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| Micron to layoff 15% |
10/10/2008 |
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Micron (Boise) blamed the moves on a lingering memory downturn caused by declining demand and product oversupply. The company said NAND average selling prices (ASPs) have fallen significantly below manufacturing costs, particularly for 200-mm lines.
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| Capex down 25% in 2008 |
10/9/2008 |
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In a survey of what Intel, AMD, Samsung and the rest of the chip industry will spend on processor manufacturing, Gartner found that capital spending will decline 25 percent in 2008 and drop further in 2009. The drop in spending is related to oversupply of DRAM and NAND flash memory.
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| DataRam acquires Cenatek for SSD technology |
10/9/2008 |
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The company's high speed storage systems productsleverage patented solid state disk hardware and RAMDisk software technologyto set new standards for price and performance.
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| Konarka opens Solar Power Plastic plant |
10/9/2008 |
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"Our technical leadership and innovation in flexible thin film solar, along with this facility's capabilities of producing in excess of 10 million square meters of material per year, will allow us to produce Power Plastic for indoor, portable, outdoor and building integrated applications."
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| IBM's profit defying market financial crsis |
10/9/2008 |
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Shares of IBM rose 6 percent in after-market trade on the news on Wednesday (Oct. 8), which came after technology shares have been hammered by fears that a global recession would crush corporate IT spending.
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| German institution to develope Lithium-polymer battery |
10/8/2008 |
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Over the next three years, the Fraunhofer Institutes in Germany will collaborate with Volkswagen to explore lithium-polymer accumulators as alternatives to the lithium-ion batteries today’s vehicles often use.
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| Google to award robotic race to the moon |
10/8/2008 |
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Google is offering $30 million to international competitors in a race to see which can safely land a robot on the lunar surface. The two new teams bring the number of competitors for the Lunar X Prize to 14.
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| Down economy to affect cell phone market |
10/8/2008 |
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While industry executives often say cellphones are the last thing consumers will give up to save money, analysts are now citing lengthening phone replacement cycles and weakening economies around the world for their weaker sales estimates.
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| China losing glamour to Vietnam and India |
10/7/2008 |
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As Gartner lowers its forecast for Asia/Pacific semiconductor growth, it notes the China/Hong Kong market is expected to continue to experience sustained lower growth, as compared to emerging markets like India and Vietnam.
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| Elpida delivers smaller die DRAM |
10/7/2008 |
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Elpida’s chip size shrink was made possible by leveraging a new architecture on first-generation 65-nm process products, and estimates that costs for the shrunken version of 65-nm products will be approximately 20% less compared to first-generation products, the company explained.
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| Silicon shortage impedes solar growth |
10/7/2008 |
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Solar panel sales have been rapidly rising in the last several years, but the silicon shortage prevented the panel makers using crystalline technology to fully respond to demand. Thus silicon-based panels declined from about 93 percent to about 89 percent market share from 2004 to 2007, said Mints. The solar industry will become the largest user of raw silicon in 2008, outpacing the semiconductor industry
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| Samsung: "a cut above the competition" |
10/7/2008 |
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strong revenue growth over the past few years, with the highest increase occurring in the digital media division, which reported a 31 percent sales surge in 2007 on top of a 28 percent increase in 2006. Even in the distressed telecommunications networking business, Samsung's sales grew 16 percent in 2007 after falling slightly in 2006.
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| AMD to spin off Fab. |
10/7/2008 |
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As part of the long-awaited and expected plan--which impacts 3,000 jobs--AMD (Sunnyvale, Calif.) will spin off its manufacturing operations into a new foundry company that could compete against TSMC, UMC, and possibly, one of its partners in Chartered. So, in effect, AMD will essentially become a fabless design house.
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| AMD to launch new Shanghai Processor |
10/6/2008 |
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AMD said it will launch the 45nm server processors (Shanghai) in mid-October 2009 with core frequencies between 2.3-2.7GHz will be offerered initially, according to sources at server makers.
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| Promos to shut down 8-inch wafer fab |
10/6/2008 |
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ProMOS Technologies said that since it has already successfully migrated all foundry products, as well as its own proprietary legacy products, from the 8-inch wafer fab (FAB 1) to the 12-inch wafer fab (FAB 2).
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| VIA reports drop in revenue |
10/6/2008 |
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VIA Technologies has reported September 2008 revenues of only US$17.47 million, drops of 22.9% on month and 52.48% on year.
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| Elpida unveils DDR2 65nm DRAM |
10/6/2008 |
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Elpida Memory announced that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1Gb DDR2 SDRAM that delivers 20% more chips from a single 65nnm-processed 300mm wafer.
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| Microchip made offer to buy Atmel |
10/3/2008 |
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Microchip Technology Inc. and On Semiconductor Corp. made an unsolicited offer to buy chip maker Atmel Corp. for $2.3 billion and split the assets.
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| HP releases its own smartphone |
10/3/2008 |
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Aiming to push its hardware beyond the corporate world, Hewlett-Packard will release a new version of its iPaq smartphone that will also be marketed to consumers
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| Toshiba has no intention to bid for Sandisk |
10/3/2008 |
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Toshiba Corp. is unlikely to make a counter-bid for flash memory card maker SanDisk that would challenge Samsung's offer on the table, the Japanese company's Chief Executive Officer Atsutoshi Nishida has said.
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| Micron to cut Capex in 2009 |
10/2/2008 |
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Micron Technology Inc. announced some cost control measures after reporting a $1.6 billion loss for its fiscal year ended Aug. 28, but conceded that it faces ongoing challenges in a memory market plagued by oversupply and price degradation.
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