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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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DigiTimes is reporting that Intel partners Scott Lin (President, Acer Taiwan) and Ray Chen (President, Compal Electronics) both have asked Intel to drop the Ultrabook price to below $1,000 by reducing their CPU pricing.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS, RUMORS
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According to DigiTimes, quoting TSMC’s R&D boss Shang-yi Chiang, TSMC will begin volume production on 14nm in 2015. GlobalFoundries has similar plans, but you have to read between the lines.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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According to a story on Taiwanse industry newspaper Digitimes, Amazon is getting ready for an aggressive ramp-up of their two tablet models.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
NEWS, ANALYSIS
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Non-Apple vendors risk facing excess tablet PC inventory in the second half of 2011, reports DigiTimes.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
NEWS, RUMORS
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White iPhone 5, mind you, not the current fourth-generation. If Asian sources are to be believed, Apple will even switch touch panel suppliers just to make the handset happen.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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Bloggers are abuzz with a purported Retina display upgrade on iPad 2, but some watchers say Apple's suppliers are unable to produce a 9.7-inch display that nearly matches the iMac's resolution - expect it on the iPad 3 instead.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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Just as the dust has settled following the Verizon iPhone announcement, the rumor-mill is abuzz with iPad 2-related chatter. The iPad successor, people in the know claim, will sport CDMA chips so it will run on Verizon's 3G network.
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Motorola is planning to ship up to one million Xoom tablets during the first quarter of 2011. Could be possible because the gadget files as a flagship Android 3.0 device with enough bells and whistles to turn heads.
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APPLE, HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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Market sources peered inside the crystal ball to predict that iPhones, BlackBerrys and Android superphones will account for roughly half of all smartphones shipped globally in the first quarter of next year.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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In addition to the existing WiFi and WiFi+3G models, an upcoming iPad hardware refresh should add a third CDMA version designed to cater to the Verizon network.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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If sources are right, the next few weeks will mark an important milestone as Apple brings out the mythical Verizon iPhone and ramps up production of the existing model.
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HARDWARE
RUMORS
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According to Asian sources, Samsung has a new slate in the works that will run Nvidia's Tegra 2 chips and Google's Android 3.0 "Honeycomb" operating system. It should launch at CES next month.
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APPLE, HARDWARE
RUMORS
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Asian sources claim the iPad 2 will ship by the end of February 2011, in time for a rumored April launch. It should've shipped in January 2011, but the firmware couldn't be finished in time - hence the delay.
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APPLE, BUSINESS
RUMORS
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We've heard these rumors about Verizon Wireless since the first iPhone dropped a call on the AT&T network. I'll believe it when Steve jobs does one of his media-savvy presentations. So, what else is new?
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HARDWARE, BUSINESS
NEWS
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If you follow the industry, you'll know that the power struggle between ASUSTeK and Pegatron is tearing the company apart. Eight months after initial rumors, they surface once more…
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BUSINESS
ANALYSIS
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Some analysts estimate that semiconductor industry won’t recover until 2012
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