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Zarlink Announces CEO Succession
The Board of Directors of Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. announces that Gary Tanner has been appointed Zarlink's President & Chief Executive Officer, effective May 24, 2011, prior to the Company's Board Meeting to be held on May 25, 2011.
Marvell and ASUS Team Up to Enable Mass Market Availability of TD-SCDMA Smartphones
Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today announced that ASUS has chosen Marvell as a strategic partner to launch a new series of TD-SCDMA (Time Division-Synchronous Code Division Multiple Access) smartphones in China. ASUS' new T10 and T20 series smartphones are powered by Marvell PXA920 platform, the first commercially available single-chip solution which supports China Mobile's latest version of OPhone O...
Marvell's New DragonFly Virtual Storage Accelerator Introduces Breakthrough Host Cache Architecture for Enterprise Storage
Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL), a worldwide leader in integrated silicon solutions, today launched the Marvell® DragonFly™ Virtual Storage Accelerator (VSA) powered by HyperScale™ embedded processor technology.
ONFI - Publication of 3.0 Standard, Pushes Data Transfer Speeds to 400 MB/sec
The Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Working Group, the organization dedicated to simplifying integration of NAND Flash memory into consumer electronic devices, computing platforms, and industrial systems, today published the new ONFI 3.0 standard. By using the non-volatile DDR2 (NV-DDR2) interface, the newly ratified standard reaches speeds of up to 400 megabytes (MB)/sec, doubling the current NAND interface transfer rates.
TowerJazz Expected to Nearly Double Production Capacity with Proposed Acquisition of Micron Technology Wafer Manufacturing Plant in Japan
TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, announced today it has signed a non-binding term sheet contemplating its purchase of Micron Technology's fabrication facility in Nishiwaki City, Hyogo, Japan. The proposed purchase would nearly double TowerJazz's current internal manufacturing capacity, cost-effectively increasing production by 60,000 wafers per month.
AMD and Vizrt Collaborate to Power Immersive Viz Video Wall Experiences
AMD announced that the ATI FirePro V9800 professional graphics card was certified for Vizrt’s beta release of the Viz Engine™ 3.5 rendering solution. Viz Engine, which is one of today’s most powerful tools for rendering animated 2D and 3D scenes in realtime, powers the Vizrt Viz Video Wall ER™ solution commonly used by leading broadcasters worldwide.
AMD Amends Wafer Supply Agreement with GLOBALFOUNDRIES And Discloses GLOBALFOUNDRIES Investment-Related Noncash Gain of $492 Million
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that it amended its Wafer Supply Agreement (WSA) with GLOBALFOUNDRIES Inc. The primary purpose of the amendment was to revise the pricing methodology applicable to wafers delivered in 2011 for AMD’s microprocessor and accelerated processing unit (APU) products. The amendment also modified AMD’s existing commitments regarding future increases in production of certain graphics processing unit (GPU) and chipset ...
AMD Honored on CRN’s 5-Star Partner Programs Guide for Second Consecutive Year
For the second consecutive year, AMD (NYSE: AMD) has received a 5-Star Partner Rating and has been named to CRN’s 2011 Partner Programs Guide for its AMD Fusion Partner Program (FPP). CRN’s Partner Programs Guide recognizes vendors with robust partner programs or products that provide the best possible partnering elements for channel success.
AMD Hires Mike Wolfe as New CIO
AMD announced it has appointed Mike Wolfe, age 52, as the company’s chief information officer. He brings more than 30 years of engineering and information technology experience, most recently as vice president of IT for product development and engineering at HP for the last five years. Wolfe will be responsible for managing AMD’s global technology infrastructure and will report into Thomas Seifert, senior vice president and chief financial ...