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| Gateway says to work harder in corporate market |
3/8/2006 |
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Gateway Inc. is well-positioned in the faster-growing markets for notebooks and flat-panel monitors, but still has work to do in its direct sales of PCs and to the professional market, the company's interim CEO said.
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| Micron buys Lexar Media |
3/8/2006 |
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Micron Technology Inc. on Wednesday said it would buy Lexar Media Inc.for about $675 million in stock to help expand in the flash memory chip market.
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| Intel showcase low-power "Woodcrest" server chip |
3/8/2006 |
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Intel next-generation "Woodcrest" server processor, scheduled to be released in the third quarter, runs at a low-voltage that consumes only 40 watts, said an Intel executive during IDT in San Francisco this week.
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| UMC February sales up 20% |
3/8/2006 |
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United Microelectronics Corp. sales in February increased more than 22 percent year-to-year, but declined more than 10 percent sequentially, the company said.
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| Intel demo fast boot up platform |
3/8/2006 |
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Intel previews its next-generation notebook with speedy system boots and application launch using NAND flash memory during the IDF in San Francisco.
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| Intel to roll out Wimax this year |
3/7/2006 |
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Intel Corp. said it has moved up to this year its expected roll-out of cards that will let computers access the Internet using Wi-Max, a new long-range, high-speed wireless technology.
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| Lexar Media lowered guidance |
3/7/2006 |
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NAND flash supplier Lexar Media, Inc. lowered its guidance for Q4 results, saying today that it December quarter revenues should be in the range of $237 million to $240 million.
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| Novell earnings fall short |
3/7/2006 |
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Novell stock tumbled after the company posted a big drop in first-quarter profit and issued a warning for the second quarter.
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| Toshiba to build new fab for flash? |
3/6/2006 |
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Toshiba and its partner SanDisk will jointly spend about $4.3 billion to build a new flash memory plant in Japan, business daily Nihon Keizai said.
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| Micron faces lawsuit on price fixing |
3/6/2006 |
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Micron Technology face a class action lawsuit alleging price fixing. The legal firm of Schiffrin and Barroway, LLP said it had filed a class action lawsuit in federal court in Idaho on behalf of Micron securities holders between Feb. 24, 2001 and Feb. 13, 2003. A different firm filed a similar suit last month.
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| Nvidia claimed first in HD graphic processor |
3/3/2006 |
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Nvidia Corp. said today it is now shipping its PureVideo technology, aimed at allowing support for high-definition video including hardware acceleration for content based on the advanced H.264 specification.
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| January Semi sales hit +7% |
3/3/2006 |
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"The new year got off to a good start for the global semiconductor industry with strong year-on-year growth in a historically weak month," said SIA President George Scalise.
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| AMD filed to subpoena Skpe record |
3/3/2006 |
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Skype, EBay Inc.'s Internet-phone unit, recently signed a deal with Intel. Chip maker Intel is working with Skype to add features to Skype's internet telephony software, but the features are restricted to Intel dual core processors.
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| Google switches to AMD server |
3/3/2006 |
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Google has more than 200,000 internal servers worldwide. The search engine company has started to buy AMD’s 64-bit Opteron processors for almost all new purchases, according to the reports, which cited Morgan Stanley analyst Mark Edelstone.
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| Gateway settles infringement for $47M |
3/3/2006 |
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In 2004 and 2005, H-P filed additional suits against both Gateway and eMachines, including one with the International Trade Commission claiming that at least 27 of its patents were being breached.
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| Samsung not to shift NAND capacity back to DRAM |
3/2/2006 |
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Samsung will not shift a significant amount of NAND flash capacity to DRAM production, as it expects NAND flash pricing will rebound in the short-term, according to Woosik Chu, senior vice president of investor relations at Samsung.
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| Hynix executive to serve jail terms for price fixing |
3/2/2006 |
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Four South Korean executives from Hynix Semiconductor Inc. have agreed to plead guilty for their role in fixing prices of DRAM (dynamic RAM), agreeing to serve about one-half year in U.S. prison and pay a US$250,000 fine each.
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| Xilinx offer 65nm FPGA technology |
3/2/2006 |
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Configurable logic chipmaker Xilinx Inc. said Tuesday that that it has sampled first silicon for the 65nm generation of its Virtex FPGA product family.
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| DDR2 price to climb |
3/2/2006 |
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DDR2 SDRAM contract prices are expected to grow by a minimum of 5-to-10 percent sequentially in the first half of March, while standard DDR SDRAM tags should stay flat, according to the DRAM clearing house.
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| Global LCD display sales increased |
3/2/2006 |
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DisplaySearch (Austin, Texas) reported fourth-quarter 2005 sales of $14 billion, up 13 percent quarter-to-quarter and 78 percent year-over-year.
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| Samsung joined force with Avaya on VOIP |
3/2/2006 |
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Under the agreement, the partners will collaborate on the delivery of enhanced IP convergence and mobility products. The solutions will combine Samsung’s mobile technologies with Avaya’s IP telephony expertise, Samsung said.
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