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| SIS to restructure company |
3/17/2008 |
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Silicon Integrated System (SiS) has signed off on plans to reorganize the company and will spin-off its investment management, digital TV, and mobile device businesses to form three wholly-owned subsidiaries.
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| AMD to launch new desktop CPU |
3/17/2008 |
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AMD is planning to launch B3 stepping quad-core Phenom 9050 series CPUs including 9850, 9750, 9650, 9550 and 9150 shortly
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| Lenovo launches "Idea Brand" PC in India |
3/14/2008 |
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“India is an important market to us... besides launching new products, we will enhance our retail presence and after sales service to become the No. 1 PC maker in the country,” Lenovo Senior Vice-President and President (Consumer Business Group) Liu Jun said.
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| Converge reports on the state of PC related component market |
3/14/2008 |
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So far the first week , DRAM market has shown no signs of any positive activity. 512 MB chips have dropped back down into the $0.85 to $0.90 range after hitting a high of $1.15. 1 GB chips have dropped to under $2 after reaching a high of $2.20 to $2.30.
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| Combination of NXP, ST and Infineon suggested |
3/14/2008 |
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NXP Semiconductors (Eindhoven, The Netherlands), ST (Geneva, Switzerland) and Infineon Technologies AG (Munich, Germany) have to stop operating individually, and join to achieve critical mass at a scale close to that of semiconductor market leader Intel and to be larger than number two Samsung.
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| iPod battery incident reported in Japan |
3/13/2008 |
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Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc's iPod Nano after one of the players shot out sparks while recharging, according to reports out of Tokyo today.
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| Tranmeta rejects RIM offer |
3/13/2008 |
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After receiving an unsolicited acquisition offer from investment banking firm Riley Investment Management LLC (RIM) for $15.50 per share in cash on January 30, Transmeta Corp chairman Hugh Barnes has rejected the firm’s offer.
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| Small IP firm holds big company hostage |
3/13/2008 |
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DTL owns U.S. Patent No. 5,051,799 which describes a so-called digital output transducer. The patent covers the adaptive multi-rate codec and other cellular communication standards used in GSM and UMTS cellular networks, technology that assures backward compatibility of cellphone handsets and base stations.
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| Hackers decrypted iPhone codes |
3/13/2008 |
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In essence, the hackers had found a way to run applications on the firmware without a development certificate from Apple.
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| 3G market affected by state of economy |
3/12/2008 |
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"In our view the replacement cycle will slow due to the economy and consumers will increasingly go for cheaper phones over more pricier models," said Carnegie analyst Janne Rantanen.
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| H1-B issue heating up on Capitol Hill |
3/12/2008 |
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Last April, the U.S government received about 133,000 H-1B visa petitions in two days, about double the 65,000 H-1B visas that can be issued.
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| Semi fab sales show weakness |
3/11/2008 |
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Late last month, TSMC’s financial results bested its competition, and predicted the impacts of seasonality to impact Q1 revenues, which it is showing to be true.
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| Gartner/Dataquest uncomfortable with semi inventory level |
3/11/2008 |
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In the last two inventory updates Gartner released, we said that companies would be wise to reduce inventory as a cautionary measure against the potential of a weak fourth quarter and the traditionally weak first quarter. This was compounded by wariness in the financial sector with regards to the macroeconomic conditions and warnings.
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| See-thru camera for security check? |
3/11/2008 |
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ThruVision Ltd., insists it can detect both metallic and nonmetallic objects under clothing without revealing details of the subject's body. The camera works at a range of up to 25 meters, making it potentially useful for both single-person screening and crowd scenarios.
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| German government reclaims subsidies from Nokia |
3/11/2008 |
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The subsidies have been granted under the condition the company would create 2800 jobs which it failed to achieve — the company created only about 2300 jobs. Now the state government does not only claim back the subsidies paid, but also €18 million interest.
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| Apple to encourage development on iPhone software |
3/10/2008 |
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Apple has previewed its iPhone 2.0 software, opening its software development kit (SDK) to third-party developers and adding business-application-oriented support via Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync.
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| Hynix to invest more into China JV fab |
3/10/2008 |
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This is the second time Hynix has upped its stake in the Wuxi, China-based fab, which was built with an initial investment of $2 billion. In May 2007, as the result of a separate increase in investment by Hynix, ST’s equity investment dropped to 16.6%, from 33%.
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| Cebit stands raided for infringement |
3/10/2008 |
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Most of the patents concerned were related to devices with MP3, MP4 and DVB standard functions for digital audio and video, blank CDs and DVD copiers, police said.
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| US has rules to improve incandescent efficiency |
3/10/2008 |
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In the United States, light bulb makers will have to improve incandescent technology, which hasn't changed much in over 125 years, to meet goals set for the years 2012 and 2020 by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
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