Josephine Lien, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES Tuesday 6 December 2011 Memory module firm Adata Technology saw sales of its SSD product line continue to stay at high levels in November thanks to rising demand... 

Texas Instruments has increased the memory and display performance of its range of low-power 16-bit MSP430 microcontrollers. The MSP430F563x and MSP430F663x microcontrollers offer 256kbyte flash and 18kbyte RAM, sufficient capacity to support wireless stacks. There is also a real-time operating system (RTOS). The MCUs have an integrated 160-segment LCD controller. While analogue peripherals... 

IBM has announced that Micron will begin production of a memory device built using its commercial CMOS manufacturing technology to employ through-silicon vias (TSVs). IBM’s TSV process will be used to create a Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) with access speeds “15 times faster than current technology”, said the firms.  TSVs are vertical conduits that electrically... 

Josephine Lien, Taipei; Jessie Shen, DIGITIMES Wednesday 30 November 2011 Sony plans to offer its in-house developed standard for NAND flash memory cards for high-speed video recording, with such cards to be... 

Samsung will present an 8-Gbit, 20-nm Phase Change Memory chip at the 2012 International Solid-State Circuits Conference. Samsung’s memory device has been built in a 20-nm process technology, it is operating at 1.8-V and has a 40-Mbyte/s programming bandwidth. This puts phase-change memory at close to the same geometry and memory cell density as NAND flash. Last February, Samsung... 

The latest December 2011 issue of CAR includes an epic supercar twin test: Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA. Jethro Bovindon referees, and you can watch some quick video clips here. Plus road test editor Ben Pulman gives his second opinion below. Click here for a digital preview of the new issue of CAR  When presented with this £600k pair 458s and 12Cs suddenly look a little limp. Okay,... 

Thin Film Electronics (“Thinfilm”) together with PARC, a Xerox company, announced they have produced a working prototype of the world’s first printed non-volatile memory device addressed with complementary organic circuits, the organic equivalent of CMOS circuitry. Thinfilm Addressable Memory™ consists of Thinfilm’s printed memory and PARC’s transistors. This demonstration is a significant... 

Josephine Lien, Taipei; Adam Hwang, DIGITIMES Tuesday 22 November 2011 Taiwan-based DRAM maker Rexchip Electronics has completed the upgrade of its manufacturing process at a monthly capacity of 80,000 12-inch... 

Foxconn to start production of 7-inch Kindle Fire in 1Q12, say Taiwan makers Systems | Nov 21, 10:28 Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will become a second ODM of 7-inch Kindle Fire next to Quanta Computer and start production in the first quarter of 2012, according to supply chain makers for Amazon. Read more   China Mobile to add 10,000-20,000 TD-LTE base... 

Foxconn to start production of 7-inch Kindle Fire in 1Q12, say Taiwan makers Systems | Nov 21, 10:28 Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) will become a second ODM of 7-inch Kindle Fire next to Quanta Computer and start production in the first quarter of 2012, according to supply chain makers for Amazon. Read more   China Mobile to add 10,000-20,000 TD-LTE base...