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Articles tagged with: Isuppli and Memory
Is Moore's Law Becoming Academic?
The high cost of semiconductor manufacturing equipment is making continued chip-making advancements too expensive to use for volume production, relegating Moore's Law to the laboratory and altering the fundamental economics of the industry, according to isuppli Corp. more
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Is Moore's Law Becoming Academic?
The high cost of semiconductor manufacturing equipment is making continued chip-making advancements too expensive to use for volume production, relegating Moore's Law to the laboratory and altering the fundamental economics of the industry, according to isuppli Corp. more
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TI, Qualcomm, Sony, and Samsung Score Key Design Wins in New Palm Pre
Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, Sony and Samsung Electronics are the leading component suppliers for Palm's new Pre, providing the key semiconductor and display technologies that give the smart phone its competitive differentiation, according to dissection conducted by isuppli's Teardown Analysis Service. more
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Qualcomm and ST-Ericsson Shine, Even as Wireless Chip Market Tanks
How bad was the fourth quarter of 2008 for the global wireless communications semiconductor industry? So bad that the accumulated 10 percent revenue growth during the first three quarters of 2008 was wiped out by a 23.3 percent decline during the last three months of the year, causing annual growth for wireless semiconductors to go flat with a marginal 0.7 percent increase. more
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Palm Pre Aims at the iPhone, Preliminary Cost Analysis Reveals
Palm is aiming high with its new Pre, a smart phone that rival's Apple's iPhone in terms of slickness - and in terms of hardware features - according to a virtual teardown conducted by isuppli. more
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Semiconductor Kings Suffer Sales Tragedy in 2008
Shakespeare's adage, "Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," was certainly true for the kings of the semiconductor industry in 2008, with eight out of the Top-10 suppliers suffering revenue declines for the year, according to isuppli Corp. more
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Qualcomm Chips Powering the BlackBerry Storm Smartphone
It isn't a shock that the new BlackBerry Storm smart phone from Research in Motion (RIM) offers features comparable to Apple's iPhone 3G - including the use of a touchscreen - a first for a RIM product. However, the Storm brings some interesting developments on the inside, such as the inclusion of a Qualcomm baseband chip, according to a teardown conducted by isuppli. more
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Semiconductor Equipment Spending to Fall to Six-Year Low in 2009
Following a dismal 2008, global spending on semiconductor manufacturing equipment in 2009 will fall to its lowest level in six years, due to weakening conditions in the chip and electronic equipment markets, according to isuppli. more
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A Forgettable Year for Memory Chip Makers
For memory chip makers, 2008 will go down as a year to forget, as a major downturn in this segment caused revenue to fall for nearly all suppliers and contributed to negative results for the overall semiconductor industry, according to preliminary market-share figures from isuppli. more
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Global Semiconductor Market to Contract in 2008
Amid rapidly deteriorating conditions in the global economy and electronics value chain, isuppli now is predicting worldwide semiconductor revenue will decline in 2008 compared to 2007. more
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