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| Agilent shows its simulation tool |
8/23/2007 |
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Agilent Technologies Inc. debuted its 3D simulation technology which is specially designed to expand the accuracy of passive circuit libraries used in RF and microwave designs.
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| Entegris acquired coatings firm |
8/21/2007 |
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The high-purity semiconductor coatings business of Surmet Corp has been acquired by Entegris Inc.-the material handing specialist.
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| Tower cuts supply chain costs |
8/21/2007 |
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Tower said a joint partnership of Exel MPL and AVBA Hi-Tech Services is to adopt to cut supply chain costs.
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| Taiwan semi fabs output value to increase |
8/20/2007 |
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Because of the increasing demand, the output value of Taiwan's contract chip makers is expected to reach US$3.66 billion in the third quarter, over the previous quarter by 16.9% .
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| Zarlink unloaded shares in Mitel |
8/20/2007 |
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After Mitel has been approved to merge with Inter-Tel Inc,Zarlink Semiconductor Inc. has unloaded its shares in Mitel Networks Corp.
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| Semefab bought building for MEMS |
8/20/2007 |
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Semefab has bought the building next to its Fab 1 & 2 facilities in Glenrothes in order to create an 871 sqm cleanroom for MEMS front end processing.
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| HP posted great profit and revenue |
8/17/2007 |
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Described by chairman and CEO Mark Hurd as the company's "best revenue growth since 2000."
the Palo Alto, Calif., company said net income rose 29 percent and revenue strengthened 16 percent in its fiscal third quarter ended July 31, on a surge in software revenue, and healthy demand for computers, especially notebooks.
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| Does VOIP has the reliability we needed? |
8/17/2007 |
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In general, VoIP is considered to be more unreliable than the Public Switched Telephone Network since it relies on data connections to transmit voice. Subscribers take a chance when they sign up for VoIP services, but it's up to the providers to address issues as quickly as possible or ideally to eliminate them altogether.
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| China, not the ideal environment for every manufacturer |
8/17/2007 |
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Universal Instruments' foray into China hasn’t been a total disappointment, however. It has had success in managing an R&D innovation center in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, which provides technical supports to its customers. Sales offices in Beijing and Shanghai also worked well to provide pre-sales and post-sales technical services.
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| Xbox 360 to use TSMC embedded DRAM process |
8/16/2007 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) today announced that Microsoft Corp. has started production of its Xbox 360 graphics-memory subsystem using TSMC's 90-nm embedded DRAM (eDRAM) process.
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| Fab utilization up high |
8/16/2007 |
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The utilisation rate was 89.7 percent in the quarter, up from 87.5 percent in January-March, the Semiconductor International Capacity Statistics (SICAS) group said on Thursday.
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| AMD yet to confirm NY fab |
8/16/2007 |
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AMD "has until July 2009 to decide whether to proceed with the project. After that, $1.2 billion in state incentives will expire,".
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| Sony selects Singapore for new battery plant |
8/16/2007 |
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Sony said in a statement that the facility, which is due to begin operations in August 2008, will employ about 500 people and produce up to 8 million lithium-ion polymer batteries a month.
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