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1. Apple flash flood leaves NAND drought for others

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Sunday, 13 September 2009

   ... other players in the lurch with severe shortages in store. So says Taiwanese wire Digitimes, claiming that major manufacturers including Samsung, Micron, Toshiba and Hynix are favoring Apple over other ...

2. Netbooks rocket in popularity - especially when they're free

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 31 August 2009

   ... Toshiba. Part of the reason for the big rise in shipments is good old bribery. In many regions, telecom providers have been offering subsidized netbooks, and in Western Europe, some are giving them away. ...

3. 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, ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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).  ...

6. 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 ...

7. Apple notebooks lauded

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Monday, 04 May 2009

   ... the plastic MacBook in third. The 15-inch MacBook Pro won the 14 to 16-inch category with the Toshiba Satellite in second and Asus X83Vm third. The 17-inch MacBook Pro took the 17 to 18-inch prize, with ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. Toshiba, IBM and AMD develop smallest, most stable FinFET SRAM to date

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 17 December 2008

      Yesterday, Toshiba, IBM and AMD announced that via a joint effort they have developed a SRAM cell just 0.128 μm2. The cell is more than 50% smaller than the previous record holder, a nonplanar-FET ...

18. 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, ...

19. 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 ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. Iomega introduces a perfect fit external 320 GB drive for MacBook Air

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 September 2008

    ... in exchange for those bragging rights. MacBook Air's small factor especially limits the storage space available – to a 80 GB HDD (which we believe will be soon upgraded to Toshiba’s new 120 GB models) ...

23. Bargain hunting: Samsung offers $5.8 billion for Sandisk

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 16 September 2008

    ... the per-megabyte price for the memory declined by an astounding 36% with full year estimates of 50-60%. Samsung dictates the market with a market share north of 42%, while Toshiba holds another 28% and ...

24. A new try of buy once, play anywhere – without Apple

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... technology firms Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Philips, Sony, Toshiba and Verisign as well as distributors Best Buy (which today acquired Napster) and Comcast. What is significant of this ...

25. Apple preps Macbook upgrades and a mysterious "Brick"

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 15 September 2008

    ... only within Apple’s own notebook line, but also in comparison to Lenovo’s Thinkpad X300, which has been refreshed already. Expect Apple to upgrade the Air with a new thin 120 GB HDD from Toshiba (up ...

26. Intel tests mass storage waters with new SSDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... the big boys. According to iSuppli, Samsung currently dominates the NAND flash market with a share of 42.3% and Q2 revenues of more than $1.4 billion. Toshiba and Hynix, ranked second and third, account ...

27. Update: IBM and AMD first at 22 nm, challenge Intel’s manufacturing lead

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 August 2008

    ... The devices developed and manufactured by AMD, Freescale, IBM STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) were built in a traditional six-transistor design on ...

28. Toshiba’s new Blu-ray beater is a … DVD player

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 18 August 2008

      Toshiba today announced its “near HD” DVD player, which effectively succeeds the company’s HD DVD players that were removed from the market earlier this year. Toshiba’s first XDE player will debut ...

29. iPod rumor mill: 64 GB iPod touch on the way?

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Thursday, 31 July 2008

    ... in iPhones and iPods (Toshiba, Micron Technology and Hynix Semiconductor are also Apple's known memory chips suppliers). Porteligent president David Carey estimates that 8 GB NAND chips are selling for ...

30. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... US vendors are Acer (1.3 million units) and Toshiba (907,000 units, IDC: 888,000) who grabbed 8.1% (IDC: 7.8%) and 5.5% (IDC: 5.2%) respective shares of the market. Preliminary U.S. PC vendor unit shipment ...

31. 200 GB per disk: Toshiba leads 2.5” hard drive storage density

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 16 July 2008

      Toshiba has upgraded its 2.5” hard drive series with a new 400 GB model. The total capacity is 20% less than what Toshiba’s rivals are currently offering, but Toshiba has the edge in terms of ...

32. Blu-ray players taking aim at $300

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Sunday, 13 July 2008

    ... says that Toshiba’s HD-A3 is selling for an average of $141, while Samung’s BD-UP5000 Blu-ray/HD DVD player is selling for about $450 and LG’s BH200 hybrid player for an average of $532.    ...

33. Apple orders 50 million 8 GB NAND flash chips

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Thursday, 03 July 2008

    ... Toshiba and Samsung) to secure the supply of NAND flash memory throughout 2010 with a pre-payment of $1.25 billion. Apple's order also sparked speculations that the company is readying new iPods for September ...

