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| UMC see signs of sales weakening |
6/8/2011 |
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UMC's sales were NT$9,400 million (about $327 million) in May, down 1.7 percent compared with sales of NT$9,564 million (about $333 million) in April and down 6.8 percent compared with sales in May 2010.
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| 7 injured at Intel fab |
6/8/2011 |
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The explosion occurred in a support building adjacent to a wafer fab in Chandler, Ariz., at about 2:00 p.m. local time.
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| IDC lowered PC shipment forcast in 2011 |
6/7/2011 |
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"Consumers are recognizing the value of owning and using multiple intelligent devices and because they already own PCs, they're now adding smart phones, media tablets, and e-readers to their device collections. And this has shifted the technology share of wallet onto other connected devices."
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| Samsung foundry to offer 28nm process |
6/7/2011 |
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Samsung said its 28-nm LP process delivers a 35 percent reduction in active and standby power at the same frequency or 30 percent performance boost at the same leakage compared to the company's 45-nm LP process.
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| Students demonstrated PCM array on a PC |
6/7/2011 |
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The Onyx memory module, contains 80 128-Mbit phase-change memories and connects to the host system using the PCIe bus standard. UCSD did say that the team has received help from Micron Technology Inc., which has provided non-volatile phase-change memories
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| iOS5 iMessage undermines BlackBerry Messenger |
6/7/2011 |
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"Anyone with an iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch can send unlimited free text messages to anyone else using an iOS device. The two mainstays of RIM's sales have been corporate email users and consumer BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) users,"
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| NAND prices drop on lagging demand |
6/6/2011 |
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Chip prices for NAND declined more than 15 percent, and about 20 percent in the spot market, in May following "lackluster demand," according to Taiwanese industry publication DigiTimes.
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| Global semiconductor market seen retreat |
6/6/2011 |
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The net result has been to strip about 91.1 million in value out of the first quarter's sales figures, which is now listed by WSTS at $75.675 billion, compared with the previous figure of $75.766 billion.
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| Steve Job to promote iCloud in person today |
6/6/2011 |
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¡°This is kind of the new normal for Steve Jobs and Apple,¡± Eugene Munster, an analyst at Minneapolis-based Piper Jaffray, said in an interview on Bloomberg Radio¡¯s ¡°The First Word¡± with Ken Prewitt. ¡°That he may not be full time involved at the office, but he is definitely involved and this is a sign he is involved strategically.¡±
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| Nintendo hacked after Sony |
6/6/2011 |
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LulzSec said it intended to continue its hacking spree and appealed to Twitter followers for cash donations, describing itself as ¡°a small team of lulzy individuals who feel the drabness of the cyber community is a burden on what matters: fun¡±.
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| Samsung, Hynix lead DRAM sales |
6/1/2011 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., the world’s two largest makers of computer memory chips, dominated the global market for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips in the first quarter despite decreasing demand for personal computers
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| Samsung begins mass-production of 32Gb modules |
5/31/2011 |
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Samsung Electronics has announced that it is the first in the industry to start mass-producing 32Gb memory modules, for cloud computing and advanced server systems, using 30Nm-class 4Gbit DDR3 DRAM chips.
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| Foxconn Korea cut 240 jobs |
5/30/2011 |
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FIHTK, a subsidiary of Foxconn Group in Korea, is confirmed to have cut about 240 employees from the company's total of 280 employees.
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| ProMOS posts huge losses for January-April period |
5/26/2011 |
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Taiwan's over-the-counter (OTC) Securities Exchange has requested DRAM maker ProMOS Technologies to detail its financial results for the most recent month, as the company's stock price volatility has drawn attention.
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