News Byte
Ina Fried in News on February 4 at 6:15 pm PT
Memory-chip maker Micron Technology on Saturday named D. Mark Durcan as CEO and Robert E. Switz as chairman, following the death of Steven Appleton, who had long held those positions. Appleton died Friday in a plane crash in Boise. Sales executive Mark W. Adams was named president.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 24 at 4:37 pm PT
Fusion-io investors freak out over tighter margins. But never mind that. Fusion has a new customer: Salesforce.com
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 5 at 3:00 pm PT
The economy, the euro and Thailand have combined into a perfect storm that has caused memory chip inventories to pile up to extreme levels.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on November 9, 2011 at 6:02 pm PT
Walt’s annual fall laptop buyers’ guide offers tips for wading through the technobabble involved in buying a computer.
Arik Hesseldahl in Mobile on October 19, 2011 at 1:57 pm PT
Research house IHS iSuppli has opened up Apple’s iPhone 4S to see who’s in and out among its suppliers and to estimate how much it cost to make.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on August 24, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The list of potential suitors is quite long, argues Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu, starting with Samsung, and including — maybe — even Dell.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on August 3, 2011 at 3:30 am PT
Violin Memory adds Jonathan Goldick as its CTO for software, and hires a new VP away from Hewlett-Packard. Will the flash madness never end?
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.
Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on April 14, 2011 at 8:18 am PT
Law-enforcement officials said Wednesday that they cracked a massive semiconductor-theft case, which involved an armed robbery at a Silicon Valley company that netted chips valued at $37 million.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on March 28, 2011 at 6:30 am PT
The latest Nintendo handheld gaming machine hit the market in North America and Europe this weekend. As usual, research firm IHS iSuppli rushed to tear it apart and look inside. What they found was a device that looks to deliver a tidy profit.
