Mon Dec 03 17:36:35 UTC 2007 via EDN.com News Center
As consumers reap the benefits from continued rapid price attrition in key sectors of the semiconductor market heading into the holiday buying season, the Semiconductor Industry Association is reporting that worldwide sales of semiconductors in October rose 5 percent year-over-year to $23.1 billion, from $22 billion in October 2006 and were 2 percent higher than $22.6 billion in September.
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Sat Dec 01 09:56:32 UTC 2007 via Semiconductor International - Business/Market News
Semiconductor companies need to fine-tune their approach to the consumer electronics (CE) market by building much more collaborative, innovative and comprehensive relationships with these companies. This will involve effectively understanding and addressing the distinct and evolving business models of CE firms.
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Fri Nov 30 16:40:23 UTC 2007 via EE Times Semiconductor News
If economic worries stay with buyers, then spending on new systems could continue to slow, analysts with IDC lament.
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Thu Dec 6 15:40 UTC 2007 via macnn
IBM's Silicon Photonics research group today published news of what it believes is a major breakthrough in increasing processor performance with multi-core processors. [...][more]
Fri Dec 7 10:06 UTC 2007 via EE Times
Researchers on the EU-funded WearIT@work project are exploring a range of applications where wearable technology could facilitate a new form of human-computer interaction. [...][more]
Fri Nov 30 22:32:06 UTC 2007 via Electronics Supply & Manufacturing
The landscape is shifting in the emerging market for solid-state storage drives (SSDs). Micron Technology last week entered the fray, and Toshiba stands poised to join the rapidly crowding field, whose proponents promise to propel the technology into the mainstream PC market at the expense of the lowly hard drive.
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Mon Dec 03 21:14:56 UTC 2007 via The Tech Report: News
AMD's quad-core "Barcelona" Opterons have been notably difficult to find since their introduction two months ago, and The Tech Report has learned that a chip-level problem has impacted the supply of these chips to both server OEMs and distribution channel customers.
Chipmakers refer to chip-level problems as errata. Errata are...
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Thu Dec 06 20:10:32 UTC 2007 via Purchasing - Electronics News
The steep price freefall for hard disk drives (HDD) is over, but prices will still drop by about 4-6% in the fourth quarter.
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