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| Acer CEO: No more 'cheap and unprofitable' products |
| Acer is plotting a return to profits that partly rests on the success of the ultrabook after revealing it is close to completing its operational and management overhaul. |
| December 7, 2011 |
| Acer reports first ever quarterly loss |
| One of the biggest PC makers in the world, Taiwan-based Acer, has reported it has recorded the first quarterly loss in the company's history. Reuters reports that Acer had a net loss of $234.3 million for the quarter that ended on June 30. That amount is much bigger than what analysts had predicted. The company's chairman J.T. Wang told investors that the larger loss was due to Acer clearing out excess inventory. It also was due to paying a number of resigning senior executives their severance packages. |
| August 25, 2011 |
| Acer to Buy U.S. Cloud Technology Provider IGware |
| Acer said Thursday it plans to acquire iGware, a cloud technology company in the U.S., for US$320 million, as part of a plan to allow users to more easily share content across the PC maker's products. |
| July 21, 2011 |
| Acer to dump 3 million laptops onto European market |
| Expect some great deals on Acer laptops in coming weeks. The Taiwanese giant has huge amounts of unsold stock to shift and looks set to flood Europe with more than three million machines. |
| June 13, 2011 |
| Acer to Merge Netbook & Ultrabook Category |
| Acer had an opening ceremony yesterday and commemorate the beginning of the lunar new year and chairman JT Wang they had a few new years resolutions to announce. This year Acer will no longer be defending its position in the market and warns that they will be on the attack. They are going to be moving aggresively in the Ultrabook, Notebook, Tablet & Smartphone categories. |
| January 31, 2012 |
| Acer's president resigns after board loses confidence |
| No one can deny that the landscape for consumer electronics is changing rapidly and pulling away from desktop PCs and laptops. While there's still a huge market for PCs in the home, the focus is now more on what smartphone and tablet device to buy. |
| March 31, 2011 |
| AMD Faces 32nm Challenge; Cuts Q3 Revenue Forecast |
| AMD reduced its revenue growth expectations for the third quarter by about 50 percent, stating that it has been affected by "manufacturing issues" at Globalfoundries. |
| September 30, 2011 |
| AMD Hires Mike Wolfe as New CIO |
| AMD today announced it has appointed Mike Wolfe, age 52, as the company's chief information officer. He brings more than 30 years of engineering and information technology experience, most recently as vice president of IT for product development and engineering at HP for the last five years. Wolfe will be responsible for managing AMD's global technology infrastructure and will report into Thomas Seifert, senior vice president and chief financial officer and interim CEO. |
| March 21, 2011 |
| AMD Names Rory P. Read President and CEO |
| 28-year industry veteran brings extensive track record of growth through transformation and strong customer perspective |
| August 25, 2011 |
| AMD Reports Fourth Quarter and Annual Results |
| AMD today announced revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011 of $1.69 billion, net loss of $177 million, or $0.24 per share, and operating income of $71 million. |
| January 25, 2012 |
| AMD risks snatching defeat from the jaws of victory |
| Last week, AMD's Rick Bergman announced his departure as the head of the company's Products Group. Bergman first joined AMD in 2006, after the ATI acquisition, and had risen to his former position in the aftermath of Hector Ruiz's resignation in 2009. AMD has said nothing about the reasons for Bergman's departure. |
| September 27, 2011 |
| AMD struggles to reinvent itself |
| Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Advanced Micro Devices was hoping to profit from a bigger share of the PC chip market after its longtime nemesis, Intel, suffered a string of antitrust regulatory rebukes in recent years. |
| November 23, 2011 |
| Apple grabs top spot in mobile PC market from HP |
| Fueled by demand for the iPad, Apple shot past Hewlett-Packard to claim the leading share of mobile PC shipments during the second quarter, according to data out today from DisplaySearch. |
| August 18, 2011 |
