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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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| ProMOS sells China 8-inch Fab |
5/24/2011 |
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ProMOS Technologies announced the sale of ProMOS (Chongqing) Technologies, its wholly owned subsidiary semiconductor maker located in Xiyoung Micro-electronics Industrial Park in Chingqing, western China, including the equipment of a 8-inch fab,
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| SMIC posts 1Q11 profits |
5/23/2011 |
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SMIC has reported net profits of US$10.2 million on consolidated revenues of US$370.6 million for the first quarter of 2011.
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| Foxconn factory explosion kill 2 in Chengdu |
5/23/2011 |
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An explosion occurred at a factory building inside Foxconn's (Hon Hai Precision Industry) production base in Chengdu City, western China, on the evening of May 20, killing two employees and injuring 16.
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| ChipMOS reports improved business |
5/20/2011 |
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Overall, we expect the demand stability we are seeing in Q1 in our LCD driver business and in our niche/mobile DRAM segments will offset anticipated macro weakness in the flash and mixed-signal segments.
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| Semi book-to-bill improved |
5/20/2011 |
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"The continued pace of orders for new semiconductor manufacturing equipment coupled with a slight decline in billings moves the book-to-bill ratio toward parity,"
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| How fast can LTE be? |
5/20/2011 |
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During the demo, AT&T's LTE network was able to sustain 28.87Mbps download speeds and 10.4Mbps upload speeds.
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| Linkedin IPO gave hope for others to follow |
5/20/2011 |
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LinkedIn shares opened at $83 each in its first day of trade, a whopping 84% above its initial offering price of $45 a share. Soon they crept up to $90. Then $105. Shares ultimately reached a high above $122 before closing near $94.
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| Mosaid filed complaint on basic network patents |
5/19/2011 |
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Mosaid (Ottawa, Ontario) claims that Cisco (San Jose, Calif.) has been infringing six of its patents in various products including Power over Ethernet (PoE) switches and routers, DSL wireless access points, cable modem wireless access points, PoE Internet Protocol (IP) phones, and cable modems with Voice over IP (VoIP).
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| Graphend capacitor can beat litium battery |
5/19/2011 |
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The University of Texas-Austin, concluding that it had an energy density that could rival batteries, an energy-release and quick-recharge rate that exceeded batteries, and a lifetime of at least 10,000 charge/discharge cycles. Used instead of batteries, activated-graphene supercapacitors could last 27 years for a plug-in vehicle recharged once a day.
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