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| Hynix to build 12-inch Nand Flash Fab |
3/30/2007 |
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Hynix has signed a land contract at Chongju, North Chungchong Province of South Korea for the construction of a 12-inch fab for NAND flash production.
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| SIS ink chipset license for Intel Quad Core processor |
3/29/2007 |
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Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) announced today that it has signed a long-term licensing contract with Intel for the manufacture and sale of chipsets for the Intel Core 2 Quad processor with 1333MHz front side bus.
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| Intel CEO to visit Taiwan |
3/29/2007 |
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Intel - CEO Paul Otellini is scheduled to visit Taiwan on March 29 to meet with the company's partners.
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| IBM unveils super fast chips |
3/27/2007 |
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IBM said it has developed a chip capable of transmitting an entire DVD movie in a second, a breakthrough that could make PC faster.
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| Winbond to dispose 8 inch fab to Vanguard |
3/23/2007 |
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No fund raising activities would be required for the acquisition as Vanguard is cash-rich, with the equivalent of NT$12.19 billion on the books as of the last quarter, the company said.
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| Micron opens Xi-an assembly |
3/23/2007 |
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Micron Technology Inc. opened a new manufacturing facility in Xi’an, China this week, the company’s first such facility in the country, designed to assemble and test Micron’s semiconductor products, including dynamic random access memory, NAND flash memory and CMOS image sensors.
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| AMD employs Chartered on 65nm |
3/23/2007 |
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An AMD spokesperson told press that it is currently in full production with Chartered at 90-nm and is in the midst of a transition to 65-nm.
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| NEC Shanghai to add capacity |
3/23/2007 |
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The company currently has one fab in full production, and a second fab, Fab 2, recently started operation and will ramp into mass production later this year. Fab 1C is under construction and scheduled to ramp up in 2008.
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| Google gPhone vs Apple's iPhone? |
3/22/2007 |
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Google isn't commenting directly on leaks from Europe and the United States which describe a low-cost, Internet-connected phone with a color, wide-screen design. Newspaper and blog reports in recent months have Google shopping its phone design to potential mobile phone manufacturing partners in Asia.
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| Intel Capital invests in China broadband standards |
3/22/2007 |
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Legend Silicon (Fremont, Calif.) plans to use the proceeds to develop terrestrial digital TV demodulation IC products that comply with the newly approved China Digital Television Terrestrial Broadcasting standard. Legend Silicon was one of the key contributors to the standard, also known as DMB-TH.
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| AppleTV sale starts |
3/22/2007 |
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The Apple TV has the potential to alter the media landscape and boost Apple's value as a company. Mac users, and many more PC users, would buy the device in the next five years, overtaking set-top box maker TiVo and mail-order DVD renter Netflix.
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