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1. Sun and Fujitsu upgrade SPARC processor

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have introduced an advanced line of quad-core SPARC64 VII processors. The retooled chips - which run at 2.53GHz and 2.88GHz - reportedly deliver up to 25 percent "better ...

2. SuperSpeed controller to boost adoption of USB 3.0

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... also be a demonstration of a Fujitsu USB 3.0 optimized notebook exchanging data with an external Buffalo SuperSpeed USB drive.Finally, Point Grey Research is expected to debut a Superspeed digital video ...

3. USB 3.0 gets public viewing

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   ... SCSI Protocol (UASP). There will also be a demonstration of a Fujitsu notebook with built in USB 3.0 support, exchanging data with an external Buffalo SuperSpeed USB drive. Finally, a prototype Point ...

4. Color e-book reader market set to boom

   (Mobility/Mobility Features)

   The e-paper market is worth $431 million in revenues this year but by 2018 it will turn over $9.6 billion, according to a report from Displaysearch. And color e-readers will begin to proliferate in ...

5. IBM 'kicks workers in teeth'

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... line the pockets of its shareholders and senior executives at the expense of its loyal workforce." IBM's pension cut follows similar announcements by other IT companies including Fujitsu in May, where ...

6. IBM sued over DRAM patents

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... time and has only resorted to law because the talks have gone nowhere. Mosaid has a long list of licensees for its DRAM and embedded memory patents including Fujitsu, NEC, Toshiba, Hitachi, Mitsubishi, ...

7. Via makes design win with one watt Eden chip

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Fujitsu is to use a 500MHz Eden ultra low voltage processor in its next generation thin client products.Fujitsu is to use a 500MHz Eden ultra low voltage procesor in its next generation thin client products. ...

8. Dozens of companies sued over packet radio patent

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   ... Dell, D-Link, Epson, the Franklin Wireless Corporation, Fujitsu, Gateway, General Dynamics Itronix, Hewlett Packard, Huawei, Lenvo, Lexmark, Linksys, Motorola, Netgear, Nintendo, Nokia, Novatel Wireless, ...

9. Patent trolls live under the bridge

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Dell, HP, Fujitsu and IBM have been hit by a lawsuit in the Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division - famously known for its ability to expedite patent (chapter 830) disputes.Dell, HP, Fujitsu and ...

10. Sony, Nvidia sued over graphics technology

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... Analog Devices, Apple, Fujitsu and others.  ...

11. Worldwide server revenues slump by 25 percent

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ...  10.4% -25.5% Fujitsu $667 6.7% $821 6.2% -18.8% Others $1,329 13.4% $1,799 13.7% -26.1% All $9,924 100% $13,147 100% -24.5%  ...

12. Global smartphone sales surge as mobile phone shipments plummet

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ...  10.8 1,725.3 5.3 HTC 1,957.3 5.4 1,276.9 4.0 Fujitsu 1,387.0 3.8 1,317.5 4.1 Others ...

13. Vendors show off USB 3.0 at work

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... will also include better power management. Demonstrations at the conference included a Fresco Logic prototype PC host working with a mass storage device from Fujitsu, while NEC performed a similar demonstration ...

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

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

15. Cisco expands into building blade servers

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... accounting for more than 85% of that sum.HP leads the blade server market with 54.8% revenue share, followed by IBM with 21.7% revenue share. But others are catching up. IDC said that Sun, Dell, and Fujitsu/Fujitsu-Siemens ...

16. Chip industry suffers painful fourth quarter

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... (#15), Sharp (#18), Rohm (#20), Marvell Technology (#22), MediaTek (#23) and Fujitsu (#24). The chip companies with the biggest revenue declines were Hynix (#9, -33.4%), NXP (#17, -29.4%), Samsung (#2, ...

17. Toshiba to acquire Fujitsu’s hard drive business

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    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 ...

18. Nvidia passionately responds to Intel court filing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... NVIDIA’s chipset for its entire new line of notebooks including the MacBook Classic, MacBook Air, MacBook and MacBook Pro. Today, companies like Acer, Alienware, Asus, Dell, Falcon Northwest, Fujitsu, ...

