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| Analyst cut rating on 3 chip stocks |
7/18/2006 |
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A Wall Street analyst downgraded Texas Instruments and two other stocks from the equivalent of a buy rating to hold, citing growing weakness in demand for cell phones.
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| HP develops tiny wireless chip |
7/17/2006 |
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Hewlett Packard Co. has developed a miniature wireless data chip the company said could broaden access to digital content in the physical world.
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| Advance phones from Samsung |
7/17/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics said it became the first handset maker to deliver an unlicensed mobile access (UMA)-based phone to Europe that supports both fixed-line and wireless telecommunications services.
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| Intel to introduce new Itanium chip |
7/17/2006 |
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Intel Corp. is set to introduce a long-delayed chip model on Tuesday code-named Montecito that is the first in it Itanium chip line to have the equivalent of two electronic brains on a single piece of silicon, the Wall Street Journal said on its Web site.
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| Samsung predict DRAM price dip |
7/14/2006 |
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Samsung Electronics expects prices in dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips to drop in the third quarter after a mild rise in the second quarter
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| Intel to axe 1000 managers |
7/14/2006 |
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Intel plans to fire 1,000 managers as part of an effort to cut $1 billion in costs, a company spokesperson said.
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| 34 states sue DRAM companies |
7/14/2006 |
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Thirty-four states filed lawsuits in U.S. federal court here against eight DRAM manufacturers and their subsidiaries, charging price-fixing.
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| Kingston predicts rapid growth to spur Asia sales 35% in 3Q |
7/13/2006 |
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Kingston believes its shipments of both DRAM and NAND flash products will jump by 35%, sequentially, in the third quarter, in the Asia-Pacific region, thanks to price cuts by Intel, said Scott Chen, vice president of the company's APAC business division.
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| First-tier notebook shipments to miss 2006 targets |
7/12/2006 |
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First-tier Taiwan-based notebook makers are expected to see their notebook shipments in 2006 fall short of their targets by 5-10% due to slower-than-expected shipments in the first half of this year
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| Nextest debuts high-speed flash tester |
7/12/2006 |
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Nextest Systems has rolled out its latest line of automatic test equipment (ATE) that is designed for use in high-speed flash-memory testing.
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| Altera lays out plans for 65nm FPGA |
7/11/2006 |
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Lltera to launch Stratix III test devices, the next-generation FPGA solution that will deliver significantly higher density with as much as a 20 percent performance boost, and power savings.
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| Motorola may add two R&D centers, targeting Asia |
7/11/2006 |
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Motorola is evaluating locations for at least two new R&D centers, adding to its six current R&D sites worldwide, with two in Chicago and one each in London, Beijing, Seoul and Singapore, according to sources
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| No AMD K8L processors until 2008 |
7/11/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has recently indicated that its new K8L processor for its next-generation Socket AM3 platform will not be available until 2008.
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| Freescale announce MRAM samples |
7/10/2006 |
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Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced the commercial availability of a chip that combines traditional memory's endurance with a hard drive's ability to keep data while powered down.
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| U.K. Authorities Get Tough on RoHS |
7/10/2006 |
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RoHS enforcer National Weights and Measures Laboratory (NWML) has been directed to take a tough stance over the new hazardous materials rules from day one as it starts to police the European directive which came into law on July 1.
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| AMD slashes 2Q sales outlook |
7/7/2006 |
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Advanced Micro Devices , lowered its sales target for the second quarter, saying it now expects second quarter sales to be approximately $1.215 billion, down roughly 9 percent from first quarter sales of $1.332 billion
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