| Apple paid $2.6bn of $4.5bn Nortel patent grab |
| "On June 27, 2011, the Company, as part of a consortium, participated in the acquisition of Nortel's patent portfolio for an overall purchase price of $4.5 billion, of which the Company's contribution will be approximately $2.6 billion," Apple noted in its quarterly form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. |
| July 21, 2011 |
| ARM elbows through chip market with bumper profits |
| Business is brisk at British chip designer ARM where pre-tax profit and revenue ballooned during the company's third quarter, which ended on 30 September. |
| October 25, 2011 |
| ASUS: 'We run out of hard disks at the end of the month' |
| ASUS managed a slight increase in profit for the third quarter of this year, despite the global slowdown in PC sales. |
| October 31, 2011 |
| Asustek Hopes New Ops Center Will Speed PC Production |
| Asustek Computer will set up an operations center in southwest China by 2015 to manage manufacturing by contractors of up to 20 million Asustek notebook and tablet PCs a year, the company said on Friday. The move could streamline production and keep prices low for consumers in Europe, China and other parts of Asia. |
| April 15, 2011 |
| Asustek to Hold Netbook Shipments Flat as Tablet Sales Grow |
| The Taiwanese manufacturer, the first to come out with a netbook PC, aims to ship 6 million Eee PC netbooks again in 2011 as students and people traveling on business prefer those to the smaller media tablets, said Jose Liao, senior director of Asustek's systems products department. Tablets, he said, are more for fun. |
| March 25, 2011 |
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| Channel giant SCH sales up, profit down |
| Specialist Computer Holdings -- parent of reseller SCC and distributor SDG -- pushed up sales in the year ended 31 March 2011, but the biting economy and the payment of a disputed tax bill dampened profits. |
| October 05, 2011 |
| Chip sales flat in 2011, will grow (a wee bit) in 2012 |
| The prognosticators at Gartner have ranked the chip makers of the world by 2011 revenue and are calling the market for 2012, with a reasonably upbeat forecast for next year's chip sales, but -- paradoxically -- a dreadful forecast for companies that make the gear to bake the chips. |
| December 20, 2011 |
| Cisco Flips consumer unit out with trash |
| Selling digital gadgets to consumers and breaking into the server racket, all the while alienating some of the server-makers who were pushing Cisco Systems networking gear, has been tough on Cisco's profits in recent quarters. And the restructuring that the networking giant has announced is an admission that things are not going as planned. |
| April 12, 2011 |
| Companies Lose $2.5 Million from Missing Memory Sticks, Study Says |
| While data breaches by hackers get headlines, another form of data leakage can be very damaging to a company's bottom line, too. Most notably, that is sensitive data lost on the USB memory sticks. |
| August 9, 2011 |
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| Dell raises 2012 outlook, stock rallies |
| Dell Inc posted profits that blew past Wall Street forecasts on improved profitability and the No. 2 PC maker raised its fiscal 2012 outlook for operating income, citing expectations for a robust back-to-school season and strong government spending. |
| May 17, 2011 |
| Dell's 2Q comes amid PC strife |
| Dell Inc.'s latest earnings come at a difficult time for the PC industry. Consumer demand is sagging, as tablets and smartphones steal market share. The Round Rock, Texas-based company's fiscal second quarter results, scheduled to be reported after the market closes on Tuesday, Aug. 16, are expected to highlight those pressures while underscoring Dell's focus on corporate PCs, an area of strength right now. |
| August 12, 2011 |
| Dell, Nvidia insider traders nabbed by Feds |
| Crusading US Attorney Preet Bharara, famous for bringing down two insider-trading rings associated with the hedge fund Galleon Group, has worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Securities and Exchange Commission to bring down another insider-trading ring, this one comprised of analysts and hedge fund employees who illegally profited or avoided losses to the tune of $61.8m. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Disk drive prices swell 5% every DAY in floods aftermath |
