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| DRAM contract prices up in July |
7/6/2005 |
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Contract prices for DDR, DDR2 SDRAM and NAND flash all picked up for July, according to contract houses in Taiwan.
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| Intel seek grants from Israel for fab |
7/6/2005 |
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Intel has appealed to the government of Israel to approve an enlarged grant to help it build a wafer fab in the country, according to a local newspaper in Israel.
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| Hynix secured 1.3 billion loan |
7/6/2005 |
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Hynix Semiconductor has raised $1.3 billion from a group of local financial institutions, according to a Korea Times report.
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| May factory orders up |
7/6/2005 |
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Orders for manufactured goods increased 2.9 percent in May, led by a big jump in orders for aircraft, according to a government report.
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| Flash chips prices continue to fall |
7/5/2005 |
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Prices for the most widely-used flash memory chips in music players, 1 gigabit and 2 gigabit NAND chips, have been on the decline for months. One reason the 1 gigabit parts have been falling in price is that they are reaching the end of their life. The 2 gigabit chips are quickly becoming the most popular NAND chips in the industry.
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| Chips sales dropped for second month |
7/5/2005 |
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For the second month, worldwide chip sales dropped. The three-month average of worldwide sales of semiconductors hit $18.05 billion in May, a sequential decline of 0.5 percent from $18.14 billion in April, the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) reported.
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| Red Hat reported Upbeat earnings |
7/5/2005 |
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Red Hat's revenues grew by 45.5% to $60.8 million, compared with last year's $41.8 million. The bulk of its growth came from subscription sales: $49.2 million versus $30.6 million a year ago. Revenues from its services increased marginally by 3.1%.
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| Sun may include Windows in its servers |
7/5/2005 |
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Sun said last week that while Sun currently has no definite plan to strike a deal with Microsoft to sell Windows, the vendor will consider it if customers and partners think it's a good idea.
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| Taiwan’s networking equipment makers stocking up SDRAM |
7/1/2005 |
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Taiwan’s networking equipment makers have been actively negotiating contracts for SDRAM supplies for the second half of the year to prevent their operations from being hit by possible shortages and price increases.
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| Nand Flash hitting turbulent times |
6/30/2005 |
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NAND-based flash memory market has finally experienced some tough and turbulent times, following a disappointing demand for flash-based MP3 players.
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| Samsung develop fastest DDR3 chip |
6/29/2005 |
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Samsung has developed what is claims is the industry's fastest 2-Gbits-per-second (Gbps) 90nm 512-Mbit graphics double data rate 3.
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| Intel to cut price on Celeron |
6/29/2005 |
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Intel plans to cut the prices of its desktop-use Celeron D processors 5.4-13.5% on July 24, according to PC makers
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| HP ships Biometric Laptop |
6/28/2005 |
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Biometric technology is taking another leap toward widespread usage as Hewlett-Packard ships new laptops with fingerprint readers.
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