Fab Capacity Report, Nevermore + Hanvon's Huge Loss + SeaMicro Acquired

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(1) Dylan McGrath, SIA Pulls Plug on Fab Capacity Report. EETimes, Mar 1, 2012.
http://www.eetimes.com/electroni ... fab-capacity-report
(after TSMC, UMC, Nanya (a DRAM maker), Intel and AMD had stopped participation)

(2) Ashanti Lai and Adam Hwang, China-Based Hanvon Suffers Heavy Losses in 2011. DigiTimes, Mar 1, 2012.
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120301PD200.html

Note:
(a) Founded in 1998 and based in Beijing, Hanvon started making an e-reader in 2008--and a tablet later.
http://www.hanvon.com
(b)
(i) The female given name Ashanti is derived from Ashanti Empire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti_Empire
(1701–1896; built by Ashanti people in Ashanti region, in the center of present-day Ghana)
(ii) Ashanti
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashanti
(two British warships were named Ashanti, because Ghana was a British colony)


(3) Press release: AMD to Acquire SeaMicro: Accelerates Disruptive Server Strategy. SeaMicro’s low-power, high-bandwidth microserver solutions set the stage for AMD’s disruptive approach to lead fast-growing cloud data center market. SeaMicro, Feb 29, 2012
http://seamicro.com/node/238
(for approximately $334 million, of which approximately $281 million will be paid in cash)

Note:
(a) The Sunnyvale, California company (founded in 2007) explains its raison d'être (copied from "Company" tag in the top horizontal bar): "Servers today consume more than 2.5% of the total electricity used in the United States—more than $4 Billion dollars each year. Over the last six years, the power consumed by servers has more than doubled."
(b) The "Products" tag in the top horizontal bar shows SeaMicro products are three microservers, based on Intel Sandy Bridge-based Xeon processors (1 microserver) or Intel Atom (2).
http://www.seamicro.com/products