Neowin News Feed for: Production

New iMacs possibly delayed until 2013

Rob Schorman — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:32:44 +0000

A month ago, Apple unveiled the new iMac which is a lot thinner than previous generations. That design is reportedly causing production difficulties, which could push the iMacs into 2013 Read more...

iOS game targeting Foxconn pulled from App Store

Paul Ferson — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:33:50 +0100

Foxconn, the world's largest electronics manufacturer, has been targeted by an iOS game which was pulled by Apple less than an hour after it was published to the store for others to download. Read more...

iPhone 5 to begin production in September, low cost version may follow

Piers Hausjell — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:49:20 +0100

Apparently the iPhone 5 will enter production in September of this year meaning the device will likely be on sale at the end of the year, or early next year according to a company named... Read more...

Mass production of XO laptops kicks off

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:29:27 +0000

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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization launched in 2005 by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to design, manufacture and distribute affordable laptop computers to children around the world, announced that mass production of the... Read more...

Mass Production of Optimus Maximus Has Not Started

Slimy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:03:19 +0000

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If you've been following news of the full-sized 113-keys Optimus Maximus keyboard with colour OLED screens (10.1mmÂ² large with a 48x48 pixel resolution) located inside each key, you are probably aware of the bad news... Read more...

Sony to sell PS3 chip production lines to Toshiba

Slimy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:44:59 +0100

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Recent rumours, later denied by Sony Corporation, have turned out to be true. According to Reuters, Sony plans to sell its "Cell" microprocessor output facility in Nagasaki prefecture and "RSX" graphic chip production line in... Read more...

Samsung Halts Some Production After Electricity Problem

Sagittarius — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:49:17 +0100

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Samsung, the world's largest memory chip maker, was forced to partially halt production due to an electrical mishap in a factory today. According to spokewoman Lee Soo-jeong, a spark in an electrical transformer led to... Read more...

'$100 laptop' production begins

Lt-DavidW — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 14:28:48 +0100

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Five years after the concept was first proposed, the so-called $100 laptop is poised to go into mass production. Hardware suppliers have been given the green light to ramp-up production of all of the components... Read more...

Zink to Step-Up Production of Inkless Printing Paper

Slimy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 04:43:12 +0100

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Inkless printing company ZINK Imaging has completed its purchase of Konica Minolta's manufacturing facility in North Carolina, enabling ZINK to step-up production of paper for its Zero-Ink print process. ZINK Paper is special photo paper... Read more...

LG Electronics to cut PDP production

Slimy — Sat, 19 May 2007 02:12:54 +0100

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LG Electronics has announced plans to cut back production of plasma display panel screens as part of it efforts to improve the business performance of its display operations. The company will close the oldest of... Read more...

SanDisk: Price cut to persist & ramp up 56nm mass production

Slimy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 19:25:56 +0100

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About 98-99% of SanDisk NAND flash are of multi-level cell structure. As there still is a considerable amount of low-price MLC NAND flash being sold in the market, prices are being affected. Once the inventory... Read more...

Nintendo plans to boost Wii production

Slimy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:51:56 +0100

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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata has promised that production was being boosted to increase deliveries by next month: "We must do our best to fix this abnormal lack of stock. We have not been able to... Read more...

360 Manufacturer to Discontinue Production

Joe Cashman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:52:04 +0100

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Wistron, the Taiwanese device manufacturer currently producing Xbox 360 units for Microsoft, is likely to halt production of the console during 2008, according to a report in the Economic Daily News. The company is likely... Read more...

Xbox 360 Elite Systems Spied on Chinese Production Line

Slimy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:45:32 +0100

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Xbox 360 Elite systems on a Chinese production line have been caught on camera. The images not only show the sleek, black exterior of the Xbox 360 Elite, but a close-up image shows the 120GB... Read more...

Toshiba Hastens NAND Flash Production

Slimy — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 22:47:47 +0000

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Toshiba Corporation, one of the world's largest producers of flash memory chips, is expanding production of NAND flash memory chips faster than originally planned. Most of Toshiba's manufacturing line in its number-three chip factory can... Read more...

Intel Builds Fourth 45nm Production Facility

Slimy — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:06:13 +0000

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Intel Corporation announced an investment of between $1 billion to $1.5 billion in its fourth factory scheduled to use the 45nm process: the Rio Rancho Fab 11X site. The production in New Mexico is scheduled... Read more...

Sony to Consider Outsourcing Cell Production

Joe Cashman — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:37:27 +0000

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Sony executive Yutaka Nakagawa has unveiled plans to cut the costs incurred from manufacturing Cell chips for the PlayStation 3 by outsourcing their production. Over the last three years, Sony has invested US$ 3.8 billion... Read more...

Update:Plextor Denies Plan to Cease Optical Drive Production

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:13:16 +0000

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Plextor LLC, a leading supplier of optical disk drives (ODDs) that belongs to Japanese electronics giant Shinano Kenshi, said on Tuesday that it would not exit the market of optical disk drives, despite of announcement... Read more...

Quanta may begin volume production of slim Blu-ray 2H07

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:53:19 +0000

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Quanta Storage, the largest maker of slim-type optical disc drives (for use in notebook PCs) in Taiwan, is planning to start volume production of slim-type Blu-ray Disc (BD) burners in the second half of 2007... Read more...

Toshiba Matsushita Starts Mass Production of 5-inch TFT LCD

Slimy — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:34:51 +0000

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It turns out that the demand for electronic dictionaries is fairly big, and growing. Enough anyways, for Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. to announce the mass production of its 5.01-inch monochrome, highly reflective, thin... Read more...