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1. Weekly hardware roundup

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Saturday, 21 November 2009

   ... intensive applications, including ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding and computer-aided engineering. Apple laptops less reliable than Asus, Toshiba, Sony 

A report from computer warranty ...

2. Toshiba introduces ultra-thin laptop line

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Tuesday, 29 September 2009

   Toshiba has introduced a reasonably priced line of ultra-thin laptops. The Satellite T100 series - which measures less than one inch thick - has a starting weight of 3.49 pounds and delivers up to 9 ...

3. Toshiba targets high-end gamers with Qosmio X500

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 23 September 2009

   Toshiba has unveiled a laptop targeted at high-end gamers and multimedia enthusiasts. The Qosmio X500 - which is powered by Intel's new Intel Core i7 processor - features a 18.4-inch diagonal widescreen ...

4. AMD takes lead in discrete mobile graphics

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 17 August 2009

   ... Pavilion dv6T, Alienware M17, Acer Aspire 5739G, Toshiba Satellite M500, Sony VAIO FW Series, Samsung R522, Asus W90Vp-X1, MSI GX623 and Dell Studio 15. "As consumers increasingly demand greater visual ...

5. Semi market stutters all the way through this year

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Tuesday, 11 August 2009

   ... players like TSMC. Rank Company CEO 1 Intel Corporation Paul Otellini 2 Samsung Electronics Kim-Hee Lee 3 Toshiba Semiconductors Shozo Saito 4 Texas Instruments ...

6. Toshiba caves in and joins Blu-ray camp

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 10 August 2009

     Tokyo, Japan — If you can't beat 'em: Toshiba has finally applied to join the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) and plans to introduce products that support the Blu-ray format. Tokyo, Japan — If ...

7. Consumer electronics spending expected to drop by 7.7% in 2009

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 19 July 2009

   The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has updated its 2009 sales forecast. The organization expects the first annual drop in revenues since 2001, which are expected to be about $165 billion in ...

8. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sunday, 19 July 2009

   Toshiba may finally concede in the high-def disc format war if we believe a media report claiming that the company may roll out its first Blu-ray player before the end of the year. Of course, if true, ...

9. Dell down but netbook sales save PC day

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

   ...  8.2% 2.9% 5 Toshiba 3,494 5.3% 3,163 4.6% 10.5% Others 26,407 39.8% 29,202 42.7% -9.6% All 66,291 100% 68,403 ...

10. Rambus showcases 7.2Gbps XDR memory system

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

    ... the Sony Playstation 3, DLP projectors, Teradici PC-over-IP computing systems, Toshiba's Qosmio laptop, as well as PCs and HDTV chip sets.  ...

11. PC shipments suffer 23 percent slump

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 22 June 2009

    ... weak desktop shipments, which dragged down its overall market share," Wilkins said. The rest of the top five saw Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba achieve market shares of 11.1 percent, 6.7 percent, and 5.2 percent ...

12. Commercial standard DNA chips come closer

    (General Sciences/General Sciences Features)

    Thursday, 18 June 2009

    ... consortium includes Toshiba, Mitsubishi Rayon and Toray Industries. DNA chips are slivers of glass or silicon layered with deoxyribonucleic acid. They are used to test for diseases using blood or other ...

13. Moore’s Law to die at 18 nm, analysts predict

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 16 June 2009

    ... deny that Moore’s Law’s death can be predicted, especially since Gordon Moore said back in 2007 that his prediction can be upheld for at least another 10 years. Also, Toshiba yesterday unveiled plans ...

14. Toshiba on track for 16nm process

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 15 June 2009

    Japanese electronics giant Toshiba is heralding the return of germanium in a new semiconductor process that promises to be viable at 16nm - roughly half the size of today's state of the art technology. ...

15. NAND flash prices prompt cheap iPhone speculation

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 01 June 2009

    ... rises are also due to major manufacturers Toshiba and Samsung throttling output, as well as Apple being a major buyer. The story is here (subscription needed).  ...

16. Nvidia's insurance company falls out over faulty chips payments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 15 May 2009

    ... court, calling on the court to  make a declaration concerning insurance coverage. The filing says that certain claims asserted by Dell, Toshiba, Apple, Quanta, Compal, Asus, Samsung, Fujitsu-Siemens ...

17. NAND memory goes Flash, bang, wallop

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 May 2009

    ... 36 percent of the market. Toshiba has 35.5 percent share, Micron sold $200 million worth, while Hynix dropped to fourth place with revenues of $171 million.  Intel's revenues in the first calendar ...

