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| Infineon takes over #1 in automobile chip market |
5/11/2010 |
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Infineon achieved sales of $1.31 billion with automotive parts, slightly more than Freescale which sold devices at a value of $1.163 billion. This equals a 9 percent market share for Infineon and 8 percent for Freescale.
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| DRAM in allocations, Nand prices slip |
5/11/2010 |
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''While demand remains light in the market, brokers and distributors are liquidating their inventory and realizing profits on stock that was purchased at a lower cost base,'' he said. ''Average spot pricing across all densities and technologies was down 1.5 percent (last week) compared with the previous week,
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| Droid phone overtakes iPhone in Q1 |
5/11/2010 |
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Android OS phones captured 28 percent of unit sales in the first three months of 2010, ahead of the iPhone's 21 percent, according to a report this week from the NPD Group.
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| Micron closes Numonyx acquisition |
5/10/2010 |
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"With this acquisition, Micron builds on its position as one of the world's leading memory companies with increased scale, a broader product portfolio and industry-leading technology," Micron CEO Steve Appleton said.
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| Does Renesas have too many products to support? |
5/10/2010 |
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The market is worried about the fallout between Renesas and NEC Electronics, at least according to competitors. At last count, the combined entity will sell and support no less than 16 separate MCU lines, including 4-, 8-, 16- and 32-bit products.
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| Global Foundries has agressive expansion planmed |
5/10/2010 |
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GlobalFoundries was not so far behind TSMC and that soon to be announced capacity expansions would close the gap. "Does that include TSMC's third 100K wafer fab?" Penn asked "The numbers will be comparable,"
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| Microsoft overhauls MS Office |
5/10/2010 |
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Office 2010, which goes on sale to businesses this week, shows Microsoft for the first time putting serious sweat into making the suite work better on the Web and smartphones.
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| US Patent office to increase patent application fee |
5/7/2010 |
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said they need to increase patent application fees to reduce its historic backlog, according to Congressional testimony by the office's newly appointed director, David Kappos.
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| A-Data April revenue up by 58% |
5/6/2010 |
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A-Data Technology has posted revenues of NT$3.71 billion (US$118 million) for April, down 23% sequentially but up 58% on year.
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| Inotera buys new equipments from ASML |
5/6/2010 |
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Inotera Memories has reported the purchase of NT$5.934 billion (US$188.8 million) worth of semiconductor equipment from lithography equipment vendor ASML
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| UMC to open Southern Taiwan 12-inch Fab |
5/6/2010 |
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UMC has revealed it will hold a ceremony to officially kick off operations of the phase-three and phase-four production facilities at its 12-inch Fab 12A at the Southern Taiwan Science Park
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| Apple sells 1 Million iPad |
5/4/2010 |
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Apple confirmed it sold its 1 millionth iPad late last week, meaning that it took 28 days from iPad's launch on April 3 to reach the milestone.
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| Samsung reports U$7.4 Billion sale up 2.5% |
4/30/2010 |
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Samsung Electronics' semiconductor division generated sales of 8.2 trillion won (US$7.4 billion) in the first quarter of 2010, up 2.5% sequentially and 57.4% from a year earlier.
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| ITC to investigate iPad patent suit |
4/29/2010 |
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The US International Trade Commission will investigate the patent claims made against Apple by Elan Microelectronics, which claims that the iPhone maker's products infringe on its touchscreen technology.
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