Three players joined in the largest foundry alliance - the Common Platform Alliance will present next generation silicon at the 2012 Common Platform Technology Forum in Santa Clara, California.
At the recently held Financial Analyst Day held in Sunnyvale, California, AMD disclosed that the company added a third foundry in its manufacturing portfolio - IBM.
IBM's research division has made a monumental breakthrough in storage technology which could result in even smaller devices that can store larger amounts of information.
Google has bought another 187 patents and 36 patent applications from IBM in efforts to remain ahead of rivals like Apple in the bitter legal wars engulfing the industry.
If anyone thought the memory industry couldn't get any worse, it looks like Micron is about to obliterate the competition with its Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) technology that is built using through-silicon vias (TSVs) and Micron has now signed an agreement with IBM to start manufacturing. This technology if proven successful in mass production would easily be the biggest leap in memory technology for the past decade and maybe even for the next decade.
As we all already know, Microsoft is still the biggest company for PC operating systems, at least according to the amount of revenue it generates. A new study from Gartner Research reports that Microsoft had $23.848 billion in revenue from its OS business in 2010 which gave it a 78.6 percent share of the entire worldwide OS market for that year. Overall, Gartner said in its press release earlier this week that worldwide revenue for OS software came in at $30.4 billion, which...
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