Samsung Electronics said its Galaxy S3 and Note 2 helped it to defy a shrinking smartphone market in the first quarter, boosting its overall profits by 42% from a year ago. The company said Friday its net profit was a record $6.4 billion ...
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For its new flagship Galaxy S smartphone to be launched in April Samsung Electronics is reportedly planning to buy the mobile memory chips from rival SK Hynix to use them in upcoming products. The company plans to use the chips in its ...
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IBM has discovered a new technique to operate the memory chips by using the metal oxides, which is claimed to use less power than today's silicon based devices including cell phones. The technique uses metal oxides that are transformed ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips ...
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The IEEE ISSCC (International Solid State Circuits Conference), which runs this year from February 17-21 in San Francisco, is an important gathering for the electronic engineering industry. It is the world's show case for the best in ...
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IBM revealed details of its 5.5GHz System z microprocessor chip in 32nm high-k CMOS at ISSCC this year. Each chip has six processor cores, compared with four in its 45nm predecessor and, to form a plug-in processing element, six chips are ...
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Mailing your cellphone to a recycling company might make you a few pounds, but it can leave you at risk of identity theft. The deletion techniques recycling companies use are meant for hard discs, and so don't work on the solid-state flash ...
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Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology is poised to take a bow in the high-performance computing space as a potential answer to the problem of one of the main bottlenecks in computing - the poor relative-performance of memory. After that, the ...
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SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at PC and server ...
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IDG News Service - SanDisk is kicking off the new year with two new solid-state disk drives (SSDs) that should bring performance boosts for PC users. Both the Ultra Plus, which is targeted at consumers, and the X110, which is targeted at ...
Toshiba is developing a tiny digital camera module similar to the Lytro camera, which shoots tens of thousands of individual photos and then allows the user to pick the point of focus. The new camera will have from 30,000 to 50,000 tiny ...
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Samsung Electronics said on Wednesday it broke ground in China on a NAND flash memory chip factory in which it will invest a total of $7 billion, its single largest investment in the country. The factory will be located in Xi'an, China ...
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Taipei, Dec. 28, 2012 (CENS)--Amid fierce patent suits between Apple and Samsung, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) is enhancing its patent firewall by expanding cooperation with third-party silicon IP providers, including ...
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Apple has cut orders of memory chips for its next iPhone from supplier and rival Samsung, according to reports. Samsung has been the key supplier of parts including flat screens, microprocessors and both DRAM and NAND memory chips for ...
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Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has started mass production of a new type of memory chip for mobile devices, LPDDR3, that will dramatically increase performance in future smartphones and tablets. The new memory, which meets a standard ...
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