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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Oracle on Monday gave attendees of the OpenWorld conference in San Francisco a deeper look at its new 12c database and Exadata X3 machine, which were initially announced Sunday by CEO Larry Ellison . The key feature of 12c, which is set ...
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Micron will soon buy Elpida for 200bn yen (about $2.5bn), of which 140bn yen will be used to pay off debts, says DRAMeXchange. As the Japanese memory maker currently owes 420bn yen, lenders will have to write off approximately 70% of the ...
Taipei, Dec. 22, 2012 (CENS)--World’s leading DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chipmakers are estimated to reduce capital expenditure by 21% in 2013 from 2012 in spite of reduced number of the players after years of industry-wide ...
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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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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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IBM and Oracle shared more details this week about new RISC chips they're building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain more ...
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A majority high-level IT managers and data storage professionals have no plans to deploy big data analytics, according to a new data storage survey by market research firm TheInfoPro. Fifty-six percent of respondents indicated they will ...
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Samsung has announced that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets said net ...
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The Japanese semiconductor industry is on a downward spiral as rival companies in Taiwan, South Korea and the U.S. made gains in chip, memory and integrated circuit sales, research firm IC Insights said in a study. The sales of ...
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Marvell plans to begin selling PCIe adapter cards that will act as I/O accelerators or cache in order to boost the performance and resiliency of consumer-class solid-state drives (SSDs). Each of the cards allows for up to four SSDs to be ...
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IBM and Oracle revealed more details this week about new RISC chips they’re building for server customers, the Power7+ in the case of IBM and the T5 for Oracle. The Unix server market continues to contract as x86-based systems gain ...
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Gartner expects total semiconductor revenue to reach $342bn in 2014 Worldwide semiconductor revenue will hit $311bn in 2013, an increase of 4.5% from 2012, according to analyst house Gartner. The report also revised the fourth quarter ...
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Samsung Electronics said today that net profit nearly doubled in the third quarter on strong sales of its Galaxy S III and Note 2, which also boosted results in its component business. The world’s largest maker of mobile handsets ...
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Samsung’s recent licensing of 64-bit processor designs from ARM suggests that the chip maker may expand from smartphones and tablets into the server market, analysts said this week. Samsung last week licensed ARM’s first ...
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