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Micron Agrees To Sell Italian Wafer Plant To LFoundry

Micron Technology, Inc. and LFoundry are announcing that they have reached agreements for LFoundry to acquire Micron Technology Italia, Srl. and all of Micron’s semiconductor fab assets in Avezzano, Italy.  Micron has a current four-year supply agreement with Aptina to manufacture image sensors at the 200mm Avezzano facility that it will also assign to LFoundry.  LFoundry will be granted a …

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Skyera Closes Over $51 Million Via Dell Ventures, Boosts Next-Generation Enterprise Solid-State Storage Solutions

Skyera announced it has closed $51.6 million in financing led by Dell Ventures, with participation from other strategic investors. Skyera, backed by key technology and financial partnerships, is positioned at the forefront of the hyper-growth solid-state storage sector. The syndicate of strategic investors provides Skyera with its second round of institutional capital. Skyera is a disruptive provider of enterprise solid-state …

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Micron Introduces Smallest 128-GB NAND Flash Device — 20nm With TLC Density

Micron Technology has announced the introduction of the industry’s smallest 128GB NAND flash memory device.  This new NAND flash module utilizes Micron’s award-winning 20nm architecture with triple-level cells (TLC), which are able to store three bits of information per cell.  This creates a highly compact storage solution, targeted at cost-competitive removable storage applications such as flash cards and USB drives. …

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Cooler Master Sponsors US LoL Team Curse

  Cooler Master has further extended its support of the eSports scene by becoming the preferred sponsor of a top League of Legends team, Curse Gaming. Team Curse will sport the finest mice, headsets, and mechanical keyboards from the CM Storm line of gaming products.     Curse Gaming and Cooler Master have come together to showcase the best gaming …

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Cooler Master Introduces Storm RX Series Gaming Surfaces

Cooler Master today introduces three surfaces under its CM Storm line of gaming products – Control-RX, Power-RX, and Speed-RX. Each surface, or mouse pad, is fortified with unique heavy-duty textures, engineered for pinpoint precision and highly responsive tracking to alleviate in-game symptoms and invigorate your gaming experience. Control-RX:   Designed for low DPI gamers, the smooth Lycra surface and effortless …

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Intel Cache Acceleration Software Announced For Intel SSD Data Center Family

Intel Corporation today announced its Intel Cache Acceleration Software (CAS) for Windows and Linux that prioritizes application performance, providing solid-state drive (SSD) levels of speed without migration costs, and built-in data integrity for Intel’s SSD data center family of products. The Linux version of the software will be generally available within 30 days as an enterprise subscription and open source …

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Consumer Electronics Association Drops CNET As CES Awards Partner Over CBS Interference

The Consumer Electronics Association has officially dropped CNET as its Consumer Electronics Show awards partner.  CEA has restored Dish’s DishHopper with Sling DVR to the plum “Best of Show” award at CES 2013.  CNET, now owned by CBS, had originally given the award to the new Dish product, until parent company CBS intervened and forced CNET to choose another product …

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Philips To Transfer Its Audio, Video, Multimedia And Accessories Business To Funai

Dutch-based Royal Philips Electronics (Philips) has announced an agreement regarding the transfer of its Lifestyle Entertainment Business (Audio, Video, Multimedia and Accessories) to Japan’s Funai Electric Company.  Terms of the deal are reported to be 150 million euros ( a bit over $200 million US) and a 5-1/2 year licensing agreement.  The licensing agreement also involves an optional second five …

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