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| NEC financial improved but still at a loss |
11/14/2007 |
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Net loss for the six months ended September 30 shrank to $41 million from $86 million, in the year-ago comparable period. NEC's revenue fell 3.6 percent, to $18.6 billion from $19.3 billion.
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| Hynix/ProMOS alliance worries DRAM makers |
11/13/2007 |
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Taiwanese chip makers have had a hard time developing the 60-nano level production process, the provision of the technology by Hynix will lead to greatly reducing the technological gap between Korean and Taiwanese companies.
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| Qimonda cuts capex for fab. |
11/13/2007 |
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Qimonda executives said in a conference call with financial analysts that CapEx for the financial year 2007 had come in at approximately $1.29 billion, down from approximately $1.32 billion as previously projected.
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| Microelectromechanical revolutionized every industry |
11/13/2007 |
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Global MEMS market in 2006 was about $7 billion and is expected to grow to more than $11 billion by 2011. In 2007, about 400 million MEMS chip units were shipped, or about 5 percent of the total foundry market.
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| New Zune players take spotlight |
11/13/2007 |
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Microsoft originally introduced the new models last month. They can wirelessly and automatically update their music, photos and videos when placed near a user's computer.
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| IBM regains spot for super fast computer |
11/13/2007 |
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The BlueGene/L System has held the No. 1 spot since November 2004. The latest list of top 500 computers was released Monday at SC07, the international conference on high-performance computing in Reno, Nev.
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| TSMC sales up |
11/12/2007 |
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TSMC’s net sales for October were $1 billion (32.6 billion NT), a 10.7 percent sequential increase, and a 20.6 percent year-over-year increase. Consolidated revenues for January through October totaled $8.1 billion (261.377 billion NT), down 3 percent from the same period in 2006.
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| STATS Chip PAC delisted pending take over |
11/12/2007 |
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STSPL and Temasek also disclosed in their Schedule 13D filing that STSPL intends to continue to seek to acquire additional ordinary shares and ADSs through open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions or otherwise, upon such terms and at such prices as STSPL shall determine.
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| Supercomputer guru to join Microsoft |
11/12/2007 |
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Reed will collaborate with Burton Smith, another parallel computing guru who joined Microsoft in 2005 to help spearhead work on multicore issues.
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| Qimonda post quarterly loss |
11/9/2007 |
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Qimonda AG said its quarterly operating loss widened to a worse-than-expected 258 million euros ($378 million).
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| Lenovo ship new ThinkPad Notebook |
11/7/2007 |
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Lenovo Group unveiled its first new Think-Pak products since 2005 including two more new products, the ThinkStation S10 and the ThinkStation D10.
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| Mass production of XO Laptop kicks off in China |
11/7/2007 |
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One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization announced that mass production of the XO laptop computer began on November 6 at Quanta Computer's manufacturing facility in Changshu, China.
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| Alibaba.com triples in value after IPO debut |
11/6/2007 |
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Shares in Alibaba.com nearly tripled in their first day of trading in Hong Kong on Tuesday, as the frantic boom in China-related stocks showed no sign of letting up.
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