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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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| Elpida, PSC venture to ramp up output |
1/26/2007 |
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Joint venture partners Elpida Memory Inc. and Powerchip Semiconductor Corp. aim to launch manufacturing operations with a 70-nm process by this summer.
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