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| Kingston pumps more money into Phison |
5/11/2009 |
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Phison which specializes in NAND flash controller designs, has announced that Kingston Technology will invest NT$658 million (US$20.23 million) through private placement.
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| NanYa purchase new Fab Equipments |
5/11/2009 |
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Nanya Technology has announced via filings with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) two purchases of machinery equipment from unspecified equipment makers
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| Cisco's optimistic on business going forward |
5/8/2009 |
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Cisco Systems Inc. this week reported a drop in quarterly profit and sales from a year ago, but the network equipment maker said parts of its business are beginning to turn around.
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| TSMC, UMC see improved sales in April |
5/8/2009 |
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TSMC and UMC, the world's two biggest contract chipmakers, on Friday posted rising sales growth for April on a monthly basis, driven by growing demand for computers and other consumer gadgets.
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| AMD put focus on MPU, graphic integration |
5/8/2009 |
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AMD has reorganized its operating model with the aim of better optimizing its operations to drive performance graphics and MPUs and to also further integrate its x86 processor and graphics technologies.
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| Acer unveils ultra-thin notebook |
5/7/2009 |
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Acer has started selling its first CULV-based ultra-thin notebook – the 13.3-inch Timeline 3810T. The notebook adopts Intel's Core 2 Solo SU3500 CPU and GS45 chipset, along with a 320GB hard drive and Windows Vista Home Basic.
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| Intel bought 4% of ASM |
5/7/2009 |
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Intel Corp’s global investment arm, has purchased 4% of ASM International's (ASMI) total common share capital, leaving 54 million common shares outstanding.
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| ASICs to see sequential growth in 3rd quarter |
5/6/2009 |
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The market for system ICs including application specific ICs (ASICs), application-specific standard products and programmable logic devices is poised to return to sequential growth in the third quarter after watching its revenue fall by nearly one third over the past six months, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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| Semi sales up slightly, visibility remains low |
5/5/2009 |
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Worldwide sales of semiconductors showed a month-over-month increase for the first time in a long time in March, with sales in all geographic regions except Japan showing gains.
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| SiliconBlue to introduce low-cost FPGA |
5/5/2009 |
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SiliconBlue Technologies Corp., a four-year old startup backed by $40 million in venture capital funding, is aiming to buck the odds and thrive with low-cost field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
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| Fujitsu outsource IC manufacturing to TSMC |
5/1/2009 |
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Fujitsu and TSMC announced that they will collaborate on leading-edge process technology production for the manufacturing of Fujitsu Microelectronics’ products.
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| AMD launches a new 40nm GPU |
4/30/2009 |
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AMD has launched the ATI Radeon HD 4770 graphics processor that harnesses a 40nm manufacturing process for the desktop PC market
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| TSMC 1Q09 profits drop 87% |
4/30/2009 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has reported a 87.5% sequential drop in net income to NT$1.56 billion (US$47.11 million) for the first quarter, with revenues going down 38.8% on quarter to NT$39.5 billion.
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