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2 min ago | Geekzone

NVIDIA Optimus delivers balance of notebook performance and battery life

NVIDIA Corp., has announced its new NVIDIA Optimus technology for notebook PCs, that chooses the best graphics processor for running a given application and automatically routes the workload to either an NVIDIA discrete GPU or Intel integrated graphics - delivering great performance while also providing greater battery life.

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Related Topix: NVIDIA, Electronics, CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Laptops/Notebooks

4 hrs ago | Examiner.com

Micron to buy Numonyx in $1.3 billion stock deal

Micron Technology says it plans to buy fellow memory chip maker Numonyx in an all-stock transaction the companies value at $1.27 billion.

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Related Topix: Micron Technology, Electronics, STMicroelectronics NV

8 hrs ago | Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Vishay returns to 4Q profit; chip demand rebounds

Vishay Intertechnology said Tuesday it reversed a fourth-quarter loss, booking smaller one-time expenses and climbing revenue on computer chip sales.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Vishay Intertechnology

12 hrs ago | Electronics Weekly

Rambus Offers Mobile XDR For Licensing

Rambus has brought out a mobile version of its XDR memory interface which delivers throughput up to 4.3Gbps allowing SOCs capable of 17GBytes per second.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Rambus, Startups, Marketing

16 hrs ago | DarkVision Hardware

Intel Itanium 9300 launched

Intel's Tukwila has arrived in the form of the new Itanium 9300 processor series.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Intel, Electronics

20 hrs ago | Design And Reuse

Broadcom Introduces 65nm 3G HSPA Chipset Solution to Enable High-Speed, Low Cost Smartphone Devices

Broadcom Corporation , a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced a new single-chip HSPA baseband processor and a radio frequency transceiver solution that integrates all of the key 3G cellular and mobile technologies for powering the 3G smartphone and smart feature phone product segments.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Broadcom, CPU, Science / Technology

Mon Feb 08, 2010

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Jo...

Ex-Intel exec Rajiv Goel's plea seen in insider case

Former Intel Corp. executive Rajiv Goel is expected to appear in Manhattan federal court Monday after prosecutors filed papers last week that would pave the way for a guilty plea.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Intel, Startups, Los Altos, CA

The Seattle Times

Trident Microsystems' losses widen on write-off

Trident Microsystems Inc. said Monday that its quarterly loss widened as the company took a big inventory write-off. The company, which makes chips for digital televisions, said its net loss was $23.4 million, or 34 cents per share, in the last three months of 2009.

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Related Topix: Trident Microsystems, Electronics, Startups, TV

Boston Globe

Security chip that does encryption in PCs hacked

Deep inside millions of computers is a digital Fort Knox, a special chip with the locks to highly guarded secrets, including classified government reports and confidential business plans.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Knox, US Army, Computer Security, Science / Technology, Infineon Technologies AG, Xbox 360, Video Games

EETimes

New CEO Sandeep Vij forms 'Team MIPS'

Signing Sandeep Vij as its new CEO may turn out to be just what MIPS Technologies needed, as the world's number two processor IP company struggles to steal the spotlight back from ARM -- both in media attention and the industry's mindshare.

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Related Topix: Mips Technologies, Electronics, Computers, CPU, Science / Technology, Startups, Stanford University

Business Wire

SunEdison Activates First Phase of its 16MW North Carolina Solar Farm

SunEdison, North America's largest solar energy services provider and a subsidiary of MEMC Electronic Materials , has activated the first phase of its 16-megawatt solar farm in Davidson County, N.C. "This first phase represents a major milestone in our overall plan to develop 16 megawatts of solar energy at this site" The first phase of the project ...

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Related Topix: Solar Energy, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Memc Electronic Materials, Electronics, Davidson County, NC, Duke Energy

Freshnews

Samsung 500GB External HDD Available Pre-loaded with - Michael Jackson's this is it'

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a world leader in digital consumer electronics and information technology, today announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a fully transportable external hard drive, pre-loaded with the movie 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT'. Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT', the pre-loaded external ...

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Related Topix: Electronics

Sun Feb 07, 2010

Miami Herald

FIS to repurchase up to 15 million shares

Fidelity National Information Services Inc. reported a fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, taking charges for an acquisition and other one-time expenses.

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Related Topix: Software, Banking, Financial Services, Frontier Financial, ON Semiconductor, Electronics, RF Micro Devices

Miami Herald

Concur's profit rises 13 pct, outlook falls short

RightNow Technologies Inc.'s quarterly profit nearly quadrupled as sales of its customer-management software leaped.

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Related Topix: QLogic, Computers

Customer Interaction Solutions

Intel Gets to the Core with Super Bowl Ad

Intel Corporation: WHEN: Sometime during Super Bowl XLIV, kickoff at 3:25 p.m. PST Sunday, Feb.

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Related Topix: Startups, Intel, Electronics, CPU, Science / Technology

EETimes

Dialog acquires power management technology from Diodes Zetex

Power management semiconductor solutions company, Dialog Semiconductor plc has purchased power management technology through an asset transaction from Diodes Zetex GmbH.

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Related Topix: Dialog Semiconductor, Electronics

Earth Times

New ATI Radeona HD 5450 Graphics Card Delivers Enthusiast Video Game...

AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, the latest addition to the award-winning line-up of ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics cards.

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Related Topix: Video Games, Advanced Micro Devices, Startups

GreenvilleOnline.com

Kemet launches a new high temperature COG dielectric platform

KEMET LAUNCHES A NEW HIGH TEMPERATURE C0G DIELECTRIC PLATFORM Greenville, South Carolina - KEMET Corporation , a leading manufacturer of tantalum, multilayer ceramic, solid aluminum, plastic film, paper and electrolytic capacitors, today announced the release of a new high temperature C0G dielectric platform.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Kemet, Greenville Metro, Greenville, SC

Sat Feb 06, 2010

EETimes.com

Actel CEO East to retire

Actel Corp. on Thursday said that John East will retire as president and chief executive of the FPGA house and as a member of the board.

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Related Topix: Actel, Electronics, Startups, Securities and Exchange Commission, Corporate / Securities Law, Law, Financial Services

My ESM

ARM lays out roadmap with three more cores

ARM Holdings plc plans to launch three additions to its Cortex family of processor cores during 2010.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, CPU, Electronics, World News, United Kingdom, Cambridgeshire County, England, Santa Clara, CA

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