19. Linus Torvalds' old company now officially dead

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... 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 ...

20. Fujitsu president asks employees to 'Buy Fujitsu' products

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Tokyo (Japan) - In light of the tough economic times, Fujitsu's president, Kuniaki Nozoe, recently sent an email to employees and group companies asking them to buy Fujitsu's products. He said in a ...

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

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    ... 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 ...

22. Apple, Nintendo absent in Greenpeace green electronics ranking

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... 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 ...

23. CES 2009: AVN4430 in-dash unit includes detachable GPS device

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

      How many fun, but potentially distracting options can one have in an in-car entertainment system? If its the new Eclipse AVN4430 from Fujitsu, unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, the number of ...

24. 2.93 GHz Core i7 Dual-socket Xeon X5570 breaks SAP records

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Johan De Gelas at AnandTech is reporting on some published SAP Sales & Distribution 2 Tier benchmark numbers posted by HP and Fujitsu-Siemens. This apparently breaks an NDA and is the first evidence ...

25. Scientists create transparent memory chip

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... such as Fujitsu, Samsung, Micron and Spansion as a non-volatile memory technology with the goal to replace flash at some point in the future. Whether it can replace flash is unclear as several potential ...

26. Update: Dell says no changes to Windows XP downgrade cost

    (Software/Software Features)

    ... in August to allow system builders to continue offering Windows XP downgrade option to their customers for another six months to July 31, 2009. Although most computer vendors including Fujitsu, Lenovo, ...

27. AMD leads decline in chip stock prices

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... AMD/Fujitsu interest Spansion is currently sitting at $0.32 per share, down from an IPO in December 2005 of $12 which quickly thereafter rose to around $14. Motorola is at $3.06, its lowest price in almost ...

28. Fujitsu introduces first netbook series

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Fujitsu PC Asia Pacific has announced the debut of the M1010, the first in its new M series product line. As with most netbooks the M1010 includes a 8.9-inch widescreen display with a 1024×600 pixel ...

29. Siemens stops building PCs, Fujitsu takes over 50% share in joint venture

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Fujitsu-Siemens, the world’s fifth-largest PC and server vendor will soon be called simply Fujitsu: Fujitsu Limited announced that it will acquire Siemens’ 50% share in the joint venture, effective April ...

30. Timeline: How AMD changed over the past 39 years

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... year. 1993: AMD launches Intel 486 processor clone Am486. NOR Flash joint venture with Fujitsu founded. 1994: AMD lands major long-term deal with Compaq to supply Am486 processors. 1992: ATI subsidiary ...

31. Linus Torvalds’ old company up for sale

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... process, but eventually won Fujitsu, Sony, NEC and most recently Nvidia as licensee’s and customers. And when the company’s cash was almost gone in October of 2006, the company sued Intel for patent ...

32. Sony recalls 73,000 Vaio TZ notebooks

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and affected every major notebook manufacturer worldwide – including Dell, which recalled 4.2 million computers, 526,000 Lenovo systems 340,000 Toshiba laptops, 287,000 Fujitsu notebooks, 90,000 Sony Vaio ...

33. Fujitsu and Nanya sign licensing agreement to settle DRAM patent dispute

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    Fujitsu Microelectronics and Nanya Technology have announced that they have signed a patent license agreement containing licensing terms with financial arrangements to resolve patent disputes between ...

34. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... today’s mainstream desktop PCs. Toshiba also announced a 7200 rpm 320 GB drive. Samsung, Hitachi and Fujitsu have been offering 500 GB hard drives for some time now. These 5400 rpm drives (Fujitsu: 4200 ...

35. Fujitsu launches Mobile WiMax chipsets

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Fujitsu Microelectronics Limited (FML) recently announced its new mobile WiMAX chipset optimized devices such as smart phones and PDAs. Sample shipment will start in August 2008. The chipset includes ...