| Price comparison site Idealo.co.uk has revealed that disk drive prices were rising by more than 5 per cent a day in the aftermath of the crisis in Thailand that sent supply chains into a tailspin. |
| November 25, 2011 |
| Disk fab floods rinse $1bn off Intel's Q4 revenue |
| Chip maker Intel has slashed its final quarter outlook, admitting it will fall short of the company's previous forecast due to a hard drive supply shortage - sparked by flooding in Thai disk factories. |
| December 12, 2011 |
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| European PC shipments fall 11 percent during third-quarter |
| European PC sales are looking grim, with netbooks suffering the most and dragging notebook sales down with it, as consumers turn to iPads and other tablets. |
| November 14, 2011 |
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| Flooded fabs to ship 48m fewer disks in Q4 |
| Disk drive shipments are set to plummet by nearly 28 per cent in Q4 -- 48 million fewer units than a year ago -- in the wake of the devastating flooding in Thailand, says beancounter iSuppli. |
| November 1, 2011 |
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| Gartner cuts 2011 global PC growth forecast |
| Technology research company Gartner lowered its forecast Wednesday for worldwide personal computer growth amid a sharp drop in sales of mini-notebooks and rising interest in tablets such as Apple's iPad. |
| June 9, 2011 |
| Gartner forecasts 5.6% rise in IT spending |
| Worldwide information technology spending is expected to rise 5.6 percent this year with tablet computers like Apple's iPad helping to drive growth, a technology research company said Wednesday. |
| March 30, 2011 |
| Global Leaders Turn to HP to Ensure Continuous Availability |
| Daiwa, AOL and PinkRoccade Healthcare choose mission-critical HP Converged Infrastructure |
| March 22, 2011 |
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| Hasbro Sues Asus Over the Name Transformer Prime |
| I don't know about you, but I often get confused between fictional robots that can assume the form of everyday objects, and fancy new Android tablets. Fortunately, toymaker Hasbro feels my pain. |
| December 22, 2011 |
| Hewlett-Packard Shakes PC Malaise, Musters For Run To $55 |
| Hewlett-Packard released its Q2 2011 on May 17 and the stock has drifted lower since the release. One of the prime concern among investors is that sales at HP's personal system group fell by 5% over the same period last year. HP's PSG remains the PC market leader in terms of units, revenue and profit share compared to competitors like Dell, Acer Group and Lenovo. |
| June 3, 2011 |
| How Microsoft plans to sell a 'couple hundred million' more Windows 7 PCs before Windows 8 |
| As Microsoft's fourth-quarter fiscal 2011 earnings made clear, Windows 7 sales -- with the glaring exception of netbooks -- are good, but not as good as they used to be. Given there's still a year (give or take) s until Windows 8 launches, what is Microsoft's game plan to keep the bottom from dropping out of the Windows PC market? |
| July 22, 2011 |
| HP called out for director selection improprieties |
| A week before Hewlett-Packard's annual meeting, a shareholder advisory firm is urging clients not to endorse the company's newly nominated board members. |
| March 10, 2011 |
| HP decides that the PC is not dead |
| You can breathe a sigh of relief, IT admins, home owners, and rig builders: HP, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that the PC is not dead and that it will not be selling its vast, $36 bilion-per-year, 20%-share-of-the-PC-market Personal Systems Group (PSG). |
| October 27, 2011 |
| HP decisions signal huge frustrations with Intel, Microsoft |
| Last week HP announced, to the general surprise of world+dog, that it intends to exit the PC business, kill its barely-launched series of webOS products, and buy UK data analysis company Autonomy for $11 billion. The statements kicked off a furor of analysis and discussion, including our own exploration of the company's underlying motives. |
| August 23, 2011 |
| HP Discontinues WebOS Devices, May Sell PC Business |
| Hewlett-Packard has announced that the company will discontinue all WebOS-based devices, including WebOS phones and the TouchPad tablet, released just a couple of months ago. |
| August 19, 2011 |
