Samsung Announced World’s First 32GB DDR3 Memory for Server Market
Samsung, the famous memory chip maker has just unveiled a next generation DDR3 memory module that packs with high density.
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19.6.2009 Can Dell change the Linux market?
After a lot of hemming-and-hawing, Dell has decided to accept the verdict of its IdeaStorm users and sell pre-installed Linux.
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26.2.2007 Google to launch Android Market
Google is set to offer Android Market - its own App Store-like content distribution system for the Android mobile phone platform which will allow users to buy, download and install content for the upcoming Android devices.
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29.8.2008 Ballmer: Enterprise Tools Market Ours For the Taking
It's not often that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talks development tools. But Ballmer is all fired up about the pending Visual Studio Team System and future potential enterprise tool revenues.
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20.11.2005 Intel to take 'Averill' to market as Centrino-like platform
Intel will next year launch its third branded PC platform, after Centrino and Viiv, this time pitched at corporate desktops.
As yet there's no word on the platform's go-to-market brandname, but it will almost certainly be based on Intel's 'Averill' platform. Averill was announced at the chip giant's Developer Forum in March this year for availability in 2006.
Averill is based on Intel's upcoming 'Broadwater' chipset, which will ship primarily as the 965 family, but also as the 946 and 963 product lines, it is believed. The platform also takes in Intel's next-generation Gigabit Ethernet controller, 'Nineveh', and its 65nm dual- and single-core Pentium D and Pentium 4 6xx processors.
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1.12.2005 Windows XP going off market in June: What it means
Well it looks like XP is about to disappear from stores coming this June. Oh what shall I do If I still don't want to migrate to Vista? Well actually it will probably still be for sale in stores and such but Microsoft itself will no longer sell it. Read on.
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18.4.2008 Zune has chance to take iPod market share: survey
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. may have a chance to take market share from the iPod as a Reuters survey showed 35 percent of those interested in its Zune device would be replacing an existing digital music player.
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30.11.2006 The anti-spyware market that never existed is officially dead
If anyone needed evidence that the standalone anti-spyware market is official dead (if it ever existed), along comes Webroot Software with Exhibit A, B and C:
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29.10.2007 Market Share Smackdown: Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1%
No, Linux 85.4% vs. Windows 1% is not a typo, neither the result of erroneous information. The fact is that there is a context where the open source operating system holds the lion's king of the market while Microsoft's proprietary platform is not the only dominant OS, but is reduced to a bottom feeder in terms of its install base.
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2.7.2008 Six reasons Microsoft will continue to lose market share
Microsoft has positioned itself at the top, a top that is targeted by hundreds if not thousands of companies.
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21.11.2008 Bing grabs 10 percent of search market
Microsoft's new Bing search service is the fastest-growing U.S. search engine among the top 10, according to a Nielsen report released Monday.
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18.9.2009 Apple twice the price of PCs
Research by analyst house NPD has shown that, on average, Apple users pay twice as much in the shops as PC users.
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11.8.2008 Playing the Windows 7 Price Is Right
Pricing is one of the last details that Microsoft is yet to unveil for the next iteration of the Windows client.
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9.6.2009 Windows Embedded grew more than 200% in 2006 retail market
Windows XP Embedded shipments to North American retailers grew by 242 percent in 2006, while WEPOS (Windows Embedded for Point of Service) shipments grew 80 by percent, according to a new report from IHL Consulting Group. Last year's Windows Embedded growth trends are expected to increase even further this year.
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7.3.2007 Vista, IE7 help Microsoft boost search market share
In a rare bit of good news for Microsoft on the search front, web metrics firm comScore reported that for the month of March, Microsoft's search engines saw their first market share increase in nearly a year.
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19.4.2007 Microsoft Eyes 40 Percent of Smartphone Market by 2012
Microsoft is aiming to capture 40 percent of the smartphone market with Windows Mobile by the year 2012, an executive said Tuesday.
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13.5.2008 Windows market share drops to 15-year low
Earlier today, we reported that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has dropped below 70% for the first time nearly nine years.
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7.12.2008 Xbox 360 price drop on the way soon?
If a promotion in a printed UK advertising catalogue is anything to go by, the cost of the Xbox 360 Premium console with wireless controller and 20Gb hard drive is set to fall to the cheaper cost of the Xbox 360 Core system, just in time to spoil the launch of the PS3.
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20.2.2007 Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS Start the Market Share Ballet
At almost six months since it was initially introduced to the public in Beta stage, Windows 7 has gathered an audience almost half the size of all distributions of Linux available on the market, according to statistics from Net Applications.
