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| Apple hire former AMD CTO |
4/28/2009 |
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Apple has hired Bob Drebin, a former chief technology officer of the graphics group at Advanced Micro Devices with deep experience in the graphics chips for videogame consoles.
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| AMD unveils 45nm Quad-Core CPU |
4/27/2009 |
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AMD has introduced the 45nm quad-core AMD Opteron EE processor, a 40W average CPU power (ACP) processor designed for densed Data Center application.
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| Nvidia Denies VIA Investment Rumors |
4/24/2009 |
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Late last month we caught wind of a rumor that said that Nvidia was planning to pick up a sizable portion of a private placement of up to 300 million shares of VIA Technologies.
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| Hynix released the first quarter of losses |
4/24/2009 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc, the world's No. 2 memory chip maker, reported its sixth straight quarterly loss on Friday, but predicted better days ahead as chip prices recover.
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| Microsoft quarterly profit falls |
4/24/2009 |
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Microsoft Corp. reported a sharp dip in quarterly profit Thursday, but met Wall Street's lowered forecasts, hurt by a decline in technology spending in a global economic downturn.
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| Elpida plans to raise chip prices 50% |
4/22/2009 |
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Elpida Memory Inc, Japan's largest maker of computer-memory chips, said it plans to raise prices as much as 50 percent next month after industry-wide production cuts eased the glut that drove chipmakers to record losses.
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| Samsung to increase the production of DDR3 |
4/22/2009 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Tuesday (April 21) it is ramping up 50-nm class production of DDR3 memory chips in response to increased demand stemming from Intel Corp.'s launch of the Xeon processor 5500 series.
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| AMD's first quarter net loss expanded |
4/22/2009 |
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s first quarter net loss grew and revenue slid 21 percent although the company reported sales improved on a sequential basis with demand for its core microprocessor products rising from the preceding quarter.
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| Intel's 6-Core CPU Possibly later than expected |
4/21/2009 |
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Intel's Gulftown processor will arrive on the market sometime around Q2 2010. The processor was originally expected to appear in Q4 2009 / Q1 2010 but now seems to be pushed back.
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| NEC Unveils Firewall At RSA Conference 2009 |
4/21/2009 |
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Japanese network equipment vendor NEC is making its first foray into security software at RSA Conference 2009 with the introduction of a Web application firewall to the U.S.
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| 2010 semiconductor industry revenue will increase 17% |
4/21/2009 |
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Databeans reported that the current crisis has been caused primarily by temporary macroeconomic issues that have impacted consumer spending on devices that use ICs and will recuperate at a much faster rate than the 2001 fall did.
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| Nanya will initiate a capital expansion plan |
4/20/2009 |
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The Formosa Plastics Group, the parent company of Taiwan's DRAM chipmaker Nanya Technology, will subscribe to new Nanya shares through a private placement, according to company sources.
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| Ablecom announced a new touch-screen DPF |
4/20/2009 |
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Ablecom Technology Inc., a professional provider of digital media solution, recently announced the expansion of its DPF product line into Touch Screen Media of HR-401T. With this extension of product line, Ablecom offers customers more alternative choices when doing DPF business
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