10% in the second half of the year, according ...
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