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| Windows 7 revives PC market |
11/10/2009 |
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“A combination of factors impacted Windows 7 PC sales at the outset, but the trajectory of overall PC sales is very strong leading into the holiday season,” he said.
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| Freescale to go fab-lite |
11/10/2009 |
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ATREG (Advanced Technology Real Estate Group), the semiconductor division of Colliers International, has been appointed as advisor to Freescale in the sale of the company's two operational 150-mm semiconductor manufacturing facilities.
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| Ventures into China on LED technology |
11/10/2009 |
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The fab will be Durham, NC-based Cree’s first chip-production facility outside of North America and is targeted to also house future components manufacturing expansion. The company said it expects that the new chip production facility will help accelerate LED lighting.
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| Intel Atom powers text to speech machine |
11/10/2009 |
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The Intel Reader is a paperback-sized device that can take a picture of printed text with its 5 megapixel camera and convert it to speech. The company hopes the $1,499 system will serve millions of people with dyslexia and difficulty seeing printed text.
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| SIA : 2009 not as bad, 2010 be better |
11/9/2009 |
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SIA projecting worldwide sales of $219.7 billion for 2009, a decline of 11.6% from the $248.6 billion reported in 2008. The industry group's earlier forecast made in June called for a more than 21% 2009 sales decline on 2008 numbers. The SIA forecast further projects that sales will grow by 10.2% to $242.1 billion in 2010
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| UK's Wolfson to open R&D in Yokohama |
11/9/2009 |
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With our recently-recruited team of engineers, we will strengthen relationships with our customers in Japan, designing and developing solutions which will help them continue to create revolutionary consumer electronics products.
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| Abu Dhabi to build major fab |
11/9/2009 |
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At an energy conference in Abu Dhabi, the state-owned investment company Mubadala Development Co. said there are plans to build a wafer fab in the country. "In four years, you'll see the first foundry in Abu Dhabi,"
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| TSMC's 40nm yield issues |
11/9/2009 |
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TSMC's 40-nm yield problems surfaced earlier this year, but the company claimed it largely resolved the problem. However, during a conference call on Thursday, graphics chip maker Nvidia Corp. discussed 40-nm capacity and yield constraints at its foundry partner.
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| Top chips firms posted 19% gain in sales |
11/6/2009 |
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Thanks in part to a surging memory market, sales for the top 20 semiconductor manufacturers increased 19 percent in the third quarter compared to the second quarter, according to market research firm IC Insights Inc.,
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| Samsung prepares for 32- and 28-nm production |
11/6/2009 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has announced that a recently-formed semiconductor R&D center has begun work on advanced process development for use in foundry manufacturing.
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| Inventory adjustment hurts STEC |
11/5/2009 |
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STEC reported EPS in line with the 47-cent consensus and topped revenue expectations in the third quarter, however the company's outlook through early 2010 has investors dumping shares.
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| Qualcomm extends 15-years license with Samsung |
11/5/2009 |
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Qualcomm Inc. reported quarterly sales and guidance that fell short of analyst expectations, but the company announced the extension of a license agreement with South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. reportedly worth more than $1.3 billion over 15 years.
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| Motorola mobile division "all-in" bet on Smartphone |
11/4/2009 |
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One year after joining the company from Qualcomm Corp., Jha has whittled down operating costs in the mobile devices division and recently unveiled the company's flagship product, the Droid, a so-called smartphone that aims to take on Apple Inc.'s hot-selling iPhone and a bunch of other similar devices from the likes of Nokia, Samsung and Sony-Ericsson.
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| MCP for Smart Phones from Micron |
11/3/2009 |
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Micron Technologies Inc. (Boise, Idaho) has introduced a multi-chip package (MCP) memory for smart phones, personal media players, and mobile Internet devices (MIDs) that includes a 4-Gbit NAND flash memory die and a 2-Gbit low-power DDR die.
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| Avnet quarterly report shows improved marketplace |
11/3/2009 |
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Avnet Inc has reported revenue of $4.36 billion for the first quarter fiscal 2010 ended October 3, 2009, representing a decrease of 3.1% over the first quarter fiscal 2009 and a 0.6% decrease excluding the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates.
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| Global chip shipment grows 8.2% in September |
11/2/2009 |
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The three-month average of global sales of semiconductors rose to $20.64 billion in September, up 8.2 percent from an upwardly revised $19.07 billion in August, and down 10.1 percent from September 2008, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA).
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| Samsung profit triples |
11/2/2009 |
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Samsung posted a profit of about $3.14 billion for the third quarter, thanks to gains in its chip business, and the success of its mobile phone division.
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| Samsung, Toshiba, Micron dominate NAND flash market |
11/2/2009 |
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The top three vendors of branded NAND flash memory increased their market share in the third quarter compared with the previous quarter, according to DRAMexchange Technology Inc., a Taiwan-based market analysis company. Samsung and Toshiba increased their clear market dominance while Micron's increased market share allowed it to overtake Hynix and jump into third position.
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| Maxim post profit in 2nd Quarter |
10/30/2009 |
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Maxim posted a sequential double-digit increase in sales for the second consecutive quarter in the period ended Sept. 26,2009.
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