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| Sony unveil new ultra-slim notebook |
3/8/2010 |
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Sony has launched two new Z- and Y-series notebooks in the Taiwan market, with the Z-series targeting the high-end business segment and the Y-series for the ultra-thin segment.
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| Apple to sell iPad on April 3 |
3/8/2010 |
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Apple has announced that its iPad will be available in the US on Saturday, April 3, for Wi-Fi models and in late April for Wi-Fi plus 3G models.
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| UMC to hire 1000 engineers for 12-inch Fab |
3/5/2010 |
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United Microelectronics Corporation (UM) has recently announced plans to add a total of 1,000 engineers for its Fab 12A, a 12-inch wafer fab located at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP).
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| TSMC fab disrupted by Earthquake |
3/5/2010 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) and United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) have both disclosed the impact of a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit southern Taiwan on March 4
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| IBM cut 2500 jobs in March |
3/4/2010 |
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IBM Corp said it has cut over 2,500 jobs on March 1st 2010 and over 2,500 IBM employees got a rude awakening, according to IBM union.
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| Powerchip post profit in February 2010 |
3/4/2010 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor has posted its fourth straight monthly profit in February 2010, with revenues increasing on year for the fifth consecutive month.
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| Taiwan companies see strong testing demand for DDR3 |
3/3/2010 |
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Powertech Technology (PTI), Walton Advanced Engineering (WAE) and Thailin Semiconductor are all expected to see a strong March, as the memory backend service providers have landed strong DDR3 memory testing orders for the month.
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| Nvidia introduces new Ion platform at Cebit |
3/3/2010 |
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Nvidia has introduced the next-generation Ion graphics processor, which it claims will offer 10 times the graphics performance of standard netbooks and enable up to 10 hours of battery life.
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| ChipMos buys Ex-Spansion equipments |
3/2/2010 |
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ChipMos Technologies Ltd. has purchased Siliconware Precision Industries Co. Ltd.'s DRAM test and LCD driver assembly and test operation lines for approximately NT$1.63 billion ($51.0 million).
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| Actel unveil FPGA with ARM processor |
3/2/2010 |
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Actel Corp introduced a family of flash-based field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that feature a complete microcontroller subsystem built around a hard ARM Cortex-M3 processor and programmable analog blocks.
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| AMD announces ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card |
3/1/2010 |
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AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, bringing gamers the latest features from AMD and performance of the ATI Radeon HD 5800-series at a lower price than US$250.
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| Intel put TSMC Atom production on hold |
2/26/2010 |
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The delay in moving Atom products into production at TSMC appears signal slower-than-expected progress on execution of Intel's strategy to grow revenue outside of the PC market by pushing its x86 architecture deeper into to the embedded market and elsewhere.
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| Dramexchange reported price flat in Feb. |
2/26/2010 |
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DRAMeXchange's estimates saying March contract prices for 1Gb DDR3 may stay flat or drop slightly, and 1Gb DDR2 will likely go down. Notebook makers' shipments for the first quarter are likely to fall short of their estimates due to tight supply of some components as well as the impact of labor shortages in parts of China.
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