Samsung is to keep the heat on Apple and Google with a new tablet device that was revealed in court documents, while a mystery tablet has been spotted on an HP advertisement. Court documents from Apple and Samsung's patent case have ...
Google engineers have volunteered the company's VP8 video codec for an emerging standards project,called WebRTC,that could provide a real time communications protocol for the Web. "We believe that the WebRTC effort represents an ...
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Intel's triangular finfets suffer a severe performance disadvantage to rectangular finfets and a further disadvantage in respect to SOI finfets,says Professor Asen Asenov of Glasgow University who is the CEO of Gold Standard Simulations. ...
ARM+TSMC is leading Intel in process technology for highly integrated mobile SOCs,ARM's CEO Warren East tells EW. Asked if it was the aspiration of ARM's physical IP division,working with TSMC,to catch up with Intel in process,East ...
Apple and Samsung Electronics won't be able to keep certain pieces of information from the public during their high-profile jury trial that begins on Monday, a judge in California said Friday. But what will be public and what won't still ...
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After devastating monsoonal floods in Thailand shut down several of Western Digital's key disk drive plants,drastically hurting its revenue and market standing,WD this week reported record financial results for 2012. According to market ...
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Cymer reports improved EUV optics performance 25 Jul 2012 New coating on collector for extreme ultraviolet source increases effective lifetime by 50%. Bull run:Cymer hits long-term high Lithography light source provider Cymer has ...
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Intel is porting the Android 4.1 operating system,also called Jelly Bean,to work on smartphones and tablets using low-power Atom processors,the company said this week. The company did not provide a time frame for when the Android 4.1 port ...
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IDG News Service-Wi-Fi chip makers are lining up to add WiGig technology to their wireless LAN products,preparing the way for tri-band equipment that can deliver multi-gigabit speeds within a room. On Monday,Marvell Technology Group ...
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Apple will launch its Mountain Lion operating system tomorrow, the company's chief financial officer said Tuesday. Speculation had centered on July 25 as the likely launch data for OS X 10.8, known as Mountain Lion, based on Apple's ...
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STMicroelectronics is'focussed on delivering continued expense reduction',said CEO Carlo Bozotti,after the company made a loss of$75m in Q2,compared to a profit of$420m in Q2 2011,on sales 16%down on Q2 2011 at$2.15bn. ST said it would ...
TSMC is considering building fabs dedicated to single customers. "Now it makes complete sense to dedicate a whole fab to just one customer and hold that–to hold fabs in fact to just one customer,"Morris Chang,CEO of TSMC,told his Q2 ...
Intel isn't actively porting Android to work on tablets based on the upcoming Atom chip code-named Clover Trail,which is purpose built for Microsoft's Windows 8,according to a source familiar with the company's plans. Initial tablets ...
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Samsung Electronics accused Apple of refusing to enter into negotiations to license essential 3G patents included in the iPhone and iPad during the first day of their patent trial on Monday in Federal Court in Sydney. In Australia,Apple ...
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Quarterly earnings from some of the biggest tech companies in the world this week were decidedly mixed,but showed some signs of strength,particularly in enterprise IT spending. Tech vendors with exposure to the hardware market have ...
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