18. Dozens of companies sued over Android name

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Friday, 01 May 2009

    ... Atheros, Broadcom, Ericsson, Intel, Marvell Semiconductor, Nvidia, Qualcomm, Sirf Technology, Synaptics, Texas Instruments, Asustek, IITC, Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, ...

19. The netbook-killing HP DV2

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Tuesday, 14 April 2009

    ... on spec, it compares favorably to the Toshiba R600, which costs nearly three times more. That is a nice value in a market screaming for high value products.   In use The product feels high quality ...

20. iSuppli: iPod shuffle's bill of material just $22, fat margin

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 13 April 2009

    ...  The iSuppli analyst Andrew Rassweiler warned that Apple may also be using flash memory from Toshiba and Hynix Semiconductor, the two companies who, along with Samsung, feed Apple's hunger for flash memory ...

21. ATI releases new 40nm 4800-series Mobile GPUs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 03 March 2009

    ... ASUS N81Vp, N51Tp and W90, which use 4600-series or desktop 4870-series today. MSI's GT727 will upgrade from 4850. And Toshiba's Satellite 300 up from 4570 or 4650. AMD also has additional partners that ...

22. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 25 February 2009

    There is more consolidation in the hard drive (HDD) business as Toshiba said it intends to acquire Fujitsu’s money-losing computer mass storage unit. If the merger goes through, Toshiba will close the ...

23. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Wednesday, 18 February 2009

    ... Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, NEC, and Toshiba all ship exciting innovations created by NVIDIA as a result of its agreement with Intel." Nvidia states they have been attempting to resolve this disagreement ...

24. Taking SSDs beyond half a terabyte: Sandisk's 32 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... the company to lift SSD capacities easily above the 500 GB mark.Sandisk and Toshiba unveiled their new technologies at ISSCC 2009 yesterday and said that they will provide a foundation for more storage ...

25. Verizon Wireless honoring pre-cap contracts

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Tuesday, 10 February 2009

    ... with the broadband card. In my case, I use a PCMCIA adapter in my Toshiba Satellite notebook, though there is also a micro-PCMCIA and USB card available. From VZAccess Manager, Internet connections are ...

26. Up next for Apple TV: Networked cable television

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 05 February 2009

    ... the technology, including AMD, Cisco, Intel, Sony and Toshiba. The software platform enables cable's interactive services to be deployed across different devices via set-top boxes or enabled digital TVs ...

27. Report: Flash memory heading toward price decline

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 03 February 2009

    ... the deteriorating economy with a shutdown of NAND production capacity. For example, Hynix closed its 8" fab and Toshiba reduced production in its 12" fab.Overall global production capacity is believed ...

28. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 29 January 2009

    ... customers – including NEC, Fujitsu, Sony, Toshiba and Nvidia. The problem with this business model was that revenue was only coming in through consulting work and shipping products. Sony was a big ...

29. IBM again top US patent holder, vows to go after lesser claims

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Wednesday, 14 January 2009

    ... In order, #3 Canon had 2114, #4 Microsoft had 2030, #5 Intel had 1776, #6 Matsushita (now part of Panasonic Corp) had 1745, #7 Toshiba had 1609, #8 Fujitsu had 1494, #9 Sony had 1485 and #10 HP had 1424. IBM ...

30. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 09 January 2009

    ... current report sees Nokia in the lead, followed by Sony Ericsson, Toshiba, Samsung and Fujitsu-Siemens. Trailing the pack are Apple, Philips, Lenovo, Microsoft and Nintendo. Nintendo is dead last and scores ...

31. CES 2009: Cell TV to take Toshiba beyond HD

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 07 January 2009

      As 1080p and Blu-ray have become mainstream in the high-definition landscape, and as we are trying to figure out how Internet content streaming will impact the future of Blu-ray, Toshiba presented ...

32. Land in sight: Sony cuts PS3 production cost by 35%

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 29 December 2008

    ... to the previous model, the market research firm said. Key parts, which include Nvidia’s Reality Synthesizer, IBM’s Cell Broadband Engine and Toshiba’s I/O controller are now manufactured in 65 nm, cut ...

33. NAND flash contract prices increase significantly in 2H December

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 25 December 2008

    Contract quotes for some NAND flash segments have increased significantly in the second half of December, as upstream suppliers, including Toshiba, are cutting back production, sources at Taiwan ...

