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| TSMC setup support center in Bangalore |
2/6/2007 |
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The office's primary mission is to locally support existing TSMC customers in North America, Europe and Asia with design activities in India, and to help new fabless companies in India to grow and expand.
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| Future Horizons sees the ASP upside |
2/6/2007 |
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Penn made his assessment based on the view that there will be a belated return to ASP growth aligned with continuing unit demand over the next couple of years. However, Penn's analysis is also based on the assumption that there will be no major shocks to the global economy
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| Analyst predicts semi slow down |
2/6/2007 |
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End-demand is expected to peak in the second half, dampening growth to single digits in 2007, according to market researcher Advanced Forecasting.
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| DRAM prices expect to drop |
2/5/2007 |
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iSuppli Corp. has downgraded its rating of near-term DRAM market conditions for suppliers to “negative” while maintaining its negative rating for NAND-type flash memory. As of the end of January, DRAM spot market prices had been sliding for three consecutive weeks.
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| SMIC to spin off Beijing fab. and IPO HK market |
2/5/2007 |
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Chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. is mulling the possibility of spinning off its profitable 300mm wafer operations in Beijing for a domestic initial public offering.
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| FTC final rule on Rambus case |
2/5/2007 |
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Royalty caps: 0.25 percent for SDRAMs; 0.5 percent for DDR SDRAMs; 0.5 percent for SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components; and 1.0 percent for DDR SDRAM memory controllers or other non-memory chip components. The maximum rates will be in effect for three years.
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| NAND price collapse on the market |
2/5/2007 |
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Starting late last year, poor seasonal demand prompted Samsung, Hynix and others to dump 8-Gbit NAND parts in the spot market. This sent average selling prices (ASPs) plummeting in January, and caused the apparent collapse of the contract market, analysts said last week.
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| Transmeta cut 39% of workforce |
2/5/2007 |
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Transmeta Inc, began cutting its worldwide workforce by approximately 39 percent of whom worked in the company's engineering services business
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| First flaw found in Microsoft Vista |
2/2/2007 |
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Hackers have once again managed to uncover Microsoft Vista flaws that could allow remote attackers to take advantage of the operating system's speech recognition feature.
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| AMD to offer Fusion CPU for Notebook |
2/1/2007 |
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Notebook computers are the target of the Fusion processors from Advanced Micro Devices that will merge x86 and graphics cores and ship in 2009.
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| Hynix predicts DRAM price drop by 30% |
2/1/2007 |
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Hynix Semiconductor predicts DRAM average selling prices (ASPs) to slide by 30% in 2007, according to the company's management team during a recent investor conference.
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| Intel Wifi 802.11n to become mainstream |
1/31/2007 |
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Intel wireless network card launched based on 802.11n wireless specifications is expected to become the mainstream built-in WLAN technology for notebooks
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| Computer Geeks arrested for 1 Billion email spam |
1/30/2007 |
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Two South Korean computer programmers have been arrested on suspicion of sending out 1.6 billion spam e-mail messages in violation of the country's commerce laws, police said on Tuesday.
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| Window Vista on sale worldwide |
1/30/2007 |
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Retailers around the world stayed open through the wee hours of Tuesday morning to sell the long-awaited Windows Vista operating system, even though most knew customers wouldn't be lining up out the door.
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| VIA gets windows Vista certification |
1/30/2007 |
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VIA Technologies claims to have the most comprehensive and flexible range of core logic solutions for Windows Vista-based systems across all the major processor platforms for motherboard, PC, server and device manufacturers.
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| Qimonda to build 12-inch fab in Asia |
1/30/2007 |
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Qimonda will build a 12-inch fab in Asia, with Taiwan, China and Singapore being possible locations for the fab, according to Daniel Wong , President of Qimonda Asia Pacific.
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| Dec acquires AMD PIC assets |
1/29/2007 |
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DEC has completed the acquisition of AMD's Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) device technology assets.
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