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| Sun plans to cut 1500 jobs |
3/30/2009 |
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Sun Microsystems is laying off about 1,500 employees this week in a follow-up to a restructuring plan announced a few months ago, the company confirmed Monday.
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| 2008 Global semi equipment sales fell 31% |
3/30/2009 |
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Worldwide sales of semiconductor manufacturing equipment fell to $29.52 billion in 2008, down 31 percent on 2007, according to trade association Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI).
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| Semiconductor outlook gets better, slightly |
3/30/2009 |
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The prospects for the semiconductor industry are better than they were a month ago, according to a Reuters report that quotes Morris Chang, chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) as its source.
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| VIA joins Intel in white-box notebook market |
3/27/2009 |
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Inspiring from MediaTek’s successful experience in white-box mobile phone market, VIA is eyeing at the development of netbook which might be the next hot white-box product and aims to be the exclusive solution provider of white-box netbook in China.
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| Samsung looking to grow in areas other than memory |
3/27/2009 |
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Although analysts and industry watchers say it seems highly unlikely Samsung will face off equally against Intel in the sector within a few years, citing a technology gap, it might launch application processors for smart phones.
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| DRAM spot market prices rising |
3/27/2009 |
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Spot prices for mainstream 1Gb DDR2 soared over 13% to US$1 on March 26, quotes gathered by DRAMeXchange show.
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| Samsung is jumping on the green bandwagon |
3/26/2009 |
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At an event here on Thursday , the South Korean chip giant talked about a host of ''green'' products, including the disclosure of a new, low-power DDR3 DRAM device.
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| Agilent cuts 2700 jobs |
3/26/2009 |
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Agilent Technologies Inc today announced a 2700 employee layoff and a major restructuring of its electronic measurement business in response to what the company described as the "most severe global downturn" in its history.
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| IBM to cut more US based employees |
3/26/2009 |
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Much of the work handled by the employees expected to be cut is being transferred to IBM employees in India, according to the Wall Street Journal report, which cites "people familiar with the situation."
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| Qimonda urgently looking for a buyer |
3/26/2009 |
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Qimonda's insolvency administrator has been in talks with potential investors in Taiwan and Russia in a quest to find a financial backer for the German memory chipmaker.
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| Steve Wozniak invested in Fusion-io |
3/26/2009 |
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Flash-based stolid state drives (SSDs) have been one of the few bright spots for tech spending in a down economy. Despite costing 10 or more times as much as hard disk drives (HDD), SSDs have been catching on in enterprise servers and data storage as a way to speed up the most critical applications.
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| Huang predicts DRAM shortage |
3/26/2009 |
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Huang said at a conference in Taipei, Taiwan the industry would begin to recover by the second half of this year, and downstream producers of PCs and other electronic products will face "a shortage bigger than I have ever seen in the past 16 years ... this will affect global PC shipments."
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| Elpida to raise $470M through subsideries |
3/25/2009 |
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Elpida said in a statement on Wednesday that it would issue mainly preferred shares in two subsidiaries set up this month to five business partners, two of which are overseas firms. It did not disclose their names.
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| LED Lights: the emerging jewel |
3/25/2009 |
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“As LED technology has improved, there are a lot of applications that will open up and these tend to be very niche. There’s a huge opportunity for so-called mass customization for these niche applications.”
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| NCAA games streamed |
3/24/2009 |
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According to numbers reported by Paidcontent.org, there were 4.8 MILLION unique visits to "cbssports.com" through Saturday alone. That's just the first three days of the tourney - and up 65 percent over the same numbers in 2008.
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| Intel shareholders to vote for stock option reprice |
3/24/2009 |
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Under the plan, which is open to all employees excluding senior executives, Intel would exchange underwater stock options -- whose exercise prices are above the current stock price -- for ones carrying carry a lower exercise price.
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| PC market bottom seen Q1 09 |
3/24/2009 |
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On the positive side Gartner analysts believe that the PC supply chain will have "bottomed out" in the first quarter of 2009. However, it is likely to drag along at a low level for several quarters and a sustainable recovery will not happen until Q3 2010
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| Economy to retard GPS growth |
3/23/2009 |
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In 2007, the growth rate for GPS ICs used in Garmins, Tom Toms, cell phones, and military smart phones stood at around 20%, but even Nokia recently announced layoffs and cutbacks in the cell phone industry due to falling demand, and this lack of sales affects the GPS market."
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| Formosa Plastics finance Nanya switch to Mircron design |
3/23/2009 |
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The struggling subsidiaries received an additional $296 million to help pay off debts and purchase new equipment. Both companies are expected to shift their production techniques to Micron's 68nm stack technology and begin 50nm-class production by the end of 2009.
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