Costs are on the rise for several types of PC components, including memory chips and LCD screens. But while that's a concern for procurement managers at PC makers like Dell and Hewlett-Packard, users should have little to fear, analysts said.
Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Thursday that the global shift to a speedier computer memory chip, DDR2 (double data rate, second generation), is accelerating, and that the chips finally account for the majority of its factory output of DRAM (dynamic-RAM).
The Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), a global group dedicated to promoting Linux, on Tuesday announced a new initiative, called Patent Commons, to collect the software licenses and patents pledged to the open source community into a central repository to make them easier to access by developers, and encourage more patent holders to pledge their intellectual property to the cause.
Lenovo Group posted better than expected earnings for its first quarter ending June 30, adding figures from the PC business it acquired from IBM in May for the first time.
Global chip industry revenue growth outpaced forecasts for the first half of the year, a good sign because the second half of the year is normally stronger due to heavy sales of electronics gadgets to students heading back to school and during holidays later in the year.
Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) posted a 14 percent increase in net profit during the quarter ending June 30 thanks mainly to its mobile phone businesses, the company said Thursday.
Taiwanese DRAM (dynamic RAM) chip maker ProMOS Technologies Inc. plans to spend $850 million on new plants and equipment next year, mainly advanced 12-inch (300-millimeter) wafer production equipment, an executive said Thursday.
Under fire in the US from politicians, lawyers and lobbying groups for sexually explicit content, the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, or GTA, has also run into trouble in Australia.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker has announced that its second-quarter revenue and net income dropped compared to the same period a year earlier, in part because customers demanded lower prices.
China's currency revaluation raised the cost of paying worker salaries at the thousands of electronics factories across the nation, but that won't impact end-user prices for IT goods like PCs and servers, analysts say.
A subsidiary of Giga-byte Technology, one of Taiwan's top computer component makers, launched its first Gigabyte-brand mobile phone Wednesday.
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world's largest contract chip maker, agreed to license image technology from Eastman Kodak Co to use in a manufacturing process aimed at enabling a new breed of high-quality CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) image sensors, TSMC said.
Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo Group will leap to ninth place in the global chip purchasing ranks this year, thanks to its acquisition of IBM Corp.'s PC division, according to a market research group.
Global semiconductor sales rose in May due mainly to a blistering mobile phone market, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).
Taiwan's Compal Electronics, the world's second-largest contract notebook computer maker, will sell its handheld computing division to a mobile phone affiliate, Compal Communications, in order to ensure the affiliate can compete in a fast changing marketplace.
