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| Samsung Q3 profits fell |
10/14/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics reported a 30 percent drop in quarterly profits on Friday amid lower prices of memory chips and flat screens.
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| Promos runs DDR2 using 90-nm design process |
10/14/2005 |
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ProMOS Technologies will start pilot run production on DDR2 chips with 90nm process in late October with shipment schedule to be on early 2006, according to industry sources.
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| AMD to open its second fab in Germany |
10/14/2005 |
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Advanced Micro Devices will open its 300-mm Fab 36 with 65-nm process technology in Dresden, Germany this Friday, the company announced. It is the second fab at the same location.
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| Samsung DRAM priced fixing cost $300 million |
10/13/2005 |
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Samsung Electronics Company and its U.S. subsidiary have agreed to plead guilty for participating in an international conspiracy to fix prices in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) market, the U.S. Justice Department announced today.
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| Yahoo, Microsoft to link on instant messaging |
10/13/2005 |
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Yahoo and Microsoft are close to announcing a partnership that would let their instant-messaging tools communicate with each other, a first for an industry that has limited people to using the same service if they want to talk to each other.
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| Spansion to start 65-nm production a year early |
10/13/2005 |
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Spansion LLC, a joint venture between Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Fujitsu Ltd., is planning to manufacture flash memory chips made using 65-nanometer manufacturing processes in 2006 instead of 2007 as reported earlier, according to an executive.
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| Wafer shipments expected to up 2% |
10/13/2005 |
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Year-end shipments of wafers are expected to be 2 percent higher than 2004 shipments, with total wafer shipments increasing by about 7 percent in 2006, according to the SEMI Silicon Manufacturers Group (SMG).
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| STMicro to build chip facility in India |
10/13/2005 |
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STMicrolectronics is planning a ¡§fully-fledged¡¨ chip manufacturing facility in Greater Noida near New Delhi, according to a report in The Economic Times from New Delhi.
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| DRAMeXchange said global DRAM output up 5% |
10/12/2005 |
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Global DRAM output continued to grow in September, with all segments up more than 5% from August and the total reaching 627.79 million 256Mbit equivalent units, according to DramXchange.
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| Survey shows modest IC growth in 2006 |
10/12/2005 |
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A survey showed that semiconductor industry is projected to see a modest improvement in growth for the first half of 2006, according to ChangeWave Research.
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| AMD earnings surpassed expectation |
10/12/2005 |
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AMD delivered third quarter earnings that were above expectation with sales of $1.523 billion and net income of $76 million, or $0.18 per diluted share.
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