Freescale Semiconductor staked out an industry first with the commercial availability of its speedy, non-volatile Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory technology, which the Texas company is already producing in volume. The MRAM solution joins the speed of static random access memory and the stabili...
South Korean electronics and semiconductor giant Samsung claimed a three-dimensional, stacked memory chip breakthrough this week with new technology that shrinks the space needed for stacked chip layers used in mobile phones and other devices. Samsung said by stacking eight 2 gigabit NAND flash memo...
In a move that underscores the growing importance of flash memory chips as consumer electronics devices continue to shrink in size, Intel and Micron Technology announced a joint venture that will create flash chips for the likes of Apple and others. The two chip makers will contribute up to US$5.2 b...
When AMD reported second quarter sales of US$1.26 billion and net income of $11 million buoyed by its processors recently, it also passed the 10 percent barrier in x86 market share for the first time in company history. According to a report from analyst firm Mercury Research, AMD's share of the x86...
Conflicting messages from Samsung and industry analysts surround the spiraling memory chip market this week. Samsung's president and CEO of semiconductors Hwang Chang-gyu has said prices of Flash and DRAM chips are likely to stabilize, while some analysts clearly disagree, saying there is little cha...
After more than doubling last year, portable digital music player sales are set for 57 percent growth in 2005, according to results of a global survey released today. Market research group iSuppli said shipments of MP3 music players rose by 116 percent in 2004 and will expand to 132 million units in...
AMD-Fujitsu silicon subsidiary Spansion has announced backing of an emerging Flash memory standard with a new family of processors intended for the growing market of devices -- from PC hard drives to onboard navigation systems for cars -- that rely on the embedded Flash memory technology. Spansion s...
No. 2 chipmaker AMD has unveiled a joint venture with Japan-based Fujitsu, creating a $3 billion global company bent on mastering the market for flash memory products. Known as FASL LLC, the new venture is made up of the two companies' flash businesses, with a combined workforce of 7,000. It will ma...
Buoyed by stronger-than-expected flash memory sales, number two semiconductor maker AMD has raised its fourth-quarter sales forecast by 15 percent. The company said it is now on track to book sales of $700 million in the fourth quarter. Such a result would represent an increase of nearly 35 percent ...
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