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| Advantest sees profits drop by 48% |
10/26/2005 |
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Advantest reported sales of $923.2 million in the first half of fiscal 2005, down 26.9 percent from the like period a year ago.
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| DDR2 sales are impacted by Intel chipset shortage |
10/25/2005 |
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DDR2 demand is still impacted by the shortage of Intel chipsets, and the situation will be not alleviated until the first quarter of 2006, DRAM vendor ProMOS Technologies said at its investor conference
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| AMD license X86 technology to China |
10/25/2005 |
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MOST will facilitate discussions between AMD and Chinese companies receiving access to x86 technology licenses, with AMD to earn revenue from licensing the AMD Geode processor to commercial entities designated by Peking University and MOST.
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| Altera's Stratix II GX focus on serial transceiver |
10/25/2005 |
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The company’s new Stratix II GX FPGAs combine Altera’s FPGA fabric with up to 20 low-power transceivers operating between 622 megabits per second to 5.375 gigabits per second to meet the needs of new high-speed designs.
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| TI disappoints Wall Street |
10/25/2005 |
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The company partly missed Wall Street’s estimates of $0.40 a share on sales of $3.55 billion in the third quarter. TI’s own projections called for $0.36-to-$0.38 per share on sales of $3.48-to-$3.62 billion in the period.
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| Chinese Actions Semi files for US IPO |
10/25/2005 |
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Chinese fabless semiconductor company Actions Semiconductor said Monday (Oct. 24) that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and plans an initial public offering on the Nasdaq National Market.
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| Intel to include 300mm at New Mexico fab |
10/25/2005 |
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Paul Otellini in a statement. "Investing in an existing manufacturing site allows us to take advantage of our highly skilled workforce in New Mexico."
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| SIS to provide chipset for business desktop computers |
10/24/2005 |
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The SiS965L is equipped with 8 USB 2.0 connection ports, thus providing ideal peripheral connections while greatly raising efficiency. The SiS761GX, the SiS965L and the AMD64 platform thus compliment each other perfectly for greater efficiency and overall performance.
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| Broadcom got a piece of iPod pie |
10/24/2005 |
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The Broadcom chip and other ICs account for 17 percent of the $151 total bill-of-materials (BOM) cost for the 30GByte iPod, according to iSuppli.
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| SanDisk acquires OTP company |
10/24/2005 |
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Matrix (Santa Clara, Calif.) has been developing and supplying 3D-based one-time programmable chip technology since its inception in 1998. The technology is used for storage applications that do not require multiple rewrites.
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| Former CEO of Infineon under investigation |
10/24/2005 |
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German weekly magazine Focus reported that the Schumacher was under suspicion and that Schumacher denied any wrongdoing but was cooperating with the authorities, according to Reuters.
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| Power Chip to build 4 DRAM Fab |
10/21/2005 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor is planning to build four DRAM wafer fabs over the next six years at a cost of about $10 billion,
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| Japan sets Hynix tariff at 27% |
10/21/2005 |
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Japan has come up with a figure of 27.2 percent as the level of import duty to be levied on DRAM chips made Hynix Semiconductor Inc
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