| HP Names Tracy Keogh Executive Vice President of Human Resources |
| HP today announced it has appointed Tracy Keogh to serve as executive vice president of human resources, effective April 25. |
| March 24, 2011 |
| HP sues Oracle over Itanium support: Does the lawsuit make sense? |
| Hewlett-Packard said it has filed a civil lawsuit in California forcing Oracle to support its Itanium platform. |
| June 16, 2011 |
| HP tries to assure PC customers about future of business |
| HP's announcement last week that it might be looking to spin off or sell the PC division of its business has naturally made some customers fear the company might not be supporting those products in the future. In a new post this week on HP's The Next Bench blog site, the company tries to tell its customers that at the moment its PC business is being run as if it is business as usual. |
| August 26, 2011 |
| HP's master plan: Put WebOS in stasis until PC unit is spun off |
| HP's plan appears to be to develop WebOS just enough to keep people interested and then pack it into stasis to buy time for the PC unit to be spun off. |
| August 23, 2011 |
| Hyundai says it will not bid for Hynix stake |
| South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Wednesday lost its sole potential buyer after shipmaking giant Hyundai Heavy Industries said it would not bid for a stake in the world's second-largest memory chip maker. |
| July 5, 2011 |
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| IBM Net Rises 4% |
| IBM Corp. on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter profit of $5.5 billion, or $4.62 a share, compared with a profit of $5.3 billion, or $4.18 a share, for the year-earlier period. Revenue was $29.5 billion, up from $29 billion. Analysts had expected the company to report earnings of $4.61 a share, on revenue of $29.7 billion. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| IBM raises guidance, beats Street estimates |
| IBM has raised its full-year profit guidance and says its quarterly earnings rose 8 percent on increases in each of its three major product categories. |
| July 18, 2011 |
| IDC numbers show chink in NetApp wall |
| These numbers measure worldwide factory revenues for external disk storage systems and for the total disk storage systems category. Differences are revealed by contrasting the year-on-year second quarter growth numbers and also by looking at the comparison between the first and second 2011 quarters, which show up NetApp's malaise. |
| September 6, 2011 |
| Intel Announces Senior Notes Offering |
| Intel Corporation today announced its intention to commence a public offering of senior unsecured notes consisting of 5, 10 and 30-year notes pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Each tranche will be at, or greater than, the benchmark size of at least $500 million. The offering and the actual terms of the notes, including principal amount, interest rate and maturity, will depend on market and other conditions. |
| September 14, 2011 |
| Intel Promotes Two Executives to Senior Vice President |
| Intel Corporation today announced that its board of directors has promoted Mooly Eden and Richard Taylor to the position of senior vice president. The promotions recognize outstanding performance. |
| February 1, 2012 |
| Intel Reports Record Year $54 Billion in Annual Revenue Up 24 Percent, $2.39 in Annual EPS Up 19 Percent |
| Intel Corporation today reported full-year revenue of $54 billion, operating income of $17.5 billion, net income of $12.9 billion and EPS of $2.39 -- all records. The company generated approximately $21 billion in cash from operations, paid dividends of $4.1 billion and used $14.1 billion to repurchase 642 million shares of stock. |
| January 19, 2012 |
| Intel takes CPU market share from AMD in Q1 |
| The chip watchers at iSuppli say that Intel continued to gain processor market share even though it was hit by a bug in a chipset used with its "Sandy Bridge" desktop, laptop, and entry server platforms. |
| June 30, 2011 |
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| Japan disasters could send gadget prices higher |
| Disaster-hit Japan churns out many of the world's smartphones, video cameras and other gadgets and while sales are not expected to suffer around the globe, industry analysts expect prices to rise. |
| March 31, 2011 |
