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Technology research firm Gartner issued a report today confirming that Apple was the largest single buyer of semiconductors last year, being trailed only by Samsung and Hewlett-Packard. Redefining the meaning of stating the obvious, Gartner points out that semiconductor spending increased because Apple sold more stu... |
24 January 2012
08:26 GMT |
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If anything can put a dent in the appeal of a wireless peripheral, it is how they tend to run out of power at the worst moments, since it is always a bad moment when they are in use.
Broadcom means to make this problem go away through its latest invention.
What the company did was create a special Bluetooth chip t... |
7 December 2011
16:41 GMT |
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USB and Ethernet are two different connectivity technologies, used for distinct applications, but it so happens that SMSC decided it was time the latter enjoyed the power efficiency benefits of the former.
SMSC just issued an announcement in which it reveals the LAN9730, a fully-integrated Hi-Speed Inter-Chip (HSIC... |
21 November 2011
18:51 GMT |
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Light-based transmissions are seen as the next step in transferring data from one place to another and Molex just announced a chip meant to direct that very sort of operation.
The single chip CMOS photonics-based 100 Gbps optical interconnect were made in collaboration with Luxtera.
Four 28 Gbps transmit and recei... |
9 November 2011
19:31 GMT |
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One may have thought that the worst of the recession has passed, but this doesn't apply to Europe, not exactly, and the worldwide IT industry is, even now, suffering, as found by analysts.
Market analysts no doubt love it when they can say one or more fields of the industry are doing well.
Unfortunately, t... |
22 September 2011
04:56 GMT |
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Chips have advanced quite quickly in terms of manufacturing node size, and Globalfoundries has announced that it already taped out 20nm test units, aided by leading EDA vendors.Globalfoundries is one of the two major chip manufacturing corporations of the world, the other being TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturi... |
30 August 2011
09:05 GMT |
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Each month, market analysts take the time to see how things progressed on each market segment during the previous one, and it seems that semiconductors have been doing well recently, both sequentially and on-year.Some consumers may know of how different segments of the semiconductor industry are behaving and/or have... |
8 March 2011
10:56 GMT |
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End-users will probably have heard about how TSMC is moving fast to better manufacturing processes, and it appears that the first shipments of its 28nm process have finally begun, or so it is reported.TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is, technically, already well ahead of all companies that deal in ... |
23 February 2011
05:50 GMT |
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It seems that TSMC has done quite well for itself during 2010, having apparently reached all-time highs in both revenues and net profits, thanks, in part, to substantial increases in sales of chips based on advanced process technologies.Since pretty much every company on the IT market has been releasing its financia... |
27 January 2011
05:41 GMT |
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It seems that, despite how the general economy seems to be recovering, the semiconductor market isn't doing very well, or at least Toshiba isn't doing very well on this segment is recent reports are anything to go by.The past month has been quite well supplied with rumors and reports about how certain mark... |
26 January 2011
06:04 GMT |
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Collaborations are definitely not unheard of on the IT market, and IBM and ARM seems to have just entered one, their goal being to come up with new semiconductor technologies for mobile devices.No long ago, Intel came out and said it will actually be able to beat ARM at its own game, that of low-power but capable mo... |
18 January 2011
04:10 GMT |
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Chip developers are always looking for ways that might help them create a processor that is faster and more power-efficient, and it appears that IBM just reached a milestone in its efforts to combine electrical and optical signals.What IBM did was build a piece of silicon that can hold both optical and electrical co... |
1 December 2010
03:06 GMT |
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Apparently, despite what some may suspect, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is not exactly worried about how Intel recently announced that it would be manufacturing chips for another company.Chip makers like Intel and Advanced Micro Devices often, if not usually, let foundries, like TSMC and Globalfoundrie... |
2 November 2010
11:54 GMT |
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Apparently, researchers' ongoing struggle for turning graphene into a usable technology has paid off, to some extent, not that physicists at the University of California, Riverside, have learned how to polarize electrons to give them the “spin” directional orientation.Apparently, researchers have co... |
18 October 2010
07:51 GMT |
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Since manufacturing technologies are always moving to more advanced processes, it was only a matter of time before TSMC finally moved on to a new node, and it seems that the next one will be the 28nm manufacturing technology.Apparently, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is finally ready to move on to its ne... |
15 October 2010
08:25 GMT |
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Even though there are still so-called uncertain condition in some markets, it seems that the chip industry did well for itself during the month of August, even exceeding $25 billion in total sales, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.The semiconductor industry is one that depends on many factors, mos... |
4 October 2010
09:10 GMT |
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Though market watchers predicted that TSMC's sales would fall by over 10% on-quarter during the upcoming October-December period, it seems that this forecast has been changed to a drop of 4-5% sequentially, because demand on the part of major chip designers has increased.Demand for chips of all kinds has been c... |
