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| Philips positioning for IPO or merger |
6/22/2006 |
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A Philips spokesman told press that the company has now narrowed down the options to a partnership or merger with another semiconductor company, an IPO or a sale of shares to financial institutions.
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| DRAM prices to remain slump through June |
6/21/2006 |
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DDR2 suppliers are encountering pressure from players in the PC world to drop prices, because several Taiwan-based chipmakers have ramped up their output.
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| China to build IP trading center |
6/21/2006 |
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The announcement is the latest evidence of a slowly growing trend: China's increasingly cooperative participation in the IP industry.
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| New York state to get AMD fab |
6/21/2006 |
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New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver on Tuesday said that AMD is considering two possible locations for the fab, one in a technology park 25 miles north of Albany and the other on an 800-acre site in the central New York town of Marcy
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| Spansion see better quarter |
6/21/2006 |
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Spansion (Sunnyvale, Calif.), the top supplier of NOR flash, said raising guidance was the result of strong worldwide demand from the cellular phone, consumer and industrial markets.
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| SMIC turns on for Elpida DDR2 DRAM |
6/20/2006 |
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“SMIC will take aggressive steps to establish stable volume production of the product and expand our production capacity to meet our customer’s needs."
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| NEC to provide embedded DRAM for Nitendo Wii |
6/20/2006 |
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As NEC explained, embedded DRAM technology integrates DRAM on the same chip with logic circuits, and is viewed as an optimal solution for 3D graphics acceleration systems and other applications that need to process high bandwidth data using low power.
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| Nokia and Siemens to combine mobile infrastructure development |
6/20/2006 |
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The synergies will result from the elimination of overlapping functions and greater efficiency in R&D. According to media reports here, between 6000 and 9000 jobs will be cut. The combined company will start operations with 60.000 employees.
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| IEEE complaint on H1-B enigneers |
6/20/2006 |
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"Abuse of the H-1B program has become so widespread that companies apparently feel free to engage openly in the practice" of seeking only foreign workers.
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| 111Million pixels high resolution |
6/19/2006 |
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Dalsa has delivered the chip to Semiconductor Technology Associates (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) and said the 10,560 pixel by 10,560 pixel sensor is the world's first to break the 100 million pixel barrier.
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| Two caught for stealing secret from TSMC |
6/19/2006 |
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Lan Lee, 42, of Palo Alto, Calif., and Yuefei Ge, 34, of San Jose, Calif., were arrested "on charges of conspiracy to steal trade secrets and five counts of theft of trade secrets," U.S. Attorney Kevin Ryan said.
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| Green light for Lexar/Micron merger |
6/19/2006 |
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Lexar Media Inc. late Friday (June 16) said that its shareholders have approved the adoption of the amended merger agreement with Micron Technology Inc.
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| SanDisk to employ AEON NVM technology |
6/19/2006 |
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AEON cores offer multiple-times programmability but require no additional mask layers or processing steps. AEON can store encryption keys, unique chip identification numbers, chip or system configuration data and trim bits for on-chip analog components.
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| Bill Gates to step down from daily operation |
6/16/2006 |
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Bill Gates, the man who built Microsoft into a technology empire, said that he plans to step down from his daily duties in two years to focus on his charitable foundation.
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| Book-to-bill ratio reached 1.12 |
6/16/2006 |
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North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted a book-to-bill ratio of 1.12 in May, up from 1.11 in April
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| Adobe profit down |
6/16/2006 |
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Adobe Systems posted lower second-quarter net income due to higher costs related to its Macromedia acquisition.
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| New blade server from HP |
6/15/2006 |
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Hewlett-Packard unveiled a design for its blade servers that will let people cram up to 16 separate servers or storage devices into a 17-inch box.
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| Creative alleged Apple infringes patent |
6/15/2006 |
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The International Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether Apple Computer Inc.'s iPod digital music player infringes on a Creative Technology Ltd. patent, Creative said.
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