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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Nvidia on Thursday said it will bring wireless display to its Tegra chips, which will allow tablets and smartphones based on the chips to beam images and audio directly to high-definition TVs. The technology being implemented in Tegra ...
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Intel warned Tuesday that it expects to see lower-than-anticipated growth for c because consumer spending in Western Europe and North America has not recovered as predicted. The news came as the company posted mixed results for the second ...
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Graphics chip maker Nvidia released a new version of its Unix driver on Friday in order to address a high-risk vulnerability that can be exploited by local users to gain root privileges on Linux systems. The privilege escalation ...
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Intel hopes security features from McAfee will help the company differentiate its mobile chips from its rivals', according to Intel's software chief Renee James. The security threats posed to handheld devices are escalating, and chip ...
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Taipei, Dec. 18, 2012 (CENS)--After nine months of hard work, Nan Ya Photonics Inc., a high-brightness LED wafer and chip maker affiliated with Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group, is about to fully automate its production lines of LED bulbs ...
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Semi conductor giant Intel has had discussions with chip maker Nvidia over a possible acquisition, according to several reports. The reports claim that with Intel's long-time chief executive Paul Otellini to retire in May 2013, the firm ...
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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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Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday said it had hired former Intel researcher John Gustafson as the chief architect for graphics products, continuing an executive shuffle among chip companies. Gustafson will drive the road map for AMD's ...
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Late next year, consumers will be able to buy smartphones that either come with native hypervisor software or use an app allowing them to run two interfaces on the phone: one for personal use, one for work. The technology could help ...
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Apple is investigating ways to ditch Intel chips in future Macs and replace them with its own ARM chips like the ones in the iPhone and iPad, according to Bloomberg. The report cites 'people familiar with the company's research' who ...
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With Intel unveiling a tablet processor this week, analysts say the chip maker may be on track to becoming less dependent on the struggling PC market. Intel on Thursday took the wraps off a new processor code-named Clover Trail. The Atom ...
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AMD has called a press conference in San Francisco on Monday where it’s likely to announce plans for a SeaMicro server based on an upcoming 64-bit processor design from ARM. AMD CEO Rory Read is expected at the event, and an ARM ...
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Lextar obtains LM-79,LM-80 accreditation Siu Han,Taipei;Adam Hwang,DIGITIMES[Thursday 6 September 2012]Lextar Electronics,a Taiwan-based LED epitaxial wafer and chip maker and provider of LED chip packaging services,on September 5 announced ...