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| Nokia Siemens will pay $650M for Nortel assets |
6/22/2009 |
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Nokia Siemens Networks said it has struck an agreement to pay $650 million for the next-generation wireless technology business of Canada's bankrupt communications equipment vendor Nortel Networks Inc.
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| iSuppli said worldwide chip sales to pick up sequentially |
6/19/2009 |
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Global chip sales in the first quarter declined to $44.3 billion, down 18.8 percent from $54.5 billion in the fourth quarter, and a decline of 33.8 percent from $66.8 billion in the first quarter of 2008, according to market tracker iSuppli.
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| Intel put more resource in energy R&D |
6/19/2009 |
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Intel Corp. has revamped its R&D activities, by renaming the group and forming several new units in the arena. The company has also formed a new group that will focus on energy.
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| TSMC to boost 2009 CAPEX to $1.9 billion |
6/18/2009 |
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Silicon foundry giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) plans to boost its capital spending from $1.5 billion to $1.9 billion in 2009, according to a report from the Financial Times.
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| ProMos to supply DRAM to Elpida, sources said |
6/17/2009 |
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ProMOS Technologies will sign a DRAM supply agreement with Elpida Memory soon, forming a partnership that may be key to success of the Taiwan government-led Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) project, according to industry sources.
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| Best Buy quarterly earnings down |
6/17/2009 |
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Best Buy Co. Inc. posted lower first-quarter earnings and weaker-than-expected sales Tuesday and implied earnings for the rest of the year would be worse than forecast.
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| Foundry to see improved sales in Q2 |
6/17/2009 |
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Global revenue for pure-play foundries is expected to jump in Q2 after disastrous performance in Q1 impacted the top 10 foundries, according to a report from iSuppli Corp.
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| Sharp intergrates memory to LCD panel to save power |
6/16/2009 |
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Because liquid crystal display (LCD) pixels are relatively large it is possible to integrate memory in the active memory backplane at each pixel site. Sharp Corp. has done this for a 96 x 96 pixel miniature monochrome LCD and claims a power saving of a factor of 130 compared to standard LCDs of equal size.
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| ST, Soitec co-develop next generation image sensors |
6/16/2009 |
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STMicrolectronics and Soitec announced an exclusive joint cooperation to develop 300-mm wafer-level BSI (backside-illumination) technology for the next-generation of image sensors in consumer electronics.
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| Microsoft to strip IE from Window 7 |
6/12/2009 |
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Microsoft said EU regulatory wrangling has prompted it to strip Internet Explorer Web browsers from copies of its Windows 7 operating system to be sold in Europe.
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| Cadence cuts 225 jobs in US |
6/11/2009 |
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Cadence Design Systems will eliminate 225 jobs as part of a restructuring expected to save about $30 million per year.
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| Micron support JEDEC standard eMMC 4.4 |
6/11/2009 |
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Micron Technology has announced support of the newly-ratified JEDEC eMMC 4.4 standard with its portfolio of managed NAND solutions for mobile applications.
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