News tagged with memory chips
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Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- When I was a kid, my dad bought a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. It had 32 volumes and took up 4 feet in the book case. I loved to sit on the couch and flip through it, reading articles at random.
SKorea's Hynix finally swings to profit
Oct 23, 2009 |
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South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second largest memory chip maker, Friday announced a profit for the third quarter after seven straight quarters of losses.
Samsung expects strong 3rd-quarter profit
Oct 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday that profit likely surged in the third quarter on higher sales, amid a brightening outlook for the world's largest manufacturer of computer memory chips and flat ...
SKorea's Hyosung group bids for Hynix: report
Sep 22, 2009 |
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A minor business conglomerate in South Korea looks set to buy a major stake in the world's second biggest memory chip maker after becoming the only firm to submit a bid, a report said Tuesday.
Researchers simplify fabrication of nano storage, chip-design tools
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Advances by the Rice University lab of James Tour have brought graphite's potential as a mass data storage medium a step closer to reality and created the potential for reprogrammable gate arrays that could ...
Chip maker Infineon trims loss, sees larger writedowns
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Troubled German semi-conductor maker Infineon said Wednesday that it had managed to limit its quarterly loss but warned that full-year asset writedowns would be larger than expected.
Hynix Semiconductor's net loss sharply narrows
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said Friday its net loss narrowed sharply in the second quarter as a global supply glut eased.
Beyond flash -- memories are made of this
Jul 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...
Samsung announces earnings estimate
Jul 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips, announced quarterly earnings estimates for the first time Monday, saying it hopes to reduce market confusion and speculation ...
Rambus settles EU antitrust probe, avoids fines
Jun 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.
Flexible memristor: Memory with a twist (w/Video)
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. As reported in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the en ...
Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage
May 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...
Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims
May 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.
Toshiba to launch 32nm process NAND flash memory
Apr 27, 2009 |
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Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start shipping NAND flash memory products fabricated with 32nm process technology. Samples of the world's first 32nm generation, 32-gigabit (Gb) single chips (4 gigabytes (GB)), ...
Toshiba expects bigger loss, contract job cuts
Apr 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Toshiba Corp., Japan's top chipmaker, Friday said its net loss for the last fiscal year will be bigger than forecast due to a large write-off, and warned that more contract jobs will be cut.
