In Taiwan's effort to consolidate the DRAM industry, the Taiwanese government plans to invest around US$2 billion in a new DRAM company that will include DRAM chip maker Elpida! Micron will not be part of this new company, but is receiving aid itself from Formosa Plastics Group (which includes Nanya and Inotera Memories). Looks like we will see how all of this consolidation in the DRAM industry will effect prices in the coming months.

The Taiwan government has already worked out a DRAM industry consolidation plan, which will be unveiled at the end of this month, industry sources have claimed. Under the plan, Elpida and its Taiwan subsidiary Rexchip Electronics its joint venture with Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) will form a new DRAM company with a new brand, the sources said. The Taiwan government plans to inject around NT$70 billion (US$2 billion) to help establish the new company and will become its largest shareholder, according to the sources.

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System memory is one of the most over-looked hardware components in computer systems, and with applications demanding greater memory overhead it is best to use as much memory as allowed. But not all memory is made the same; and even memory of the same speed can have different consumer targets. In this article, Benchmark Reviews tests the performance of an entry-level triple-channel product for the Intel Core i7 platform. The OCZ 6GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory kit OCZ3P1333LV6GK will be compared against several other products and benchmarked for bandwidth and gaming performance. Are the higher speeds worth the money, or can this memory kit overclock to their level?

Mobile World Congress is on in full force over in Barcelona, and Samsung is enjoying the spotlight. Outside of its solar powered cellphone and the eight megapixel Memoir that was launched earlier this month, the company has introduced three more newcomers: the Ultra Touch (S8300), OMNIA HD (i8910) and BEAT DJ (M7600). All three phones proudly boast DivX Certification, meaning that each of them can handle the popular DivX video format without issue. The trio also features expansive touchscreens, indicating that

HTC has opened the Mobile World Congress 2009 with two new Windows Mobile touchscreen smartphones they’ve managed to keep mostly under wraps: the Touch Diamond2 and the TouchPro2. 

The TouchPro2 features a larger display than last year’s Touch Pro, a 3.2-inch 800×400 WVGA touchscreen to be exact, which should make mobile web browsing a bit more interesting; it also features a tilted-screen design similar to that of the AT&T Tilt (TyTN II).  Other features include a Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz CPU, 512MB of flash ROM, 256MB of RAM, Windows Mobile 6.1 (with supposed eventual support for Windows Mobile 6.5), a microSDHC card slot, a 3.2MP camera and a 1500mAh Li-Ion battery. 

Expect to see the TouchPro2 in the U.S. sometime this summer.

Touchscreen smartphones are certainly a big hit right now. If you consider Apple’s ever-popular iPhone, HTC’s well-liked Touch lineup, and many others, touch is a high-demand feature. Manufacturers are certainly taking note of this fact. Traditionally speaking, the BlackBerry line of smartphones share a common layout with a QWERTY keyboard located beneath a standard (i.e. non-touchscreen) display.Considering the popularity of touch, you can imagine that Research in Motion wasn’t going to hold out on creating

The Conficker/Downadup worm has been spreading like wildfire across the internet with over an estimated 10million computers infected by it. It's been deemed such a nuisance that a group of companies (Headed by Microsoft) are now offering a $250,000 bounty for information which leads to the arrest of the creators of the worm.

The spreading Conficker/Downadup worm is now viewed as such a significant threat that it's inspired the formation of a posse to stop it, with Microsoft leading the charge by offering a $250,000 reward to bring the Conficker malware bad guys to justice. The money will be paid for 'information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet,'

Adobe has announced today at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, that it is working on a new version of its Flash Lite Distributable Player, which is designed to bring Adobe Flash 10 functionality to smartphones. The Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 Distributable Player is available now as a beta for 11 Windows Mobile and 11 Nokia S60 (Symbian OS) devices (the list of compatible phones can be found here). According to Adobe, “Flash content reaches over 98% of Internet viewers with over 30M swf files

Today’s users want an always-connected device for social media applications such as Facebook and YouTube, as well as great multimedia performance for recording and watching HD movies and videos on the go. NVIDIA Corporation, the inventor of the graphics processor, today introduced a new platform, based on the NVIDIA® Tegra™ 600 Series computer-on-a-chip that enables a $99, always-on, always-connected HD mobile internet device (MID) that can go days between battery charges. This platform will enable

The inventor and world’s largest supplier of flash storage cards, today announced the SanDisk® Service Delivery Card (SDC), a high capacity custom memory solution based on a microSD™ card and designed specifically for the Mobile Network Operator (MNO). The unique capabilities of the SanDisk Service Delivery Card enable MNOs to configure local storage to streamline data delivery, improve high capacity memory performance and integrate with network applications and services to enhance the user experience.This

Today LR has taken the latest DDR3 HyperX Triple Channel kits from Kingston and run them through their paces. We have visited Kingston's DDR3 Triple Channel kits before, but now we have kits with Kingston's new HTX T1 heatspreaders for the optimal cooling. Read on to find out which kit, the 3GB or 6GB, offers the best performance, overclock, and bang for the buck!