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| Micron adds lawsuite in Italy |
2/24/2006 |
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Just a day after filing a lawsuit in Virginia, Micron Technology Inc. Thursday announced that it has brought a new lawsuit against memory interface IP supplier Rambus Inc. in the court of Milan, Italy.
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| Intel to build Vietnam chip plant |
2/24/2006 |
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Intel reportedly applied for permission to build a plant in Vietnam early last month to produce both microchips and computer parts. At the time, it was unclear whether the plant would be a wafer fab or assembly plant.
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| Lenovo launched own brand PC |
2/23/2006 |
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Lenovo Group Ltd. introduced the first computers under its own brand name outside China on as part of a worldwide launch.
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| NEC to close Irish Plant |
2/23/2006 |
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NEC Semiconductors Ireland plans to cease production at its IC assembly and test plant in Ballivor, Ireland, at the end of September, citing high operating costs.
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| Vietnam approve Intel Fab plans |
2/23/2006 |
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Vietnam's Ministry of Investment and Planning has approved an investment license for based Intel, which plans to build a $605 million plant in Ho Chi Minh City.
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| Agilent announced High Speed Memory tester |
2/22/2006 |
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Agilent Technologies announced it has entered the high-speed memory test market with the Agilent 93000 High-Speed Memory (HSM) Series, the fastest and most accurate memory final-test solution on the market
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| Seagate debut 1-inch 12GB MicroDrive |
2/21/2006 |
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Seagate Technology unveiled 1-inch microdrive that has a 12GB storage capacity with availability slated for the third quarter of this year.
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| Samsung, Hynix Hit by Falling Flash Chip Price |
2/20/2006 |
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Shares of South Korea’s two semiconductor makers Samsung Electronics and Hynix have fluctuated this week amid the plummeting flash memory price, raising concerns about the companies’ weak product portfolio.
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| Hitachi opens Shenzhen Disk Drive Plant |
2/20/2006 |
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies has opened a massive disk drive plant in Shenzhen the company expects will eventually produce half of its annual drive output.
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| ST to hire 300 engineers in India |
2/20/2006 |
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STMicroelectronics said it plans to invest $30 million in Indian operations over the next two years and recruit 300 engineers by the end of 2006
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| Nvidia net profit double |
2/17/2006 |
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Nvidia Corp. said Thursday its quarterly profit more than doubled from a year earlier, as the maker of graphics cards saw sales rise nearly 12 percent.
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| Dell earnings meet expectation |
2/17/2006 |
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Dell Inc. reported a net income of $1 billion for the fourth quarter of 2005, up 52 percent from the same period of 2004.
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| Grace to delay IPO the third time |
2/17/2006 |
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Chinese foundry Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corp. has decided to delay a planned initial public offering until 2007, according to a report.
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| PSC sampling 1Gb NAND |
2/17/2006 |
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Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) has begun sampling a 1Gb NAND-flash chip, with mass production expected to start in mid-2006, according to the Apple Daily News.
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| AMAT quarterly orders up |
2/16/2006 |
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Applied Materials Inc. reported net sales and orders grew sequentially and year over year. The company posted net sales of $1.86 billion for its fiscal Q1, up 8 percent sequentially and up 4 percent year over year.
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