22 September 2010
09:06 GMT |
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It appears that, despite uncertain economic conditions in Europe, the worldwide semiconductor market managed to grow during the month of July, not just year-on-year but also sequentially, by 37% and 1.2%, respectively, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association.So far this year, semiconductor sales amount t... |
30 August 2010
10:53 GMT |
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With the global economy on the mend, even despite the continued troubles in Europe, the IT industry seems to have recovered somewhat after the difficult years of 2008 and 2009. Last month, it was shown that even the global semiconductor industry performed especially well, amounting to $24.7 Billion in May. Now, with... |
2 August 2010
08:30 GMT |
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Back when the USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard was finalized, NEC was the first to offer controller chips capable of enabling a motherboard to handle the new transfer rate of 5Gbps. Then, some time later, other companies started offering such chips, such as ASMedia, Fresco Logic, Via Technology. These players have since ... |
23 July 2010
08:23 GMT |
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About three months ago, TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) announced its plans to start building a new 300mm wafer factory in the third quarter. Said quarter is now in progress and, sure enough, the chip manufacturer was good on its word and kicked off construction. The factory will bear the name of F... |
16 July 2010
06:42 GMT |
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Even though IT companies have started to complain about the troubled economy in European countries, it appears that the situation is not nearly bad enough to stop the growth of hardware sales in general. Or, at the very least, it is not serious enough to truly act as an impediment for the chip market. This, at least... |
6 July 2010
08:20 GMT |
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Either the economic recession is finally going away or hardware makers have discovered a new taste for daring forays and experiments. This is what some of the latest developments on the IT market seem to suggest. For instance, Transcend recently decided to see what would happen if it started providing Class 10 SDXC m... |
24 June 2010
05:34 GMT |
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Once upon a time, the main, and possibly only, concern of hardware makers was coming up with new ways to improve the performance of their products. Intel and AMD strove to enhance the clock speeds of their CPUs, memory and storage makers kept looking for ways of increasing capacity, etc. Those times ended when the wo... |
17 June 2010
11:15 GMT |
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The economic recession seems to behave similarly to a volcanic cloud. It stays above a certain region for a time, after which it moves on to another. During 2008 and a part of 2009, the US was the hardest hit by the cloud of recession. Now, the cloud has moved on to Europe, bringing demand down to the point where NVI... |
5 June 2010
06:28 GMT |
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Native chipset support for the Super Speed USB 3.0 standard won't arrive until next year, and this has been a reason for discontent among both motherboard makers and end-users, especially with all the USB 3.0 flash drives, hard drives and other electronics that have debuted over the past months. Fortunately, the... |
25 May 2010
04:48 GMT |
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After more than a year of troubles related to the 40nm manufacturing process technology, and with AMD and NVIDIA predictably dissatisfied, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company has decided to take more serious measures meant to resolve this issue once and for all. Recently, around the same time when its announce... |
15 May 2010
06:52 GMT |
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The past month has been loaded with news of how most, if not all, hardware makers and PC suppliers have seen on-year and sequential sales and revenue growth. As such, it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that the industry itself has, more or less, gotten back on its feet after two dismal years (2008 and 2009). Mar... |
8 May 2010
04:42 GMT |
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Over the past year, solid state drives (SSDs) have become faster but also more capacious than previous solutions, and hard drive platters have reached a higher density than before. This has actually allowed the latter type of storage units to achieve capacities of up to 2TB, quite impressive compared to several years... |
3 May 2010
10:10 GMT |
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The so-called economic recession, blamed for the dismal performance of the IT industry over the past two years, and especially during 2008, seems to finally be nearing an end, seeing how practically every segment of the market reported on-year and sequential increases for the March quarter. In fact, it seems that chi... |
3 May 2010
09:01 GMT |
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Until not long ago, the only means that motherboard makers had of implementing USB 3.0 support on their platforms was buying a controller chip from NEC. This monopoly was not bound to last long, however. In fact, AMD plans on soon launching its own USB 3.0 controller, as does VIA Technologies. When it comes to soluti... |
23 April 2010
06:11 GMT |
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In a move akin to that of optimizing the A4 ARM SoC used by the iPad, Apple may be planning to develop customized x64 CPUs for its Macs that AMD could be interested in building specifically for use by Apple, people familiar with the matter say. However, alleged talks with AMD could be part of a competitive leveragin... |
19 April 2010
06:17 GMT |
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When hearing that someone started suffering from cancer, leukemia or some other irreversible, or quasi-irreversible disease because of where he or she works, most people will likely think of a working environment which implies possible exposure to radioactive materials or other conditions that can have a degenerativ... |
