Worldwide ultrabook shipments are falling short -- way short-- of expectations, according to a report released Monday. IHS iSuppli, in a forecast earlier this year, said 22 million ultrabooks would be sold this year. However, the analyst ...
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The company that invented NAND flash, Toshiba, plans to become the third hard drive manufacturer to offer a hybrid drive. Hybrids combine a spinning disk with flash cache to offer near solid-state drive (SSD) performance at a fraction ...
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Intel shaved about a billion dollars off its third-quarter revenue forecast on Friday, blaming the global economy for slowing sales. It will announce full results for the quarter on Oct. 16. The company had previously predicted ...
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Qualcomm saw a double-digit increase in sales this year and is now the world's third-largest chip maker, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. With a 27.2% growth in semiconductor revenue, Qualcomm is booming while seven of the top 10 ...
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Qualcomm is preparing two new quad-core processors for the mainstream smartphone market, with support for several Chinese standards. The U.S. chipmaker said it will release the two new CPUs, designed for 3G networks, to its Snapdragon ...
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Taiwan-based WT Microelectronic, which distributes IC and electronic components mainly in Asia, has announced that the company has obtained rights from Philips Lumileds Lighting Company to distribute LED lighting products in the Greater ...
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Even with the myriad of obstacles preventing a full scale recovery for the overall U.S. economy, the design and construction industry appears to have reasons to be at least modestly optimistic in the coming months and into next year. A ...
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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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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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Business Line reported that Jaguar Land Rover is looking into whether to begin car production in Saudi Arabia, among other options in the country, as part of its strategy to forge international partnerships. The luxury car maker, which is ...
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According to IHS, the global solar market will achieve double-digit installation growth in 2013, but market revenue will fall to US$75 billion. Industry revenues-measured as system prices multiplied by total gigawatts installed-peaked at ...
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Toshiba said Tuesday it will soon begin mass production of a new line of hybrid disk drives equipped with flash memory, touting them as a low-cost replacement for the solid-state drives used in ultrabook and laptop computers. Hybrid ...
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Samsung Electronics' semiconductor arm has begun volume production of 128GB embedded memory modules for next-generation smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices, the company said on Tuesday. An upgrade to 128GB would double or ...
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U.S. drivers seem to hold conflicting opinions on in-car Internet access, viewing the technology as a driving hazard and even a threat to privacy while praising the entertainment and safety features it offers. These opinions, presented in ...
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Samsung Galaxy S III's display is thinner and has a greater range of colors than that of the Apple iPhone 5, an IHS iSuppli teardown analysis revealed Tuesday. But IHS iSuppli analyst Vinita Jakhanwal noted that the differences between ...
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