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| PSC and Renesas joint venture in embedded memory design |
1/16/2007 |
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"In order to provide high-performance, low-cost SiP solutions quickly to market, we must be able to efficiently design advanced custom embedded memory. The joint venture company will strengthen our design capability in reaching out to this important market,"
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| China will blanket rural areas with ultra low cost handset |
1/16/2007 |
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A handful of foreign and domestic companies will provide the phones to operator China Unicom, including Motorola, Nokia, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Huawei Technology, ZTE Corp. and Hisense. The phones will sell for around $50.
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| iPhone, a big boost to ARM |
1/15/2007 |
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According to a report from FBR Research, the iPhone winners include Samsung applications/video processor, Marvell Technology Group's 802.11, Infineon Technologies AG'sbaseband, Broadcom Corp. touch screen controller, and CSR plc Bluetooth among others. Many of them are ARM core based.
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| Hynix new plant might hit bureaucratic roadblock |
1/15/2007 |
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"The government will need additional time to review Hynix's plan, as we were notified by the company last week that they will submit a new plan soon," Lee Jae-hoon, the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy's industrial policy division chief, told reporters.
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| AMD gets Emmy for technical innovations |
1/15/2007 |
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has received a Technical and Engineering Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for its ATI Radeon 9700 technology.
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| Intel fires back at Transmeta |
1/15/2007 |
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In its filing Intel has denied Transmeta's claims and counterclaimed that the company has infringed seven Intel patents, the reports said. Both law suits ask the courts to stop the other company to be prevented from selling its chips and seek unspecified damages.
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| Wonder what Intel plant will be built in China? |
1/15/2007 |
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An official at the Dalian Economic Technological Development Zone confirmed that it is in talks with Intel, but nothing has been finalized. "It's not only for packaging," the official said, declining to offer more details until a contract is signed.
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| Canon to buy Toshiba flat-panel unit |
1/12/2007 |
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Canon Inc. said on Friday it will buy out Toshiba Corp. in their flat-panel display venture to resolve a patent dispute with Nano-Proprietary Inc. in the United States.
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| Intel to build plant in China |
1/12/2007 |
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Intel Corp., the world's top chip manufacturer, plans to invest in a major new plant in China to make leading-edge chips, two sources with knowledge of the plan said.
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| PS3 sales behind Xbox 360, Wii |
1/12/2007 |
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. sold 604,200 of its new Wii video game consoles in the United States in December, beating Sony Corp. which sold 490,700 units of its new PlayStation 3, according to retail market research firm NPD.
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| Surplus Semi swelled in 4th quarter |
1/11/2007 |
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Surplus semiconductor inventories rose again in the fourth quarter of 2006 to $4.3 billion, an increase of 4.9 percent over the previous quarter, according to iSuppli Corp.
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| Spansion to use Rambus patented technologies |
1/11/2007 |
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Flash memory specialist Spansion Inc. have signed a five-year patent license agreement with Rambus. The royalty-based deal gives Spansion access to a broad range of Rambus patents.
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| Intel launched Quad Core Processor |
1/10/2007 |
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Intel formally introduced three more quad-core processors, including the first to carry the Intel Core 2 Quad processor brand name that begins the expansion of quad-core PC sales to mainstream buyers.
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| Sandisk launch new MP3 Player at CES |
1/10/2007 |
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SanDisk on January 9 unveiled two new MP3 players, the price-friendly Sansa Express and the Wi-Fi supporting Sansa Connect , at the ongoing CES 2007 in Las Vegas
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| Apple introduced iPhone. |
1/10/2007 |
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Apple on January 9 introduced its much anticipated iPhone which combines a mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls and an Internet communications device all into one device.
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| Measured optimism for semiconductor industry in 2007 |
1/9/2007 |
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Four of the leading market research firms - Semico, IC Insights, VLSI Research & Gartner, though no iSuppli - gave their prognoses on the semiconductor industry for 2007 in a press conference at SEMI's ISS conference being held in Half Moon Bay, CA, yesterday. There were no bulls or bears in attendance as a consensus seems to have developed that 2007 will bring modest IC revenue growth over 2006, with growth predicted to be within a range of 5 percent to 9 percent for the year
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| ProMOS getting into CMOS image sensor business |
1/9/2007 |
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Memory maker ProMOS Technologies is getting into the CMOS image sensor business, investing $10 million in a Silicon Valley start-up that will initially target low-density sensors for mobile phones.
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