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| Microsoft quarterly profit falls |
4/24/2009 |
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Microsoft Corp. reported a sharp dip in quarterly profit Thursday, but met Wall Street's lowered forecasts, hurt by a decline in technology spending in a global economic downturn.
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| Elpida plans to raise chip prices 50% |
4/22/2009 |
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Elpida Memory Inc, Japan's largest maker of computer-memory chips, said it plans to raise prices as much as 50 percent next month after industry-wide production cuts eased the glut that drove chipmakers to record losses.
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| Samsung to increase the production of DDR3 |
4/22/2009 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Tuesday (April 21) it is ramping up 50-nm class production of DDR3 memory chips in response to increased demand stemming from Intel Corp.'s launch of the Xeon processor 5500 series.
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| AMD's first quarter net loss expanded |
4/22/2009 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s first quarter net loss grew and revenue slid 21 percent although the company reported sales improved on a sequential basis with demand for its core microprocessor products rising from the preceding quarter.
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| Intel's 6-Core CPU Possibly later than expected |
4/21/2009 |
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Intel's Gulftown processor will arrive on the market sometime around Q2 2010. The processor was originally expected to appear in Q4 2009 / Q1 2010 but now seems to be pushed back.
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| NEC Unveils Firewall At RSA Conference 2009 |
4/21/2009 |
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Japanese network equipment vendor NEC is making its first foray into security software at RSA Conference 2009 with the introduction of a Web application firewall to the U.S.
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| 2010 semiconductor industry revenue will increase 17% |
4/21/2009 |
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Databeans reported that the current crisis has been caused primarily by temporary macroeconomic issues that have impacted consumer spending on devices that use ICs and will recuperate at a much faster rate than the 2001 fall did.
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| Nanya will initiate a capital expansion plan |
4/20/2009 |
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The Formosa Plastics Group, the parent company of Taiwan's DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology, will subscribe to new Nanya shares through a private placement, according to company sources.
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| Ablecom announced a new touch-screen DPF |
4/20/2009 |
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Ablecom Technology Inc., a professional provider of digital media solution, recently announced the expansion of its DPF product line into Touch Screen Media of HR-401T. With this extension of product line, Ablecom offers customers more alternative choices when doing DPF business
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| Cheap Smartphones Sales rise |
4/20/2009 |
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IDC telecommunications market analyst, Mark Novosel, said the decline was due largely to customer migration to Telstra's Next G network.
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| Sony Ericsson unit sales shrink |
4/19/2009 |
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In the first quarter 2009, mobile handset manufacturer Sony Ericsson saw its sales shrink by almost 40 percent compared to the quarter before. Unit sales declined by the same percentage. Now the company announced another round of job cuts.
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| Teradyne Inc plans to cut 350 jobs |
4/19/2009 |
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ATE vendor Teradyne Inc. plans to cut 350 jobs and will implement more pay cuts, according to a new regulatory filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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| Dell and HP to increase business by low-end CPU |
4/17/2009 |
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Dell announced a deal to sell its latest Intel Atom-based netbooks through China's top cellular carrier, and rival Hewlett-Packard rolled out a new line of thin-client computers, most based on Via's x86 processors. The announcements reinforce the fact much of the growth in consumer and business computing is for low-end systems, especially in emerging markets.
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| Xilinx Inc decided to cut workforce by 6% |
4/17/2009 |
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Programmable logic supplier Xilinx Inc. Wednesday confirmed that it expects to cut up to 200 jobs, or 6 percent of its global workforce, as part of a series of restructuring measures designed to improve structural operating efficiencies.
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