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| Winbond buys ProMos equipment |
12/10/2012 |
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Winbond Electronics has acquired a set of exposure equipment from Powerchip Technology for NT$630 million (US$21.7 million), according to a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE).
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| UMC November sales down |
12/10/2012 |
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United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) and Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS) have both reported decreases in November 2012 revenues from the previous month.
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| PQI to exit DRAM module business in 2013 |
12/7/2012 |
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Power Quotient International (PQI) expects to completely phase out its DRAM module business in 2013, as part of the company's business transformation plan
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| Adata November sales down 3.6% |
12/7/2012 |
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Adata Technology has announced that revenues for November 2012 decreased 3.6% sequentially and 20.2% from a year ago to NT$2.19 billion (US$75.3 million).
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| Lenovo to setup US PC assembly line |
12/7/2012 |
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Lenovo will establish assembly lines to produce desktops and notebooks in small volumes in the US to prepare for the business-use PC market and for government procurement orders.
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| Worldwide mobile phone growth expected to decline 1.4% |
12/6/2012 |
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The worldwide mobile phone market is forecast to grow 1.4% on year in 2012, the lowest annual growth rate in three years despite a projected record number of smartphone shipments in the high-volume holiday season, according to IDC.
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| Apple to make Mac in the USA |
12/6/2012 |
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Tim Cook says the Apple will produce one of its existing lines of Mac computers in the United States next year.
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| Asustek anticipate strong tablet shipments |
12/5/2012 |
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Asustek Computer at its global sales meeting (GSM) on December 3, set the annual shipments goals for its three major product lines for 2013 with the notebook shipments expected to reach 24 million units,
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| Apple improves iPhone5 production yield |
12/5/2012 |
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Yield rates for the production of iPhone 5 in the supply chain appear to have improved recently, as Apple has shortened the standby period for pre-sale orders in the US and Europe to within one week
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| Nokia to sell Finland HQ |
12/5/2012 |
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Nokia announced on December 4 that the company had agreed to sell its head office building in Espoo, Finland, for EUR170 million
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| Marvell unveil new Wi-Fi 802.11ac SoC |
12/4/2012 |
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Marvell Technology introduced a wireless local area network (WLAN) SoC that it claims is the industry's first 802.11ac 4x4 SoC to improve the throughput of enterprise and retail access points and the robustness of wireless video distribution.
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| Globalfoundries cut 300 jobs |
12/4/2012 |
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Globalfoundries said that it is cutting 300 jobs there due to a "softening of the current macro-economic climate."
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| Sales of tablets to grow 60 percent during holiday season |
12/3/2012 |
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Sales of media tablets are expected to grow 60 percent this holiday season compared with last year, according to a financial research and banking firm that this week released its inaugural "tablet tracker" report estimating production of top-selling tablets.
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| AMD unveil Radon HD 8000 series GPUs |
12/3/2012 |
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AMD reportedly plans to release its Radon HD 8000 series GPUs in the second quarter of 2013 as the company is currently going through a business reorganization to aid its poor performance in the third quarter, according to sources from the upstream supply chain.
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| RIM release new program for developers. |
11/30/2012 |
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Research in Motion (RIM) has announced updates to its developer ecosystem programs, including BlackBerry Dev Alpha test devices, the 10k developer commitment, updated tools and more.
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| Intel CEO to visit Taiwan |
11/30/2012 |
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Justin Rattner, chief technology officer (CTO) for Intel, is scheduled to visit Taiwan on December 4 to announce several new technologies developed by Intel Labs.
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| Sony to ship 84 inch-TV in Tawian |
11/29/2012 |
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Sony will open pre-orders for the Bravia KD-84X9000, its 84-inch Ultra HD (4Kx2K) LCD TV with dynamic LED edge-type backlight, in the Taiwan market between December 7, 2012
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| RIM loses patent dispute with Nokia |
11/28/2012 |
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RIM has lost a contract dispute over the use of Nokia patents in a case which could halt sales of its BlackBerry phones if it does not reach a deal to pay royalties to the Finnish company.
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