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Sprint, Intel to team on WiMAX standards |
5/6/2005 |
Sprint has jumped into the WiMAX arena, announcing it has signed an agreement with Intel to advance the development of IEEE 802.16e WiMAX mobile technology.
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BlackBerry is best-selling PDA |
5/6/2005 |
PDA shipments, which previously had been flat, increased dramatically in the first quarter of 2005 because of the growing popularity of always-on e-mail
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IBM to cut 13,000 jobs |
5/5/2005 |
IBM announced plans to implement a restructuring plan, including voluntary and involuntary workforce reductions of between 10,000 and 13,000 employees worldwide.
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Intel claims 915 chipsets not affected by ASE fire |
5/3/2005 |
Despite the recent fire at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering’s (ASE) Chungli plant, sources at ASE’s major customers such as Intel, Nvidia, ATI Technologies and VIA Technologies said the impact on their products will be limited.
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Lenova completes acquisition of IBM PC division |
5/3/2005 |
Lenovo said it has completed its $1.25 billion acquisition of IBM's personal computing division, making the Chinese vendor the world's third largest PC maker behind Dell and Hewlett-Packard.
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SiS rides AMD K8 chipset sales to higher margins |
5/2/2005 |
Rising AMD K8-compatible chipset shipments for notebooks helped Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) reach gross margins of 31.35% in the first quarter, up 9.45-percentage points on year, according to the company.
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Hynix, ST joint memory fab begins construction |
4/29/2005 |
The joint venture of STMicroelectronics and Hynix Semiconductors laid the first stone at the site of their front-end memory-manufacturing facility in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, China.
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Acer reports upbeat earnings |
4/29/2005 |
Acer Inc., Taiwan's top personal computer maker, said its net profit in the first quarter rose 54.6 percent from a year earlier to 2.15 billion Taiwan dollars (68 million US).
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HP might cut jobs at printer division |
4/29/2005 |
Hewlett-Packard might cut jobs at its printer business by 10 percent or more in a move to trim costs amid falling printer prices, BusinessWeek reported.
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