Activist investor Carl Icahn fired off word on Tuesday that he beefed up his Apple stock holdings by a half-billion dollars as the share price dipped. "Just bought $500 mln more $AAPL shares," Icahn said in a message on Twitter. "My ...
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US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of the job cuts came a day after Intel reported that its net profit last year sank ...
By using a unique silicon fin replacement process, Imec of Leuven, Belgium has demonstrated what it claims are the first III-V compound semiconductor FinFET devices integrated epitaxially on 300mm silicon wafers. The nanoelectronics ...
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Apple announced that the number of mini-programs downloaded from its App Store has blasted past the 50 billion milestone, and celebrated the moment with a $10,000 prize. The California-based maker of iPads, iPhones, iPods and Macintosh ...
Google is digging deeper into its technology toolkit to turn its social networking service into a more formidable threat to Facebook, sprucing up its photo features at a time when sharing snapshots online and on mobile gadgets is growing ...
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Claimed to be a major building block in future Intel chips for mobile gadgets, microservers and car entertainment systems. Intel has introduced the new Silvermont micro-architecture for its Atom processors to take on Qualcomm in ...
Microsoft is expected to unveil a successor to Xbox 360 videogame consoles next month. Microsoft sent out invitations yesterday to the May 21 event at its main campus in Redmond, Washington at which its Xbox team will reveal a "new ...
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HEWLETT-PACKARD says it is selling its webOS mobile operating system to South Korean consumer electronics titan LG to use in internet-connected televisions. "The open and transparent webOS technology offers a compelling user experience ...
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Samsung has revealed a plan to set up an innovation centre in Menlo Park, California which will be used for research projects. The company has also also launched a $100m Catalyst Fund which will focus on research projects and businesses ...
Think your high-definition TV is hot stuff - as sharp as it gets? At the biggest trade show in the Americas, which kicks off next week in Las Vegas, TV makers will be doing their best to convince you that HDTVs are old hat, and should make ...
Jurors hearing arguments between Apple and Samsung have been warned not to accept software updates or install apps on mobile gadgets they receive while deliberating the merits of the patent-infringement case. The case, which has been in ...
Toshiba has developed a low-power, high-speed version of MRAM memory that it says can cut power consumption in mobile CPUs by two-thirds. The company said Monday that its new MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory) can be used in ...
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The new MRAM can be used in smartphones as cache memory for mobile processors, replacing the SRAM Japanese electronics maker Toshiba has developed a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) element which the ...
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To handle oversupply of NAND flash memory in the retail market Japanese electronics maker Toshiba said it will cut production of its flash memory chips, used to store data in mobile gadgets, by around 30% to adjust excess inventory ...
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