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| Wafer supply growing to support solar cells |
6/4/2008 |
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By the end of this year, the new facility will produce approximately 9,000 metric tons of new polysilicon capacity, bringing the company’s annual capacity to approximately 19,000 metric tons.
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| SanDisk expects SSD to grow |
6/4/2008 |
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SanDisk plans to launch solid-state drives with 4-, 8-, and 16-gigabyte capacities for ultra-low cost PCs this year. Prices were not available.
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| Acer expects low price laptop boom |
6/4/2008 |
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"The notebook market is growing for at least the next two to three years, and with the entry of new mobile internet devices, the market can easily double in size, changing the profile of the industry dramatically,"
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| Intel's Atom fills Computex floor |
6/4/2008 |
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Some net-tops may cost as little as $200, said Erik Reid, director of mobile platforms at Intel. The new price points could drive as many as 100 million new users to the Web.
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| Seagate is going into SSD |
6/3/2008 |
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“While there is no competition now between hard drives and SSDs, Seagate is thinking of going to SSDs in the long term to replace hard drives for top-tier enterprises”
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| Mobile phone chip business slows down |
6/3/2008 |
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"Right now there's not a feature hanging out there that will drive a new wave of applications processors," said Jeff Brown, a principal analyst at Portelligent and author of the report.
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| DOD hands out engineering R&D projects |
6/3/2008 |
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The funds will be used to conduct "basic research in core science and engineering disciplines that underpin future DoD technology development,"
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| 32nm MLC promises low cost SSD |
6/2/2008 |
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Intel and Micron said the memory was designed with solid-state drives in mind in order to allow more cost-effective SSDs, and double the current storage volume of these devices
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| OLPC, out-of-the-traditional design and cost concept |
6/2/2008 |
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The OLPC effort helps change the way the industry thinks about how expensive a PC really needs to be. Surely there will be beneficiaries along the way, direct and indirect, even if the project never reaches its full set of philanthropic objectives.
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| Infineon possibilities: Freescale, NXP or ST? |
6/2/2008 |
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"One of the possibilities being floated around is a merger (of Infineon) with NXP. Another possibility is a wireless JV with Freescale. Also, these possibilities are not mutually exclusive either,"
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| Dell earnings beat estimates |
5/30/2008 |
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Dell Inc. posted a higher-than-expected quarterly profit Thursday amid strong demand from consumers and foreign markets and lower operating costs.
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| TMSC profit squeezed amid rising costs |
5/27/2008 |
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TSMC said on Tuesday it may increase its prices amid rising costs. Semiconductor makers face higher costs to build state-of-the-art chip plants for most cutting-edge chips, and are also feeling the pain of high oil prices and rising inflation.
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| Microsoft Windows Mobile sales on target |
5/27/2008 |
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Microsoft said that the company expects sales of its Windows Mobile operating system to grow by at least 50% annually through fiscal years 2008 and 2009.
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| Infineon without CEO, to sell stage |
5/27/2008 |
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Amid the departure of its top executive, rumors said that Germany's Infineon is looking to sell a 40-to-50 percent stake in the company to private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. (KKR), according to reports.
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