Altis Semiconductor is a joint venture between IBM and Infineon, which manufactures semiconductors based solely on the less advanced 130nm process. The company currently doesn't have many clients, nor the manufacturing rights or equipment needed to produce better tech. Nevertheless, its two owners are negotiatin... |
20 November 2009
03:34 GMT |
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It is being speculated (and for good reason too) that Infineon's recently introduced transceiver chip, the SMARTi LU, may be making its way into new Apple handheld devices. Touted as the first single-chip radio to include the new Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard for 4G Internet access, the chip boasts a small... |
19 January 2009
09:25 GMT |
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While AT&T was the first to get bashed for the iPhone 3G's poor signal, the focus is now on the device itself, which, according to an analyst at Nomura Securities, packs a faulty chip. It is also being reported that, even following Apple's release of the iPhone 2.1 software update, reports of dropped calls ... |
25 September 2008
09:41 GMT |
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As a big fan of the iPhone (and if you have a weak heart), it's probably best to move along while there's still time, as one of the first iPhone 3G units sold in New Zealand has just been "dissected." All of its inner parts have been removed and are now lying lifeless on a white table. Look... if you dare!i... |
11 July 2008
04:40 GMT |
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For three years now, Infineon has been marketing low-cost mobile phone chips that have given new swathes of customers around the globe the chance to use phones for the first time. These innovative chips pack all the key functions onto a tiny piece of silicon. More than 50 million units had been sold by the end of las... |
17 March 2008
10:29 GMT |
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Infineon Technologies and IBM have reached an agreement upon the latter purchasing an embedded flash memory manufacturing process license. IBM is ready to deploy the 30-nm version of the process to the company's units in North America. At the same time, Infineon has announced that it would use the IBM foundry fo... |
20 December 2007
10:36 GMT |
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As developing a whole new computer hardware technology can be very expensive and even producing large quantities of hardware parts screams for big funding, more and more companies are forming joint ventures in order to split costs, risks and profits. A brand new partnership is now in the making as Sony announced that... |
2 October 2007
10:29 GMT |
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German chip and memory maker Infineon Technologies announced that it will lower its shares in Qimonda to less than 50 percent over the next two years. Qimonda started in 2006 as a division of Infineon Technologies that specialized in making different kinds of chips for computers and the parent company still owns the ... |
7 August 2007
03:26 GMT |
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Qimonda is a new company, intended to be the world's fourth largest manufacturer, created by the German semiconductor maker Infineon to spin-off its memory chip business. In its fiscal third quarter, the Munich manufacturer had to suffer from Qimonda's poor performance. In this quarter, the net loss grew to... |
28 July 2007
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