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Articles tagged with: Samsung and Flash
Numonyx Emerges as King of NOR Flash Memory in Q2
In the latest round of the game of NOR flash memory leapfrog, Numonyx in the second quarter capitalized on problems at chief rival Spansion to take the lead in the global market by the sparest of margins, according to iSuppli. more
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Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Down in 2008 - Qualcomm Bucks the Trend
Worldwide semiconductor revenue totaled $255 billion in 2008, down 5.4 percent, or a decrease of $14.5 billion from 2007 revenue, according to the final market share analysis by Gartner. The steep decline in the market in the final quarter of 2008, combined with the ongoing economic weakness, signals far worse declines in 2009. more
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Spansion and Samsung Settle Patent Litigation Lawsuit:
Spansion, the world's largest pure-play provider of Flash memory solutions, has announced that it has settled its patent litigation lawsuits with samsung Electronics. As part of the settlement, samsung will pay Spansion US$70 million and Spansion and samsung Electronics Company have exchanged rights in their patent portfolios in the form of licenses and covenants subject to a confidential settlement agreement. 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
Related Tags: broadcom, semiconductor, texas-instruments, intel, flash-memory, qualcomm, isuppli, digital-signal-processor, lte, texas, toshiba, fujitsu, nec, nxp, sony, sharp, 3, memory, analog, hynix, nand, on-semiconductor, mediatek, ford, display, fabless, wired, nvidia, marvell-technology, renesas, true, marvell
Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue Declined $12 Billion in 2008
For only the fifth time in the last 25 years, the semiconductor industry will post a decline in revenue, with worldwide semiconductor revenue totaling $261.9 billion in 2008, a 4.4 percent decline from 2007, according to preliminary results by Gartner. more
Related Tags: iphone, semiconductor, intel, flash-memory, apple, apple, qualcomm, infineon-technologies, cdma, gartner, toshiba, infineon, memory, hynix, nand, andrew, dram
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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Teardown Report Reveals Manufacturing Cost of BlackBerry Bold
In its first-ever solo television advertisement for a product, Research In Motion touts its new BlackBerry Bold 9000 smart phone as a device that allows users to "Connect to everything you love in life in a bold new way." more
Related Tags: sandisk, iphone, semiconductor, texas-instruments, flash-memory, isuppli, gps, blackberry, rim, touch-screen, battery, blackberry-bold, memory, analog, rogers, operating-system, wlan, displays, andrew, rogers-communications, downlink, display, microsd, music, qwerty, touch-screen, marvell, television
Samsung Increases the Efficiency of Embedded Memory in Smartphones
samsung Electronics says that it is introducing software designed to optimize the high performance features of its proprietary embedded flash memories: OneNAND, Flex-OneNAND and moviNAND, in smart phones, using the major mobile operating systems - Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, and RTOS (real-time operating system). more
Related Tags: windows-mobile, wind, memory-chips, memory, nand
Shakeups Rock 1H08 Top 20 Semiconductor Supplier Ranking
IC Insights' recent research for its Strategic Reviews Online IC company database uncovered a big shakeup in the 1H08 top 20 semiconductor supplier ranking. There are eight U.S. companies in the top 20 (including three fabless semiconductor suppliers), six Japanese, three European, two South Korean, and one Taiwanese company (IC foundry supplier TSMC) in the ranking. As shown, it required at least $2.1 billion in 1H08 sales to make the top 20 ranking. Although the top four ranked companies remained the same, there were a number of "movers and shakers" up and down the remainder of the 1H08 ranking as compared to their full-year 2007 positions. more
Related Tags: broadcom, amd, semiconductor, flash-memory, qualcomm, nec, panasonic, nxp, seven, memory, hynix, foundry, dram, fabless, cell-phone
Apple Stresses Manufacturing Cost Reduction for iPhone 3G
The new iPhone 3G sports an evolutionary design that favors cost reduction instead of cutting-edge features, supporting Apple's goal of expanding its market share and achieving a worldwide presence for the product, according to a physical teardown analysis conducted this weekend by iSuppli. more
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