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| LCD makers in $553 million U.S. price-fixing accord |
| Samsung Electronics Co, Sharp Corp and five other makers of liquid crystal displays agreed to pay $553 million to settle consumer and state regulatory claims that they conspired to fix prices for LCD panels in televisions, notebook computers and monitors. |
| December 27, 2011 |
| Lenovo Forms JV With Compal to Build New PC Factory |
| PC vendor Lenovo has formed a joint venture with laptop contract manufacturer Compal Electronics to build and operate a new factory in China, as part of a move to keep up with product sales, Lenovo announced Tuesday. |
| September 27, 2011 |
| Lenovo is now No.2 PC maker; Dell says it doesn't care |
| Lenovo becomes the No.2 PC firm in global market share. Dell, which used to be No. 2, says it doesn't care -- because it's a solution provider rather than a pure PC firm. |
| October 13, 2011 |
| Lenovo Q2 profit up 88 percent, beats forecast |
| Lenovo Group Ltd, the world's No.2 PC brand, posted a better-than-expected 88 percent rise in second-quarter profit, helped by acquisitions and an increase in sales in emerging markets such as China. |
| November 2, 2011 |
| Lenovo says quarterly profit nearly doubles |
| Lenovo Group, the world's No. 3 personal computer manufacturer, said Thursday its quarterly profit nearly doubled on strong emerging market sales. |
| August 18, 2011 |
| Logitech's new Lifesize CEO targets growth pickup |
| Logitech's video conferencing unit LifeSize expects new products and a bigger sales team to boost revenue growth starting this quarter, after it reported only a 6 percent rise for October-to-December. |
| January 31, 2012 |
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| Manufacturing bombshell: AMD cancels 28nm APUs, starts from scratch at TSMC |
| Last month, we published a story on how AMD may have shifted its focus from Bulldozer to Bobcat in the wake of the former's disappointing performance. Since it ran, we've spoken to multiple independent sources that told us AMD's 28nm Brazos-based APUs were in serious trouble and would likely never see the light of day. |
| November 22, 2011 |
| Michael Dell: PC profits plunge not down to tablets |
| It was floods and the economy -- anyway we're buying cloud startups now |
| January 10, 2012 |
| Microsoft Starts Windows Thin PC Push |
| There's a goofy video making the rounds in which a technology enthusiast installs (almost) every major versions of Windows from MS-DOS 5/Windows 1.01 through Windows 7. There are a number of lessons to learn from this video, but the big take away from this is that Microsoft is serious about backwards compatibility in ways that elude its competitors. I think most of us understood this, of course, and one of the reasons that so many businesses run on Microsoft software today is that the software giant has always respected the compatibility requirements of its customers. |
| March 22, 2011 |
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| Nielsen Study: Tablets Replacing Laptops and eReaders |
| New survey results from Nielsen show that users are ditching their laptops, abandoning their ereaders, and leaving their MP3 players behind. For a large, and growing segment of the population, the tablet is the new primary computing and entertainment device. |
| May 9, 2011 |
| NetApp revenue misses, CFO to retire |
| Data storage equipment maker NetApp Inc posted quarterly revenue below Wall Street projections, saying that business slowed dramatically in July, and its shares tumbled 14 percent. |
| August 17, 2011 |
| Nvidia CEO sees tenfold growth in mobile-chip biz |
| Huang, speaking to a roundtable of reporters today, said he expects revenue from its mobile-chip business to grow tenfold, to $20 billion by 2015. In comparison, the graphics processor business is expected to grow 75 percent, to $7 billion in the same time frame. |
| September 6, 2011 |
| NVIDIA Completes Acquisition of Icera, a Leader in Wireless-Modem, RF Technology |
| NVIDIA announced today that it has completed its $367 million cash acquisition of Icera, a leading innovator of top-performing wireless modems for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. Icera is now a wholly owned subsidiary of NVIDIA operating under the Icera trade name. |
| June 13, 2011 |
| Nvidia Gets To $21 But Tegra 2 Could Be Better |
