News tagged with memory chips

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Hynix Semiconductor's net loss sharply narrows

Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world's second-largest memory chip maker, said Friday its net loss narrowed sharply in the second quarter as a global supply glut eased.

Technology / Business

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Beyond flash -- memories are made of this

(PhysOrg.com) -- The race is on for a successor to the popular 'flash' memory used in portable devices. European researchers think they have found a candidate in novel materials combined with a simple, easily ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Jul 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 2

Researchers map how staph infections alter immune system

Infectious disease specialists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have mapped the gene profiles of children with severe Staphylococcus aureus infections, providing crucial insight into how the human immune ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Samsung announces earnings estimate

(AP) -- Samsung Electronics Co., the world's biggest manufacturer of memory chips, announced quarterly earnings estimates for the first time Monday, saying it hopes to reduce market confusion and speculation ...

Technology / Business

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Rambus settles EU antitrust probe, avoids fines

(AP) -- Memory chip company Rambus Inc. said Friday that European Union antitrust regulators had provisionally agreed to drop a probe and any fines if the company reduced its royalty rates for DRAM memory chip patents.

Technology / Business

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Flexible memristor: Memory with a twist (w/Video)

Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist as a result of work by engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. As reported in the July 2009 issue of IEEE Electron Device Letters,* the en ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Electric Switches Hold Promise for Data Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- Multiferroics are materials in which unique combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data storage and ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

Rambus says FTC has dropped antitrust claims

(AP) -- Rambus Inc. said Thursday that the Federal Trade Commission has dropped its claim that the memory chip company violated antitrust laws in patenting technologies that were eventually incorporated into industry standards.

Technology / Business

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Toshiba to launch 32nm process NAND flash memory

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it will start shipping NAND flash memory products fabricated with 32nm process technology. Samples of the world's first 32nm generation, 32-gigabit (Gb) single chips (4 gigabytes (GB)), ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Hynix reports sixth straight quarterly loss

South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor, the world's second-largest computer memory chipmaker, Friday reported a sixth straight quarterly loss due to weak chip prices sparked by a global recession.

Technology / Business

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SKorea clears chipmakers of cartel charges

South Korea's anti-trust watchdog said Monday it has found no evidence that leading chipmakers in South Korea and other countries colluded to fix prices.

Technology / Semiconductors

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Toshiba expects bigger loss, contract job cuts

(AP) -- Toshiba Corp., Japan's top chipmaker, Friday said its net loss for the last fiscal year will be bigger than forecast due to a large write-off, and warned that more contract jobs will be cut.

Technology / Business

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Memristor chip could lead to faster, cheaper computers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The memristor is a computer component that offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling smaller, faster, cheaper chips ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (24) | comments 4

Ka-Boom!!! Retired mass-transit bus bombed to smithereens to test forensics camera

Ruggedized, self-contained cameras, similar in concept to the black box used in aircraft, would record video data that could be retrieved by investigators following a catastrophic incident.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Engineers revolutionize nano-device fabrication using amorphous metals

Yale engineers have created a process that may revolutionize the manufacture of nano-devices from computer memory to biomedical sensors by exploiting a novel type of metal. The material can be molded like plastics to create ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1