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| VIA reports poor 3rd Quarter revenue |
12/6/2007 |
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VIA report November revenue were only NT$737 million (US$22.81 million), a drop of 29.07% compared to NT$1.04 billion in October and a drop of 35.6% on year
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| Dipping SDRAM chip prices |
12/6/2007 |
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SDRAM prices are plunging quickly as DRAM makers scramble to unload SDRAM chips inventory that has piled up since the start of the low season
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| Microsoft drop anti-piracy tool from Vista |
12/5/2007 |
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Following increasing number of customer complaints, software giant Microsoft Corp has decided to drop an anti-piracy tool from its latest operating system Windows Vista.
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| Samsung and Toshiba exchanged Flash Licensed |
12/4/2007 |
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Samsung and Toshiba have announced they have cross- licensed to produce, market and sell memory with the specifications and trademarks of Samsung's OneNAND and Toshiba's LBA-NAND memory chips.
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| Motorola CEO to step down |
11/30/2007 |
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After four tumultuous years at the head of Motorola Inc., Edward Zander is stepping down as chief executive officer to be replaced effective January 2008 by current president and chief operating officer Gregory Brown.
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| Dell earnings grow but cautious on outlook |
11/30/2007 |
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Dell Inc reported lower-than-expected quarterly profit margins and warned that rising costs could depress future results, sending its shares down 10 percent.
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| Micron unveils solid-state drives |
11/29/2007 |
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Micron introduced a family of solid-state drives for notebooks, desktops and servers, as demand for the storage devices rises.
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| AMD aims to boost sales in specialized chips |
11/29/2007 |
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Eighteen months after first announcing its "accelerated computing" initiative aimed building out an ecosystem of third party-enabled products that compliment and enhance its own processor platform; Advanced Micro Devices has about two dozen partners developing new products.
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| Intel named largest chipmaker |
11/28/2007 |
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Intel will increase its market share by the end of 2007 to 12.5 percent, keeping its place as the world's top chipmaker, while rival AMD will drop out of the top 10, research firm iSuppli predicted.
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| Marvell reduces 7% of workforce |
11/28/2007 |
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Marvell Technology Group, the maker of chips for Apple's iPod, will cut 400 jobs to trim operating expenses after the company reported a net loss for the fiscal third quarter.
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| Hynix diversifies into image sensors |
11/28/2007 |
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In a major move into the non-memory chip business, South Korea's Hynix Semiconductor Inc. has signed a partnership agreement with SiliconFile Technologies Inc., a developer of CMOS image sensors.
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| AMD seeks foundary deal withTSMC, report said |
11/27/2007 |
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Moving towards a fab-lite strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is working on a long-awaited foundry deal with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), according to a report from Barron's.
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