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| Taiwan motherboard makers reports poor May sales |
6/10/2009 |
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Taiwan-based motherboard maker Micro-Star International (MSI) saw May revenues increase on month while Asustek Computer, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), and Gigabyte Technology all recorded a decline in revenues.
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| Winbond reports high yield at 65nm Fab |
6/9/2009 |
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Winbond said DRAM production at its 65nm process node is progressing with yield rates on the rise. Annual production capacity is expected to reach 8,000 wafers at the end of 2009.
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| Apple offers $99 iPhone |
6/9/2009 |
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Apple launch a new iPhone model complete with a video camera and slashing the price of its predecessor to 99 dollars.
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| Has the global memory chip industry hit bottom or is it still sliding? |
6/8/2009 |
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Analysts say it's too early to predict full recovery with demand for PCs and other electronic devices still soft. ``Global sales declined 14.3 percent in the first quarter for both DRAM and NAND flash chips. Although sales are forecast to surge to a strong finish with 17.5 ¯ percent growth in the fourth quarter, that's only telling half of the story,''
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| Qimonda sells solar cell development |
6/8/2009 |
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The Portuguese government has backed an investment group which has agreed to take control of Qimonda's solar cell joint venture Itarion Solar situated near Porto.
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| Printable display becoming reality |
6/8/2009 |
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"Because the active component of our device can be fabricated from a liquid, there is the potential that in the future we can print the entire memory device as simply and inexpensively as we now print a slide on an overhead transparency."
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| TSMC will expand its working relationship in European |
6/4/2009 |
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TSMC will expand its working relationship with Leuven, Belgium-based nanoelectronics research center IMEC through an agreement that will see the top foundry base its extended European research efforts at IMEC's premises.
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| NEC Launches Hybrid Storage Netbook at Computex |
6/4/2009 |
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This week at Computex, NEC is debuting its first hybrid storage netbook, packing both a 160 HDD and a 16GB SSD. The LaVie light has a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED Display and runs on an N280 Atom Processor with 1GB RAM and an Intel 945GSE Express chipset
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| DRAM prices may return to cost levels |
6/3/2009 |
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DRAM prices stand a good chance of returning to cost levels in the third quarter of 2009, but they may not stay there for too long before falling again, according to Simon Chen, chairman of A-Data Technology.
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| Latest News from Asia's Largest Tech Confab |
6/3/2009 |
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Wimax, touch-screen technology, netbooks, and smartphones are just a taste of some of the gear getting all the attention at Asia's largest tech confab Computex this week in Taipei
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| PTO rejects Rambus claims |
6/3/2009 |
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has initially rejected 41 claims challenged by Nvida Corp. in seven patents that Rambus Inc. has asserted in litigation against the company, Nvidia said Tuesday .
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| Micron sells majority interest in sensor unit |
6/3/2009 |
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Micron Technology Inc has signed an agreement to sell a majority interest in its CMOS imaging solutions business, Aptina Imaging Corp, to private equity firms Riverwood Capital and TPG Capital.
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| Nanya expected to raise chip prices this month |
6/2/2009 |
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Nanya Technology Corp , the nation¡¯s second-biggest maker of computer memory chips, yesterday said it expected to raise chip prices this month, extending a rebound with growth in the double digits amid a supply shortage.
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| AMD Announces six-core server CPU |
6/2/2009 |
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Advanced Micro Devices rolled out its first six-core server processor Monday. The news follows on the heels of archrival Intel Corp.'s debut on March 30 of its Xeon 5500 chips that sport four, dual-threaded cores.
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| NetLogic plans to buy RMI for $183.4 million |
6/2/2009 |
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Fabless chip company NetLogic Microsystems Inc. has agreed to buy RMI Corp, a vendor of multicore networking processors, for $175.4 million in stock and $8.0 million in cash. An additional $6.5 million would be paid if certain businessobjectives are reached, NetLogic said.
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| E-book chip market to reach $1.1 billion in 2013 |
6/2/2009 |
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Worldwide shipments of e-books are expected to grow from almost 1 million units in 2008 to close to 30 million units in 2013, according to market research company In-Stat. This shipment growth is expected to result in a semiconductor market of $1.1 billion in 2013, In-Stat said.
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