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2.6.2009 Samsung Pays $300m for Price Fixing
Samsung accepted terms of a plea agreement Thursday that finds the electronics company guilty of conspiring with other manufacturers to artificially inflate the cost of computer memory, thus unnecessarily increasing the prices consumers paid.
As part of the agreement, Samsung would pay a $300 million fine in exchange for prosecutorial immunity for both the company and most of its employees. Seven people, including president of the semiconductor division Y.H. Park, were excluded from the settlement and could still face prosecution.
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1.12.2005 Hard drive price war coming
According to reports, we may witness a price war in the hard drive business industry. At least this is what Seagate Technology CEO Bill Watkins said on Wednesday. Seagate is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer and competes with such companies as Western Digital, Hitachi, Samsung and Toshiba.
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13.8.2006 Xbox360 Core Price Drop In UK
Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of £10 in United Kingdom, and now costs £199.
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27.8.2006 The high price of creating free ads
From an advertiser's perspective, it sounds so easy: invite the public to create commercials for your brand, hold a contest to pick the best one and sit back while average Americans do the creative work.
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28.5.2007 Windows 7 in Europe: no upgrades, no IE, up to 2X the price
According to Computer World, things are not looking good for European fans of Windows 7 and Internet Explorer.
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29.6.2009 Windows 7 in the UK sells for half the US price
Looks like the United Kingdom won’t be affected by the strange Windows 7 pricing scheme set in the European Union.
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20.8.2009 Xbox 360 Elite Price Drop
Starting Friday, August 28th (tomorrow) the price of the Xbox 360 Elite is getting a one-hundred dollar price cut in the United States.
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27.8.2009 How Much Memory Does Vista Need?
With Windows Vista coming soon to a retail channel near you, one of the important questions to ask is, "How much memory does it really need?" There are the official minimum requirements of 512 MB, but we all know that minimum requirements don't translate to a great experience.
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23.1.2007 Sony chops price on Blu-ray player
Sony has announced its plans to slash the price of high definition, according the Associated Press. At a New York press conference, Sony talked up its forthcoming BDP-S300 Blu-ray player. The big selling point? Its $599 price.
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27.2.2007 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
TOKYO - Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
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22.10.2007 HP and Acer Start Netbook Price War
Hewlett-Packard and Acer have lowered prices of their netbooks as the back-to-school sales season kicks into gear in the U.S., offering bargains for users.
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26.8.2008Kingston said to be planning memory card price cut
The consistent NAND flash price drop in the market has prompted Kingston Technology to prepare price cuts for its memory cards, which should spur
fellow memory module makers to follow, said industry players.
Pressured by an intensified inventory loss, Kingston is said to be prepared
for a price cut for its memory cards. Sources at the company indicated that they were prompted to initiate the price cut amid a weakening price trend,
as well as rival SanDisk's previous claims for a more aggressive pricing strategy during the company's investor conference. But the sources
did not reveal a concrete time frame nor a range for the discounts.
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30.07.2008Samsung Guilty of Memory Price
Fixing
Samsung has plead guilty to
charges of price fixing
computer memory and will pay a
$300 million fine to settle
the case, the U.S. Department
of Justice said late Thursday.
The decision revolves around
the company's actions from
1999 to 2002 to keep prices
artificially high...
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15.10.2005Samsung Exec Gets Jail Time For Role In DRAM Price-Fixing
A Korean executive at Samsung
Electronics has agreed to
plead guilty and serve jail
time in the United States in
connection with a global
price-fixing conspiracy,
according to the government.
Young Hwan Park, president of
Samsung Semiconductor,
Samsung's U.S.-based
subsidiary, will serve 10
months in prison and pay a
趚,000 fine. According to
a written statement from the
Department of Justice, he also
has agreed to assist the
government in its ongoing
investigation.
This is the fifth Samsung
executive to agree to a prison
sentence in the dynamic random
access memory, or DRAM,
price-fixing investigation.
Three foreign-based executives
and one U.S. executive from
the company have already
pleaded guilty and agreed to
serve prison terms ranging
from seven to eight months.
Each will pay a fine of
趚,000. Four companies
and 18 people have been
charged in the Justice
Department's investigation
into a price-fixing conspiracy
surrounding DRAM. Criminal
fines totaling more than
轺 million also have been
levied. According to the
government, this represents
the second-largest total
amount of fines ever imposed
in a U.S. criminal antitrust
investigation into one
price-fixing conspiracy.