36. Do sustainable PCs exist?

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    ... may hold.       Fujitsu is planning to debut a computer with an innovative and energy efficient design. Fujitsu’s goal is to replace the plastic and other polymers in the computers casing ...

37. Apple and Palm new targets in touchscreen patent crusade

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... and goes after the Big Boys, which could be significantly more expensive, difficult and time consuming than its first wave of suits: The expanded suit names Apple, Fujitsu Computer Systems, Toshiba America ...

38. Notebook market still buzzing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... the industry average included Toshiba (#4, +21%), Fujitsu-Siemens (#6, +26%) and Sony (#9, +3%). One year ago, Sony was ranked at #6 and has been surpassed by Fujitsu-Siemens, Apple and Asus.    ...

39. AMD has a one-year exclusive on the PCIe External connector

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... as desktop replacement, in which case it is almost certain you have more than just one display. The first company to adopt XGP for its notebook series was Fujitsu Siemens, which said it is developing ...

40. Fujitsu Microelectronics mulls roll out of WiMAX module chips

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Fujitsu Microelectronics, a major supplier of semiconductor products, including WiMAX solutions, has teamed up with a number of Taiwan makers for the production of PC related mobile peripherals, ...

41. Fujitsu adopts Realtek solution for Wireless USB-capable notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    IC designer Realtek Semiconductor has announced it will supply Fujitsu with the key component to bring to market a range of notebooks featuring Wireless USB in the US and Europe during 2008. Wireless ...

42. Run four monitors on a laptop with AMD’s external graphics

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    ... the AMD XGP or eXternal graphics platform controls up to four displays (three external and the laptop screen) through a PCI Express interface.  Fujitsu Siemens Computers (FSC) showed off their ...

43. Nvidia's lauches Tegra: A Computer on a chip

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... processors that support PMPs, PDAs, cellular phones or other handheld devices intellectual property such as AMD, Broadcom, Fujitsu Limited, Imagination Technologies Ltd., ARM Holdings plc, Marvell Technology ...

44. Global server revenue hits dotcom bubble levels

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Brief)

    ... was up 8.5% to 1.9 million servers. Dell, Fujitsu/FSC and Sun were the only top 5 server vendors to outgrow the market in 1Q08 – growing factory revenue 9.4%, 7.9%, and 26.2% respectively – and gaining ...

45. Eee PC helps Asustek become sixth largest PC vendor, says IDC

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    ... the company's shipments jump to 2.1 million units, surpassing those of Fujitsu and Apple, to rank in sixth place, and closely trailing behind Lenovo who shipped 2.2-2.3 million units, according to a recent ...

46. Seagate rolls out speedy 320 GB notebook hard drive

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... 33.9% share according to iSuppli, new drives have been introduced by the competition – especially by Western Digital, Hitachi GST, Fujitsu and Toshiba. But Seagate has reclaimed the lead today in the ...

47. Fujitsu announces Intel Atom-based UMPC

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Fujitsu has showcased its second generation 5.6-inch UMPC U2010 with Intel's 45nm Atom processor. The UMPC will focus on the high-end market with a price of $1295 and will be launched in Taiwan in ...

48. Analysis: How AMD Asset Light will reveal MAD AMD

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    ... as FASL LLC (Fujitsu-AMD), a joint venture that was renamed into Spansion. FASL LLC started its life as Fab 25 in Austin (TX), which was converted from CPU to flash manufacturing; it took capital from ...

49. AMD leads Formula 1 supercomputer championship

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... to AMD QC Opteron) Panasonic Toyota F1 Team: Fujitsu, 320 Sockets, 640 cores (Intel Itanium 2) AT&T WilliamsF1 Toyota: Lenovo Unnamed, 332 Sockets, 664 cores (Intel Xeon 5100) Honda F1 Racing: SGI ...

50. IBM watercools successor of record-breaking Power6 supercomputer

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    ... is true, you are looking at a hefty reduction for electricity bill, which, over the lifetime of a server system, is likely to be higher than the cost of a hardware itself. Fujitsu Siemens has been shipping ...