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| KLA-Tencor offers to buy Belgium ICOS |
2/22/2008 |
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KLA-Tencor Corp has made a $465.8 million (316.9 million Euros) offer for ICOS Vision Systems Corp NV, a Belgium-based maker of inspection equipment for semiconductor packaging and interconnect applications.
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| Worldwide server shipment grows |
2/22/2008 |
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Worldwide server shipments climbed 11% in the fourth quarter of last year and revenue was up nearly 3%, a market research firm said Thursday.
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| Toshiba, Sandisk build new NAND flash fab |
2/21/2008 |
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Toshiba and SanDisk have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to form a new production joint venture and construct a new 300-mm wafer fab in Japan to meet the anticipated future demand for NAND flash memory.
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| NAND flash pricing remains weak |
2/19/2008 |
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NAND flash prices will remain weak through the end of the first quarter as supply continues to outstrip demand, according to industry sources.
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| Gate said Microsoft Yahoo's deal a fair offer |
2/19/2008 |
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Implying that Microsoft isn't about to raise its bid to buy Yahoo any time soon, Bill Gates told news agencies that he thinks his company's current proposal, now valued at about $42 billion, is "a fair offer."
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| Toshiba confirms to end HD DVD production |
2/19/2008 |
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Toshiba has confirmed that it would stop promoting its HD DVD format for the next-generation DVD after losing the support of key studios and retailers to the Blu-ray technology backed by Sony Corp.
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| Toshiba may exit high def. DVD market |
2/18/2008 |
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Toshiba is expected to announce soon a retreat in the high definition DVD battle, with analysts suggesting the Japanese group and its backers would abandon its HD-DVD effort, leaving the stage clear for the Sony backed Blu-ray format.
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| Goldman downgrades DRAM supply industry |
2/15/2008 |
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Goldman Sachs chip analyst James Covello today downgraded both Micron (MU) and Novellus (NVLS) to Sell from Neutral, citing expectations that DRAMs will be in excess supply throughout 2008,
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| Hynix to sell spot market again |
2/15/2008 |
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In September last year, Hynix stopped providing DRAM chips to the spot market after its second-quarter profits dropped 35 percent due to the supply glut in the chip industry. Hynix had previously sold about 16 percent of its total DRAM production on the spot market.
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| Fab Capex to drop |
2/15/2008 |
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A recent analysis of SEMI’s fab database reports revealed that spending on fab equipment this year is expected to decline 15% compared to the 9% growth last year, reflecting a downward revision of the outlook reported in the October 2007 fab database report.
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| Software needed to utilize multi-core |
2/15/2008 |
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Core counts will quickly rising to eight or more per chip. But software developers are still stuck with a mainly serial programming model that cannot easily take advantage of the new hardware.
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| Wii to unseat Xbox 360 |
2/15/2008 |
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The installed base of the Wii is expected to rise to 30.2 million units in 2008, up from 18 million last year, iSuppli said. This will take the Wii beyond the Xbox 360's projected total of 25.7 million this year.
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| Analyst now clear AMD Puma gliches |
2/14/2008 |
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“Follow-up calls with AMD confirmed that AMD is not having Puma technical issues. According to AMD sources the processor and chipset (an industry first with DX.10 support) is functioning as expected,”
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| Smart Modular acquired SSD company |
2/14/2008 |
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Adtron, a designer and manufacturer of solid state flash disk drives, has been acquired. SMART Modular Technologies, which is based in Fremont, California.
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