| While Nvidia made headlines this year with its launch of the world's first dual-core processor for mobile devices (Tegra 2), Apple replied with its own competitive A5 processor for the iPad 2. Apple's processor provides a real challenge to Tegra 2, meaning that Nvidia might now need to beef up its chip. Nvidia competes primarily with AMD and Intel in the processors and graphics business. |
| April 8, 2011 |
| NVIDIA Surges As 3Q Net More Than Doubles; 4Q Revenue Guidance In Line |
| The shares of NVIDIA Corp. are poised to shine as brightly as the graphics produced by their core processing chips this morning. In pre-market trading, NVDA has jumped more than 4%, with traders reacting to stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings. Specifically, NVIDIA said it earned $178.3 million, or 29 cents per share, in the quarter, up from $84.9 million, or 15 cents per share, a year ago. |
| November 11, 2011 |
| NVIDIA to Acquire Baseband and RF Technology Leader Icera |
| NVIDIA announced today that it has agreed to acquire Icera, a leading innovator of top-performing baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets. Icera has more than 550 patents granted or pending worldwide, and its high speed wireless-modem products have been approved by more than 50 carriers across the globe. By combining the companies' products and technologies, including NVIDIA's Tegra processor. |
| May 9, 2011 |
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| Oracle calls HP suit over Itanium a 'publicity stunt' |
| Hewlett-Packard's lawsuit against Oracle over its decision to stop developing software for Intel's Itanium processors is a "publicity stunt" and meant to "lay the blame on Oracle for the disruption that will occur when HP's Itanium-based server business inevitably comes to an end," Oracle said in a court filing Wednesday. |
| June 29, 2011 |
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| Panasonic, NEC Reopen Some Plants Halted After Japan Quake |
| Panasonic and NEC restarted production on today at some factories that had been halted after a major earthquake hit eastern Japan on March 11. |
| March 23, 2011 |
| PC chip sales gain in Q1; Intel dominates, AMD holds ground |
| PC semiconductor shipments were up 7.4 percent in the fourth quarter as manufacturers stocked up on Intel's Sandy Bridge and AMD's Fusion lines. Intel's market share overall checked in at 80.8 percent, according to IDC. |
| May 5, 2011 |
| PC chip shipments flat, but sales up |
| For the quarter, worldwide chip shipments rose only 0.6 percent from a year ago and fell 2.9 percent from the first quarter. Sales reached $9.49 billion, a 5.4 percent rise from 2010's second quarter but a 4 percent drop from the first quarter. |
| August 2, 2011 |
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| Report: Cisco to cut as many as 10,000 employees |
| The struggling network switching and router company Cisco could cut as many as 10,000 of its employees in order to save as much as $1 billion. Bloomberg reports via unnamed sources that 7,000 employees will be flat out cut by the end of August. Another 3,000 team members will be given early retirement deals. The amount of employees that are to be cut represent about 14 percent of Cisco's total work force. |
| July 12, 2011 |
| RIM Said Weighing Bid to Top Google Offer for Nortel Patents |
| Research In Motion Ltd. is considering a bid for Nortel Networks Corp.'s portfolio of wireless technology patents that would top Google Inc.'s $900 million offer, two people familiar with the plans said. |
| April 16, 2011 |
| RISC, Itanium Lose out to X86 in Q3 Server Market, Gartner Says |
| The worldwide server market grew by unit shipments and revenue in the third quarter this year, but the downward spiral of RISC and Itanium servers continued on the gains of x86 servers, Gartner said on Monday. |
| November 28, 2011 |
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| Samsung confirms plans for Windows 8 touch screen PCs |
| It's not exactly a shock to hear this piece of news but Bloomberg has posted up word today that Samsung still has plans to offer up a touch screen-based PC that will run Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system sometime in 2012. In September, Samsung provided attendees of Microsoft's BUILD conference a touch screen PC that was running the developer's preview version of Windows 8. |