34. Toshiba to use Cell processor in next Qosmio multimedia notebooks

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Monday, 23 June 2008

      Today we got first glimpse on Toshiba’s new high-def strategy, which most certainly will revolve its stripped-down Cell processor called Spurs Engine (SE). The SE1000 chip will make its commercial ...

35. Notebook market still buzzing

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 18 June 2008

    ... 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.    ...

36. Quanta shipping Portege G810 smartphones to Toshiba

    (Mobility/Mobility Brief)

    Thursday, 12 June 2008

    Quanta Computer recently began shipping Portege G810 Windows Mobile-based smartphones to Toshiba, helping Quanta regain its footing as it looks to compete in the global smartphone market with the likes ...

37. Blu-ray player prices showing signs of downward trend

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 06 June 2008

      Market Scan – It has been about four months since Toshiba decided to shut down its HD DVD format and so far, consumers have seen Blu-ray player prices on the rise. However, June is the very first ...

38. Toshiba skips Blu-ray, enhances DVD instead

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Monday, 02 June 2008

      Toshiba may have lost the high-definition format war to Sony, but the company is not yet ready to build Blu-ray players, at least not officially. In a rather surprising turn of events, Toshiba ...

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

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Sunday, 01 June 2008

    ... Group Ltd, or Marvell, NEC Corporation, Qualcomm Incorporated, Renesas Technology, Samsung, Seiko-Epson, Texas Instruments Incorporated, and Toshiba America, Inc. - suppliers of application processors ...

40. Is ‘Roku’ the formula to solve the movie download dilemma?

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 20 May 2008

    ... delay is typically about 30 seconds – which is about comparable to the startup time of Toshiba’s ill-fated HD DVD players. Second, the quality of the content depends on your available bandwidth. If you ...

41. AMD turns TSMC into a CPU manufacturing giant

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 14 May 2008

    ... they are not manufactured by a single fab and company: They come from IBM, Chartered Semiconductor and Toshiba. The indication is that those contracts were not won because IBM is IBM: The power envelope ...

42. CyberLink expects to bundle BD software with TSST drives

    (Software/Software Brief)

    Monday, 12 May 2008

    ... Toshiba-Samsung Storage Technology (TSST), according to CyberLink chairman Jau Huang at an institutional investors conference on May 9. As Toshiba originally actively promoted the HD DVD standard and Samsung ...

43. Apple may be stylish, but it’s definitely not green

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Friday, 09 May 2008

    ... climate efforts. Apple's results fall far behind other tech companies:  IBM is at the top with 77 points, followed by Canon (74), Toshiba (70), Sony (68), Hewlett-Packard (68), Motorola (66), Hitachi ...

44. FSB limits exposed: Intel CPUs don’t scale very well in UC Berkeley HPC test

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 29 April 2008

    ... environments. As reported first by HPC Wire, the scientists evaluated AMD’s Opteron (Santa Rosa), Intel’s Itanium 2 and Xeon (Clovertown), as well as the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Cell BE and Sun’s Niagara 2 processors. ...

45. Looking for the most bang for your buck in LCD TVs? Focus on 42”.

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 16 April 2008

    ... $1000 barrier to $900 or less. The Toshiba Regza 42HL67U 42" 720p LCD HDTV has gone from around $1100 when it launched last November to around $800 in a fairly short period of time.  That puts it ...

46. IBM finds more performance and less power in 32 nm chips

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Monday, 14 April 2008

    ... and Toshiba said they are now ready “for early customer engagements” – which means that clients “may now design in this leading edge, low power foundry technology in order to help speed time-to-market ...

47. Toshiba launches IBM Cell-based video processor for the Blu-ray world

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 08 April 2008

      There has been been a lot of speculation how Toshiba will change its high definition strategy now that HD DVD is officially gone. The Blu-ray adventure may have cost Toshiba about $1 billion, but ...

48. Blu-ray prices continue to climb

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 02 April 2008

    ... began to fall and HD DVD was resoundingly defeated. By the end of February, prices began to climb.  This is just around the time that Toshiba announced it would stop producing HD DVD players and ...

49. Toshiba joins the ‘stunning’ notebook crowd

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Tuesday, 01 April 2008

    ... Toshiba now also has ‘stunning’ notebooks that provide a “premium blend of modern style, performance and affordability.” But then, design is really a matter of taste and we may be stretching the meaning ...

50. Best Buy stores clearing out HD DVD inventory

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Tuesday, 25 March 2008

    ... both stores had no intentions of selling any HD DVDs (even if Toshiba HD DVD players were still on display): “We are sending them all back,” a sales clerk said.       Sources ...