IC Insights reports that most large memory and foundry companies performed extremely well in 1H10, with most of them strong double digit growth rates. Of the big five memory suppliers (i.e. Samsung, Toshiba, Hynix, Micron, and Elpida), all but Samsung gained at least one position (with Elpida jumping five spots to number 10). Although Samsung did not move up in the ...

The Q2 DRAM market was worth $10.7bn, according to DRAMeXchange, a 15.2% increase from Q1’s $9.3bn. Korean vendors’ market share reached 55.3% in Q2 and remains unchallengeable, reckons DRAMeXchange. American and Japanese DRAM makers’ shares are recorded at 13.7% and 18.3% respectively, followed by the Taiwanese with 12.7% share. The Q2 revenue growth came from the stable DRAM contract price ...

Samsung Electronics had Q2 revenues of $32bn for a net profit of $3.6bn and an operating profit of $4.2bn. “In the second quarter, our component businesses performed very strongly, yet it was a more challenging quarter for our set businesses,” says Samsung vp Robert Yi, “with intensified competition throughout the digital media and mobile industries going forward, it may become ...

Is the twitter feed so annoying to engineers because it has become hi-jacketed by corporate releases and website news feeds?

The components shortage is hitting the telecommunications industry with complaints about lack of supply of key components affecting the financial performance of Tier One OEMs. Earlier this month, Nissan complained that shortage of semiconductors had brought six car plants to a halt. Now the telecommunications industry is complaining. “It’s an industry-wide, global problem that won’t be resolved over the next ...

An unusual switching capacitive shunt regulator from Supertex can cut mains stand-by power to less that 20mW. It replaces the traditional Zener diode with a mosfet switch in a capacitively...

The 13% growth figure was lower than the 17% average over the previous two quarters. “But it is still well above the -8% annual rate recorded in the recession of Q2 2009,” said Joy

Jailbreaking Apple iPhones to bypass code aimed at limiting the applications and carriers owners can use is unlikely to violate EU copyright laws.

Rolec has the technoBOX range of plastic enclosures which include a bevelled lid design option.

Like watching a champion golfer miss a two foot putt, you get a frisson of schadenfreude when seeing a top-notch tech company screw up.