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22.12.2006Do-It-Yourself SSD Guide
Kevin O'Brien: Solid state disks (SSDs) are a flash-based memory storage device that carries an insane price premium in the current market. They will
usually cost $600 to $1,000 as an upgrade from the manufacturer or computer parts store, making them outside the price range of many consumers. A new
cheaper (slightly slower) option is available thanks to low-cost, high-capacity flash cards. This option is using a cheap compact flash to SATA
adapter, and purchasing a moderately fast memory card that would fill your storage needs.
For this review I aimed to keep the
price less than $100 just to show how affordable this option could be.
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15.02.2008Over Half of Notebooks to Use Flash by Q4 2009
iSuppli Corporation has
concluded that the use of NAND
flash memory in notebooks is
expected to increase sharply
in the next few years: nearly
60% percent of the 40.1
million notebooks that will be
shipped during Q4 2009 will
have some means of flash
storage onboard. " In 2003,
1Gbyte of NAND flash memory
was nearly 100 times as
expensive as an equivalent
quantity of HDD storage,
according to iSuppli. By 2009,
that price gap will dwindle to
a factor of slightly less than
14 ," said Matthew
Wilkins, principal analyst for
computer platforms at
iSuppli.
iSuppli
projects that 54% of the
ultra-portable notebook market
will feature HDDs while 28%
will use SSDs by Q4 2009. 58%
of mainstream notebooks will
use HDDs while 25% will use
SSDs. Recent research from
DataQuest shows that SSD
pricing will steadily decline
in the next three years.
Currently, 1.8" SSDs are five
times more expensive as
traditional 1.8" HDDs. By
2010, SSDs will be roughly
three times as expensive.
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03.05.2007Toshiba Subpoenaed Over Flash Memory
Japanese electronics firm Toshiba Corp. said it had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice about its flash memory business in the key U.S.
market. Toshiba America Electronic Components, the company's U.S. semiconductor sales unit, was the target of the subpoena, according to Keisuke
Ohmori, a Toshiba spokesman in Tokyo. This comes after Toshiba's U.S. partner, SanDisk Corp, said on Friday it and its chief executive had received
grand jury subpoenas indicating a government probe into possible price-fixing in the NAND flash memory industry. According to SanDisk's regulatory
filing, the subpoena it recieved was based on alleged price-fixing of flash memory, and that 23 other companies were sued for the same reason,
including Toshiba.
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16.09.2007AMD Unveils G3 Memory Extender (G3MX) for 2009 Opteron Platform
Responding to customer and
industry demand for
increasingly improved system
memory capabilities and
choice, AMD today announced it
collaborated with leading
integrated circuit (IC)
companies to develop the
Socket G3 Memory Extender
(G3MX) technology, which is
planned for the AMD Opteron
processor platform
infrastructure ecosystem in
2009.
This innovative
platform-level technology is
designed to extend the total
memory footprint in future AMD
Opteron processor-based
systems and, therefore, enable
increased performance to
customers enterprise-class
servers, such as those used
for databases and emerging
technologies like
virtualization and multi-core
computing.
Supporting the DDR3 memory
specification from JEDEC1,
G3MX technology is being
developed in collaboration
with IDT and Inphi, who are
planning to sell G3MX
components as part of their
power- and cost-effective
device portfolios supporting
the memory industry...
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25.07.2007Apple's US Market Share Slips in 1Q 2009
Gartner has released a
href="http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=939015">preliminary report detailing U.S. and worldwide PC
shipments for the first quarter of 2009. The report pegs Apple's U.S. market share in fourth place among vendors at 7.4%, down from
8.0% in the fourth quarter of 2008. More
importantly, the report shows a slight decline in market share over the year-ago quarter, when Apple held 7.5% market share.
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16.04.2009Samsung Settles DRAM Price Fixing Suit
Samsung and a US subsidiary
have agreed to pay $90 million
to settle charges that it
colluded to keep the price of
DRAM memory artificially high...
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07.02.2007Samsung in Talks with Sony
Over NAND
In a move that would further
secure Samsung's hold on the
NAND flash memory market, the
company said it was in talks
with Sony and others to
provide chips on a long-term
basis. Samsung controls over
half the NAND market and
recently signed a $500 million
contract with Apple to supply
memory for its iPod players...
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26.12.2005Nvidia slashes 8800 Ultra price
Computex 2007: Partners get
updated pricing
Nividia was recently
criticised by its own vendors
for selling a card with just a
little higher performance for
the price of two 8800GTS 640MB
cards.
The price has
now been slashed by around
80-90 US dollars wholesale, so
the 8800 Ultra is now going to
slowly squeeze the 8800GTX out
from the 549-599 dollar range
and effectively start to push
the 8800GTX downwards.
