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Lauren Goode in News on December 16, 2011 at 8:48 am PT
Reuters reports that, according to sources, the A5 processor used in Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 is made in a sprawling 1.6 million-square-foot Samsung Electronics factory in Austin, Texas. The Korean electronics giant began supplying the A5 processors to Apple this year from the Austin plant, the story says. Both Apple and Samsung spokespersons declined to comment.
Kara Swisher in AsiaD on November 22, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT
Look, up in the sky, it’s a processor that can leap tall tablets in a single bound.
Ina Fried in News on November 16, 2011 at 3:42 am PT
Speaking on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Intel 4004 processor he created, Federico Faggin reflects on that first chip, and where technology is heading in the next 40 years.
Don Clark in News on October 29, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT
China has for the first time unveiled a supercomputer using domestically developed microprocessor chips, the latest in a series of developments showing the country’s new competitiveness in a field long dominated by U.S. technology.
Evan Ramstad, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 28, 2011 at 11:45 pm PT
Samsung Electronics Co. said its second-quarter profit fell 18 percent amid weak demand and lower prices for consumer electronics broadly, though rising sales of smartphones led its cellphone business to more than double in profitability.
John Paczkowski in News on July 15, 2011 at 8:15 am PT
Will TSMC be Apple’s new chip-making partner?
Juro Osawa, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on June 22, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Elpida Memory Inc. said Wednesday that it has developed a memory chip package that is 20 percent thinner than similar packages on the market, a breakthrough that the company says will help make mobile gadgets thinner while maintaining their memory capacity.
Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 16, 2011 at 1:21 pm PT
A Silicon Valley chip start-up is teaming up with a Russian government investment fund on a $300 million manufacturing venture, a boost for a novel memory technology and the country’s efforts to become a center of electronics production.
Kara Swisher in Enterprise on May 9, 2011 at 9:31 am PT
According to an internal memo from Juniper Networks, which you can see below, one of its top tech execs, David Yen, is departing immediately.
Sources said Yen is headed to Cisco to run its servers business.
The impetus for Yen’s departure might have been formation of the Platform Systems Group, run by Stefan Dyckerhoff, which is prominently mentioned in the memo from Juniper CEO Kevin Johnson and after the jump.
Kara Swisher in News on February 22, 2011 at 10:00 am PT
To those who care intensely about this kind of stuff–which would be pretty much everyone in the tech ecosystem–Apple will hold its much-anticipated event on March 2, where the tech giant seems poised to unveil a new version of its hugely successful iPad, according to multiple sources. As in, iPad 2! Or, as BoomTown is now officially nicknaming it: iPad Too! According to several sources close to the situation, the Wednesday date in a little more than a week is firm and will take place in San Francisco, the scene of many such Apple events.
