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| Kingston invests in Flash controller company |
5/15/2008 |
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Kingston is paying roughly $5 million for 10% of Taiwan's Phison Electronics Corp., a maker of controller chips for USB flash memory drives. The investment is part of Kingston's expansion into flash memory for consumer electronics and computers, which began in 2003.
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| Intel reports plant interruption in Chengdu |
5/15/2008 |
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“We’ve been back in the building now, power is restored, IT center is working, and a complete assessment is underway,” Mulloy said. “Right now, we are on track for beginning to move product [finished goods] out of the warehouse in Chengdu to service customers from that site probably tomorrow local time."
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| Samsung announces top level reshuffling |
5/15/2008 |
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The company justified the changes with the "urgent need to find new growth engines amid fierce competition in the electronics industry," it informed in a press release.
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| AMD reforms Central Engineering Group |
5/14/2008 |
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"expect to see new blood, increased focus, experienced leadership, and stronger execution" as AMD moves to "continuing profitability” in 2008.
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| San Francisco considers to provide Plug-In car infustructures |
5/14/2008 |
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San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is negotiating the possibility of Project Better Place (Palo Alto, Calif.) building the infrastructure for a fleet of plug-in cars in the city, including battery-replacement stations and charging stations at parking meters.
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| Massive quake in China affects some industry |
5/14/2008 |
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The massive earthquake that devastated parts of China's Sichuan region on Monday halted activities at several high-tech manufacturing facilities in the area although reports indicate that the damages were limited and production should soon resume.
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| HP to buy EDS for $14 Billion |
5/13/2008 |
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Hewlett-Packard is raising the stake with an agreement to pay $14 billion for Electronic Data Systems Corp.
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| TSMC to fab CPU for AMD |
5/13/2008 |
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AMD plans to outsource CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the second half of this year.
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| Intel win Swedish 2.6GHz spectrum auction |
5/12/2008 |
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Intel have won the the European 2.6GHz spectrum auction, in Sweden, which raised SEK 2.1 billion (about $350 million) after a grueling 112 rounds of bidding over 16 days.
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| Fujitsu reports 40% drop in profit |
5/12/2008 |
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Fujitsu Ltd reported a 40 percent fall in quarterly profit but it forecast that its annual profit would more than double this year.
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| Hynix, ProMOS expands alliance |
5/9/2008 |
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Hynix said it has extended its strategic alliance with ProMOS Technologies Inc to include Hynix’s licensing 50-nm-class DRAM stack process technology to ProMOS
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| Qimonda enters solar cells business |
5/8/2008 |
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Qimonda announced today that it has inked a contract with German solar company Centrosolar Group to jointly build, equip and operate a solar cell manufacturing plant, which will produce solar cells based on silicon.
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| AMD reveals server chips roadmap |
5/8/2008 |
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Advanced Micro Devices disclosed a conservative road map for 45nm server processors using six and twelve cores through 2010.
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| AMD, Sun team up to improve systems performance |
5/7/2008 |
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AMD announced that its operating system research center (OSRC) has expanded its focus to include optimization and tuning advancements for SUN’s OpenSolaris operating system and Sun xVM Virtualization family of products.
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| Cisco expects slower sales next quarter |
5/7/2008 |
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Cisco Systems reported third-quarter sales and profits that edged past Wall Street's targets but a conservative outlook for revenue growth in the fourth quarter disappointed investors.
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