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| Micron to expand Singapore backend facility |
9/13/2005 |
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“The $250 million investment in our Singapore expansion reinforces Micron’s ability to meet the growing demand for semiconductors throughout the expanding Asian marketplace,”
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| HP to restructure in France |
9/13/2005 |
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Hewlett-Packard France confirmed Monday (Sept. 12) that 1,240 jobs, or one-fourth of its workforce here, would be cut.
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| Will NAND replace NOR? |
9/13/2005 |
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During the past few years, NAND has been touted as a replacement for NOR in mobile phones. However, will there be enough NAND available to fill the void left by NOR supplier departures iSuppli believes the answer to this question is no.
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| Massive recall for Playstation |
9/13/2005 |
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Sony said it has received 38 reports of adaptors overheating, including 19 reports of melting. There have been four reports of minor property damage, two reports of minor burns and one report of a minor shock.
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| National Semi reported upbeat earnings |
9/9/2005 |
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National Semiconductor Corp. reported net earnings of $85.6 million, or 24 cents per share on revenue of $493.8 million the first quarter of fiscal 2006 ended Aug. 28, 2005.
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| Prices for DDR up, while DDR2 down |
9/8/2005 |
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Contract prices for DDR and DDR2 went in opposite directions in the first half of September. Mainstream DDR chip prices were up within a 2.11% range, while most DDR2 chip prices were down 3.3%.
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| TSMC August sales up sequentially |
9/8/2005 |
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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said that while net sales for August were down year over year, they climbed sequentially 11.2 percent to $23.2 billion new Taiwanese dollars.
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| TI to ship a single chip platform for video |
9/8/2005 |
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Texas Instruments says it plans to introduce a new single chip platform, called DaVinci, which combines digital signal and general-purpose processing chips with all the software, design tools and accelerators needed to create the next generation of digital video products.
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| UMC said August sales up slightly |
9/7/2005 |
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UMC sales rose to NT$8.01 billion ($245 million) in August, up 13.4 percent from July but down 30.4 per cent from a year earlier.
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| Analyst: Intel 3rd quarter on track |
9/7/2005 |
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Intel will announce that it is on track with its Q3 guidance tomorrow in its schedules mid-quarter update, according to one analyst.
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| Samsung unveils 256Mbit pseudostatic RAM |
9/6/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has developed a 256-Mbit pseudostatic RAM using a 90-nanometer manufacturing process technology, which it claims is the industry's first.
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| NAND flash short in supply in near term |
9/6/2005 |
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NAND flash supplies are going to be under massive pressure for the rest of the year, with the second largest supplier, Toshiba, saying it can supply only 70 percent of demand for the rest of the year.
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| Samsung to sell both HD formats DVD playter |
9/6/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics will bring out a DVD machine next year capable of playing both Blu-ray and HD DVD if backers of the rival standards fail to agree on a unified format, a newspaper said.
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