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| LG profit up in 3rd Quarter |
10/18/2006 |
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LG Electronics turned a profit in its third quarter as a result of brisk sales in the mobile communications and display sectors.
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| Sony launch new Walkman MP3 |
10/17/2006 |
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Sony unveiled its latest Walkman music players in a bid to wrestle some of the music player market share from Apple 's iPod.
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| Intel to add 1500 jobs in Israel |
10/17/2006 |
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Intel is set to hire 1,500 workers for its Fab in Israel, between now and the end of 2007, having already recruited 1,000 workers in Israel since January 2006.
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| Samsung profit soars 45% |
10/16/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics said its net profit soared by 45 percent in the third quarter this year thanks to increase sales of DRAM memory chip and digital TVs.
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| Hynix to resume new Fab plan in Korea |
10/13/2006 |
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Woo claimed the Korean government is seeking to revise the laws, and the 12-inch fab project may be approved at the end of this year or at the beginning of 2007. To date, the Korean government has rejected the plan because Icheon is a conservation zone, which under current laws means it is off-limits to factories.
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| Samsung to replace NOR with new Phase-RAM |
10/13/2006 |
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This capability is similar to Flash memory and Samsung claims that PRAM is effectively 30-times faster than flash memory, easier to manufacture, and will have a life span 10 times longer.
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| Cypress to spin off clock chip business |
10/13/2006 |
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Cypress has spun out the assets and intellectual property of its PC clock business to a new entity called Spectra Linear Inc. Spectra Linear (Santa Clara, Calif.) acquired these assets for an undisclosed amount of cash and equity, and licensed access to its clock-related intellectual property.
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| Samsung jumps ahead with 32Mb 40nm Flash |
10/12/2006 |
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The 32Gb NAND flash memory can be used in memory cards with densities of up to 64-Gigabytes (GBs). One 64GB card can store over 64 hours of DVD resolution movies (40 movies) or 16,000 MP3 music files (1,340 hours).
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| AMD entertainment PC gets Dell Label |
10/12/2006 |
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AMD claims that a total of 40 system builders will begin offering Live-branded systems in June. Among others, Hewlett-Packard, Gateway, Acer and even performance PC maker Alienware are expected to be offering Live systems.
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| Transcend to expand production in Shanghai |
10/12/2006 |
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The company is targeting to raise the revenue share of its flash memory products from 55 percent this year to 60 percent next year. OEM assembly services to DRAM and NAND flash makers are also projected to account for 10 percent of the company's business next year.
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| Transmeta sue Intel for technology infringement |
10/12/2006 |
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The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, alleges that Intel infringed upon ten of Transmeta's patents. The patents cover computer architecture and power efficiency technologies, according to Transmeta.
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| ST/Hynix JV plant open for operation in China |
10/11/2006 |
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The new leading-edge facility, which will manufacture both NAND flash and DRAM memories, is the result of the existing collaboration between Hynix and ST. The companies said they expects the Wuxi fab to accelerate ST's advancement in the NAND flash market, as well as provide high-performance, cost-competitive DRAM chips for use in system embedded solutions, stacked with flash memories.
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| IDT to sell Malaysian backend, eliminates 300 jobs |
10/11/2006 |
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IDT anticipates completing the transfer of all assembly work currently performed at the Penang facility to AIT within the next year. IDT will also transfer certain of its assembly equipment to AIT.
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| AMD discloses more features on quad-core Opteron |
10/11/2006 |
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Improvements range from 128-bit wide multimedia pathways to an upgraded memory controller and a third-level cache. The updated memory controller will support DDR2, DDR3 and fully buffered DIMM memories. However, AMD does not expect OEMs to use the first generation of FB-DIMMs with Barcelona, Sander said.
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| ITC found Qualcomm infringes Broadcom patent |
10/11/2006 |
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The ITC is expected to issue a permanent exclusion order barring the importation into the U.S. of infringing Qualcomm chips, as well as a cease and desist order barring further sales of infringing products that have already been imported by Qualcomm.
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| iSupply predicts pull back on DRAM prices |
10/10/2006 |
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Further, production of Double Data Rate 2 (DDR2) SDRAM is increasing among suppliers, which will result in greater availability of DRAM shortly and is expected to cause the overall DRAM Average Selling Price (ASP) to decline by 7 percent in Q4 compared to Q3.
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| IBM to trim 400 US based engineers |
10/10/2006 |
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According to the memo, IBM believes the layoffs are necessary in order for the company "to continue to lead in what is a very dynamic marketplace."
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