This is putting additional
pressure on AMD as well, with
the hyper-clocked GDDR-4
version of R600. Even though
we heard on several occasions
from ATI that the product has
been cancelled, partners are
preparing the card for the
market. From our talks with
partners and game developers,
we learned that 512MB is an
abysmal amount of memory for
today's world of FullHD and
XHD resolutions. ..
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07.06.2007NAND Flash Memory Downturn to Continue
A global glut of NAND flash memory chips, which store songs, photos and other data in gadgets from iPods to digital cameras, will continue for at
least the next few months because companies have been slow to rein in production, according to DRAMeXchange Technology.
The market
researcher, which is based in the heartland of the global memory spot market in Taipei, predicts the NAND flash supply will grow 149 percent this year
despite worsening prices for the chips. The problem is that chip makers such as Samsung Electronics, Hynix Semiconductor and SanDisk's partner,
Toshiba, have not moved fast enough to cut production.
The good news for users is that companies will be able to offer more NAND flash
storage capacity for a lower price, or offer better deals on existing products such as flash memory cards and MP3 players. Low NAND flash prices could
also spur companies to lower prices on hot products such as SSDs (solid state drives) in hopes of growing the market for the drives.
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23.07.2008Three Indicted in DRAM Price Fixing
Three more executives from two
memory chip makers have been
indicted in the conspiracy to
fix DRAM memory chip prices.
Already, 16 individuals across
four companies have already
plead guilty in the
conspiracy...
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19.10.2006Intel CEO vows to overcome flash price meltdown
Intel now plans to move aggressively into new markets, to help offset the impact of major price drops in the NAND memory chips used in Apple iPods and
other CE devices, Intel CEO Paul Otellini said on Wednesday...
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06.03.2008Intel to continue selling E2140 CPUs
Intel has recently revised it
plans for the low-end desktop
CPU market and will continue
to sell its Conroe-based
E2140, according to sources at
motherboard makers.
Intel was originally
planning to launch the E2180
on August 26 with a price of
US$84 in 1000-unit tray
quantities while dropping the
price of the E2160 from US$84
to US$74. Following the moves,
the E2140 would be phased out
of the market, according to
previous reports.
The
E2140 processor's current
price is US$74. On July 22,
the price will drop to US$71
and will go down to US$64 on
August 26, added the sources...
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17.07.2007AMD tri-core CPU codenames and features revealed
Codenames and features of the tri-core CPUs AMD is planning to launch next year and in 2009 have been revealed by sources at motherboard makers.
Toliman adopts a 65nm process, supports socket AM2+ motherboards, and supports HyperTransport 3.0. The CPUs will have 2MB L3 cache
and will be launched by the end of March 2008, according to the sources.
The next-generation, 45nm-based CPUs will adopt socket
AM3, support HyperTransport 3.0 and DDR2/DDR3 memory, and will launch in first half of 2009, noted the sources.
The motherboard
makers pointed out that whether AMD's tri-core CPUs are successful in the market will depend on their price/performance ratio compared quad-core and
dual-core CPUs.
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24.10.2007DOJ Investigating Sony for RAM Price-fixing
Add to the extraordinarily
long list of woes afflicting
consumer electronics giant
Sony the revelation today that
the US Dept. of Justice will
be investigating it, along
with market rivals Mitsubishi,
Toshiba, Samsung, and Cypress
Semiconductor, in conjunction
with a probe into alleged
price fixing in the static RAM
(SRAM) market...
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01.11.2006Price of 3G iPhone May Be Cut to $200
AT&T is planning to put some extra shine on the even sleeker new Apple iPhone.
When the 3G iPhone is introduced this summer, AT&T, the
exclusive U.S. iPhone sales partner with Apple, will cut the price by as much as $200, according to a person familiar with the strategy.
AT&T is preparing to subsidize $200 of the cost of a new iPhone, bringing the price down to $199 for customers who sign two-year contracts,
the source says. Apple is expected to have two versions of the new iPhone, an 8-gigabyte-memory and a 16-gigabyte-memory model with price tags widely
expected to be $399 and $499.
AT&T and Apple declined to comment.
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30.04.2008FTC Rules Rambus Monopolized
DRAM
In a unanimous decision, the
Federal Trade Commission found
memory chip maker Rambus
liable for monopolizing the
market through its conduct
concerning four memory
technologies that were used in
DRAM chips...
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02.08.2006Fifth Samsung Exec Pleads Guilty in DRAM Price Fixing Probe
Reuters and the Associated
Press are both reporting that
a fifth senior executive of
world #1 DRAM manufacturer
Samsung has agreed to plead
guilty in connection with the
US Justice Dept.'s
investigation into memory
industry collusion and price
fixing...
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