Chipmaker Atmel is banking on an avalanche of iPhone-like handsets that understand multi-fingered gestures as it rolls out controllers that support multitouch capacitive sensors.
Amid a massive glut of NAND flash, SanDisk has taken a pummelling in the stock markets this year. On the one hand, the company looks cheap. But not many people want to take a risk on a rollercoaster business like NAND flash, especially not now when borrowing is relatively expensive. That is, unless you're Samsung.
Europe's three largest chipmakers are not merging the entire companies, but taking the wireless business units and glueing them together says Chris Edwards
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The other multitouch option 22 October 2008
Chipmaker Atmel is banking on an avalanche of iPhone-like handsets that understand multi-fingered gestures as it rolls out controllers that support multitouch capacitive sensors.
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The many reasons for Samsung's buy 17 September 2008
Amid a massive glut of NAND flash, SanDisk has taken a pummelling in the stock markets this year. On the one hand, the company looks cheap. But not many people want to take a risk on a rollercoaster business like NAND flash, especially not now when borrowing is relatively expensive. That is, unless you're Samsung.
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Sound waves tighten up lithography 16 July 2008
Sound waves may extend the life of optical lithography into the next decade.
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If only wishing made it so… 29 April 2008
Xilinx may be bullishly pursuing a Goldilocks growth strategy, but Luke Collins remains apprehensive about the end of the fairytale.
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Slicing and dicing the European chip business 11 April 2008
Europe's three largest chipmakers are not merging the entire companies, but taking the wireless business units and glueing them together says Chris Edwards
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