| November 9, 2011 |
| Samsung says 2nd-quarter operating profit fell |
| Samsung Electronics' profitability slumped in the second quarter as strong performance in fast-growing smartphones could not overcome weakness in liquid crystal displays. |
| July 6, 2011 |
| Samsung seeking money to expand production in Texas |
| As Neowin reported last month, Samsung currently produces the dual-core A5 processor used in the iPhone and iPad, from their Austin, Texas based manufacturing facility. Having recently reached full capacity in October and with Apple now receiving shipments from the 1.6 million square foot facility, Samsung is looking to expand. |
| January 17, 2012 |
| Samsung to build flash memory chip line in China |
| Samsung Electronics, the world's largest memory chip maker, said Tuesday it would build a new production line in China for flash memory chips used in tablets and smartphones. |
| December 6, 2011 |
| Samsung, Nvidia move to front of Google's Android tablet army |
| Samsung, undeterred by a rather high-profile lawsuit from Apple, is doubling down on Android. Meanwhile, Nvidia is demonstration its quad-core tablet processor as a way to get ahead of Qualcomm. The message is that Android tablets will get better and come with plenty of raw power. The big question is whether that'll be enough to compete with Apple. |
| May 31, 2011 |
| Seagate Acquires Samsung's Hard Drive Business for $1.4 Billion |
| Seagate announced that the company has officially acquired Samsung's hard drive business today, including all of its assets, employees, and infrastructure. The transaction includes Samsung's popular high-capacity 2.5-inch M8 hard drives and a number of senior managers and design engineers from Samsung's operations base in Korea. Going forward, these employees will be working on developing notebook hard drives with slim form factors for Seagate. |
| December 20, 2011 |
| Seagate beats Street, but outlook's bleak |
| Seagate's 4th quarter results beat expectations, but profits are substantially down and cost pressures rising. It beat the Street but the outlook is bleak. |
| July 21, 2011 |
| Seagate Technology Reports Second Quarter Financial Results |
| Seagate Technology plc today reported financial results for the quarter ended December 30, 2011. The company shipped 47 million disk drives and reported revenue of $3.2 billion, gross margin of 31.6%, net income of $563 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.28. On a non-GAAP basis, which excludes the net impact of certain items, Seagate reported net income of $581 million and diluted earnings per share of $1.32 for the quarter ended December 30, 2011. |
| February 2, 2012 |
| Seagate upbeat despite hard-drive supply constraints |
| Seagate Technology said its sales will be stronger than expected as it is one of the few hard-drive makers to navigate the floods in Thailand successfully. |
| November 29, 2011 |
| Seagate, Western Digital Merger Deals Face EC Probe |
| Western Digital said in March it would acquire Hitachi's hard drive business for US$4.3 billion. Competitor Seagate said a month later it would acquire Samsung's hard drive business for $1.38 billion. |
| May 31, 2011 |
| Semiconductor Sales to Exceed $300B for the First Time |
| The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) believes that the industry will gain just about 1.3 percent over 2010 and end up at about $302 billion in sales. |
| December 7, 2011 |
| Server sales still growing strong |
| Server sales in the second quarter of 2011 grew 17.9 per cent in revenue terms to $13.2bn, reckons IDC. |
| August 25, 2011 |
| Server shipments rise globally, collapse in Europe |
| PC shipments may have been tepid during third quarter, but servers are up year over year despite the economy -- or perhaps because of it. Shipments grew 7.2 percent, according to Gartner, while revenue rose 5.2 percent. |
| November 29, 2011 |
| Smartphone, tablet demand boosts profits for ARM |
| ARM can thank the booming smartphone and tablet market for its solid fourth-quarter performance. |
| January 31, 2012 |
| Sony Sees $2.9B Loss, New CEO Warns of Pain |
| Ailing Japanese electronics giant Sony Corp warned it was heading for a bigger-than-expected $2.9 billion annual loss, presenting a daunting task for incoming CEO Kazoo Hiram, who vowed to move quickly to turn things around. |