34. Solid-state disks hit half a terabyte

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 18 December 2008

      Toshiba said it will showcase a 512 GB solid-state disk (SSD) drive at next month’s Consumer Electronics show (CES). The 2.5” drive is likely to be the highest-capacity SSD when shown at the tradeshow, ...

35. Nearly 50 Open Handset Alliance members now backing Android

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 10 December 2008

    ... Sony Ericsson, Garmin, Huawei Technologies, Omron Software, Softbank Mobile Corporation, Teleca AB, Toshiba Corporation and Vodafone round up the list of companies that pledged to support the Android project, ...

36. Semiconductor industry facing double-digit declines in Q4, into Q1'09

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Thursday, 04 December 2008

    ... major semiconductor players currently being hit by industry trends include Texas Instruments, Toshiba, STMicroelectronics, Hynix, Renesas Technology, Sony and Infineon. Summary of trends Baird ...

37. Top five notebook vendors expected to post shipments of more than 125 million units in 2009

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 02 December 2008

    Despite an uncertain economic outlook for 2009, global notebook shipments from the top five notebook vendors – Hewlett-Packard (HP), Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Asustek Computer – are expected to reach ...

38. Intel, Micron go after Samsung with 34 nm flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... has developed a 34 nm process which allows the companies to produce the currently smallest NAND flash chips and challenge the dominance of the two leading manufacturers, Toshiba and Samsung. Boise ...

39. Sharp turns aggressive as 10G plant prepares to come online

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Thursday, 20 November 2008

    ... chain, according to sources at panel makers. Sharp's current clients including Phillips, Toshiba and Sony are expected to increase their order volumes to the company in 2009. More here at Digitimes. ...

40. Linus Torvalds’ old company acquired and gone

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 18 November 2008

    ... as a software engineer on its staff, continued with an impressive launch of the Crusoe processor in 2000, some design wins (including Sony and Toshiba). However, Transmeta was never able to seriously challenge ...

41. 35,000 Sony notebook batteries recalled

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Friday, 31 October 2008

    ... than 10 million notebooks globally. The 35,000 batteries in this latest recall were used in notebooks from Hewlett-Packard, Toshiba and Dell in systems that were sold between November 2004 and June 2006. ...

42. Toshiba to launch 43nm SLC NAND flash

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Wednesday, 29 October 2008

    Toshiba has announced the launch of a new line-up of 43nm single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash memory products available in densities ranging from 512Mb to 64Gb and in a total of 16 versions. The new ...

43. Toshiba launches quad-core gaming laptop

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

      Toshiba added a new high-performance version to its gaming laptop line X305. Equipped with a 17” screen, the Q708 version comes with an Intel quad-core CPU, a solid state disk drive and, you guessed ...

44. SanDisk to sell NAND flash capacity to Toshiba

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tuesday, 21 October 2008

    Toshiba and SanDisk have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MOU) on the reallocation of wafer output and equipment ownership and funding at their two joint ventures producing NAND ...

45. Toshiba rolls out new Tablet PC

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 14 October 2008

      The generations of Tablet PCs continue to march by with Toshiba as it unveiled today its 10th generation model. It is called the Portege M750 and you'll find it with a starting price around $1700.  ...

46. Microsoft: No plans for a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, really

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... to offer a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360, as the company could easily tap Toshiba and its TSST joint venture with Samsung. Either Microsoft has learned from the external HD DVD drive and the indication ...

47. Seagate SSD release date slips into 2009

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 10 October 2008

    ... $200 mark in U.S. retail and are moving into the mainstream with big steps. Samsung, Micron and Toshiba will begin selling 256 GB drives later this year and especially Samsung maintains that SSDs will ...

48. Microsoft reportedly ready to ship Xbox 360 Blu-ray drive

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 08 October 2008

    ... might launch the drive just in time for the holidays and aim for a $100- $150 price tag – in order to steal some sales from the PS3.   Xbit Labs also said that Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology ...

49. Toshiba to offer new 1.8" HDDs for use in notebooks in December

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Tuesday, 30 September 2008

    Toshiba's subsidiary Toshiba Digital Media Network (Toshiba DMN) will begin shipments of its new 1.8" MKxx29GSG series HDDs to notebook makers and notebook peripheral distributors in December 2008, ...

50. Toshiba announces 256 GB SSD

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Monday, 29 September 2008

    Toshiba has announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of a 256 GB SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for netbook ...