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| Winbond to join Taiwan Memory Company |
4/8/2009 |
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Winbond Electronics has responded via a company filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange indicating a pending deal to participate in Taiwan Memory Company (TMC).
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| Powerchip revenue down by 78% |
4/7/2009 |
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Taiwan's Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has posted revenues of S$32 million for March, down 21% on-month and down 78% on-year.
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| Taiwan Memory to buy 10% Stake in Elpida |
4/6/2009 |
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Taiwan Memory Company (TMC) plans to initially purchase a 10% stake in Elpida Memory, in exchange for the Japan memory chipmaker's patent rights, industry sources familiar with the TMC-Elpida partnership have revealed.
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| GE, Intel launched partnership on health-care products development |
4/3/2009 |
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GE and Intel launched a partnership in which the companies pledged to spend $250 million over the next five years to develop and market products for the health care industry, particularly home-based technology for monitoring and diagnosing people with chronic illnesses.
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| RIM delivers upbeat quarterly earnings |
4/2/2009 |
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Buoyed by the success of handsets like the BlackBerry Storm, Research In Motion was able to add 3.9 million net new subscribers for the fourth quarter.
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| Micron's sales fell 30% |
4/2/2009 |
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Micron Technology Inc.'s net loss narrowed slightly in its latest fiscal quarter and sales fell sharply on a plunge in average selling prices, which sank 30 percent from the preceding quarter.
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| Qimonda Virginia fab looking for buyer |
4/2/2009 |
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Qimonda AG's North America unit announced the appointment of advisors to assist in the sale of their semiconductor manufacturing assets in Sandston, Virginia.
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| Teradyne lowered earning estimates |
4/2/2009 |
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Teradyne Inc has lowered its fiscal Q1 guidance and will take steps to further reduce costs on the "continued deterioration" in the semiconductor equipment market.
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| Intel CPU market share reaches 81.8% |
4/2/2009 |
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Intel Corp. in the fourth quarter of 2008 accounted for 81.8 percent of global microprocessor revenue, topping a year when it gained market share in microprocessors during every quarter, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp.
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| Atom Netbook Chip Helps Intel To Share Market |
4/2/2009 |
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The success of Intel's Atom microprocessor, used mainly in netbooks, helped the chip maker gain market share in every quarter of 2008 and could carry the company this year as well.
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| Ramtron released low power 512kbit FRAM |
4/1/2009 |
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Ramtron International Corp. has launched two more devices in a family of new parallel and serial FRAM products that offer higher-speed read/write performance, lower voltage operation, and optional device features.
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| China manufactured 9.3 million cars in 2008 |
4/1/2009 |
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China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's second-largest auto maker and could overtake Japan as the top global car manufacturer in 2009, according to an industry watcher.
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| NXP cut debt by $465 via bond swap |
3/31/2009 |
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NXP BV has completed a debt swap under which it will retire secured and unsecured debt for higher yielding, shorter-term, higher priority bonds. As a result NXP has reduced its debt by about $465 million and its annual interest burden by $30 million, the company said.
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| National Semi bought Act Solar |
3/31/2009 |
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National Semiconductor has acquired Act Solar Inc, a privately held solar energy company that provides power optimization solutions for commercial and utility-scale solar installations.
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| Intel 45-nm Xeon 5500 chips support DDR3 Memory |
3/31/2009 |
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Intel Corp. formally rolls out server versions of its 45-nm Nehalem processors. The Xeon 5500 chips integrate memory controllers and a high-speed interconnect, taking a page from archrival Advanced Micro Devices which pioneered the approach in x86 chips.
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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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