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| China to create giant companies by merger |
8/4/2005 |
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The merger comes as China’s policy makers struggle to reconcile free-wheeling capitalism with the legacy of state control. In many cases over the years, the central and provincial governments created and subsidized redundant companies that are surviving, in part, on continued government backing. Hoping to change that, Beijing is pushing for mergers in various industrial sectors.
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| Docomo looking into overseas handset to diversify 3G service |
8/4/2005 |
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Docomo is seeking other overseas suppliers to expand the price range of its handsets. It agreed in June to jointly develop FOMA handsets with LG Electronics. They will support dual mode of W-CDMA and GSM/GPRS and also Docomo's i-mode service.
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| Samsung and Denali to provide support for OneNAND memory |
8/4/2005 |
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Samsung’s OneNAND is a single-chip that includes a NOR Flash interface, NAND Flash controller logic, a NAND Flash Array and up to 5KBytes of internal Buffer-RAM, able to achieve up to 108MByytes/sec. of read performance.
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| Hynix overtook Micron in DRAM sales |
8/4/2005 |
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Hynix's rise up the ranks was all the more remarkable, given that in the company converted a significant portion of its DRAM manufacturing capacity to NAND flash memory production in Q2. However, the company benefited from a faster-than-expected ramp up of production at its new M-10 300mm wafer production line.
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| MoSys embedded memory technology improved performance |
8/4/2005 |
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Licensing revenue of $1.9 million climbed both sequentially and year-over-year, up 60 percent and 48 percent, respectively. MoSys attributed the gains to he consummation of several licensing contracts that were in negotiation during the past several quarters.
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| China will beat US to IPTV |
8/3/2005 |
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Delivery of television over IP (internet protocol) networks has the potential to create revolutionary growth in China’s broadband customer base, as TV viewers, as well as PC owners, find a reason to subscribe.
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| Electronics market seen up |
8/3/2005 |
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Electronic orders soared 8.6 percent in June from May with outsize gains for computers, telecom and instruments. While most of this huge change is probably randomness or measurement error, enough of it is real to confirm that market trends have clearly improved.
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| NEC beaks through in low leakage transistor |
8/3/2005 |
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The NEC researchers targeted ultra low-power technology to reduce power consumption of system-on-chip devices to 1/30 of conventional chips, enabling the design of a battery lasting 10 times longer than present systems.
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| Semico predicts NOR flash to bounce |
8/2/2005 |
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“Semico expects to see a correction in the second half of 2005 that will reverse 2004’s sharp NOR price decline, a decline that started with a mid-2004 supply/demand imbalance,” said Jim Handy. “Unit and megabyte demand are still solid, so 2005’s revenue decline will largely be offset by growth in 2006.”
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| DPAC noticed of Nasdaq delisting |
8/2/2005 |
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DPAC (Garden Grove, Calif.) said it was notified by Nasdaq's Listing Qualifications Hearing Panel of the decision Monday, following an unsuccessful appeal to the panel on June 16.
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| China denies MIPS technology infringement |
8/2/2005 |
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The People’s Daily article referred to an earlier report by market research company In-Stat, which said Godson-2 follows an unlicensed variation of the MIPS architecture belonging to MIPS Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.). In-Stat concluded that this could lead to intellectual property issues, particularly if the processor was marketed outside China.
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| Interface standards to drive new PC chipset demand |
8/2/2005 |
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Continued growth in PCs demand combined with new standards will create a very dynamic market for new chipset designs. The challenge for PC chipset vendors is to meet the growing performance requirements and integrate as many features as economically possible.
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| Semi sales beats downward prediction |
8/2/2005 |
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Despite the June dip, global chip sales finished strong for the first half of 2005, totaling $109 billion, a 6.5 percent increase year-over-year.
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| German company to expand micro-machine manufacturing |
8/1/2005 |
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Over the last 20 years Bosch has supplied 400 million sensors and in 2004 alone produced 94 million MEMS-based sensors mainly for automotive applications such as airbag systems and anti-lock braking systems.
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| RoHS ready to roll in UK |
8/1/2005 |
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The NWML RoHS team will be setting up internal structures over the next few months, including sources of information for industry and an enquiry line with a dedicated contact team. “I expect to have a substantial website by the end of the autumn,” said Smith.
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| SMIC appoints new chairman |
8/1/2005 |
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“The appointment of Professor Wang as our chairman of the board further illustrates our dedication to a high standard of corporate governance where the role of chairman is separate from that of CEO,”
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| Microsoft stops Google executives from reporting to job |
8/1/2005 |
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Lee is instructed not to accept employment “competitive with or engaging in any activities competitive with any product, service or project (including actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development) on which he worked while employed at Microsoft, including computer search technologies, such as internet search engines, desktop search technologies and any other search technologies, natural language processing or speech technologies.
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| Kingsmax ready for DDR2 adoption |
7/29/2005 |
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Kingsmax expects mass adoption of DDR2 memory to happen in the second half of the year and consolidation in the DRAM-module industry will speed up.
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| NAND flash keep growing |
7/29/2005 |
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The sales for NAND flash memories is set to reach $36.1 billion in 2008 prior to a price collapse in 2009 according to market research company Semico Research Corp.
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| Ingram Micro delivers improved earnings |
7/29/2005 |
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Ingram Micro, the world largest distributor, reported revenue of $6.84 billion for the quarter, a year-over-year increase of nearly 20 percent. Net income rose 61 percent to $41.7 million, or 26 cents a share, compared to $25.9 million, or 16 cents a share, for the same period one year ago.
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