16 April 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Consumers that are moderately interested in the underlying conditions behind IT companies' performance and R&D development efforts may be aware of a certain factor known as Moore's law, which states that the number of transistors placeable on an integrated circuit (without cost impact) doubles every two yea... |
15 April 2010
10:56 GMT |
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In the history of the IT industry, companies have distinguished themselves from the others, or fell into oblivion, through innovative tactics or an uncanny knack for knowing what to make and when to launch it. Basically, making an interesting device and knowing when to release it is what determines whether a company ... |
14 April 2010
10:03 GMT |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is, most likely, one of the companies that have aroused the most conflicting feelings in graphics-card makers and consumers over the past year. This is mostly owed to the fact that, although it has some of the most advanced manufacturing process technologies and supplies chi... |
10 April 2010
05:52 GMT |
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By now, end-users have become probably well aware of, and likely glad about, the fact that the world economy is on a rebound and that the IT industry, in particular, is steadily getting back on its feet after the unhappy 2008-2009 period. As such, hearing of chip sales growth during February might not come as a t... |
6 April 2010
11:48 GMT |
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Photolithography, the current technology used in manufacturing processors, is starting to reach its limits and, as such, researchers are hard at work trying to find new procedures that can enable chip features to be shrunken even further. One of the technologies being explored is what MIT calls electron-beam lithogra... |
18 March 2010
05:59 GMT |
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Over the past two years, the overall performance of the IT market, and the semiconductor segment in particular, haven't exactly been glorious. In fact, after the very unfortunate year 2008, when sales were so weak that virtually all IT corporations saw revenues low enough to prompt massive redundancy plans, th... |
1 March 2010
08:38 GMT |
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A report signed UBS Investment Research citing industry checks tries to paint a more accurate picture of Apple’s yet-unconfirmed tablet-like device. The research firm, along with its analyst, Maynard Um, claims the Apple tablet will be powered by a processor designed by P.A. Semi and manufactured by Samsung. Se... |
21 January 2010
06:42 GMT |
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VIA will be taking the opportunity provided by the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to demonstrate its latest advancement in the field of USB 3.0 connectivity, the VIA VL810 SuperSpeed Hub Controller. This device is touted as "the industry’s first integrated single chip solution" capable of USB 3.0 transfer spee... |
4 January 2010
10:21 GMT |
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Ralink will be demonstrating a full array of wireless connectivity solutions at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show. These technologies were developed as a response to the growing demand, on the part of end-users, for high performance networking solutions housed in compact form factors. The actual product range in... |
4 January 2010
09:36 GMT |
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Next Christmas might see end-users enjoying seamless video playback on Superspeed USB 3.0 standard devices if DisplayLink manages to get its chip out on schedule. The chip will allow video to be transmitted ten times faster than permitted by the USB 2.0 interface. This will be achieved thanks to a chip that will enab... |
28 December 2009
06:00 GMT |
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The fourth quarter has traditionally been the slower time of the year for hardware developers, as new models are always known to come at the Consumer Electronics Show. Still, even though 2009 has been a rather unfavorable year for the IT market in general, and especially for semiconductor manufacturing, the fourth qu... |
19 December 2009
04:54 GMT |
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AMD doesn't currently have a mobile chip offer large and strong enough to really compete with Intel's processors aimed at mobile platforms. However, given the impressive popularity surge of mobile devices over the past year, most notably of netbooks, AMD now seems to be planning its own next-generation mobi... |
18 December 2009
03:49 GMT |
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The people at M.H.A LCC have developed an application called Airlock, which allows you to control your computer's behavior using your iPhone. We’re currently reviewing the app and it’s impressive, but its functionality is affected by a recently discovered bug in the Bluetooth chip employed by Apple M... |
17 December 2009
10:35 GMT |
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Intel's plans for the future of personal computing include a 48-core processor that the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker has nicknamed “single-chip cloud computer.” The solution, revealed by the world's leading chip maker, is expected to enable a new perspective on the way computers are... |
3 December 2009
03:22 GMT |
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Korean company Samsung opened up a new possibility for growth in the area of flash memory when it introduced the first 50nm-class, 16Gb multi-level-cell NAND memory device back in 2005. This advancement allowed for flash memory devices to reach performance higher than that of SLC (single-level-cell). After that, flas... |
1 December 2009
02:41 GMT |
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"I think human beings are remarkable adaptive," Andrew Chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at Intel Labs, said. "If you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, 'I don't want that. I don't need that.�... |
20 November 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Reports are now emerging of a site focused on Near Field Communications that claims Apple has built new iPhone models (prototypes) that are equipped to support sensing RFID chips. RFID (Radio-Frequency IDentification) is a technology that allows a device to sense embedded chips in nearby objects without making direct... |
6 November 2009
05:59 GMT |
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