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Monthly Archives: August 2011

Charlie Demerjian
Aug 19, 2011
27

Insiders say there is one company looking at the HP PC line

And Palm sales don't track the PR line

Being in Palo Alto for Hot Chips 23, you run in to a lot of people who know things about big stories like the HP PC fire sale and Palm knifing.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 18, 2011
40

Intel moves transistors from 2D to 3D and more

From planar to FINFets to Tri-Gates

Intel is set to become the first company to mass produce non-planar transistors with their upcoming 22nm process.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 18, 2011
22

Major breakthrough in cognitive computing

Slow thinkers here

IBM (NYSE:IBM) has manufactured the first silicon that mimics neurons and synapses.
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Thomas Ryan
Aug 17, 2011
11

Ultrabooks! More dramatic than a Shark attack…

Good enough for a movie.

It’s the weekly roundup.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 17, 2011
3

Researchers speed up organic semiconductors

Speeds approaching inorganic equivalents

A team of researchers from Harvard and Stanford University have come up with a new organic semiconductor that could potentially rival inorganic semiconductors, according to an article in the journal Nature Communications.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 16, 2011
33

Ultrabook vendors unhappy with Intel’s pricing

Want a much bigger discount than the 20% Intel is offering.

A number of Ultrabook manufacturers in Taiwan that SemiAccurate has spoken to have voiced displeasure with Intel’s pricing scheme for processors.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 16, 2011
21

And the suitor for Texas Instruments’ OMAP is…..

This one is not a shock

A few weeks ago, we told you that Texas Instruments was trying to sell off their OMAP division. Updated August 19th, 2011 6pm
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 15, 2011
24

Did Apple PhotoShop into an injunction against Samsung?

Aspect ratio in photo delivered to German court is not correct.

It seems that Apple (NASDAQ:APPL) has been caught with its pants down by the Dutch website webwereld (webworld), which has compared the evidence submitted by Apple to a German court in order to obtain an EU junction against Samsung’s (005930:Korea SE) Galaxy Tab.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 15, 2011

China gunning for embedded market

Chinese Academy of Sciences has obtained a license to design embedded MIPS-processors

Watch out, Intel. The Chinese are gunning for your embedded presence in China – and maybe around the world.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 15, 2011
54

Next gen XBox chip gets a name and date

No, not XBox 361, just the SoC

It is mating season for the singing moles of Redmond, fresh off their migration back from Mountain View, and they are singing about the XBox Next chip.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 11, 2011
12

Flash controller turns noise into data

New controller from Anobit makes MLC flash behave as SLC.

The Israeli flash controller company Anobit has just released its latest controller that supports flash memory chips with capacities up to 256Gbit.
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Charlie Demerjian
Aug 11, 2011
48

Intel throws money at faltering Ultrabooks

Burning cash to float lead balloons

Ultrabooks have been greeted by the OEMs with all the enthusiasm of an arranged marriage, so it is time to break out the Intel MoneyHose(TM)(R)(C)(P).
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Thomas Ryan
Aug 10, 2011
19

More RAM for the Robits

It's the S|A Weekly Roundup!

Some fun bits of information came out this week. Like Intel planning support of DX 11.1, or Nvidia promising to get Kepler silicon back this year. But first here’s a short PSA about S|A roundup practices.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 10, 2011
3

Embedded SSDs go connector-less

Apple shall rejoice

SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) is first on the market with SSD’s that support the new standard.
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Mads Ølholm
Aug 9, 2011
4

Nordic Semi demonstrates Bluetooth RFID tag

Wants to standardize RFID, no low power Bluetooth

Norwegian semiconductor company Nordic Semiconductor ASA (OSX:NOD) has just demonstrated the compatibility of its µBlue RFID tags – also known as a fob – with a low power Bluetooth 4.0 chip from Broadcom, according to a press release from the company.
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