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| AMD gets million in EC goverment aids |
7/18/2007 |
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The European Commission has approved US$360 million in aids offered to Advanced Micro Devices in support of its investment in wafer fabs in Dresden, Germany.
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| Samsung name new CEO to lead compamy |
7/17/2007 |
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Samsung Electronics has named a new executive to head its bread-and-butter memory division, after posting its worst net profit in four years last week.
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| Intel to cut Quad-Core Pricing |
7/17/2007 |
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Intel on Monday introduced a faster quad-core desktop processor that's less expensive than its previous top-end chip.
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| Qimonda unveils power-efficient FB-DIMMs |
7/16/2007 |
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Qimonda introduced its quad-rank DDR2 fully-buffered DIMMs (FB-DIMMs) for multi-core servers with a bandwidth up to 800MHz and memory densities including 1GB, 2GB and 8GB.
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| SiS launch new AMD-based chipsets |
7/16/2007 |
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SiS will launch the performance level SiS 757 and mainstream level SiS 772 IGP chipsets plus the new SiS 969 southbridge in the first quarter of 2008
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| Pause TV: A TiVo with flash ! |
7/13/2007 |
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Now, two factors favor its introduction: the rapidly sinking price of flash memory and and a new generation of codecs like H.264, that can transcode the video stream and store more video into a limited flash memory.
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| Carl Icahn to raid Samsung? |
7/13/2007 |
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Media reports in Europe and the U.S. referred to an article by Chosun Ilbo in which the largest Korean newspaper wrote that U.S. investor Carl Icahn would plan a hostile takeover for Samsung Electronics. The paper refers to an unnamed Samsung executive.
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| DRAM prices reversed, going up |
7/13/2007 |
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Vista will drive DRAM usage in PCs higher, from an average of 772Mbyte per box last year, to 1.2Gbyte this year, to 1.5Gbyte next year.
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| Nand Flash supply tightened |
7/13/2007 |
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Apple was given much of the credit for the shortage, as the company is believed to be hoarding large volumes of the chips which are used in the iPhone and two iPod models.
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| Hynix lags behind on NAND production |
7/12/2007 |
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The company may have failed to reach its NAND chips manufacturing targets by half, a BNP Paribas SA report revealed last week. Chief Executive Officer Kim Jong Kap also admitted in an interview in Seoul that the company is slightly behind its competitors like Samsung.
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| Recent DRAM price slump slows equipment market |
7/12/2007 |
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As new equipment orders recede based on exhaustion of DRAM capital spending budgets, and other segments not increasing their budgets to compensate, the lull in demand for semiconductor equipment has arrived, according to market researchers at Gartner Dataquest.
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| Motorola losing glamour on handset market |
7/12/2007 |
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Motorola said sales for the quarter ended June 30, would be between $8.6 billion and $8.7 billion, a decline of about 8 percent from the $9.4 billion the company recorded in the first quarter. Motorola had previously indicated second quarter sales would be about even with the first quarter.
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| ST announce shut down of two US Fabs |
7/12/2007 |
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Over the next two to three years -- after all products manufactured at these sites are re-qualified at other facilities -- ST said it will wind down operations at its older 6-inch wafer fab in Carrollton, Texas, and its aging 8-inch fab in Phoenix, Arizona.
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| Consortium to prove 32 and 22nm on an SRAM run |
7/11/2007 |
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The consortium explained that since SRAM is required in most of the complex SoC devices that are built with leading-edge CMOS technologies, it believes the demonstration of a functional SRAM is an important milestone.
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| Ericsson and Samsung settled on 2G/3G cross license |
7/11/2007 |
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Under the terms of the deal, Ericsson has granted Samsung a non-exclusive license on its patent portfolio for 2G and 3G subscriber and infrastructure equipment. In return, the Swedish group gains access to Samsung's portfolio in the same sectors.
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| Taiwan DRAM manufacturers move to 70nm |
7/10/2007 |
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Taiwan DRAM makers are late comers but are well prepared to make their move forward on 70nm production with most already seeing stable yields.
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| AMD's $7.5 million to save Transmeta |
7/10/2007 |
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Since news of the deal began to spread on Friday, Wall Street has shown a clearly favorable reaction to the investment. As of 10:30 a.m. ET this morning, Transmeta's stock was trading at $1.03 a share, up a whopping 47.1 percent.
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| Sony PS3 prices dropped to compete |
7/10/2007 |
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Sony's move comes two days before the start of the video game industry's annual E3 trade show in Santa Monica, California, where some expect Microsoft to respond with its first price cuts on the Xbox 360.
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