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                        | Other tablet makers getting aggressive | 
                            1/17/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            RIM PlayBook and Motorola Xoom tablet orders to Taiwanese hardware makers point to 2 million in first-quarter shipments for the Apple iPad challengers.
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                        | Steve Job to take medical leave again | 
                            1/17/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Mr. Jobs's health is key to Apple. He is deeply involved in all aspects of the company's business and is widely credited for reviving the then-struggling computer maker in the late 1990s with hit products such as the iMac desktop computer. 
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                        | Nvidia ship 1 Billion GeForce chips | 
                            1/13/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Nvidia and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) celebrated the shipment of the one-billionth GeForce graphics processor designed by Nvidia and manufactured by TSMC.
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                        | TSMC to buy ProMos for U$ 100 Million | 
                            1/13/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            TSMC announced plans to buy a 218,156-square-meter plot of land, located at the Hsinchu Science Park (HSP), northern Taiwan, from Powerchip Technology for US$100 million. 
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                        | AMD appoints new interim CEO  | 
                            1/12/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            AMD has announced that its board of directors has appointed senior vice president and CFO Thomas Seifert as interim CEO following the resignation of Dirk Meyer as president, CEO and a director of the company effective immediately.
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                        | TSMC report weak  Q4 sales | 
                            1/11/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. showed a continued market weakness resulting in a quarterly drop in revenue.
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                        | TSMC 4Q10 sales exceeds expectation | 
                            1/10/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) turned in NT$110.14 billion (US$3.77 billion) in fourth-quarter consolidated sales, higher than its target of NT$107-109 billion.
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                        | Kingston unveil Sandy Bridge memory kits | 
                            1/10/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Kingston has announced release of the high-performance dual-channel memory kits for motherboards featuring the Intel P67 Sandy Bridge platform as well as existing P55-based systems. 
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                        | Motorola to ship 800,000 tablet PC | 
                            1/10/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Motorola has showcased its new Android 3.0-based Xoom tablet PC and has placed orders for about 700,000-800,000 units with four color options for the first quarter of 2011.
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                        | Samsung unveil Wintel-based tablet PC | 
                            1/7/2011 | 
                     
                    
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                            Samsung Electronics is showcasing its new tablet PC, the 7 Series sliding PC, featuring Intel's Atom processor (Oak Trail) and Windows 7, at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2011.
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