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| Hynix profit rose 4 times |
1/25/2006 |
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Hynix Semiconductor Inc. forth quarter income jumped more than four-fold year-to-year, reaching 751 billion won (about $770 million), according to wire reports.
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| Sun posts quarterly loss |
1/25/2006 |
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Sun Microsystems posted quarterly results that missed analyst expectations on higher costs even as revenue rose, helped by the acquisition of Storage Technology Corp.
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| DDR2 shortage see in first quarter |
1/24/2006 |
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Nanya Technology predicts that the DDR2 shortage should increase to 30-40% in February that in turn would cause the contract prices to grow more than 10%, according to the company spokesperson.
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| Taiwan LCD manufacturing continues to grow |
1/24/2006 |
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Taiwanese companies are expected to grow market share in LCD television manufacturing to 31.1 percent in 2006, up from 28.4 percent in 2005, according to a source in Taiwan.
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| TI reports strong earnings |
1/24/2006 |
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Texas Instruments reported Q4 sales of $3.59 billion, up 14 percent from the same period a year ago. For the year TI reported a record revenue of $13.39 billion, a 6 percent increase over the previous year.
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| Motorola earnings jump amid strong phone sales |
1/24/2006 |
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Motorola said its fourth-quarter earnings rose, helped by strong sales of its mobile phones. It reported net profit of $1.2 billion, or 47 cents per share, compared with $647 million, or 26 cents per share a year earlier.
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| Spansion to tap on Elpida for Mobile DRAM |
1/20/2006 |
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The subsystem will incorporate MirrorBit NOR and ORNAND memory from the AMD/Fujitsu spin-off together with Elpida’s Mobile RAM, the companies said in a statement issued Thursday.
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| Japan put 27% tariff on Hynix |
1/20/2006 |
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Japan had already said in October 2005 that it had arrived at figure of 27.2 percent as the level of import duty to be levied on DRAM chips made by South Korea’s Hynix Semiconductor Inc. should it choose to proceed.
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| Rambus down for the quarter |
1/20/2006 |
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Sequentially, fourth quarter net income of $9.4 million was down 35 percent from net income of $14.5 million for the third quarter of 2005. Year-to-year, net income was up 45 percent from $6.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2004.
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| Motorola regains some ground |
1/20/2006 |
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The company recorded fourth-quarter sales of $6.5 billion in its Mobile Devices business, up 30 percent year-over-year. Handset sales reached 44.7 million, up 40 percent year-over-year.
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| AMD gains market share |
1/19/2006 |
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"AMD's growth rate increased in the fourth quarter resulting in continued market share gains across server, desktop and mobile product lines," said Robert Rivet, AMD's CFO.
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| Mobile application propels Spansion |
1/19/2006 |
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Spansion (Sunnyvale, Calif.) said Wednesday (Jan. 18) that net sales jumped 15 percent over the previous quarter to $592 million. The total was 21-percent higher than the same period last year.
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| Apple comes out on top with iPod |
1/19/2006 |
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Apple's net income, which equates to 65 cents per diluted share, was up 91 percent from the $295 million it reported for the first quarter of fiscal 2005 and up 31 percent from the 430 million in net income the company posted for the previous quarter.
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| China catching up on broaddband |
1/19/2006 |
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China¡¯s broadband market is projected to more than double over the next few years, according to Chinese networking equipment provider ZTE Corp.
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| H-1B quota closed for the year |
1/19/2006 |
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"U.S. employers will have no means to hire the world¡¯s brightest minds until the new fiscal year begins, more than eight months from now."
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| Agilent's restatement found $20million |
1/19/2006 |
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Due to an accounting error, Agilent Technologies Inc. has restated its fiscal results for fiscal 2004, increasing its net income for the full year and the fourth quarter of that year by $20 million.
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| Rambus re-initiated IP case against Micron |
1/18/2006 |
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In the case filed Friday, Rambus asserts infringement of its patents by DDR2, GDDR2 and GDDR3, and other memory devices that are currently shipping in the marketplace.
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| ChipMOS chairman being investigated |
1/18/2006 |
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The indictment is in connection with the alleged misuse of corporate funds in 2004 of ChipMOS. “The repurchase notes in question have been fully redeemed with interest,” according to the company. “The indictment does not allege that Mr. Shih-Jye Cheng gained personally from any of the alleged activities.”
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| Intel missed projection |
1/18/2006 |
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Intel Corp. posted net earnings of $2.5 billion, or 40 cents per share on sales of $10.2 billion in the fourth quarter, with revenue falling below the company’s updated guidance for revenue of $10.4 billion to $10.6 billion.
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