| February 2, 2012 |
| Sony suspends some production at more Japan plants |
| Sony Corp. said Tuesday it is suspending some production at plants in Japan that make popular consumer electronics like digital cameras and televisions due to shortages of components and raw materials following the March 11 earthquake. |
| March 22, 2011 |
| ST-Ericsson to Lay off 500 as Part of Cost-savings Plan |
| The company, a joint venture between STMicroelectronics and Ericsson, develops communication radios and application processors for smartphones and tablets. The company is best known for its 2G, 3G and 4G communication radios, and has a small presence in the application processor space. |
| June 24, 2011 |
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| Taiwan's Acer swings to loss in second quarter |
| Taiwan's leading computer vendor Acer Inc said Wednesday it suffered a loss of Tw$6.8 billion ($236 million) in the three months to June, swinging from a profit of $41.53 million in the previous quarter. |
| August 24, 2011 |
| Thailand Floods Could Impact HDD Supplies, Computer Production Worldwide |
| The monsoon rains that have created flood conditions in Thailand since July are expected to have a significant impact on computer manufacturers and production worldwide, mostly affecting desktop and notebook PC systems. |
| October 21, 2011 |
| The Ethernet Switch market explodes and Cisco wins |
| It's a network world out there as the worldwide Ethernet switch market reached record revenues of $5.9 billion in the third quarter of 2011 according to IDC and Cisco is leading the way. |
| December 6, 2011 |
| TI Sued Over Patent Infringement in OMAP 3 and 4 Series |
| Texas Instruments is facing a patent infringement suit from Cradle IP, which claims that the company is violating three of its patents with its TMS320-series digital signal processors as well as its ARM-based AM389x Sitara and OMAP3 and 4 processors. |
| December 21, 2011 |
| Toshiba to shut three Japan semiconductor plants |
| Electronics and manufacturing giant Toshiba said Wednesday it is to shut three semiconductor factories in Japan as part of a reorganisation of its business, as it grapples with falling profits. |
| November 30, 2011 |
| TowerJazz Expected to Nearly Double Production Capacity with Proposed Acquisition of Micron Technology Wafer Manufacturing Plant in Japan |
| TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announced today it has signed a non-binding term sheet contemplating its purchase of Micron Technology's fabrication facility in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo, Japan. The proposed purchase would nearly double TowerJazz's current internal manufacturing capacity, cost-effectively increasing production by 60,000 wafers per month. |
| April 4, 2011 |
| TSMC reports shrinking profit, revenue in 3Q |
| Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., the world's largest contract chip maker, said Thursday its earnings dropped by more than a third in the latest quarter amid uncertainties about the global economy. |
| October 27, 2011 |
| Two strategy lessons for Cisco Systems |
| Remember the good old days of Cisco Systems? Exponential revenue growth, hefty profit margins, and soaring stock prices that turned the company into the envy for partners and competitors. |
| September 13, 2011 |
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| Western Digital Q3 Revenues Fall |
| Storage vendor impacted by supply chain and the earthquake in Japan. |
| April 21, 2011 |
| Western Digital To Acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies |
| Combination of Hard Drive Companies Will Create Industry's Broadest Product Portfolio and a Significant Pool of Resources for Innovation |
| March 7, 2011 |
| What HP Can Do to Save Itself |
| The rumors are coming fast and furious: HP will soon oust maligned CEO Leo Apotheker and replace him with former eBay CEO Meg Whitman; HP will be selling or spinning off its Personal Systems Group (PSG); and HP will be fully backing webOS because of the unexpected response to the TouchPad fire sale. |
| September 23, 2011 |
| Wireless comms surpass computers in semiconductor spending area |
| A huge contribution to this is the proliferation of wireless mobile devices — particularly the “red-hot appeal of items like Apple’s iPhone and iPad.” |
| February 2, 2012 |