Rambus originally sued Infineon claiming patent infringement on two kinds of PC memory: SDRAM, which is commonly used, and DDR, a newly developed type of memory.
In the fourth quarter, demand for PC memory will remain weak but DRAM for mobile devices and servers is projected to keep growing with the introduction of new products and a boom in the smartphone business.
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The flaw, which affected the virtual machine monitor (VMM) in Virtual PC, could enable an attacker to use applications running in user-space on a guest OS to access portions of the Virtual PC memory that should be inaccessible to those applications.
If Rambus proves it holds patents on these, all PC-memory makers would have to pay it royalties.
In addition to viewing images from a PC, flash memory card or Facebook, customers also can access their own or their friends' Snapfish photos and albums.
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Foreign chips flooding the U.S. market provided gobs of cheap memory for PC graphics boards and laser printers--and, boy, did those two technologies ever chew up the memory!
Driven by rising multimedia use, present PC configurations are seeing greater memory and hard drive capabilities, on top of which a new operating system could drive PC unit gains toward the 20% year to year level in each of the next two years.
One result of the lower prices: more memory per PC.
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In 2008, he took part in the race to raise money for Crimestoppers, in memory of PC Melissa Ward, who was stabbed to death at her flat, in January 2007.
That battle has made it easier for the PC makers to join in, which in turn is driving down the prices these firms are prepared to pay for other PC components such as memory chips, modems and disk drives.
Dragon NaturallyOrganized understands phrases and stores them in Flash memory for download to a PC via the serial port.
It can be patterned alongside a microprocessor, combining in one unit all the memory and processing power a PC, cell phone or personal organizer needs.
We've seen it before -- it's basically a car stereo faceplate that sports 1GB internal memory and connects with your PC to transfer music.
On that day my son Callum and I engaged in some father-son bonding by swapping the faulty motherboard on the family PC - the motherboard is the bit into which you plug all the other parts of a PC - processor, graphics card, memory et cetera.
Unless you've got just the right controller and flash memory, most performance-minded PC users will rarely give you a second glance.
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The basic requirements for running Windows 8 are a processor running at 1 gigahertz or faster, and at least 1 or 2 gigabytes of memory, depending on whether your PC is a less demanding 32-bit or more demanding 64-bit system (the installer tells you).
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Marc Kaufmann, the previous manager of the Select Electronics fund thought that the sinking memory prices of 1996 presaged a rocket PC market.
It's not a straightforward process, and you'll need a card reader or a PC that's equipped to handle a Sony Memory Stick (as opposed to a normal USB drive).
But it is hard to see how it can keep track of the ever-growing traffic that passes through or leaves big corporate IT systems, for instance through a simple memory stick (which plugs into a PC and can hold the equivalent of dozens of feature-length films).
The PC Station also has speakers, a slot for three types of memory cards and a DVD drive.
Even better, the receiver's gigabyte of mass storage flash memory makes it simple to copy stored documents onto the PC or share them with a friend or colleague via good old sneakernet.
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And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it's slow: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).
Management of memory card data can (thankfully) be handled on a PC or Mac using Content Manager Assistant, lest you worry that your data is trapped.
This is the first pocket PC that's designed to use a newer, smaller type of flash memory card called a MultiMediaCard.
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He also noted that chip factory utilization rates have declined to slightly below-seasonal levels, and that contract prices for both DRAM and NAND memory chips are expected to drop in Q3, due to weak PC and smartphone demand.
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And programs that use a lot of memory, like Adobe Photoshop, are probably too much for the tiny PC.
Devitt sees overall 2013 semi capital spending to be down 10%-15% from 2012, with no meaningful capacity investment in the memory sector this year, with DRAM spending likely muted due to weak PC fundamentals.
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Weaker-than-expected off-peak season demand and a global supply crunch of HDDs coupled with low demand for PC DRAM chips and the oversupply of mobile DRAM impacted profit margins, in which the memory portion saw its revenue slip to 4.89 trillion won.
Once you've decided what you want your PC to do, get the most advanced unit you can afford, and make sure its memory can be easily upgraded.
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