Flash Memory Summit – Samsung Preps for the Show
The old Federal Reserve Building at 301 Battery Street in San Francisco was the venue selected by Samsung to introduce their R&D foray into Silicon …
Linley Processor Conference – ARM Sweeps Next-Gen Processor Designs
?Shift to ARM Becomes a Stampede? set the tone of Linley Gwenapp?s opening keynote address for the ?Linley Processor Conference? being held this week in …
UPDATE 2: Is a Massive Fire at SK Hynix Wuxi China Facility a Shot Into Shortage?
A massive fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon at the SK Hynix production facility in Wuxi, China. The local social networks are swarming with pictures …
Flash Memory Summit 2013 – 3D NAND Flash, EUV, Consolidation and More
The Eighth Annual Flash Memory Summit convenes this week at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California. The hot topic focus this year is …
GPU Advances Genomic Science ? A Possible Nobel Prize?
Professor Erez Lieberman Aidan on stage The Problem?The human genome is a sequence of 3 billion chemical letters inscribed in a molecule called DNA. Famously, …
Labor Strife on Foxconn?s iPhone5 Assembly Lines
Three to four thousand workers on Foxconn?s iPhone5 assembly lines went on strike yesterday at the Zhengzhou, China manufacturing facility. The walkout resulted from demands …
Apple, Foxconn, And Worker Unrest ? Future of Contract Manufacturing
Contract manufacturer Hon-Hai Precision, better known as Foxconn, is once again in the midst of continuing labor unrest ? the most recent at their mega-factory …
Toshiba Sets ReRAM Technology Roadmap ? The World Will Follow
Buried in Nikkei Electronics is a report covering a briefing given by Toshiba Corporation on its research and development strategies on July 13, 2012. The …
Poof! ? Apple iPhone 5 Sells out in Just 1 hour
Lovers of Apple products rejoiced at having the icon of their existence available for sale on the company?s website. In fact, Apple fans blew through …
Apple Introduces iPhone 5 ? With The Usual Fanfare
Not to anyone?s surprise Apple launched the fifth iteration of the iconic iPhone today in San Francisco. The fanfare in front of Yerba Buena Center …
AMD Expands SeaMicro: Big Data Gets a High Performance Home
Andrew Feldman, CEO of AMD?s SeaMicro, made a presentation that announced the company?s Data Center Computer Platform this afternoon in San Francisco. The SM15000 Server …
AT&T Suffers Massive Outages II ? Labor Related?
Reader feedback indicates continued widespread DSL outages in the U.S.with some businesses brought to a virtual standstill by it. AT&T Labor Issues Dallas based AT&T …
AT&T Suffers Massive Outages
My DSL has been falling off line for the past several days. Today it quit working completely. You know how it is when you think …
Infineon Bleeds ? Peter Bauer Steps Down
Infineon has been on a downward spiral ever since its spin-off from Siemens Corporation. I failed to participate as an employee in Infineon?s initial public …
Future of NVIDIA: Gross Margin Religion Found in Affordable Supercomputing
NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference 2012, now over (watch all the GTC 2012 presentations and speakers), left a trail of speculation about what the company’s next …
Rambus Invents – An Appeal
Rambus Inc. (RMBS) appealed their loss of a $3.95 billion jury trial over their allegations that Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc. had conspired …
Elpida Files for Bankruptcy: Biggest Japanese Manufacturing Corporate Failure since WWII
Elpida Memory Incorporated filed for bankruptcy protection today in the largest manufacturing corporate failure since WWII. The filing resulted from the company?s inability to refinance …
EXCLUSIVE: SanDisk Announces Resistive Memory Effort ? Well Sort of?
Sometimes it pays to read the want ads. Perusing one of those "jobs you might be interested in" type emails from LinkUp proved fascinating. In …
Steve Appleton, Micron CEO, Dies in Small Plane Crash
Steve Appleton, Chairman and CEO of memory chip vendor Micron Technology Inc, died in the crash of an experimental Lancair aircraft he was piloting at …
U.S. PTO Invalidates Rambus Patent – IP Tank Nearing MT
The World of Rambus felt another terrorizing tremor rattle through near the last of the company?s most important patent covenants. This time none other than …
