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| HDD prices for OEM market to increase 10% |
4/1/2011 |
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Due to a shortage of controller chips for motors used in hard disk drives, prices of HDDs in the OEM market are likely to increase by 5-10% in the second quarter.
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| Samsung to add 300 new jobs in Austin TX |
3/31/2011 |
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Samsung Austin Semiconductor will hire 300 engineers and technicians in the first six months of 2011 as part of the $3.6-billion expansion of the semiconductor's plant.
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| Lenovo unveil Tablet PC in China |
3/30/2011 |
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Lenovo has launched its own tablet computer at home as it tries to compete for a share of an increasingly crowded market dominated by Apple's iPad.
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| Advantest to buy Verigy for $1.1B |
3/29/2011 |
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Advantest Corp. and Verigy Ltd. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Advantest will acquire all outstanding Verigy ordinary shares for $15.00 per share in cash.
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| Motorola announces pre-order for 10-inch Xoom |
3/29/2011 |
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US-based handset brand Motorola has announced pre-order for 200 of its 10-inch Xoom tablet PC in Taiwan with the price of the 32GB model at NT$19,980 (US$678) and will start shipping on April 20.
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| Acer cuts 100 job in China operation |
3/28/2011 |
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Acer is looking to eliminate more than 100 jobs at its operations in China, equivalent to about 10% of the company's total workforce stationed in the region, according to China media reports.
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| Computers must take new turn to advance |
3/25/2011 |
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¡§The era of sequential computing must give way to a new era in which parallelism is at the forefront,¡¨ the report asserts. ¡§The next generation of discoveries is likely to require advances at both the hardware and software levels¡K.¡¨
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| TI secured its lead in the analog world |
3/25/2011 |
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TI used the downturn to replenish its inventory, return product lead times to normal and ramp up production quickly with its three new fabs. As markets began to grow again, the company was well positioned to pounce on returning consumer demand
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| Intel executive left Ultra Mobile Group |
3/24/2011 |
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Some have speculated that Chandrasekher might make a good fit for AMD's open CEO spot, left vacant by Dirk Meyer's sudden resignation in January.
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| Micron beat analysts' expectations |
3/24/2011 |
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Micron's numbers for its second quarter of fiscal 2011 came in above consensus analysts' expectations, which called for revenue of $2.1 billion and earnings of 3 cents per share
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| Phone makers pressed to pull police avoidence Apps |
3/24/2011 |
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US senators on Tuesday pressed Google, Apple, and Blackberry maker Research in Motion to pull the plug on applications that can help drunk drivers use smart phones to elude police checkpoints.
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| Nanya leads price hike on memory |
3/23/2011 |
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The benchmark DRAM contract price, which is set biweekly, rose to US$17 a unit in the second half of this month, compared with US$16.50 a unit in the first half, TrendForce said.
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| Altair offers 4G LTE chips |
3/23/2011 |
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Due to radio frequency interference, from sources such as terrestrial digital broadcast TV and MediaFlo, Band Class 12's spectral efficiency has been severely hampered, Altair said. Altair's chipset is able to extract signals and improve Band Class 12 spectrum usage, the company said.
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| iPad 2 sells for less than iPad 1 in UK |
3/23/2011 |
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The iPad 2 will go on sale in Britain at 5pm on Friday with prices starting at £399 for the 16GB wifi model - £30 less than the launch price for the same model of the original iPad last year.
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